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No. 2171 1844 May 10, TEXIAN DEMOCRAT OFFICE, HOUSTON, [TEXAS] Editorial comment upon the instructions to Hockley and Williams for their mission to Mexico. Broadside. See no. 2156. No. 2172 1844 Aug. S, WILLIAM T. AUSTIN, BRAZORIA, [TEXAS] TO THE EDITOR OF -- . Defending General Burleson's conduct in remaining with the main army during the attack upon San Antonio in December, 1835. Copy. 4 p. In no. 2178, p. 29-32. No. 2173 [1844? after Sept. 1] ANONYMOUS Thoughts upon a national safety-fund system. Copy. 4 p. No. 2174 1844 Dec. 4, HARRIET ELVIRA KELLOGG. Verses "to A. E. & Co. 'Daguerrotype Takers'! ! !" A? D. S. 3 p. No. 2175 1844-7, SOUTHERN REVIEW, [RICHMOND, VIRGINIA] References to articles in the Soutluirn Ret•iew, October, 1844, ann October, 1847, upon the annexation of Texas and the colonial policy of Spain. Df. 1 p. No. 2176 (18441, "OLD SETTLER." TWO CHAPTERS ON POLITICAL QUACKERY WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO SAM HOUSTSON PUBLIC DOMAIN Mr. Editor, This may well be called the era of quackery - it flourishes like the green bay tree. It is not medical quacks alone that thrive and fatten: we have quacks in morals, politics, religion, and litera- ture, temperance quacks, abolition quacks, quacks innumerable. When the schoolmaster has been so long or broad, and when the spirit of enquiry is the characteristic of the age, it is passing strange that so many people should imffer themselves to be humbugged. Thou- sands are daily quacked, out of comfort, out of temper, and of health, out of money, out of liberty, out of their senses, and finally into the._ir graves. A more fertile theme does not occur to my mind than that which exposes quackery no matter in what form. And I have often wished that some competent "Titer would dispasionately take up the
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