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TEXAS STATE LIB:aABY
No. 2216 [1846 Mar. 27] J.M. STORMS [NEW YORK, N. Y.] TO LAMAR, GALVESTON [FORWARDED TO] AUSTIN, TEXAS. 0 I write at you General rather than to you for I am not at all in- formed of your whereabouts, but it really is necessary for my healths sake to throw off some of my spleen at your election results. I was glad to see you were not a candidate since Houston is trium- phant. The character of Texas and 'I'exians however has suffered here and in Europe by their servile devotion to Houston. They are all fit for each other- vile, truthless cowards. Rusk's brother will of course get the appointment Cazneau desired. Polk is a base, narrow souled man and would sell his mother's grave to h_uy up a Senator. When it come to president-making he will find New York is worth Texas and not cheaply in market, I had trusted you would send one man to Washington to balance the beauty of San Jacinto-but there is no health in Texas. Heaven send that C'n!n. McLeod comes to the House though. I think him too brave, honorable and gifted to be the choice of a large portion of Texas. When I reflect on the size of the district I feel a sad con- viction that no honest man could be chosen. Gen. Green, w horn I see every week or two, is of opinion· that yon of Western Texas will set about creating a new state. Why not? Oh General why did you not take the stump against Houston. Some here went so far as to believe that he should, even if returned, be impeached as an unfit man for the responsibilitiee: of the Senate, Several Senators say openly that Texas imults the Union by sending such a man My prayer is that he may cover the i;tate with lasting shame. I reproach all of you with a want of energetic, persevering and well-compacted plans of opposition. Now for instance it would be easv, one would think, to call up a strong public sentiment in favor of the admission of the Texian offi- cers into the U. S. Navy. Public meetings and perhaps legislative in- structions may be obtained urging your Senaters to press the matter Houston must take the pill and either way it would taste bad. For my own part I am ready to like him, he is certainlv better than . his constituents. He embraces falsehood from policy & temptation they [sic] from pure love., Truth and honor is hateful to them and above their comprehension. Yes Houston is clearly better than the Texians And now General what about that history of Texas? I do not feel i.ompetent for the work but I am anxious to see it done. If you will not undertake it I think I will make it a serious affair and do the best I can. The true Story in one readable volume would be worth a place in every library, and it seems the only way to pass the truth onward- Yet I know so well that I cannot do it jmitice I was much inclined to favor Mrs. Holley's plar. 44 but lmme others thoue-ht she was too Austin for impartiality. I suspect I am too- anti-Homton
"A. L. S. "Holley, Mrs. Mary Austin, TexatJ.
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