Excerpt from A Paper Read Before the Cincinnati Society of Ex-Army and Navy Officers, January 3d, 1884 Resuming our thread of unlucky conditions; in the third place, the Texans had much less of union sentiment in their biographies, as their State had much more of separateness in their geography, commerce, and history than had the citizens of. The other States of the United States. The latter had never owed, owned, felt, nor imagined any other bonds than those of loyalty to the one grand old flag of our fathers. But from their beginnings, under Austin in 1820, and Hous ton in 1836, many of them had voluntarily expatriated themselves, or had been expatriated by stress of our pursuing writs of law, criminal and civil, to take and to profess a foreign citizenship. Indeed, in that critical period, from the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which be gan the War, to the fire upon Fort Sumter, which was the War itself, the ties of 'legal obligation to the Union and the love for the Union were very feeble forces upon many, if not the most, of the leading men of Texas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.