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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1844
Assumption of national debt, or not. If not assumed, we to retain our public domain. Texas hereafter to comprise as many states as the United States may think proper. In running the line between the United States and Texas, where lands fall into the United States by misapprehension of the claimants in their locations, that they are to be reimbursed upon the same principles of unity [sic], that citizens of the United States falling into Texas were reimbursed by the latter. Public debt not to exceed 10,000,000. Public liabilities to be redeemed at the price at which they were issued. If the above points should be set forth, and guarded specially in the joint resolution to be passed by the Congress of the United States in the bill it would add greatly to the satisfaction of the people of Texas, and secure their ratification of it. Samuel Houston Washington, Texas, Dec. 13, 1844 'Congressional Pa,pers, Ninth Congress, Texas State Library. Anson Jones, Memoranda and Official Correspondence of the Revublic of Texas, 414-415. ~Attached to this memorandum is the following letter: Washington, Texas, Jan. 21st, 1845. Dear Sir,- On·the annexed sheet I send you the memorandum 1·eferred to in Gen. Houston's letter to Mr. Miller. The only use that I have made of it is to suggest confidentially to Mr. Calhoun that the provisions it embraces ought to be inserted in the bill annexing Texas to the United States. I am very respectfully your obediant servant, A. J. Donelson. His Excellency Anson Jones, President of Texas.
To ANSON JoNEs 1
Grand Cane, 21st Dec., 1844. My Dear Sir,-On the 19th I had the pleasure to reach home, and found all well, and gratified that my probation had passed. It was, indeed, a joyous meeting, and strange to say, I find my mind falling back into a channel, where the current flows in domestic peace and quiet, without one care about the affairs of Government, and only intent upon domestic happiness and
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