19
WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 184-2
orders or countenance, will be promptly met with that punish- ment and disgrace due to the crimes of treason and insurrection. The best interests of the nation must not be endangered with impunity. If disaster ensues by resistance to the laws, and properly constituted authorities of the country, in a case where every consideration of prudence and propriety requires imme- diate action, the people will expect the guilty to be punished. It shall be done.- Sam Houston. 1 "1VIessages of the Presidents," Cong1·essional Paven1; also Executive Rcc- onl Book, No. 40, pp. 76-77, Texas State Library. ~Henry Jones, Texas pionc>cr and a member of Austin's first colony (known as the "Old Three Hundred"), was born in Richmond, Virginia, :March 15, 1789. His parents were both native Virginians. He married Miss Nancy Stiles in Missouri, January, 1821, and came to Texas the next year, travelling overland from Missouri to Red River, and from there to Washington County to join Austin's settlement at San Felipe. He soon moved to Independence, and there his son, William S., was born, the first male child to be born in the colony. Eleven other children were born to this couple, all of whom lived to be useful citizens of Port Bend County. Henry Jones joined the Texas Army at the outbreak of the revolution and served until the "Runaway Scrape." He was then detailed to care for the fleeing families, and thus missed participation in the battle of San Jacinto, a circumstance that was always a deep 1·egret to him. Mrs. Jones died, August 15, 1851, and her husband followed her in denth on June 8, 1861. Both are buried in the family burial ground, on his old farm, eight miles from Richmond, Texas. See Andrew J. Sowell, History of Fo1·t Bend County, 52-59; and John Henry Bro";n, Inclian Wars cind Pionee1·s of Texas, 311. THE PROCLAMATION FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE FRENCH ARCHIVES FROM AUSTINL Executive Department, City of Houston, April 5th, 1842 To all to whom these presents shall come: Know ye, that Solomon L. Johnson is directed and charged, by authority emanating from the Minister of His Majesty the King of the French, n~ar this government, to remove the archives and other property of His Majesty the King, belonging to his legation in Texas, from the City of Austin to the City of Houston, or any other point or -place in the Republic, to which said archives and other property may be ordered. And in furtherance of this object, the citizens of the Republic are enjoined and required to
Powered by FlippingBook