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Article: PENDLETON MURRAH AND STATES RIGHTS IN CIVIL WAR TEXAS.(Texas governor during the Civil War)
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- Civil War History
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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Secession in Texas, as in the rest of the Confederacy, made Southern rights and the embracing of separation the foundation of a new national loyalty. Confederation created a new political entity to which all Texans suddenly owed their allegiance. Since opposition to secession in Texas had been minimal, insurrectionists found it easy to suppress dissent whenever it surfaced in the months and years that followed. Once Texas joined the Confederacy, loyalists found it difficult to pledge fidelity to a government they believed usurped the powers of the United States. As unionist J. Walker Austin observed, "Every man that is not willing to support the Southern Congress is to be ...
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