WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1843
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Washington, 9th June, 1843.
Jas. H. Raymond, Acting Treasurer Will please pay D. D. Crumpler six dollars & fifty cents out of the Executive contingent fund for 1843. Sam Houston.
1 Financial Papers, 1842-1843, Texas State Library.
TO ANSON JONES 1
Washington, 10th June, 1843
To the Honorable, the Secretary of State: You will say to our Charge d'Affaires:? that, in referring to the termination of our difficulties with Mexico to the friendly mediation of the governments to which they are accredited, we have given earnest of our desire for peace. If peace is not concluded before the next session of Congress, or Mexico informed by those powers that she must confine her- self to the West side of the Rio Grande, Texas will assume an offensive attitude, with all the means she can command, and will not feel restrained from the employment of auxiliary aid in the prosecution of the War, unless she can have peace or satisfactory armistice previous to the anticipated foray in September. Her action will be united action and the limits of her enterprise will not be bounded by the Rio Grande nor any other point. The region of Santa Fe will be one pojnt from which our operations will progress. Texas can and will marshal an army there which will overrun the country dependent upon that point of territory. Mexico, or at least the North Eastern portion of it, is subject to constant and most destructive inroads from powerful tribes of Indians. They make their forays beyond Monclova, Saltillo and near to San Luis Potosi and on the Lower Rio Grande in sight of Matamoras. In our treaties with the Indians we have not sought to stimulate them to the massacre of the Mexicans, but, on the contrary, we have sought to inculcate a different course. Mexico has waged a savage war against us, and in their forays they have associated with their regulars untutored sav- ages. If war is begun by Texas it will necessarily be a war of 1·etaliation. If another foray is made by Mexico, it will not be possible to restrain the people of Texas. And though I have
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