WRITINGS OF 5AM HOUSTON, 1846
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Your Ma loves you more, than she does any one else, so you should love her, more than any one. You should love and obey your Father & hear all that he says to you. Your Ma, took care of you, when you were a little helpless babe. She did not sleep, when she thought you were not well, but watched you in the night. Now my son, you can never do enough for your dear Ma. Your Grand Ma, too took care of you, and loved and still, loves you, as much, as if you were her own son! So you see my son, why you should love, your Ma, & Grand Ma, more, than all others! You should love me, too, and when I do good, you should do like me. You ought to love all your relations, and all good people, and then your good father in Heaven, will love you, and when you die, He will take you to Heaven, where you will always be happy. My son, I send you some poetry, and if Ma, thinks well of it, she, and cousins, will learn you to repeat it to.Pa, if he lives to meet his dear boy. You must give Pa's love to ma; and a kiss to Aunt & Cousins. Thy devoted Father, Sam Houston My Son, Sam! 'The original letter is in the New York Public Library. A photostatic copy is in the University of Texas Library.
TO W. I. MULLEN AND OTHERS 1
Washington City, June 16, 1846.
Gentlemen, I have just had the honor to receive your note of yesterday, inviting me to attend and address a meeting, to be held, under the auspices of the Home Missionary Society in your city, on the evening of Saturday next. I beg you to accept my acknowledgments for the terms in which you have been pleased to communicate the wishes of the Society. If my public duties allow me to be absent, at this interesting juncture, from my seat in the Senate, it will afford me much pleasure to meet you in Philadelphia at the time designated. I will endeavor to go up on Friday morning; but if I cannot do so, I will set out on Friday evening so as to reach your city on Saturday morning.-If circumstances, however, should pre\ ent
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