WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1844
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and I am led to believe that our Minister's leaving Washington City will have a favorable influence on the general concern of Texas. We shall have to be as sharp-sighted as lynxes, and wary as foxes, for we are not yet out of the woods, and ought not to halloo. Our path is yet beset by many incidents. I do not exactly know what to make out of Gen. Murphy's letters, but am somewhat incredulous about Santa Anna's avowed designs. That he wants money, I have no doubt; but that he will get it, I have some. That he will derive foreign aid, I think is an error. Hockley and Williams suggested it; and it may be consonant with the views of England to let the idea be propagated. It could not be afforded at a better time for Texas than when she has a guarantee of assistance. I wish you to ascertain of the legation at Washington, whether the different legations of the several Governments were waited upon, and whether it was ascertained if they would a~t con- jointly, or what two powers would, in bringing about pacification between Texas and Mexico. There are several points in my letters from Houston to that legation, which I do not see alluded to in their replies, nor in any of their correspondence. They may have placed a different estimate upon their value from what I did, at the time I wrote them but that even would not justify an omission to notice them in any respect. I will now drop into politics. I would remark, although it would appear such could not be the result of the election, that I have heard of but two men in the country who would positively vote against yourself and Anderson. One is said to be Mr. Branch, and the other a Mr. Bevans, an Englishman. Branch you know, and Bevans is a lawyer who never gets a fee. As far as I can hear or learn, yours and Anderson's prospects are excellent. I will leave here for ·washington the moment that I am able, by way of Houston. I ·have private business at San Augustine, which will require me there by the 5th of August, if it is practicable to get there. I find to-day that since noon the family are worse, and my own situation is so painful from a rising on my jaw that I will not attempt to describe it. From the incoherency of my letter, I fear I am slightly delirous. Most truly thine Sam Houston Hon. Anson Jones, Secretary of State. [Endorsement by Jones]: See P. S. on another sheet. "Coming events cast their shadows before." Two weeks before
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