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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 2: preliminary rebellious movements. (search)
the 22d of January; and another, appropriating five hundred thousand dollars for military purposes. They listened to a commissioner from Mississippi (Wirt Adams), but refused to authorize the Governor to appoint like agents to visit the Slave-labor States. They gave him authority to correspond with the governors of those States upon the great topic of the day, and adjourned on the 13th, to meet again on the 23d of January. 1861. Texas, under the leadership of its venerable Governor, Samuel Houston, and the influence of a strong Union feeling, held back, when invited by conspirators to plunge into secession. So did Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, all Slave-labor States. The Governor of Tennessee, Isham G. Harris, who was a traitor at heart, and had corresponded extensively with the disunionists of the Cotton-growing States, made great but unsuccessful exertions to link the fortunes of his State with those of South Carolina in the secessi
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 7: Secession Conventions in six States. (search)
Knights of the Golden Circle loyal action of Governor Houston, 187. Secession Convention in Texas Committehe people were alarmed by the movement, and when Sam. Houston took the field as an independent Union candidateed to be the beginning of a bloody tragedy. Governor Houston now felt it his duty to take measures to countthe Convention as a legally constituted body. Governor Houston protested against the assumption of any powersnfederacy, and appointed a committee to inform Governor Houston of the new political relations of the Commonweis office regardless of all alleged changes. Samuel Houston. The reply of the Governor produced great ethe 20th, the Convention proceeded to depose. Governor Houston and other State officers who refused to take tersecuted every proclaimer of Union sentiments; and Houston himself actually renounced his allegiance to his Goould never subjugate the South. The course of Governor Houston was a painful assurance to the people of Texas