A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879. Page: 401 of 859
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MURRAIH ELECTED GOVERNOR. 399
" cotton orders,' and permitting planters, who could procure
teamsters not subject to conscription, to export any amount
of cotton. But it was but a short time before other restrictions
were placed upon the Rio Grande trade.
At the election held August 3d, 1863, Pendleton Murrah
was elected Governor, and Fletcher S. Stockdale, Lieutenant
Governor.*
* For Governor there were polled: For Murrah, 17,511; T. J. Chambers,
12,455; scattering, 1,070-total, 31,036. For Lieutenant Governor: F. S.
Stockdale, 11,152; Stephen H. Darden, 8,083; A. M. Gentry, 4,400; P. W.
Kittrell, 4,163; scattering, 3.
Executive Officers.-R. J. Towns, Secretary of State; C. R. Johns, Comptroller;
C. M. Randolph, Treasurer; Stephen Crosby, Laund Commissioner;
J. Y. Dashiell, Adjutant General; N. C. Shelly, Attorney General.
During this administration a change gradually took place in the public
mind. At its commencement, the great mass of the people cheerfully, even
enthusiastically sustained the newly-formed Confederacy, and they promptly
submitted to every law and every order deemed necessary to success. A
great majority looked upon the establishment of the Confederacy as an accomplished
fact; and believed that its recognition by the governments of Europe,
and the United States itself, was only a question of time. But the events
of two years-the surrender of New Orleans and Mlemphis in 1862, and the
fall of Vicksburg in 1863, began to beget doubts of final success. Againat
first the tarmers obeyed, without a protest, the various "' cotton orders"
as they were issued from "HIeadquarters." But observation of the working
of these changing " orders," created a suspicion that they operated to the
injury of the planter, and inured more to the benefit of speculators than the
Confederate government; and this without impugning the motives of the
commanding generals. Again, the conscript law and the confiscation laws
were enforced a little too vigorously. Some in feeble health were pushed
into the army, who ought to have been at home under the care of a doctor,
and with tll.ir friends and families. In some instances, persons who had
spent a lifetime in Texas were accidentally in the North, and did not, or
perhaps could not, return to their homes. Their property was seized by the
receivers and confiscated.
But the subject of most dissatisfaction was the proclamation of martial
law; and the manner of its enforcement. It was not intended, originally,
to interfere with men in legitimate business. But under the rulings of
young lieutenants, citizens were prohibited from going to a neighboring
county seat witliout a passport. Venlerable men, who had spent forty years
in Texas, felt humiliated, when they hlad to travel a considerable distance to
obtain from a young lieutenant permission to visit a relative, or transact
some item of business in a neighborhood out of their county. While many
complied even with the requirements of the ' order" for the good of the
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Thrall, Homer S., 1819-1894. A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879., book, 1879; St. Louis, Missouri. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5828/m1/401/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .