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Excerpt from Reply of Gen.: Thomas J. Green, to the Speech of General Sam Houston, in the Senate of the United States, August 1, 1854 About the close of the last session of your honorable body, and whilst I was in Texas zealously advocating the building of the Southern Pacific railroad, Sam Houston, one of the Senators from that State, under his senatorial privilege, made an assault upon my character, so maliciously false, yea, without a shadow of foundation in truth, that it requires a present notice from me. He made a formal request of the Senate, which was granted, to meet at an earlier hour than usual the next day, to afford him the opportunity of calumniating a private citizen from his senatorial desk, and consequently to have that calumny propagated through the journals and printing patronage of the Senate - thereby making the Senate the ostentatious endorser of the vilest tissue of falsehoods which ever found their way to public notice through such a channel. It is plain that with these meretricious advantages, and the further senatorial privilege of having reporters to reduce his bombast to readable grammar, and that printed and franked throughout the country, a private citizen, with both truth and justice upon his side, must appear to disadvantage. It is indeed painful to question the justice or policy of the Senate, in any particular, but when your high body sits day after day as a shield to a mendacious colleague, to pour forth his slanders against myself and others, which, if uttered by him outside the Senate walls would not be credited by his vilest sychophant, is, I trust, a sufficient reason for my protesting against the use of a prerogative thus abused. This quarrel between Senator Houston and myself, which has been so officially dignified, has nothing to do with his senatorial duties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.