Texas is a State ordinarily peaceful, but you can not put 20,000 troops into it without running some risk of a collision between the people of that State, and especially the Mexicans who live in Texas near the border and who sympathize with the insurrectos, and the Federal soldiers.
Bill Taft: “Texas is a State ordinarily peaceful, but you can not put 20,000 troops into it without running some risk of a collision…”
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Taft warns about the potential risks of troop deployment in Texas due to local tensions.
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