WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1860
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Monthly reports and returns of the state and condition of your command will be made to the Executive Department at this place, with such information on the state of the frontier as you may deem important. You may extend or contract your lines of observation as you may think that the state of the frontier requires, and will best afford to it protection. You are authorized to select six good Mexican guides, to be regularly enrolled in your company with pay not exceeding that of privates. You are authorized to procure a blacksmith with suitable tools and muster him into your company as a private with such extra compensation as is allowed by the regulations of the United States army. Any member guilty of intoxication or insubordination, will be dismissed without honorable discharge. Sam Houston. 1 Exee11tive Reco1·ds, 1859-1861, pp. 26-27, Texas State Library. For sketch of Edward Burleson, see Houston to Burleson, January 4, 1860.
To "MR: NICHOLSON," BASTROP, TEXAS 1
Austin, Jany 21, 1860. My Dear Sir: My son Sam will hand you this note. I want you to introduce him to Sam Nicholson & family, and if not troublesome to you please introduce him to Colonel Allen. Thine Truly, Sam Houston [Rubric] 1 0riginal in the Sam Houston Memorial Museum at Huntsville, Texas, gift of Mrs. W. L. House. MESSAGE TO THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE TRANSMITTING RESOLUTIONS OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA 1 Executive Office, Austin, Texas, January 21, 1860. Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: The following resolutions and autograph letter I have received from the Governor of South Carolina, with a request therein that I transmit the same to your honorable body: [The resolutions asserted the right of secession by a state. The resolutions and letter from the Governor of South Carolina are omitted.]
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