WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1860
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TO CLEMENT R. JOHNS 1 Executive Department, Austin, Texas, November 13, 1860. Hon. Clement R. Johns, State Comptroller Sir: Your note of the 13th inst. enclosing your official bond has been received. The bond has been approved and filed with the Secretary of State. Sam Houston.
1 Executive Rec"rds, 18.'i9-1861, p. 250, Texas State Library.
To CLEMENT R. JoHNs 1 Executive Department, Austin, Texas, November 13, 1860. Hon. Clement R. Johns, State Comptroller Sir: Will you please furnish the Executive Department with copies of the letters received by you from the Secretary, or the Acting Secretary, or from the Assistant Secretary of the Treas- ury, in reference to the payment of the money due to Texas on accou~t of Expenses incurred for Rangers on our frontier. Sam Houston. 1 Co1nptrolle1·s' Letters; also Executive Records, 1859-1861, p. 250, Texas State Library.
To H. M. WATKINS AND 0THERS 1
Austin, Texas, November 20, 1860. Messrs. H. M. Watkins, P. W. Kittrell, Sanford Gibbs, R. P. Archer, James L. Smither, G. M. Baker, and Others. Gentlemen: Your letter of the 1'4th inst., asking my views respecting the present crisis in our political affairs, is at hand. I can reply but briefly; and I shall therefore do so the more frankly, feeling that this is a time when the plain truth should be spoken by every lover of his country. I recognize among you the names of men of all parties. Some of you are my old and tried friends, and patriotic citizens of Texas. To such, especially, I look with confidence now, when the country is agitated and revolution threatened. In all the troubles of the Republic I found you to be the friends of Constitutional liberty. Having seen the throes of one Revolution, having shared in its vicissitudes, and having borne a part in bringing Texas into the Union, I trust that you, in common with patriots of those
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