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though he pretended to be acting only as an agent for the others.28
At a meeting of the officers shortly after he arrived in camp,
Huston said, all present were willing to acknowledge the merits
of Lamar, but that they denied the power of the Cabinet to super-
sede General Houston and they would not consent to the destruc-
tion of General Rusk. He suggested the appointment of a com-
mittee to meet General Lamar and acquaint him with the desires
of the officers. The committee was appointed, and resolutions
drawn up as follows:
Resolved, That this meeting highly appreciate the gallantry and
worth of General Lamar, and will be at all times ready to receive
him with the cordiality and respect due to his personal and mili-
tary acquirements.
Resolved, That Colonel B. F. Smith and Colonel H. Millard
be appointed a committee to wait on General Lamar, and tender
him the respects of this meeting, and inform him that, there being
some question of the propriety of his appointment by the Presi-
dent as major-general of the Texan army, by which he is directed
to assume the chief command of the army, he is requested by the
officers present not to act in his official capacity of major-general
until the subject may be more maturely considered by the meeting
of the officers of the army.29
Lamar, unwilling to accept the statement of the officers as to
the resistance to his assumption of command, determined to ad-
dress the army. In his speech he dwelt on his service in the
battle of San Jacinto. Since then he had been on the point of
returning to the United States when news came that the Mexicans
were preparing to invade Texas again, and he immediately made
his plans to join the army. He was not anxious to lead the army
if they did not want him, but would cheerfully take his place in
the ranks. After he had spoken Rusk, Green, and Huston spoke,
and then the army voted. This resulted in only 179 votes for
Lamar, and probably 1500 against him, most of the opponents
being in favor of General Sam Houston. Lamar, in his report
to President Burnet, July 17, said:
'Yoakum, History of Texas, II, 185. Yoakum makes the mistake of
accepting unquestioningly Huston's version of this event. The main
facts related are essentially correct, but it takes no cognizance of the
intrigues of Green and Huston for the chief command, and the desire
of Rusk to retain it, largely influenced by them.
"Yoakum, History of Texas, II, 184, note.164
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