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Unlike many of his peers, Houston did not support long-term independence for Texas, even though he did serve as an intermittent President of the Republic. Instead, he urged for annexation by the United States, and once it was a part of the Union, he served as the Senator from Texas. Foley presents an image of Houston at this point that is unlike any other, showing him to indeed by the roughhousing frontier man who chewed tobacco and spit it out on his front porch, just an everyday man, but also a purely brilliant politician who outfoxed England and France in the matter of annexation. To the Texas Revolution he brought not only conviction and guile, but also a wealth of military experience that ensured a military prepared to get past the December surrender of the Cos at San Antonio. Foley argues that, sagely and independently, Houston knew that Santa Anna was coming and that in order to battle that...
When Jacksonian politics took a turn to the hyperbolic, he remained ever Houston the man, whose personal mores kept him from submitting to the river of involvement. Instead of giving up on the things that made him who he was, he gave up running for President, changing the future of the country but maintaining his place as a man. It was that man, Foley's Houston, that lives on in the pages of this book, the hearts of all Texans, and the namesake city, university, fort, and parks he carries on today.
Haley, James L. Sam Houston. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.…
Unlike many of his peers, Houston did not support long-term independence for Texas, even though he did serve as an intermittent President of the Republic. Instead, he urged for annexation by the United States, and once it was a part of the Union, he served as the Senator from Texas. Foley presents an image of Houston at this point that is unlike any other, showing him to indeed by the roughhousing frontier man who chewed tobacco and spit it out on his front porch, just an everyday man, but also a purely brilliant politician who outfoxed England and France in the matter of annexation. To the Texas Revolution he brought not only conviction and guile, but also a wealth of military experience that ensured a military prepared to get past the December surrender of the Cos at San Antonio. Foley argues that, sagely and independently, Houston knew that Santa Anna was coming and that in order to battle that warfront when it came, the Army had to be prepared.
Unflaggingly, Foley tells the story of a Houston without whose wits the Texas Revolution would have surely failed at the hands of Mexico and in whose soul lived an everyday man with the courage to live up to his convictions and see his beliefs become reality. When Jacksonian politics took a turn to the hyperbolic, he remained ever Houston the man, whose personal mores kept him from submitting to the river of involvement. Instead of giving up on the things that made him who he was, he gave up running for President, changing the future of the country but maintaining his place as a man. It was that man, Foley's Houston, that lives on in the pages of this book, the hearts of all Texans, and the namesake city, university, fort, and parks he carries on today.
Haley, James L. Sam Houston. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. P. 3.
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