Daily Times [Leavenworth, KS], November 20, 1860
Gov. Houston recently made a speech at Independence, Texas, in which he attributed the late insurrection panic to the false accounts circulated by one Pryor of Dallas, a brother of the Virginia Pryor. Gov. Houston denied the stories and incendiary fires, and said that the panic had greatly injured the State, depreciating property and preventing immigration, and that a gentleman just in from Northern Texas had told him he had met at least 200 wagons, with five persons to each wagon, going out of the State to Kansas and Arkansas, simply because property and life had been made insecure by the panic makers. Mr. Houston also said:
“However much he might regret the election of Lincoln, still, if constitutionally elected, he ought to and should be inaugurated. Yes! they would have to walk over his dead body if he was not!”