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To: gcruse
Sam Houston -- a Texan Unionist hero for all America.
26 posted on 06/30/2003 7:33:47 PM PDT by Grand Old Partisan (You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
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To: Grand Old Partisan
Sam Houston -- a Texan Unionist hero for all America.

...who died believing that Texas should resume its status as a free and independent nation.

36 posted on 06/30/2003 7:54:31 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: Grand Old Partisan
Of course, that's why he wanted to stay impartial or restore the Texas Republic in 1861. It wasn't so much that he was anti-Confederacy as you would have us believe as he was pro-Texas. So he wouldn't have been for the union either. What? Was he Republican too?!?
45 posted on 06/30/2003 8:39:38 PM PDT by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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