WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1843
155
To CLARK L. OWEN 1
Private
Washington, 25th January, 1843.
My Dear Sir, I have but a moment to write you a note. Colonel Daingerfield has been · appointed to Holland, Charge d'Affaires and the Treasury is vacant. If you could accept the situation of Secretary of Treasury, I should be happy to see you in that station. You will please to write by the first opportunity; and if you should accept the office, I would be glad that you would repair to this place. I tender you the place for good reasons. One is that your char- acter is without stain or blemish. You are a patriot and always ready to serve your country; and I like you as a man and a citi- zen. An honest man at the head of the Treasury will give confi- dence in our money, and consequently in the character of the country. I am rejoiced to hear of your safe return, and that you sus- tained a high character in the worst of times. I am doing all in my power to obtain the release of the prison- ers. God grant that I may succeed! If I fail it will not be for the want of exertion. God grant you many years! Thine truly, Sam Houston [Rubric] To Colonel Clark L. Owen, Texana. · "'Houston's Private Executive Record Book," p. 310, courtesy of Mr. Franklin Williams. For Clark L. Owen, see Volume III, 16.
To JOHN WARREN 1
Washington, 7th February, 1843.
To Colonel John Warren : My Dear Colonel :
Your favor was handed to me on last evening by your son, and its contents well regarded. To day your plan was submitted to me by the Acting Secretary of War, and he will communicate with you on that subject As to any "aids" from the Government, that is impossible, but such as were spe- cially appropriated by Congress. There is not one dollar be- sides, which the Executive can use. Had the appropriation so foolishly made for what was called "a bill for the protection of the frontier," been placed at the disposition of the President, it
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