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vantages which are necessary to requite us, for past privations and anxieties. I regret that it will not be in my power to comply with the invitation, but hope that you will present me most kindly to those whom you represent. I am truly your friend and fellow-citizen, Sam Houston. 'The Texas Democ,·at, October 21, 1846. This letter was introduced in the newspaper by the invitation to a dinner, signed by J. W. Durant, J. W. Lockhart, and G. W. Crawford, a committee representing the citizens of Washington, Texas. To FRED DAWSON, JAMES SCHOTT, AND E. D. WHITNEY 1 Washington City, December 23, 1846. Gentlemen: In reply to your note of the 21st instant, I have to state that the facts presented by you therein, in reference to the purchase of the vessels belonging to the navy of the late republic of Texas, are correct; and that you did furnish to her one ship, two brigs, and three schooners, with their armaments, &c., for which she issued in payment ten per cent bonds for the sum of five hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Under the resolutions of annexation, the navy of the republic was delivered over to and received by the United States; _and the bonds issued in the purchase of the same by Texas are still out- standing and unpaid.
Sam Houston Thos. J. Rusk
'Texas State Gazette, December 21, 1850. Journals of the House of Representatives of the State of Texas, 3rd Legislature, 3rd Sess., pp. 121-122.
JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1847
To NATHANIEL LEVIN 1
Washington City, Jan. 6, 1847
My dear Sir, Your letter of the 3<l., with its enclosure, is at hand. My time only allows me to say, that it will afford me much pleasure to serve you in the way you request, and to achieve your object, if in my power. I really cannot tell you what can be done, if anything-but I will see, and shall be gratified if success
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