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WRITINGS OF SAM HOUSTON, 1833
the convention3, and will apprise you of the course adopted, so soon as its members have taken a final action. It is probable that . I may make Texas my abiding place ! In adopting this course, I will never forget the Country of my birth. I will notify from this point the Commissioners of the Indians at Fort Gibson of my success, which will reach you through the War Department. I have with much pride and inexpressible satisfaction seen your messages and Proclamations touching the Nullifiers of the South and their "peacable remedies." God grant that you may save the Union! It does seem to me that it is reserved for you; and you alone, to render millions so great a blessing. I hear all voices commend your course even in Texas, where is felt the liveliest interest for the preservation of the Republic. Permit me to tender you my sincere felicitations, and mo.st earnest solicitude for your health and happiness:- and your future glory, connected with the prosperity of the Union. Sam Houston [P. S.] Be pleased to salute Mr. Earl & friends. 1 Raguet Papers, The University of Texas Librctry, Yoakum, History of Texas, I, 465--466. Alfred M. Williams, Sam Houston and the War of Texan lndependence, 78-81. William Carey Crane, The Life and Selected L-iterary Remains of Sam Houston, 46--47. The copy used in this work is taken from the Raguet Papers. It seems to be in Houston's handwriting and is probably the first draft of the letter sent to Jackson. All the other sources listed differ considerably from this copy since they omit all the private information concerning Anthony Butler, but they differ only slightly from one another. 2 Much evidence exists to indicate that Houston's suspicion of Butler was in this respect, unfounded. 3 Houston was chairman of the committee in the convention which framed a constitution for the proposed State of Texas. There is no means of deter- mining to what extent Houston was the author.
To LEWIS CASS 1
Hot Springs, A. T. 31st July 1833 Sirs, I have the honor to enclose my accounts to you for direc- tion and settlement. With the remarks that no duty, which has been performed in relation to the Indians for many years, unless in a state of war, has been attended with more exposure of health, and unpleasant circumstances, than the duty which I have performed. The country thro' which I travelled from the time
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