t. archer. that's not the only piece of the evidence. on his way to houston -- or on the way to texas, houston rode in the company of elias rector. and when they parted ways north of the red river, mr. rector wanted to give houston a present. and the only thing he had to give him was a razor. houston, elias rector said, i wish to give you something before we separate and i have nothing that will do as a gift except my razor. rector, said houston, i accept your fine gift and mark my words, if i have luck, this razor will someday shave the chin of a president of a republic. now, this is before sam houston has ever set foot in texas. and he's already thinking about becoming president of a nonexistent republic. now, this is a letter to his friend james prentice. my opinion is that it would be of vast importance to have persons there, texas, who could look at matters with a view to make changes, to make changes, which are necessary and must take place before long in that country and without which it could never be what it ought to be for the

t. archer, to a fund-raising mission to new orleans. they left the day after christmas of 1835, arrived there in january of 1836. and they had a meeting at the city hotel, which was in the french quarter because new orleans was the largest fund-raising center for the south. and at this meeting it was chaired by a man named william christie. christie was an old veteran of the war of 1812. he was a long-time friend of sam houston's. and he was there as sympathetic a man they could ever find to chair this meeting. so the commissioners, austin, archer, and wharton, had this meet examining they tried to raise funds, and they had it in the ballroom of the hotel. and it probably wasn't much bigger than this room. and they had real estate speculators here. there were financiers there. some of these were just lodgers from the hotel who'd been following the texas cause and wandered in on the meetings. and austin and archer took turns railing against the mexican government. we have no representation in satulio. they have suspended the constitution

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