Quote Originally Posted by Wolfhawk View Post
. . .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.