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WRITINGS OF SAM: HOUSTON, 1860
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To F. LuvrcK 1 Executive Department, Austin, March 9, 1860.
Mr. F. Luvick, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dear Sir: Your letter of February 28 is just to hand. With regard to the company of soldiers tendered the Executive, I can say nothing positive. The interposition of the Federal arm has been earnestly besought. What the Government may do, I cannot say. Enclosed please find an article from the Intelligencer of this city, from which you will learn the tenor of the correspondence between the Ex- ecutive of Texas and the War Department. Sam Houston. 1 Gove1-no1·s' Letters; also Executive Reconls, 1859-1861, p. 91, Texas State Library.
To A. G. WALKER 1 Executive Department, Austin, March 10, 1860.
Colonel A. G. Walker, Dear Sir-Your letter of the 2nd instant is now before me, in which you set forth as a reason why the company under the command of Dr. B. F. Barkley!! should be at once received into the service of the frontier. The fact is that the frontier people oppose the policy of sending men from the interior to defend their homes and families. It is a fact well known to the Execu- tive that the people of the frontier need protection. They have asked for protection and he has afforded them more than the means provided by the Legislature will justify. The Legislature was entreated and appealed to, whether or not in vain, he leaves the Senator from Tarrant County to assure the people. The same objection would hold were he to call the men from Tarrant into service as to those from "in and about Austin." They are raised and organized many miles from the frontier, in a county secure because of its interior situation, from the dangers and embarrassments of the border. If the people of the Frontier are opposed to that protection being afforded to them, which from their helpless condition, must be sought in the in- terior and which they so entreatingly ask for of the Executive, they would, upon the same grounds, oppose the sending of pro- tection from Tarrant.
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