342
TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
What Genl. McLeod, says of Stewart, "the present incumbent is not only so, but he might have added with truth,-.that he is now, and has been for years the Editer of a dirty News paper which has slandered every gentleman in Texas who have had the manliness to oppose the corruptions of Sam Houston- I hear that within the last year Stew- art, has published the most infamous falsehoods of Houston, against your predecessor the Hon. R. J. Walker, and I respectfully submit whether his reappointment is not an endorsement of said falsehoods. You are at liberty to lay this note and the enclosed before the Presi- dent, or make such other use of them as you please. From a long acquaintance with Stewart, I have no hesitation in saying, that if the want of truth and honor are disqualifications for office he is wholly unfit- I have the honor to be very truly. your Obt. St.- THOS. J. GREEN. [Endorsed:] Letter from Genl Green to Rowel Cobb. Sect of Treasury
No. 2515. CAROLINE l\L SAWYER TO LAMAR
234 East Broadway [New York] May 4th 1857-
ify DEAR GENERAL- I was most agreeably surprized at the reception of your kind letter. It told me so much that I am very happy to know-that you are near and still remember us. My husband and myself often speak 9f you, recalling not only the pleasant hours we have spent in your society, but the unmerited kindness of an after day- We have wondered ;if we should ever meet you again- our country is so wide and we our- selves are so domestic in our habits.- and now we can scarcely realize that that pleasure is so near. I have often felt that I would like to write you but you have been a revolving planet that I knew not rightly how to find, and I did not fear that you would believe us unmindful, though silent. I trust you will not wait long before visiting us, and perhaps you will be able to say to my husband, who will bring 3·ou this, when you can come. l am much flattered by your desire to insert my little trifle, which I send with this, in your volume, and only wish it were more worthy of the honor. It has a plenty of faults as a poem, but I am older now and ran not alter them to advantage, or perhaps without impairing the unity of their expression. T never :feel the footsteps of time so sen- sibl_v as when I am looking over the effusions which I threw off at an earlier periorl of my life, when I had not learned restraint in expression. I am much :flattered also by the inscription to myself of the beautiful article you sent me, I feel honored by the compliment and shall highly prize a copy of that work which is to contain that and other expressions of yourself- your interior being- Excuse the length of my note and believe me eYer Your obliged Friend C. l\L SA WYER fEndorsed :] C l\f Sawyer Gnl Lamar May 4th 1857
Powered by FlippingBook