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To avoid more bloodshed in Texas, Houston turned down U.S. Col. Frederick W. Lander's offer from President Lincoln of 50,000 troops to prevent Texas's secession. He said, "Allow me to most respectfully decline any such assistance of the United States Government."
It is unlikely for Houston to accept this in any iteration of history. However, a hand-wave can replace him with someone else say from a stray bullet or a runaway carriage, and certainly with a different Lieutenant Governor. What if the Governor of Texas had accepted the Union offer to suppress the secession of the state to the Confederacy?
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