WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1859
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are so strong that I can with difficulty write anything coherent, or sensible. You may suppose that I am hardly truthful, when I tell you that I am fearful that you will think my letters are not only trashy, but puerile, and sickening. I will surely not blame the taste that would condemn them. I have to write on subjects that are next my heart, and that are constantly before me. At this moment, I need your society and advice more than I have ever done, but as it is not at hand, I will make no decision, whatever, until I can see you on the subject. In confidence, I tell you that matter relates to the "Protectorate." I can entertain no proposition, with any pleasure, that even blinks at a temporary separation from you. I hope you will not desire it. And I am sure that you would not be willing, tho' you might consent to it, to separate from any of the children, tho' you might have Sam, Nannie, & Willie with you. You will be able, from what I premise, to form some idea as to the subject on which I wish to see you, & confer with you about. My Dear Love, I assure you that my heart is set on your society and the flocks at Cedar point. I am sick, weary, and I may add disgusted, with all the developments around me. Family, flocks, and honest thrift are all I am now interested in. I feel that my views are in perfect accordance with your own. Hence, it is that any project, or enterprize that would mar these objects cannot give me pleasure apart from them! So, my Love, you see that my letter has to conclude with what I fancied in the begin- ning. All is resolved in the fact that all my earthly cares unite in my love of you, my Dear. Thy Devoted Houston. Margaret.
1 From Mrs. Margaret John's Houston collection.
DEFENDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INDIAN RESERVE WEST OF THE PECOS RIVER, JANUARY 31, 1859l I must confess that I cannot see the reason for this change, and why the colonization of the Indians on the Western Reserve should be suspended by the present Congress. It is very im- portant, so long as there is intercommunication between the Pacific and the Atlantic by way of San Antonio, El Paso, and Arizona. By locating these Indians, you give them an identity, a local habitation. If any aggression whatever should be com- mitted by them, the whites will be enabled to pursue them to
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