WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1830
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his hancl in the presence of several gentlemen, and that he, the man of many "offices," cowered and sneaked off from the com- pany. Since then, he has been shooting many harmless _ trees, about the agency, and may have driven off the "Buckram men," and eked his courage up to the valorous point of bragging in the newspapers. This great man, minor Major, tells how great a favorite he was with the "Cowetas," and how important they deemed him to their well doing; be it even so. He had to tell the sec1·et himself, or it would not have been known. But this is well enough. As he is deeply read in the arcana of scandal, he has a right to tell stories upon himself. In the course of his pub- lication, he introduces the old adage, that "the worm will turn when trampled upon." This is trite, though very appropriate on the present occasion, and though it does s~em rather wormy I will assure Major Love that the worm shall not again be mo- lested by me, until a pair of tongs can be procured to handle him daintily. I will now turn my attention to the writer of "Mar-hin-wa," and passing by the very votent defence which he makes against the charges preferred by me, see whether, by his prepa.ratory course, and his subsequent conduct, he is qualified for the dutie·s of an Agent! The "exile," to whom he alludes, is well known to me, and as I have had an interview with him, since the publica- tion of lVIar-hin-wa.appeared from the pen of the learned Judge 2 - "the second Daniel come to judgment"-! am fully in possession of all the facts which relate to him; and he directs me to say to the Judge that his recrimination is idle and foolish upon him, and that if the Judge will be so good as to publish a correspond- ence which took place between him and the "exile," the world will 1·eaclily account for the "vulgar meanness of his unhallowed at- tacks upon his private and domestic circum.stances, and that such a course could only be the result of the Judge's consciousness of his own cleg1·a!lation of heart, and total lack of feeling and honor. This is very true, and nothing better could be expected from the pedlar of "Binns' coffin handbills," and "Charley Hammond's Truth's Advocate." But the Judge has risen to the rank of a piratical acting Indian Agent. The way he rose "was curious." The way he is sustained, palpable and easy to be accounted for. He will have it directly!! But first, let us look into the case of the Negroes willed by the late Geo. McIntosh to his daughter Sarah. When Gen. Mclntosh 3 was cruelly and wantonly mur- dered (but the JUDGE knows all about it,) he had willed to his
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