our adopted land adding Insult to repeated Injury by the commission of murder. Accept my Sincere desire for Your Speedy recovery to perfect health E. Harris Genl. T. J. Rusk N.B. Sir you read this burn or tear it up whatever you do
[Addressed:]
Genl. Thomas J. Rusk Courtesy Texas Army Genl. Houston
[4323] [HUNT to LAMAR]
United States, - Baltimore, 17th October, 1836. My very Dear Sir, -
Since writing you from Norfolk, on the 8th. inst., I have visited Petersburg and Richmond, Va., and Washington City, whence I came last evening. As I anticipated, when I wrote to you, I made a visit to the President of the U.S., who received and treated me kindly: his feelings, as a citizen, is warmly with us, but his position as the chief Executive officer of this country, in his view, (and I think properly loo) prompts him in the exercise of his official duties, to observe the strictest neutrality. In speaking to him of the present position of Texas, I expressed the belief that there was a large majority of the citizens of Texas in favor of annexation to the U. States, and the being placed in an altitude which would enable us to make the connection, was that which the whole Repulic most ardently desired. He replied that, "without a Legislature and Courts of Justice, a posture in which Texas had been and was in, from the last advices, it would be impossible for us to do any thing on the subject of recognition" - that "a regularly organized Government must exist, before the U.S. could assent to recognize Texas free and independent." I expressed to the President in reply, my fullest confidence in the belief, that within three months the Government of the Republic of Texas would be regularly organized and in successful and harmonious operation. The conversation here ceased upon the merits of this question, but
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