Texas Governor Sam Houston opposed secession, but was unable to prevent it. In this speech, given prior to Lincoln's election, he presents the argument that slavery would be safer within the United States than outside of it. It was a prescient argument, and one held by several other Southern leaders.
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Usually, however, secession was popular enough without the help of community leaders. Prominent Unionists, on the other hand, were a major reason that Texas did not secede before March 1861. The most important of these was Sam Houston, the governor of the state from 1859 to 1861.
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