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Thomas J. Green. Reply of Gen. Thomas J. Green to the Speech of General Sam Houston in the Senate of the United States, ...
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Thomas J. Green. Reply of Gen. Thomas J. Green to the Speech of General Sam Houston in the Senate of the United States, August 1, 1854. [Washington, 1855].FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 67 pages. Original beige printed wrappers. Housed in a modern quarter morocco slipcase.
This rare work is Green's spirited defense of his services to the Republic of Texas and his outraged reply to Houston's speech, painting a less than heroic picture of Houston. Responding to Houston's claim of his name being referenced so often in Green's Journal (1845), Green writes: "Had I been pleased to use it maliciously, or to have gone into detail of the Senator's life and doings, seventeen thousand times the use of his name would not have recorded the enormities of his past career--vulgar blackguardism--his vile debaucheries--his universal mendacity--his numerous perjuries--his personal swindles--his official peculations--his annexatious [sic] coquetries--his want of faith and treason to political parties--his hypocrisy, impiety, and opium eating... his dastardly cowardice--his dirty polygamy and desertion of his former wives, with his pagan brutality to some of them and their young." Green was one of four Texans with the rank of General in the Texas Revolution (outranking Travis, Bowie, Fannin, and Crockett), leader of the anti-Houston party during the Republic era, and commander of the Mier Expedition. After escaping from Perote Prison, he returned to write this famous book. His published reply to the Senate is dated February 15, 1855, indicating this pamphlet would not have been published in 1854, as Howes noted.
Very rare: According to online auction databases, the last time a copy has appeared at auction was at the Streeter sale in 1966.
Condition: Very slight foxing to wrappers, some very minor wear to extremities, rear wrapper with slightest soiling, two inconsequential stains to lower edge of text block, the pamphlet very softly creased vertically throughout from previous folding. Overall a very fine and fresh copy in original wrappers.
References: Howes G-372; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 80n; Raines, p. 99; Sabin 28561; Streeter sale 395.
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2023 December 2 The Ted Lusher Texas History Collection, Part One Signature® Auction #6281 (go to Auction Home page)
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