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Texas Troubles

15 Tarrant County

Meeting of people of Tarrant County, September 11, 1860, and Resolutions Adopted

Resolutions adopted

  1. Committees should be set up through the State and prepare lists of “Black Republicans, abolitionists, or higher-law men of every class, and make accurate lists in every county; List No. 1, all suspected persons; No. 2, black list, to be exterminated by immediate hanging.
  2. That we look upon the course of the Austin Intelligencer, and other papers and persons who attribute the late fires to accident, and who assert that the hue and cry about abolition incendiarism has been raised for political effect, as insulting to the intelligence of Texas, and as justly subjecting the editor of the Austin Intelligencer, or any other papers or persons guilty of the like offense, to be placed at once on the list of persons whose future course is to be carefully watched by the proper committee. . . .1

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1Austin State Gazette, September 22, 1860..
  1. You interview someone who witnessed the lynching of accused abolitionist William Crawford.

    1. You read the letter presented to the meeting of the people of Tarrant County as proof of the abolitionist plot in Texas.