WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1844,
to the trading house. The incaution of Torrey has been culpable. Today I will rebuke him for his delinquency. You will do the best you can, and incur the least possible expense to the government. Be advised by your reason in all your intercourse with both whites and Indians, and your acts will be approved by the country. I would have been better prepared for a correspondence on the subject of the frontier security and the management of the Indians, had it not been for my protracted indisposition on the Trinity, whence I returned to this place on day before yesterday. I was there very ill, and detained on that account some fifty or sixty days. My health is not yet entirely restored. My family I left convalescent. My private business, I apprehend, necessarily compels me to visit the East in some eight or ten days, and return by way of the Trinity where my family is at present, from which place I will communicate with my friends. I am anxious to secure the tranquility of the country and security to all the frontier inhabitants. Sam Houston 1 Pa,1>ers on lndicm Affairs; also Executive Record Book, No. 40, p. 361, Texas State Library. 'Fanthorps is now the town of Anderson in• Grimes County. See Volume III, 424.
To ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA 1 Executive Department, Washington, July 29th 1844.
To His Excellency General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, President of the Republic of Mexico: Sir- It appears from a letter received from General Adrian Woll, under date of the 19th ultimo, that you have entertained a desire to communicate with this government. I regret, however, extremely, that in so doing you should have indulged in a departure from the courtesy which ordinarily obtains in the correspondence between civilized states of the present age. There are certain designated and universally acknowledged channels of intercourse between nations, such as the Department of State, or Foreign Affairs. Through your subaltern, Gen. Woll, you have, in the communi- cation to which I allude, addressed no government, or functionary
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