1860s, Speech in Austin (1860)
Sam Houston: Quotes about people
Sam Houston was nineteenth-century American statesman, politician, and soldier, namesake of Houston, Texas. Explore interesting quotes on people.
As quoted in Sam Houston (2004), by James Haley, University of Oklahoma Press, p. 397
1860s
“Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.”
As quoted in "Revering Sam Houston, anti-Confederate patriot" http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/blog/2016/03/sam-houston.html (18 March 2016), by Michael Zak, Grand Old Partisan
1860s