TEXAS, BROADSIDES]. JOHNSTON, ALBERT SIDNEY, Secretary of War of the Republic of Texas . Document signed ("A. Sidney Johnston"), Houston, 27 February 1839, broadside, 4to, docketed on verso, left-hand ornamental border and and two ms. numerals cropped, three small holes at a fold, very minor staining , printed in italic type, accomplished in manuscript, the text enclosed in a border of four different type ornaments, the heading "Republic of Texas" printed in a bold shaded typeface in an arc over the Star of Texas: an announcement of a land grant awarding 320 acres to one T. Sudington in payment for his three month service in the Republican army--WARD, THOMAS WILLIAM "A Card," Washington [Texas], 3 February 1844, broadside, small folio , an indignant defence against a charge of perjury made by Texas representatives F.W. Ogden and J. J. H. Grammont: "When men clothed with public authority, prostitute their character by rendering their high functions subservient to party feeling and party prejudice...forbearance, under the infliction, ceases to be a virtue....[Ogden and Grammont] have include[ded] in their report to the House of Representatives... one of the blackest falsehoods in relation to my character, inasmuch as they have charged me with perjury , that ever enmity, aided by cunning, and stimulated by the basest malice , was capable of inventing. The cause of their making this charge was an attempt made by me at the City of Austin to recover, by legal means, a record belonging to the General Land Office of this Republic, which they feloniously and violently forced from my hands. I therefore publish, for the information of the whole world, the fact that the aforesaid F. W. OGDEN and J. J. H. GRAMMONT, are LIARS and SCOUNDRELS, and unworthy of the confidence or notice of any honest man." (2)
TEXAS, BROADSIDES]. JOHNSTON, ALBERT SIDNEY, Secretary of War of the Republic of Texas . Document signed ("A. Sidney Johnston"), Houston, 27 February 1839, broadside, 4to, docketed on verso, left-hand ornamental border and and two ms. numerals cropped, three small holes at a fold, very minor staining , printed in italic type, accomplished in manuscript, the text enclosed in a border of four different type ornaments, the heading "Republic of Texas" printed in a bold shaded typeface in an arc over the Star of Texas: an announcement of a land grant awarding 320 acres to one T. Sudington in payment for his three month service in the Republican army--WARD, THOMAS WILLIAM "A Card," Washington [Texas], 3 February 1844, broadside, small folio , an indignant defence against a charge of perjury made by Texas representatives F.W. Ogden and J. J. H. Grammont: "When men clothed with public authority, prostitute their character by rendering their high functions subservient to party feeling and party prejudice...forbearance, under the infliction, ceases to be a virtue....[Ogden and Grammont] have include[ded] in their report to the House of Representatives... one of the blackest falsehoods in relation to my character, inasmuch as they have charged me with perjury , that ever enmity, aided by cunning, and stimulated by the basest malice , was capable of inventing. The cause of their making this charge was an attempt made by me at the City of Austin to recover, by legal means, a record belonging to the General Land Office of this Republic, which they feloniously and violently forced from my hands. I therefore publish, for the information of the whole world, the fact that the aforesaid F. W. OGDEN and J. J. H. GRAMMONT, are LIARS and SCOUNDRELS, and unworthy of the confidence or notice of any honest man." (2)
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