Sam Houston

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15 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 18 Jul

Sam Houston’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Then you are a damned rascal.

That I have and do love Eliza, none can doubt that she is the only earthly object dear to me God will witness.

Eliza stands acquitted by me.

I have received her as a virtuous wife, and as such I pray God I may ever regard her and trust I ever shall.

She was cold to me and I thought did not love me,

She owns that such was one cause of my unhappiness.

You can judge how unhappy I was to think I was united to a woman that did not love me.

I was in an agony of despair and strongly tempted to leap overboard and end my worthless life.

At that moment, however, an eagle swooped down near my head and then, soaring aloft with wildest screams, was lost in the setting sun.

I knew then that a great destiny waited for me in the West.

Mr. Speaker, arraignment for the first time of my life on a charge of violating the laws of my country.

I feel embarrassment, which my peculiar situation is calculated to inspire.

All I demand is that my actions may be pursued to the motive which gave them birth.

I was dying out, and had they taken me before Justice of the Peace and fined me $10, it would have killed me.

But they gave me a national tribunal for a theater, and that set me up again.

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