Confederate Constitution

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“During the Civil War the area became a refuge for service- dodging Texans, and gangs of bushwhackers, as they were called, hid in its fastnesses. Conscript details of the Confederate Army hunted the fugitives and occasional skirmishes resulted.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)