WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
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Government by patriotic effort, proceeding from a conviction of right and duty or it will fall. When passion and impulse or the harangues of impassioned demagogues, whose only hope is in anarchy and spoils, or a sense of wrongs inflicted, drives the people of any State to rash or impolitic measures, let their fellow- citizens of other States, united with Texas, calmly and with reason consider the consequences of following their example; and if better judgment should induce us to decline such a step, let them be appealed to in ·the name of brotherhood and State· comity to reconsider their action. Let us depepd on reason, not coercion. 1 The T1·11e Issue, December 20, 1860; The Red La.,ul Express, December 22, 1860; The Harrison Flag, December 23, 1860.
To HARVEY H. ALLEN 1 Comptroller's Office, Austin, Deer. 3, 1860.
Harvey H. Allen, Esqr., Houston, Texas Sir, The Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company having completed Five Miles of their Road and have made application for the State Loan upon the same, You are hereby requested to proceed at once and make the necessary examination and report under oath the condition and affairs of the said Road and Company in order that the Board . may act advisedly in regard to said application; also upon all other sections that they may have completed in addition to said section. Sam Houston, [Rubric] ; Clement R. Johns, George Flournoy 1Harvey H. Allen Papers, Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas. For some information concerning Harvey H. Allen, see Houston to Harvey H. Allen, June 23, 1860. To WILLIAM S. HOTCHKISS 1 Executive Department, Austin, Texas, December 3, 1860. Hon. W. S. Hotchkiss, Commissioner of the Court of Claims Sir: Whereas the application has been made by the President of the Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Company for three hundred and Sixty sections of land to which said company is entitled by virtue of having graded Forty five miles of its road,
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