A Modern Scottish View of Clans (and Gathering)

[Wolfhawk]

Of course, this is just one source, but I can't imagine Houston working so hard to get Texas into the Union only to take so easily out of it. If you have a source for this information, I'd love to see it and add it to my lecture on Houston for my classes.

T.

I stand corrected as I was basing my info off of the reported text of the speech in Salido Texas from the Stage Coach Inn balcony where he supposedly said that if we must leave the union, then we should become a Republic again.

As I do not have access to the reported text, I will redraw my statement as being faulty. The reason (in my understanding) that Texas was enticed to join the Union was the problem of Mexico. Once that problem was removed, the need to the unions protection was not as paramount, as Texas was now stronger and able handle their problem better. There are questions about the legality of the US to pass a resolution to annex Texas anyway.

[macwilkin]

I stand corrected as I was basing my info off of the reported text of the speech in Salido Texas from the Stage Coach Inn balcony where he supposedly said that if we must leave the union, then we should become a Republic again.

As I do not have access to the reported text, I will redraw my statement as being faulty. The reason (in my understanding) that Texas was enticed to join the Union was the problem of Mexico. Once that problem was removed, the need to the unions protection was not as paramount, as Texas was now stronger and able handle their problem better. There are questions about the legality of the US to pass a resolution to annex Texas anyway.

Okay, now that I can see Houston saying.

I'm not sure we can say Texas was "enticed" to join the Union, as many Texicans, including Houston, actively sought statehood before 1845. Even after the Mexican problem was gone, there was still the issue of Commanches and other Native Americans, especially with the beginning of the Civil War and the withdrawl of Federal forces. The Texans not only had to send troops to support Richmond, they also had to deal with the Native American problem on the Western frontier.

What questions specifically were there in regards to Texas annexation? Are you referring to the concern of Northern Whigs, who were against the annexation because of the concern over the expansion of slavery?

T.

[macwilkin]

Can many state make this claim? Does not the Scots feel this way? Does this desire not burn under their skin?

My Scottish ancestors were loyal Union men, who fought for their adopted country and state (Iowa), as did many Scottish immigrants.

I am very proud of my Iowa and Arizona heritage, but I am an American citizen first.

Loyally,

Todd

[thescot]

. . .The reason (in my understanding) that Texas was enticed to join the Union was the problem of Mexico. Once that problem was removed, the need to the unions protection was not as paramount, as Texas was now stronger and able handle their problem better. There are questions about the legality of the US to pass a resolution to annex Texas anyway.

This is quite interesting, but I believe that Sam Houston and Andrew Jackson were on pretty good terms, both coming from Tennessee politics and all. And that figured pominently in Houston's travels to Texas.

I read many years ago--can't cite the source--that Houston had a couple of reasons to leave Tennessee:
1. Woman trouble (or maybe that's women)
2. That his first marriage to Eliza ended due to an oozing wound from the War of 1812( ?) that never healed, and the divorce caused a scandal
3. That Old Hickory had his eye on Texas and wanted Houston to go down there and pick a fight.

I think I got a lot of this from an old biography called The Raven or something like that, but that was in another country, and, besides, the wnch is dead. (Pardon the literary allusion. Can't help it.)

I borrowed the book from a history teacher in the 11th grade who turned me on to history.

If none of this is accepted history . . .oh. well.

We'll just go to Scotland, wear kilts, and forget the Alamo.