The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-03-25
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'NAutuCt OF Inc kepuDlc.
Aes'ville, Texas, February FIT is
- almost absolutely unknown to the
''can public that In the month of
9ei' 1852, scenes were enacted here
as city that are perhaps without Il
ala IN all our country's history. The
H n 81 that month reads as though IL
'H be an extract from the history
y. French revolution. Weird, bloody
dramatic is the tale, revealing I'M
Say something Of wrong on both
II is only in the interest of historic
y that 1t is told.
ms month referred TO- a citizens
. vas organized and l53 men were
val before 1t to be tried for engaging
4 "nspiracy to spread death and DESC
1 - over the whole region. Forty-three
lsse We're sentenced to death and
hanged to one tree within the pres
Ill's OF the city of Gainesville. The
: we're acquitted.
a.lssvllle in those days was not what
now 1t is now typical Western
WIN street cars, electric lights,
-"ofks and all the modern accom-
y's OF city life. 1t was then only
s,.s struggling frontier village.
- WIPES now rise and elegant resi-
|,,L, now stand where then the wolf
|.L's ny night and the prairie dog
|,y"y DAY, The place where the
- LOOK place, then lonesome
now near the busiest part of the
4, WY a block from both depots. It
me Pecan creek bottom, just be-
y suefe the California street bridge
OSseS it, In those days large,
y .,,,' eau elm stood there, underneath
\ hs branches of which a wagon
Pscspq down the well-nigh dry bed
\ q ma was from these limbs that
ghasll'" were hung, and from them
y ~ corpses daugled at one time.
rs ago "Is uprooted by a storm some
III can hWut even yet part of its old
. Of The We seen lying IN the yard of
n 10 ' re, Is very little about the spot
=, ''i'u one OF what has been.
y Ot iss.l Confederate congress I'm the
y Riie, passed the conscrlDt law there
'9ggh an tbeau dissatisfaction with 10
isellff1g ''"h tlltlA oldltS, especially
ltlg Il, "hen the Union sentiment was
n chafaS Northern Texas, especially,
oas. under IL and resented its pro-
sahs Iaa,ddrse secret organization. CON
aoh me-, though not exclusively OF
aesinent' "as formed TO resist It's en-
y, tho,,,t such Was undoubtedly tie
iH9n gsSs whether or not the organic
9'sns a.. really guilty of an the b'oodv
,tsn opfH nave been attributed 10 II
he frsi, Question. W ~
g oansa suspicion OF the orraniza finn
men6sr1In me drunken remarks of one
e earriedi III, In talking 10 the man
Y be rs ,n, tne mol south from Gaines
Eltty ~ marked that he BELONGED no n
slpl thin was going to ACCOMPLISH Won
y lplt dgi,,i. IN a very shore time. be
s{ty ma,nulk enough To talk IN a HOOD
.oi to ,ti,hsr, and his tales sat he an
man c.a,i rI,s' lie remarked that il
',sais Of ftSS dlr wanted to md ont the
I the or 'e plan he might do IN nv to,n5
~ Ne RSsl1i1sat'on. The CARRIER ren6,ted
. AZ eau neard to the military offil
I leiel ~ tnesYille, and was bv mem IN
~, tie res Se1Gome Initiated and to re-
asulsisan mint as to the chsra i'@ Of Of
y q ie after which no va ,oid
~ learn Would take another oafh he
!. te9nt, eitbi3le, Al TINS point he 4, "a
Y fear a.e by cOnsclentiotis s..r,,niss
OF the consequences, Tor or he he