INDEX
Abbny, George D., sketch of, 1 :280 Aberdeen, Lord George Hamilton Gordon, 3:226, 302. Abolitionists, 3:448; 5:58, 98, 256, 334, 614, 673; Houston's attitude concerninll', 6 :149, 214, 224, 226, 238, 306; in the Demo- cratic party, 6:221, 222; 7:347; origin or the mo,·ement, 8 :148; bulkwark against, 8:207 Ackerman, D. Verplane, ·military claim of, 2 :191 :,\-cah-quash, Waco Indian chief, 3 :363, 428, 430, 476; Houston's opinion of, 4 :314; letter to, 4 :316 Adair, John, sketch or, 1 :67 Adams, George W ., sword returned, 2 :638; letter to, 3 :32; identification or, 3 :34 Adams, John Quincy, election of, 1 :26; author or a poem, 1 :96; his antagonism to Thomas Jefferson, 1 :96, 96; failure to enforce an Indian treaty, 1 :136; letter to, 4 :4 Adorns, Samuel, 1 :96, 97 Address to the People or Texas, services aa governor or Texas, 8:271 Addicks, Thomas H. 0 ., bill for relief vetoed, 2:417; identification or, 2 :418 Addington, Henry, Viscount Sidmouth, 3:226 Admisaion of Minnesota as a state, 7 :46, 62, 70 African slave trade, proclamation against, 1 :610; 2 :87, 428, 450; effect o! reopening, 7:185, 347; Houston's objection to, 4 :271; 7 :376 Agent.9 (fraudulent) of Texas, proclamation arainst, 1 :607; 3 :36, 41 Airey, Thomas H., Texas consul at Natchi- toches, 3 :232 Alabama, Houston's love of, 6 :161; 7 :41; 8 :231 Alabnma Indiana, character of, 4 :87, 360; 8:133 · Alamo, fall or, 1 :362, 363, 364, 366, 373, 375, 385, 403; 2:22, 293, 319, 320, 329; 3:384; 4:18, 630; 5:272; 6:8, 387; 7:24, 34, 309, 311, 312 Alcoholic liquor, Houston's effort to keep it out of the army and away from the In• dians, 1 :447; 2 :77, 379; 3 :194; 4:303, 359; himsel! a tetotaller before 1861 S :303; 6:168 ' Aldrich, Collin, 2 :148 Aldridge, James, reward for arrest, 2 :237 Aldridge & Davis, letter to, 4:38 Allen, A. D., letter to, 4 :430 Allen, Augustus C., sketch or, 2 :181; 5:339 Allen, Ebenezer, sketch of, 4 :389; letter to, 4:388; 5:27 Allen family, founders of Houston Texas, 8~1 ' Allen, George, identification of, 2 :494 Allen, Harvey H., letter to, 7 :368; sketch of, 7:369; 8:81, 212, 232 Allen, Henry Watkins, letter to, 3 :48; 4 :106; sketch of, 4:105 Allen, James C., 2:121, 149 Allen, John, letter to, 1 :130; 2 :149 Allen, John Kirby, sketch of, 1 :433; 2 :100 Allen, John M., letter to, 1 :330, 403; sketch or, 1 :327 Allen, Dr. 0. F., 2 :182; 7 :370 Almonte, Juan Nepomuceno, commissioner to Texas, 1 :280, 386, 469, 400, 494; 2:43, 63; 3:223 Alsbury, E. P., letter to, 8 :84 Americnns, . their attitude towards war, 4 :46; attitude towards expansion, 4 :458, 459, 468; attitude towards taxation, 4 :468; 5 :34; their inheritance, 6 :233
American citizen, its meaning to the world, 5 :220-221 American flag, redreH of outrall'e ■ on, 7:127 "American Order," Houston's opinion of, 6 :193, 226; his discussion of, 7 :250 "American Party," its organization, 6 :200, 221, 390 Ammunition, need or in Texas, 2 :466 Amory, Nathaniel, sketch or, 2 :298: consul nt Boston, 3 :232 Anderson, John D., 4:245 Anderson, Joseph, letter to, 1 :2 Anderson, Kenneth L., sketch of, 3 :231, 424; 4:234; Houston's opinion of, 2:388; Jetter to, 4 :283 Anderson, Thomas, 2 :209 Anderson, T. S., letter to, 7 :386 Anderson, \V. H., concerning Houston's divorce from Eliza Allen, 2 :246 Andrews, John D., identification of, 3:439; 4:176; Jetter to, 4:474 Andrews, Stephen Pearl, sketch of, 4:81; letter to, 4 :81 Anecdote, 5:36, 69, 169, 333, '27, 616; 6:73, 153, 177, 206, 210, 217, 218, 219, 320, 326, 336, 362, 391; 7 :30, 62, 216; 8:159 Anglo-Saxon race, Houston's confidence in, 3:224; 5:34 Annexation of Texas, 1 :451, 488: atatus of in 183 7, 2 :87; Engl.nad's power concern- ing, 3:300, 310, 322, 621, 539; Houeton's report on, 3 :638: interest of Texane in, 4 :238, 242, 261, 269, 297, 298, 306, 306, 308, 403; Houston concerning in De- cember, 1844, 4:407; advantages to the United States, 4 :261, 262, 263, 306, 308, 310, 321, 325, 406, 407, 410, 417, 418; memorandum or terms propoeed, 4:407; President Tyler'• statements concerninll', July, 1844, 4 :336; Milton Brown's resolu• tion and amendment on, 4:H 7, HS; Houston's review of the history of, 4 :336, 466; Mexico's attitude towards, 4 :477; Houston's later mention of, 5:14, 16, 21, 26, 27, 28, 36, 48, 118, 276, 281; 7 :9, 11, 13; significance or, 7 :206 Anti-slavery agitation, its origin, 7 :210 Apache chief, letter to, 3:161 Apoth-le-ya-hola, Creek chief, 1 :299 Arbuckle, Matthew, sketch of, 1 :139, 173; letter to, 1 :186 Archer, Branch T., citation to biographical data 1 :224, 232, 241, 242, 322 Archives of Te:<os, e:<posed condition of, 2 :481; order for removal from Austin to Houston, 2 :495, 600, 608, 529, 632, 639; 3 :18, 23, 26, 82, 211, 212, 226, 227 228, 229, 262; transfer of all correspondence concerning removal, 3:97, 101, 154, 166, 169, 212, 226, 229, 263, 264, 287, 613; Houston's message concerning 7 :7, 8 "Archives Committee," 3:212 Archives, French, removal from Austin, 3:19; 4:88 Arkansas ond Texas Land Company, 1 :239, 240 "Armstrong, General," relief for owners and crew of the brig, 6 :109 Armstrong, Francis W., 1 :274 Armstrong, Ira, 2 :97 Armstrong, John, letter to, 1 :1; sketch of, 1 :5 Armstrong, Robert. sketch of, 1 :269 Army of Texns, 1 :305, SOR, 309, 310. 311 , 312, 313. 316, 321, 330, 401; at Burn- hnm's Ferrr, 1 :Sill; ~ommand of sole!~• in Houston's hnnds. 1 :335; Houston's rare- well to, 1 :•128; Houston's ad<lrcss k,
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