WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1858
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To JAMES MoRGAN 1
Washington, March 20, 1858. Dear Sir Yours of the 8th is received. I have not a single copy of the Japanese Expedition~ in my possession. If I had I would send you a set of them with pleasure. The name of our consul at Calcutta is Charles Huffnagle, as down in the Blue Book of Sept. 1857. Thine truly Sam Houston [Rubric]. To J. Morgan, Esq., Houston, Texas. 1 Morgan Papers, Rosenberg Library, Galveston, Texas. For brief sketch . of Colonel James Morgan, see The W1·itings, I, 407. ~This was Matthew Calbraith Perry, Narrative of the Expedition. of an Ame1·ican Squadron to the China Seas and Japan (1856), 2 vols.
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REMARI{S ON THE KANSAS LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION 1
March 23, 1858. Mr. Houston. Mr. President, I have not occupied the time of the Senate on this subject, nor is it my present intention to do so. I have been very much interested in the discussion of the bill throughout the great number of days which it has occupied. I have been much instructed and much edified, but I cannot say that on all occasions I have been gratified by that discus- sion. But I have a few remarks to make before casting my vote. The Legislature of my State having superseded me in the Senate of the United States by the election of a successor for the term of six years, commencing on the 4th of March next, in harmony with my wishes, and which I refer to with sincere pleasure, I nevertheless feel that I have duties to perform to my constituents. It has always been a cardinal principle of my Democracy, that when the will of a constituency on any measure is known to a representative, he is bound to execute, in all good faith, that known will, or he is bound to resign his situation, in order that another may be selected who will carry out their views. I therefore vote for this bill, knowing it to be in accord- ance with the views of three-fourths, at least, of the Legislature of Texas.
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icongressional Globe, Part 2, 1st Scss., 36th Cong., 1867-1868, p. 1264.
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