Freestone County, Texas
History


State Gazette
published in Austin, Texas
August 9th, 1856 edition
Page: 4

Serious Charges

...Public Debt Bill...

  Resolved, That the Committee just appointed by the House to proceed to 
investigate the difficulty, touching the Public Debt question, between Hon. 
Isaac Parker, of Tarrant, ad Hon. Busby, of Freestone, and report all matters
relatie to same to the House.
  ...

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State Gazette
published in Austin, Texas
Sept. 6, 1856 edition
page 4

  BUSBY'S STATEMENT
     City of Austin, August 7th, 1856

Gentlemen of the Investigating Committee:
  The statements which I submit to your honorable body, in relation to a letter 
handed to me in January last, and the conversation between Mr. Isaac Parker and 
myself in relation to the Public Debt bill, are as follows:
  On Thrusday morning, the 23th of January last, in a conversation between Mr. 
Parker and myself on the Public Debt bill, at his desk in the Hall of the House
of Representatives, he advised me to vote against the bill, giving as his reason,
the fact that I had taken grounds against it before my constituents while I was
canvassing for a seat in the Legislature. - Late on the afternoon of Saturday 
the 26th day of Januay, 1856, Mr. Parker came to Mr. Cook's, where I boarded, 
and asked me to meet him at the Capitol on the next morning, to assist him in 
writing to some of my acquaintances in Freestone county, to notify them relative
to a horse of his that had escaped from him in Austin, which he supposed would
pass through Freestone on its way to Anderson county....

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State Gazette
published in Austin, Texas
November 12th, 1856 edition  (Volume VIII   No. 14)
Front page


Freestone Democracy.
    Freestone County,    }
    November 11th, 1856  }

Messrs. Marshall & Oldham,
  
  GENTLEMEN-Enclosed you will find $3 for continuance of your valuable paper, 
which all must acknowledge is doing yeoman service in the great constitutional
cause of the country.
  I learn, unofficiallly, that the Democratic party are near 600 ahead in this 
Representive District, composed of Freestone, Limestone and Falls.  Limestone 
about, and Freestone over, 200 ahead!
  At Cotton Gin, where the writer votes, and the K. N. stronghold in the 
District, "Buck and Breck" were five ahead! to the great disappointment and 
consternation of Messrs. Busby, Wills & Co.  I can assure you K. N'ism is at
ebb tide here.
  A political discussion came off at Cotton Gin on Saturda, 1st inst., between
Messrs. J. S. Wills and John Manning, (former K.N., and latter Democrat,) which
was kept up after night by Dr. J. B. Wills and S. H. Wills, Esq., K. N.'s, and
Dr. J. L. Means and Col. Perry, Democrats. -- Some fine speeches were made, and
in the writer's opinion, it was a complete Democratic triumph.
        Yours,
       [name or signature missing from paper.  Seems it was not printed.] 
 
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 [About a political rally at Cotton Gin. Original is heavily damaged.]
 
State Gazette
published in Austin, Texas
December 20, 1856 edition

Democracy of Freestone. 
  Cotton Gin. Freestone Co. }
  Dec. 9th, 1856            }

 
Messrs. Marshall & Oldham:

  On the 4th inst., the Democracy of Freestone and Limestone had a grand rally
and Convention Barbecue in the vicinity of Cotton Gin.
  Arrangements being made, committees appointed, &c., a general invitation was
extended to all parties and every body. The sky was quite cool-Terra Firma 
wrap[p]ed in snow? white icy mantle-a chilling blast blowing down from the north, 
and thick ??? clustering around and obstructing the rays of the sun.
  As the morning wore away, however, the sun burst forth in all his native 
Bril[l]iancy, ??? as if by the magic wand of some...


  ... and most elegantly expressed by Dr. T. L. C. Means.  Despite the ????
of the weather, at an early hour, a large concourse had assembled, a large
portion of whom were ladies, adding their exquisite grace and matchless beauty
to the ???
...