[Marshall] Texas Republican, September 1, 1860
The Mt. Pleasant Union contradicts the rumor of the burning of the flourishing little town of Mt. Vernon, in Titus county, as published by the Jefferson Gazette, nor has any body been hung in Titus county, so far as the editor has learned, since the era of town burnings in Texas.
The Union also says:
“The rumor of Daingerfield, another flourishing town in Titus county, as chronicled in other exchanges, being destroyed, is without foundation. In fact our county has been blessed with order and quiet to an unusual degree, during the reign of terror.”