[Marshall] Texas Republican, August 25, 1860
The Galveston News says that even in New Orleans, many of the citizens, merchants and other men of sense seem to think the excitement in Texas has been gotten up for political effect. It would be very strange for men to burn up their towns, stores, mills, and dwellings, and to hang their slaves for such a cause. But it would be much more strange for them to select a season like the present for such wholesale destruction, when there’s almost a famine in the land.