WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1843
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sensible! They want men when they are needed, but not to eat up the substance of their labour, or to drive away their herds! Oh my Country! Poor, poor Texas!!! I think it probably the [sic] our Commodore Moore, will make the best of his way to the "Isle of Pines" or sell out our Navy to Santa Anna! We may look out for the worst; and I do verily believe, that within the last year, a single evil has not happened to our country but what resulted from the "Telegraph" and "Times," or the fac- tion who sustain them and wish to control the President or Sam, Houston! Thine ever SAM HOUSTON [Rubric] Maj. Tom M. Bagby [Another Houston rubric] Houston [Addressed]: Maj. Tom M. Bagby, Houston, Texas
1 Bagby Papers, Houston Public Library.
TO WILLIAM NANGLE 1
Washington, Texas, May 13th 1843.
To William Nangle, Esq. Dear Sir -
It affords me the liveliest pleasure, in compliance with the suggestions of a friend of yours, to tender you, and through you to all who may feel interested in the successful efforts of genius and the reward of the meritorious, my willing testimony to your long and unabated devotion to the accomplish- ment of the piece of sculpture which I lately had the gratification to examine. Carved as it is, from the blood consecrated walls of the Alamo, and commemorating the immortal deeds of men whose expiring breath was "freedom's breath of life," the performance cannot but be deeply interesting to every Texian as well as the friends of liberty in every land. Such tributes of art to the memory of "the undying dead," always inspire a just appreciation of the true nobility of man and stimulate in youth and age, cor- rect sentiments of regard and emulation. The monument which you propose to exhibit to the patrons of your efforts, will not only represent the stone of which the cradle of our unhappy infancy is composed, but will stand a teacher eloquent, though inanimate, with the glorious lesson that he who falls battling in the cause of national and well regulated liberty only requires the touch of death to render him immortal.
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