Which Reminds Me

You were talking about the newspaper career of William Brownlow McClellan, suggesting that I could spend all of my time rummaging through old newspapers tracing his commentary themes and peculiar wordings, his editorial interactions with rival editors and politicians of the time, especially the expressions of the mutual loathing that existed between himself and Houston. Yes, I suppose that the family book doesn't tell the whole story. There might be even more details available for the finding to those who may be independently wealthy enough to spend all their time in traveling to Texas and looking through the state archives and who knows what else. Perhaps some other branches of the family inherited more information about that than I did. But, anyway, who has time or interest in needlessly prolonging the personal rivalry of two 19th century men who have been dead for quite a long time now, more than century I would venture to guess? Don't we all have 9-5 jobs and duties that occupy most of our waking hours? I just don't see the point of that. There is no reason to imagine that Sam Houston would ever be recommended for sainthood, that we should need to pretend that he was always right about everything.