Sam Houston Statue

[parabelum]

And so we find ourselves waking up every morning glancing at a stranger landscape of a place that we once knew, hoping that the winds of tomorrow will usher that familiar texture of Freedom and Liberties back in. Remain steadfast and vigilant.

[striker55]

I can't watch the news, last night my wife had Hannity on. As I walked by the TV I saw Nancy Pelosi saying in regards to statue's being toppled "that's what people do". Are you kidding me?

[Maxwell]

If so, it's yet another example of stupidity, not "virtue signalling." Houston's father owned slaves and served as a colonel in the Virginia militia. The younger Sam, though, didn't get along with his father at all (and never owned a slave, to my knowledge). The family moved to Tennessee when Sam was a teenager, and a short while later he ran away from home and, for almost 3 years, he lived with a Cherokee tribe in the eastern part of Tennessee. He learned to speak fluent Cherokee and was given the name "Black Raven."

In 1829, amidst pressure from several sides, including political, he resigned as Governor of Tennessee, divorced his 1st wife (they were married for only 11 weeks; supposedly she was in love with a different man), and joined his Cherokee tribe in the Arkansas Territory, where they'd been relocated following the Indian and Creek War (War of 1812). The tribe formally adopted him as a member, and he took a Cherokee bride, Tiana Rogers, in a tribal ceremony. Tiana was a widow with two children when they married in 1830. Tiana chose not accompany Sam to Texas in 1832, and she later remarried; died in 1838. Bit of trivia is that Will Rogers was Tiana's 3rd-great-nephew.

After Sam was elected to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate in 1846, he also served as the Cherokee's spokesman and advocate with the federal government and worked for Native American rights. In fact, he was known to sometimes wear traditional Cherokee dress to government meetings in D.C. He was elected Governor of Texas in 1859, and while in office he argued against secession and wanted to keep Texas out of the CSA. Mostly because of that, he was forced out of office in 1861. Sam died in 1863, so ne never saw the end of the war.

How do we get the idiots--idiots who want to tear down and bury every bit of our history--to actually learn even the tiniest bit about that history?

Fascinating! Thanks for the background info!

Agreed. Thank you Rafe for the education on Sam Houston.

[Maxwell]

I'll like to see someone demolish the Lenin statue in Seattle to enrage Antifa.

Yes please. Can we get that on film...