The Library of oratory, ancient and modern . ependence of Texas. From that period until its annexation tothe United States, Houston was president of the Texan Republic, and for twelve yearsfollowing its admission to the Union he represented it in the United States 1859, he was elected governor of Texas, but on account of opposition to Secession beresigned office in 1861 and retired to private life. SPEECH ON THE NEBRASKA AND KANSAS BILL DELIVERED IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. MARCH 3. 1857 M K. PKESIDENT,—I have very little hope that anyappeal which I can make for the Indians will doa
The Library of oratory, ancient and modern . ependence of Texas. From that period until its annexation tothe United States, Houston was president of the Texan Republic, and for twelve yearsfollowing its admission to the Union he represented it in the United States 1859, he was elected governor of Texas, but on account of opposition to Secession beresigned office in 1861 and retired to private life. SPEECH ON THE NEBRASKA AND KANSAS BILL DELIVERED IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. MARCH 3. 1857 M K. PKESIDENT,—I have very little hope that anyappeal which I can make for the Indians will doany good. The honorable senator from Indiana[Mr. Pettit] says in substance that God Almighty has con-demned them and has made them an inferior race; that thereis no use in doing anything for them. With great deferenceto that senator, for whom I have never cherished any butkindly feelings, I must be permitted to dissent from hisopinions. He says they are not civilized and they are nothomogeneous_, and cannot be so. with the white race. They. SAMUEL HOUSTON ON THE NKIIKASKA AND KANSAS BILL 45 cannot be ci\ilized ! No ! Sir, it is idle to tell me that. Wehave Indians on our western borders whoso civilization isnot inferior to our own. It is within the recollection of gentlemen here that, morethan twenty years ago, President Ross, one of them, held acorrespondence upon the rights of the Indians to the Cherokeecountry which they possessed east of the Mississippi, andmaintained himself in the controversy with great credit andability; and the triumph of Mr. Adams, if it was one, wasmuch less than he had obtained over the diplomatist of Spain[Mr. Don Onis] in relation to the occupation of Florida byGeneral Jackson. The senator from Indiana says that inancient times Moses received a command to go and drive theCanaanites and Moabitcs out of the land of Canaan, and thatJoshua subsequently made the experiment of incorporatingone tribe of the heathen with the Israelites, but it finally had
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