The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 11, July 1907 - April, 1908 Page: 197
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General John Thomson Mason.
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judiciary upon its merits. The article in the Constitution does
not by any means identify the contract, and many of the members
of the Convention who voted for its insertion are ashamed that it
is there.
(Signed) Thos. J. Rusk.
General Mason made his last journey to Texas in 1849, dying
of cholera at Galveston, on his way home, in the spring of 1850.
The following letter, written to him while at Galveston, from the
seat of government at Austin, refers to those "Mexican claims"
which were still unsettled though sixteen years had elapsed, and
the Republic of Texas had come into the American Union.
Austin, Texas, January 15th, 1850
Gen. John T. Mason
My dear Sir
I have requested Mr. Fields the Representative from Liberty and
Polk Counties to send you a copy of the reply he has made to Gen.
Chambers. I think he will probably write to you upon the subject
of the interest and bribe, that Chambers alluded to, as growing out
of your grant from Coahuila and Texas. I have known Mr. Fields
for several years, and he is a gentleman of character and integrity.
Gen. Chambers is preparing, it is said, an answer to the reply of Fs.
I also send you Hunt's "Letter to Houston." This is a very able
letter, and stamps the author as a man of erudition and genius.
We may possibly adjourn by the 1st of February, but I hardly
expect it will be before the 10th or 15th, tho' many of the mem-
bers are anxious to get home. Resolutions have passed the Senate
unanimously, and will doubtless pass the House so too, in relation
to the powers of the General Government. These resolutions are
verbatim the great Resolutions that John C. Calhoun introduced
into the Senate upon the Oregon question-and are the same that
Benton asserts were intended as a firebrand to bring about dis-
union, and all other horrors not contemplated by the Constitution!
They are the same that Houston would not touch with a ten foot
pole ! "Well we shall see what we shall see."
I delivered your compliments to General Brooke. He assured
me that he had mourned you as dead, and enquired very particu-
larly about your health.
I found Jos. Denison, Esq., Att-at-Law of Matagorda on board
the Packet when I left Galveston. He is the gentleman you wished
to see, and I told him I had been on the lookout for him to intro-
duce him to you, as you had some matters that might probably
come before the courts, and his name had been favorably men-
tioned to you. He told me he had occasion to look into your grant
thoroughly in connection with a claim somewhat similar. He re-
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