Houston connection

[Mrchips]

I agree that that is how a politician survives as did Sam Houston from a slavery background. Did Sam not also advocate that the various individual states should have the choice to self rule on the matter of slavery. As was Hannibal hamlin who also stayed in politics for many years whilst agreeing with Lincoln about the principal of the abolishion of slavery also advocated quietly to Lincoln that individual states should have that right and to some extent .Lincoln conceded to that pressure proposing that Kentucky should have that right.