[Ditto]

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.

[beeler]

What's weird is that he owned slaves but opposed the expansion of slavery and the Confederacy. Yet more evidence that the issues inspiring the War of Northern Aggression were much more complicated than is commonly taught or thought.