WRITINGS OF S,u,,r HOUSTON, 1843
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To THOMAS M. BAGBY 1
·washington, 20th January, 1843.
Dear Bagby, I can only thank you and ask you to send me by mail a statement from Mr. Baker of Martha's Bill-and how my account stands, as well as the statement of the Floyd note, and the amount of the Scotts Bill. Pray do me this favor. Will you? Mrs. H-- is pretty well & joins me in regards to you and our good friends. Pray write. Ever Thine Truly Houston. [ P. S. ] Make the fellow pay in advance for my house. I will write to you about a further house. By and Bye Houston
1 Bagby Pa]Jers, Houston Public Library.
TO CAPTAIN CHARLES ELLIOT 1
Washington, 24th January, 1843. My Dear Captain: It affords me great pleasure to acknowledge the kindness of your two notes. I cannot be insensible to your kind and anxious solicitude for the success and welfare of Texas. Every evidence of kindness and good office which is rendered to my country, or to myself individually, never fails to impress me deeply with sensibility. Aid and co-operation are so seldom afforded me from quarters to which I should look, that I am at times almost ready to let go everything and let the vessel be swallowed up by the waves of sedition. The recent Congress manifested a disposition to destroy the country rather than fail in my destruction. My good fortune did not desert me, and the country, I am happy to say to you, is in a more prosperous state, than it was this time last year. It is far from being prosperous even now with everything that I could accomplish. My measures were rejected and none sub- stituted in their place, but every possible impediment attempted to be thrown in my way. If I did not succeed, they failed to produce the hindrances which they attempted. The "campaign of the people," is ended; and I think "the eyes of the blind are opened," but they will not see. In relation to this subject, I am constrained to solicit the kindness of you, should it not be out of the line of your official action that you would address
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