Stories of fires exaggerated

Lucadia Pease to Juliet Niles, September 20, 1860.

“There was a little excitement got up by the newspapers before the election for political effect—but he stories of fires and murder are all exaggerated.”¹

You met Mrs. Pease, wife of E. M. Pease, a leading Texas Unionist, briefly.

1. Listen to Governor Sam Houston’s speech about the Troubles.