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MIEMORANDA.
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and the President, I shall have to appear as his coadjutor in
measures I disapprove toto cc lo; and, consequently, raise up
for myself hundreds of enemies on' this score, who while I live
will not cease to persecute me.
MEMORANDUM BOOK No. 4.
From JaTcnuary, 1S44, to t1ie close of 1848.
[The Memoranda in this Book are principally private ones.]
WASHINGTON ON THIE BnAzos, September 2c7.-General election
for President, and other officers of the Government.
[Elected President of the Republic for three years.]
[The inauguration took place, Mlonday, December 9th.]
JTune 4th, 1845.-Wednesday, 4th, issued Proclamation of
Peace with 3Mexico; same day received proposals of peace from
the Comanche Chief, Santa Anna, the last enemy which Texas
had-accepted them. Now, my country, for the first time in
ten years, is acttually at peace iwLit/h ALL the world.
_Decembei 31st.-I very much fear I have g'iven mortal
offence to Gen. Houston, in having succeeded in my administration
thus far. He will only omit to persecute and hate me, as
he has so many others, on condition that I will let him appropriate
all the credit of my acts as President to himself, as he is
now endeavoring to do; and as he has already pretty successfully
done, those I performed as Secretary of State. (V. vol.
ii. pp. 267-8).
That Gen. H. preferred Gen. Burleson to me as his successor,
is well known to me ; and I suppose for the reason that he
believed Gen. B. would break down, as L r adid, and leave
Gen. H. a triumph, in enabling him to say, as he is so over-fond
of doinlg, "There is nobody in Texas, after all, capable of governing
the country, but old Sam." But I h1ave prevented Gen.
H. of this triumph, and of course may prepare for his vengeance.
I have no objection to his taking as much of the
credit as he pleases, if it will gratify his vanity or his ambition,
so long as he makes a proper use of the capital so obtained, and
appropriates it to the welflare of Texas ; but if ever he fails to
do tllis, I shall be obliged to vindicate the truth of history
against him, as well as the ten thousand others who are inter
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Jones, Anson. Memoranda and official correspondence relating to the Republic of Texas, its history and annexation. Including a brief autobiography of the author, book, January 1, 1859; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2391/m1/45/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.