Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

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.