WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1824-1857
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I wish to have a smoothe path, that shall lead from your camp to my house, that we can meet each other and that it shall never become bloody. I do not wish that your women and children should be scared or unhappy. You may believe the words that my friends may speak to you for me. When the gras$ rises in the Spring, you must come with your Chiefs to see me and I will make you and them presents. I am the Chief who sent the silver medal to the Great Comanche Chief from San Antonio in 1833. [Private Seal] Given under my hand and private Seal, at Columbia, this 3 day of December, A. D. 1836, and of the Inde- pendence of Texas the First. Sam Houston [Rubric] lThe original document is in the possession of Mr. E. P. Swenson, of New York City. Through the courtesy of Mr. Swenson there is a photo- static copy of this original in The University of Texas Library. To R. c. CAMPBELL 1 Captain Black's, Nov. 6, 1841. R. C. Campbell, Esq., and Others of the Committee: Gentlemen :-Your letter and the accompanying resolutions on the 5th inst., have been received. I entertain much sensibility for the kind greeting which you have thought suitable to render me ·on the present occasion. The complimentary manner in which you have been pleased to refer to my past services to my country, necessarily recalls the many tribulations through which she has passed. In those, I am happy to feel conscious that I am enabled justly to claim an identity with her, and her struggles for freedom, and the achievement of her emancipation. In your allusions to the result of the recent election of a Chief Magistrate, you felicitate the country upon the result. My earnest wish is that the country be relieved of its present embarrass- ments; that they were great none can doubt. From some cause a general, or rather entire depression overhangs the whole com- munity. In the admin'istration of the laws there is a remissness that has restrained the· citizens to the very brink of anarchy; and in some places, to a total disregard of our civil laws and the free institutions of the country; individual confidence de- stroyed, rebellion against civil authorities, are the evidences of these truths. Such a state of things is calculated to make ruinous
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