To: stan the beaver
True. I feel rather confident that Houston was anti-Slavery. I don't really know how he felt about succession.
19 posted on
04/04/2005 12:16:44 PM PDT by
beeler
("When you’re running down my country, Hoss you’re walking on the fighting side of me.")
To: beeler
True. I feel rather confident that Houston was anti-Slavery. I don't really know how he felt about succession. Just the opposite. He was a slave owner, but was strongly against Texas secession, and said so loudly --- as Texas governor in 1861, he refused to take a loyalty oath to the Confederate government, and as a result was impeached by the fire-eaters in the legislature. He predicted, accurately, that slavery, the South, and Texas, would be destroyed in a war with the North.
43 posted on
04/04/2005 1:07:22 PM PDT by
Ditto
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To: beeler
He was anti- secession and was forced out of his role as governor of Texas in the early 1860's. Does that make up for me being 50% Yankee?
51 posted on
04/04/2005 1:33:24 PM PDT by
WinOne4TheGipper
(When did Michael Schiavo hire Baghdad Bob to represent him?)
To: beeler
Allow me to correct you. Sam Houston OWNED slaves and didn't have a problem with it. He was anti-secession.
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