Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

She and Houston lived together for several years and although he was still married to Eliza Allen under civil law he married Tiana under the Cherokee law. At the convention to declare Texan Independence in March 1836 he was made Commander-in-Chief. On September 5 1836 he defeated Stephen F.

S. S. Sam Houston supported annexation by the United States.