Daily Gazette & Comet [Baton Rouge, LA], October 12, 1860
The Galveston Civilian is responsible for the following piece of information. The Knights of the Golden Circle, who have been so far benightened as to march to Western Texas, have concluded that they have had about as near a view of the elephant as would pay. The Corpus Christi Ranchero says:
“The last detachment of Knights of the Golden Circle that arrived here instead of going farther towards the “seat of war,” left, we understand, for their respective homes. Those who went to the Banquette, came back here and did likewise; and as they performed the trip into the country and back on foot, will satisfy the Civilian they did not carry bridles with them.
“This morning another party of K. G. C., from the States, arrived here. There must be mismanagement on the part of the leaders, or else a concentration of force would be better understood.”
Young men at a distance should be cautious how they enter upon quixotic and desperate expeditions of this kind. The whole scheme, in the present state of affairs, is chimercal and dangerous in the extreme.