How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines by Mark Stein
Author:Mark Stein
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: History
ISBN: 9781588343154
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Published: 2011-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
TEXAS
SAM HOUSTON
The Man Who Lassoed Texas
Speaker of the House: Samuel Houston, you have been brought before this House, by its order, to answer the charge of having assaulted and beaten William Stanberry, a member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the State of Ohio, for words spoken by him in debate upon a question then depending before the House.… If you desire the aid of counsel … your request will now be received.
Samuel Houston: Mr. Speaker, I wish no counsel.
—REGISTER OF DEBATES, 22ND CONG., APRIL 17, 1832
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