Houston’s speech is famous through the history because it is showing his racial prejudices against Tejanos (Texas Mexicans). Crisp said, “The words of the speech were harsh. They accused the …show more content…
First, “A thorough comparison of Ehrenberg’s memoir with the voluminous surviving writings of Sam Houston reveals that the vocabulary, the metaphors, and most importantly, the beliefs and the idea of the infamous speech are those if the German private, and not of the Texan general” (56). Second, the editor of Churchill’s translation, Henry Smith, is the one who responsible for all of the deletions-the text that Smith considered as “unreliable” and “unhistorical”. Also, “the book’s Dallas publisher, William Tardy, eliminated or rewrote many more passages that he considered unsuitable for children, in an effort to assure that the book would be adopted by the Texas public schools during the 1936 centennial celebration of Texan independence” (58). Those discoveries are already written as an article titled “Sam Houston’s Speechwriters: The Grad Student, the Teenager, the Editors, and the Historians” by James E. Crisp on