WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
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T'o MESSRS. D. D. ATCHISON & J. W. HARRIS 1
Austin, May 24, 1860.
Messrs. D. D. Atchison and J. W. Harris, Gentlemen: In reply to your letter of the 14th inst., I will say that I have responded to the people of San Jacinto, and have consented to let my name go before the country as the People's Candidate for the Presidency. In yielding to the call of my fellow citizens of Texas, in June last, to become candidate for Governor, I said: "The Constitution and the Union embrace the only principle by which I will be governed if elected. They co1np1·ehend all the old Jackson National Democracy I ever professed or officially p?·actised." These have ever guided my action. I have no new principles to announce. Truly Thine Sam Houston. 1 Governo1·s' Lettei·s, Texas State Library. The Standard, June 7, 1860. Daniel D. Atchison and John W. Harris were the editors of The Sta11da1·d at this time. See Houston to Harris, Atchison, and Ruthven, March 25, 1860, Vol. VII, 545-555.
To JAMES H. HERNDON 1 Executive Department, Austin, May 26, 1860.
Doctor James H. Herndqn, Sir: According to an Act of the Legislature, entitled "An Act to amend an Act to incorporate the Bastrop Academy," approved January 19th, 1858, I have the honor to appoint you one of a board of five Inspectors required to be appointed by said act, which said Board shall meet at Bastrop on the 20th day of May and attend to the examination of the Cadets of the Bastrop Military Institute until the 7th of June. Sam Houston. 1 E:t6cutive Records, 1859-1861, p. 167, Texas State Library. Doctor James H. Herndon was born at Orange Court House, Virginia. He died at San Antonio, Texas, in July, 1868. He studied medicine at Cincinnati, Ohio, and there married Maria, the daughter of James D. Taylor, who, for many years, edited the Cincinnati Times. Dr. Henry Taylor Herndon, the well-known surgeon of San Antonio, Texas, was their son. See Biographical Souvenir of Texas, 394.
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