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The Effects of Undue Excitement and Lynch Law

[Marshall] Texas Republican, September 8, 1860

A correspondent of the Paris Press, referring to the excitement prevalent throughout our State and the effects of mob law upon our interests, after stating that everything abroad is exaggerated, says:

“I learned, whilst in Arkansas, that hundreds of persons on their way to look at the country were deterred from coming any farther, and had turned back. This is the first injury to our State, and from the effects of which it will take years to recover.”

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