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Stephen Pearl Andrews
Church in Houston, which owed its existence to the sale of a
mule for a building fund, and an officer of the Union Baptist
Association. With the lean, black-haired Reverend James Huckins
who preached from manuscript, "Wild Cat Morrell," the "cane-
brake preacher" who had taken "Texas fever," and Robert Baylor
who traveled on horseback through the republic with the laws
of Texas in one saddlebag and the Bible in the other, Brother
Andrews was a moving spirit in the Education Society under
whose auspices Baylor University would one day be chartered.
Texan events moved on. Cannon boomed and martial music
sounded for Sam Houston's visit to the city before his inaugura-
tion as president. News of the Santa Fe Expedition reached town
and with reports that Texans had been taken prisoner and were
being marched to Mexico City, a Committee of Vigilance was
formed to secure equipment from the United States for the sol-
diers of the republic. Andrews, worthy member of the Houston
Bar, Baptist and temperance man, whose anti-slavery opinions
had not yet been accompanied by either violent expression or
violent reaction, was appointed by the Committee of Vigilance
of Houston to visit the United States to "solicit aid to conduct
the war against Mexico." From the old warrior, Sam Houston, he
received his credentials in the form of a letter dated March 17,
1842:
As you intend to visit New Orleans and other parts of the United
States, with a view to receive such aids as may be contributed to
the war of Texas by citizens of the United States, I would suggest
the expediency of landing them first at Galveston, ... and that such
as may be required at that point remain subject to the order of
the Executive for the use of the Navy, and such as may be requisite
for the army, be forwarded to this place, subject to the same orders.
In behalf of Texas and free principles, I wish you most hearty
success.?
'For details of Andrews' life in Houston, see Stephen Pearl Andrews vs. M. R.
Gray, Decree, May 1o, 1844, Cause No. 1167 (Harris County Courthouse, Houston);
"Stephen Pearl Andrews," Dictionary of American Biography (2o vols.; New York,
1928-1936), I, 298; William Swain Andrews, Excerpts from the autobiography, Cour-
tesy Mary Gardner, Santa Monica, California (According to these reminiscences by
Andrews' son, Stephen Pearl Andrews declared himself an abolitionist a few days
after his arrival in Houston. At the "principal store," he heard "men of the border
ruffian kind" remark, "I understand there's a damned abolitionist in town." Andrews
faced the men with, "I am an abolitionist. What are you going to do about it?" The
same work is the source for the story of Andrews and the murderer, a tale that497
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