In April 1832, 180 years ago this month, future "Father of the Texas Revolution" Sam Houston was in Washington, D.C., where he was working to expose frauds being perpetrated by government agents against Cherokee Indians in Arkansas. While he was there, Ohio Congressman William Stanbery gave a speech to Congress in which he accused Houston himself of corruption in the supplying of provisions to the Cherokee. When Stanbery declined to reply to Houston’s correspondence about these slurs, Houston confronted him on Pennsylvania Avenue and, even as the congressman tried to shoot him, proceeded to beat him into submission with a hickory cane.
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