NOTES 1. To the north were Commanches and Kiowas, to the west were Apaches and hostile New Mexicans, and to the south were unfriendly Mexicans. 2. _Population of the United States in 1860_ (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864), pp. 472-90. 3. _Ibid._, _Agriculture of the United States in 1860_ (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864), pp. 140-51. A. B. Bender, “Principal Military Posts in the Southwest” in _The March of Empire_ (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1952), opposite p. 284. 4. Ernest W. Winkler, _Platform of Political Parties in Texas_ (Bulletin of the University of Texas, 1916: No. 53), pp. 11-80. Llerena Friend, _Sam Houston The Great Designer_ (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1954) pp. 241 ff. Charles W. Ramsdell, “The Frontier and Secession” in _Studies in Southern History and Politics: Inscribed to William Archibald Dunning_ (New York: Columbia University Press, 1914), p. 74. 5. Hattie J. Roach, _A History of Cherokee County_ (Dallas: Southwest Press, 1934), pp. 61-62. Anna I. Sandbo, “Beginnings of the Secession Movement in Texas” in _The Southwestern Historical Quarterly_, XVIII, No. 2, Oct., 1914, pp. 169-72. 6. The convention call referred to Section I of the “Bill of Rights” of the Texas Constitution of 1845. This section provided that “All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit; and they have at all times the unalienable right to alter, reform, or abolish their form of government, in such a manner as they think expedient.” Constitution of The State of Texas (1845) in H.P.N. Gammel, _The Laws of Texas 1822-1897_ (Austin: The Gammel Book Co., 1898), II, p. 1277. Oran M. Roberts, “The Political, Legislative, and Judicial History of Texas for its Fifty Years of Statehood” in Dudley G. Wooten, A _Comprehensive History of Texas 1685 to 1897_ (Dallas: William G. Scarff, 1898), II, p. 88. 7. Edward R. Maher, Jr., “Sam Houston and Secession” in _The Southwestern Historical Quarterly_, LV, No. 4, Apr., 1952, pp. 453-54. Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker, _The Writings of Sam Houston 1813-1863_ (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1943), VIII, pp. 220-21. Ernest W. Winkler [ed.], _Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861_ (Austin: Austin Printing Co., 1912), pp. 9-13. 8. _Ibid._, pp. 20-22, 405-08. 9. Gammel, _The Laws of Texas_, IV, pp. 1519-20. 10. The seven delegates to Montgomery Convention were: Louis T. Wigfall, John Hemphill, John H. Reagan, John Gregg, W. S. Oldham, T. N. Waul, and William B. Ochiltree. 11. Winkler, _Journal of the Secession Convention_, pp. 15-85. 12. “Proclamation by the Governor” Executive Record Book Governor F. R. Lubbock 1861 to 1863, No. 279, MSS, p. 187. Texas State Archives. 13. Winkler, _Journal of the Secession Convention_, pp. 262-83.