How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines by Mark Stein

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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