. . . the soil of every state in the Union, unless it be Texas – Texas, which begged for admission to the Union, involving the certain war with Mexico, and which retained all the public lands within her limits, while the federal government assumed and paid all her debts – Texas, which seized the forts built for her protections, and made prisoners of the army sent there to defend her people against the Indian tribes.
The baseness of Texas and Florida in rebelling against the government, exceeds even that of the other rebel States. – Mo. Dem.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, March 6, 1862, p. 2
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