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sition. He served in the session of 1847-1848, while his company
was being re-enlisted and reorganized. He was proposed for
speaker of the House, but was defeated by J. W. Henderson of
Harris county by a vote of 34 to 24. He was chairman of the
committee on State Affairs, but took little part in the activities
of the House; and as soon as the session was over, he returned
to his command in Laredo, where he staid until June, 1848.
From this time until 1857 the records of his movements are
scanty. In the summer of 1849 he went again to Georgia on
business connected with the eleven-league grant of land to a
Georgia company, the business which had taken him to Texas in
1835 and 1836. He remained in Georgia until April, 1851, when
he returned to Texas. There he married Miss Henrietta Moffitt
of Galveston, after having remained unmarried since the death
of his first wife in 1835. While in Georgia he contributed his
opinion to. the great questions of the time in public addresses and
newspaper articles.
On August 1, 1850, a group of Macon citizens wrote a letter
requesting that Lamar address a public mass meeting to be held
in Macon on Clay's Compromise. Declining their invitation,
August 16, he wrote that he was opposed to the Clay Compromise,
but also to the Missouri Compromise; he was for all the rights
of the South, and opposed to all compromises save those of the
Constitution. Clay's and the Missouri Compromise were only
capitulations on the part of the South, for if Congress could pro-
hibit slavery north of thirty-six thirty, it could prevent it south
of that line. "Naturally connected with these matters," he con-
tinued,
is the present position of the affairs of Texas. It forms the most
practical issue of the day. I look upon the Santa F6 country as
forming the first battle-field between the assailants and defenders
of the institutions of the South. The Free Soilers are deter-
mined to seize the territory for the purpose of abolishing slavery
upon it. It is now lawfully a part of Texas, and subject to the
dominion of her institutions. If it can be severed, and united
with New Mexico, Abolition will accomplish its ultimate purpose
at once within the legitimate limits of a sovereign state.
The title of Texas to the territory in question is indisputable.
It was within her designated limits while she was an independent
government. She held to the Rio Bravo, by the same right by320
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