Samuel Sawyer to Sam Houston, October 3, 1835
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New York Octr 3rd 1835
Dear Sir.
I am happy to hear of your being in Texas, and shall be still more so
on learning that you have settled there. As I am a proprietor in both the Rio
Grande & Texas, & Colorado & Rio River Co[.] I feel some hopes, upon the presence
of a friend on the spot, that my speculation will not turn out so bad
as prospects now, would cause us to apprehend. The trouble with laws
to prevent the population of the colony, will retard its settlement
until they end, either in the purchase of Texas by the United States, or in
the independence of the Colony. We believe that our government has
the subject under consideration, to bring about the cession indirect-
ly by agreement with Signor Almonte the comr now in Washington
to throw the boundary back to the Rio Grande Del Norte. That could
bring it about, without any congressional action on the subject, un-
less an appropriation were required to meet the payment of the
consideration of the purchase which as it would no doubt turn
out a good speculation. Congress would do that without deciding
as to the future disposition of the Country. As to the other alterna-
tive, an act authorising the purchase, I apprehend much dif[fi]-
culty in its passage. All the conflicting interests between the
different sections of our union would be brought to bear, & even
the slave question would be agitated. The first mode would be pre-
ferable; but we have no certain news whether any & what progress
has been made in bringing it about. You would render an act
of immense service, if you could be instrumental any way of bring-
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Samuel Sawyer to Sam Houston, October 3, 1835. Andrew Jackson Houston Papers #88, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.