This One Goes Out to Rick Perry
By The Detroit Daily Advertiser, late 1860/early 1861 (I do not have an exact date):
“Every horse thief, murderer, gambler, robber, and other rogue of high and low degree, fled to Texas when he found the United States too hot to hold him. The pioneers of that State were cut-throats of one kind or another, with some honorable exceptions. Those of them who have escaped hanging or the State prison, and their descendants, are the men who have led the secession movement in that State.”
Evidently, not much has changed in the last 150 years.