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WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1842
forthwith proceed in the performance of your appropriate duties -in all things strictly conforming to the requirements of the laws regulating your official action. Sam Houston 1 Exec11tive Record Book, No. 40, p. 92; also Comptrolle1·'s Lette,·s (the original letter), Texas State Library.
TO MR. LUMSDEN 1
Galveston, May 18th, 1842.
To Mr. Lumsden: Sir,- You will go with the approbation of the government, on the mission to obtain supplies for the troops. I wish you entire success. The greatest difficulty will arise from the want of supplies; and I command that all persons engaged in forwarding troops to Texas, shall not permit them to embark, without the requisite supplies for six months. No friend of Texas will aid in the contravention of my orders. They have long since been known in the United States. I do hope, therefore, the necessities of Texas will be regarded. If they are not, and the emigrants come without means, Texas must be destroyed. It will be more fatal than an invasion by fifty thousand men from Mexico. Sam Houston 1 Executive Record ·Book, No. 40, p. 92, Texas State Library.
To COLONEL L. B. FRANKS 1
Houston, .Texas, May 21, 1842.
To Colonel L. B. Franks, &c. Dear Sir- By the politeness of Captain Duffau, I had the pleasure to receive your communications under date of the 12h. and 14h. instant, and avail myself of his return to reply. I have not time to furnish you with particular instructions as to the prosecution of your duties under the circumstances which surround you. You will, therefore, have to use your prudence and discretion in doing what shall seem best for the Indians under your charge and for the public good. Your exertions thus far have been characterized by patriotism and a lively regard for the reciprocal welfare of both the white and the red man.
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