The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], December 1, 1860
The News says a Lone Star rifle company, numbering nearly one hundred young men, has been organized in Galveston, and that the old artillery company is also being reorganized, to be composed of some of the older citizens. Many citizens are wearing the blue cockade, surmounted by metalic five-pointed stars.
The Telegraph notices the appearance of the blue cockade on the streets of Houston, worn by numbers of citizens, and gives the following description of it: It consist of a neat blue rosette, pinned to the hat, having a silver five-pointed star in the centre . It means that the wearers pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to resistance to abolition encroachments, and that they can see no way of successful resistance but in the withdrawal of their State from the Union.
A movement is on foot for the organization of an artillery company.