Semi-Weekly Mississippian [Jackson, MS], September 7, 1860
The struggle in Texas is between slavery and freedom—slavery that killeth, and freedom that maketh alive.—New York Tribune.
The struggle in Texas is that of the most demoniac passions against law, civilization and humanity. Houses are burned, men murdered, children massacred, women outraged and then consigned to death—and all in the mere wantonness of cruelty and crime.—As well say that the outrages of the Druses are the struggles of pure religion, as ascribe the horrors of the Texas border to the love of liberty!