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Mr. Saligny is at the Island, and I hope will come up by the boat. I wrote Gen. Murphy to come if he can. I fear he is a bother, and will not know how to get on smoothly with his matters. Moreover, I wish to get a copy of Mr. Upshur's letter to him. We don't want it, but I would like to have it, if it should become necessary, hereafter. Politics are at a stand here, until we know what is to be done about annexation. I hope we ·will soon know.. Sam Houston. Hon. Anson Jones. 24th April. The acts of Gen. Murphy, as you see by Mr. Van Zandt's letter, have not been disavowed by his Government. Attend to the matter of the armistice, if you please, and send such a letter as you would not care to see published. . . . So I must wait for the "New York." I will write something by the "Nep- tune," and send you a copy. I have written to Gen Murphy that no protest had been re-- ceived by this Government from England or France, nor did I apprehend one. Thine, Houston. Jones. [Endorsement] : Letter to Henderson and Van Zandt. There was by Gen. Houston about this time, an officious interference with my department, (with view of ultimately defeating annex- ation,) which was productive of no benefit to our public affairs; and by which he disgraced himself and the country. A[son] J[ones]. 'Anson Jones, Memoranda and O/ficdal Co1·respondence, Republ-ic of Texa.s, 341. For sketch of Anson Jones, see Volume II, 246-247. RECOGNITION OF STUART NEWEL UNITED STATES CONSUL FOR THE PORT OF SABINE 1 [The document is purely formal, dated April 22, 1844.] 'Documents Uwle1· the Great Seal, Record Book No. 37, p. 83, Texas State Library; The Red-Lander, May 20, 1844. For Stuart Newel, see To Isaac Van Zandt, February 13, 1843.
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