Sam Houston quote needed

[Charles Doyle]

Google Books shows:

"Texas, with peace, could exist without the United States, but the United States can not, without great hazard to the security of their institutions, exist without Texas."  In Houston's letter to General Andrew Jackson, written at Washington[-on-the-Brazos], Texas, February 16, 1844.

>From _Life and Select Literary Remains of Sam Houston of Texas_, ed. William Carey Crane (1884), 370.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 01:50:16 EST
>From: Bapopik at AOL.COM
>Subject: Sam Houston quote needed; Anonymous internet "Texas Blessing"
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

>
>Any help with this quotation (not in YBQ):
>...
>"Texas could exist without the United States, but the United States cannot, except at very great  hazard, exist without Texas." - Sam  Houston

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