The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 12, July 1908 - April, 1909 Page: 104
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Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
persions and misrepresentations to which we had been subject
from the radicals in Congress; that I thought I could readily get
the co-operation of the Southern members present in the city in
this matter, and that if this proposition should meet his appro-
bation so that [hel might choose to act upon it he could let me
know, otherwise I should drop the subject. He talked at length
upon the designs, plans, and acts of the radicals, freely and famil-
iarly enough, and particularly advised that we should directly
contradict, over [our] own signatures every false report cir-
culated by Congressmen in their speeches, and when I, before
leaving, brought my proposition to his attention again, he said
that he would consult some of the friends about it. I left well-
nigh satisfied that I should never hear from my proposition again,
in which I was not disappointed. I met him several times after-
wards and he stopped merely long enough to speak to me.
About the third time I called on the President with business,
I remarked to him that I would be pleased for us to have an
interview with him when he was more at leisure than in the reg-
ular business hours, that we might have a more full conversation
in relation to the state of affairs, and especially relating to mat-
ters to Texas. He said in a very reserved businesslike style, as I
thought, that he had no more leisure at one time than another,
that we could call here at any time and see him. That ended that
conversation, and as I supposed, would end my visits to the White
House except when made strictly on business of an urgent char-
acter. What prevented it from being the last visit will after-
wards appear.
Under all these discouraging circumstances as the Christmas
holidays approached (Mr. Epperson having gone to New York and
Governor Parsons to Alabama) Judge Burnet and I concluded
that we could do no good by staying longer at Washington. He
went to Newark, in New Jersey, to spend some time with his
relations there and I commenced packing up, buying some books
and generally making my arrangements to leave for home. The
nearer I got ready the less I felt like going unless something more
was done. I could not but feel that my mission was incomplete;
that the great State of Texas-a far-off country-would expect of
me and her other representatives to make her, her people, and
their sentiments to be publicly known to Congress and to the whole
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