Navarro Express [Corsicana, TX], December 14, 1860
The Dallas Herald urges the County Court to arm and equip a company of men, to be held n readiness to repel the threatened invasion of Montgomery and his gang of marauders. We learn also that the inhabitants along the borders of Missouri, in great numbers, have fled at the approach of this notorious character, with a company said to number four or five hundred men. Montgomery has just returned from Massachusetts with arms and money to assist him in prosecuting his abolition and thievish designs.
The Herald speaks of a letter having been received by certain citizens, from the Rev. Mr. Blount, threatening that if $20,000 was not forthcoming soon, that they would hear from him again, and might expect worse troubles than those experienced in July last.