The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

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.