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Colonel John D. Morris~ will cooperate with you, should you deem it proper to pursue the course suggested by him, and I hope yuur agency will be speedily employed. Sam Houston [Rubric] · 111 Houston's Private Executive Record Book," p. 117, courtesy of Mr. Franklin Williams. For Cornelius Van Ness, see Volume II, 166. "John D. Morris was a close friend of M. B. Lamar, who appointed him District Attorney for the Fourth Judicial District (the Bexar Dis- trict), January 8, 1839, and again February 1, 1840. See E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Journals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1836-1845, 121, 177. Lama,· Papers, III, 313. A broadside (1845) showing the names, ages, e~c., of the members of the Sixth Congress, gives the following data: John D. Morris, age 28, represented Bexar District, a lawyer, born in Hanover County, Virginia, from whence he came to Texas, in April 1837; he lived in San Antonio, Texas.
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To WALTER SMITH 1
Private
City of Galveston, Texas, April 30, 1842.
To General Walter Smith: Dear Sir,
Your favor of the 24th ultimo, with its enclosures, has been received. Your efforts and those of your friends, in be- half of Texas, merit the thanks of the Nation; and I beg leave, as the Executive Chief Magistrate of the Republic, to tender to you, and through you to those friends, who, with so much disin- terested liberality, have generously extended to us such efficient aid in this trying crisis of our national existence, the grateful acknowledgments of our country, and to assure you of the high appreciation which Texas places upon so unequivocal a manifes- tation of the sympathy which our brethren and friends of the United States feel for a people engaged in a war of principle- a war for the liberty and the rights of man, and directed against tyranny, usurpation and despotism. The honorable Abner S. Lipscomb has been appointed General Agent of Texas for the State of Alabama-but he cannot leave for some short time yet. You will therefore, please act as Agent for your state until his arrival, and act in conjunction with him after he visits you. Energy and efficiency of action on the part
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