re: #47 HappyWarrior

Wonder what old Sam would think of Governor Secession. Probably not too highly.

Then-governor Sam Houston, upon refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy:

Fellow-Citizens, in the name of your rights and liberties, which I believe have been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. In the name of the nationality of Texas, which has been betrayed by the Convention, I refuse to take this oath. In the name of the Constitution of Texas, I refuse to take this oath. In the name of my own conscience and manhood, which this Convention would degrade by dragging me before it, to pander to the malice of my enemies, I refuse to take this oath. I deny the power of this Convention to speak for Texas….I protest….against all the acts and doings of this convention and I declare them null and void

The convention was the special convention that had voted for secession, and whose legality was upheld by the legislature but rejected by Houston. Houston was removed from office and retired to his home in Huntsville, where he died two years later.