Houston connection

[Mrchips]

Thank you for your response. What I am saying is the Houston family, not just Sam Houston, who died in 1863. Incidentally. Sam had been fighting illness all his life and would not have expected to die of pneumonia. Nor would his family. Hannibal Hamlin’s preference for a presidential nomination would have been Sam Houston as he had written.

The overall point I am getting at is there was a lot of Houston connections not the least of which would have been vast amount of money lost by what appears to be unknown connections between the Houston's, Hamlin's and Lincoln’s policies.

The Hamlins and Houston families were spreading far and wide as the states opened up,
opening banks and making fortunes from land and crops and livestock feeding the ever increasing multitudes of immigrants.

All of these millions including railways and roads were essentially built by slaves. They had to adjust to abolition, but each area was trying to slow the process of abolition down. Enlisting blacks and proposing to allow those slaves to wear a uniform and proposing the first paper currency, so quickly would have had a devastating effect (albeit the right and humane thing to do). Lincoln’s policies had a devastating financial and physical effects on those slave owners.

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Furthermore the Houstons, whilst claiming to be abolitionists, were the worst kind of slave owners and had dealt and delivered slaves since the mid-17th century. They essentially avoided wars by intermarrying with Quakers and Huguenots. They were allowed by Lincoln to be conscientious objectors. Those Quakers were allowed to benefit from wars by feeding soldiers and be supporting background staff only including making uniforms. This is supported by the information I have gained looking at the situation from different perspectives finding connection family wise from the Lincoln, Houston, and Hamlin women and families, in power gradually state by state.

Quakers were abolitionists and the said families intermarried with them in America and Ireland.
This gave them free reign to do as they wished without having to fight. The early Quakers did not even need marriage certification, only the understanding of togetherness by that community. The Quakers evolved from the disobedience of the Houstons and Huguenots not signing in compliance with English rule. Without approval from the British their wives were not recognized as their wives legally. Quakerism allowed marriage without certification. Quakers were subsequently persecuted which meant the Houstons kept on the move anyway or die because of their adopted religion.

Believe me the Scots and Irish were used to that from the British back in their native lands because they were transported as indentured servants (white slavery) 100 years before black slavery began.

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What I am saying ‘‘tis that the Houstons and Hamlins had extensive reasons, transportation to escape routes any where in the world via the Potomac River. Plenty of extended family around where Booth was killed if in deed he was killed? They were the vast beneficiaries of Lincoln’s death and had links to the murderer.

The actual players and conspirators were mere pawns. For example, the Houstons were married to the Grays. There was a picture of Alice Gray in Booth's pocket. 3 years after Lincoln’s death a Houston married a Garrett.

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A lot of this information I have derived from a Houston family branch which is not identified in the history books - a branch that I have found. This family connection as shown me how and why they stayed hidden and their history equally hidden because of hundreds of years of persecution by the British until the end of the Civil War.

Even then they kept slaves ahead of abolition enforcement to slow the process down until machines were invented to take the place of slaves making it financially viable.

Apologies for rambling on - I do tend to do it.