[Little Rock] Old-Line Democrat, September 6, 1860
The Chicago Journal, a rank abolition sheet in endeavoring to explain the abolition incendiary fires in Texas, gravely offers two “theories,” one of which is that the Texans, for the sake of pecuniary profit are “very solicitous of inducing the government to send a force of U. S. troops into the State,” the other “theory” is “that they have resulted from the extreme drouth which has prevailed in that State!” How base must be the heart that conceived such an explanation!