A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879. Page: 420 of 859
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HISTORY OF TEXAS.
is an impediment to the reconstruction of that State, under the law. He is
therefore removed from that office. E. M. Pease is hereby appointed Governor
of Texas in place of J. W. Throckmorton, removed. Hie will be
obeyed and respected accordingly."
E. M. Pease became Governor, by military appointment,
July 30th, 1867. This was a period of bitter partizanship.
Under the instructions, marked secret and sent by General
Griffin to the different boards of registration, a very rigid
rule was adopted, by which hundreds of men who believed
themselves entitled to register were rejected. In the meantime,-General
Sheridan had been removed from the command
of the Fifth military district, and General Hancock
appointed in his place. The views of the latter differed
radically from those of his predecessor. Hancock was
opposed to the trial of civillians by the military, and
declined to interfere, even at the request of Governor
Pease.t
*Executive Officers: John A. Green, Secretary of State; William M.
Walton, Attorney-General; W. L. Robards, Comptroller; MI. H. Itoston,
Treasurer; Stephen Crosby, Land Commissioner; Davis Guerly, AdjutantGeneral.
Justices
of Supreme Court: George F. Moore, Chief Justice; R. Coke
S. P. Donley, A. H. Willie, and George W. Smith, As.sociates. Judges
Watrous, andc Duval, Judges of the United States District Court.
David G. Burnet and Oran M. Roberts were elected Senators; and Geo.
W. Chilton, B. H. Epperson, A. M. Branch, and C. C. Herbert were elected
to the United States House of Representatives, but were not admitted to
theirs seats.
t A murder had been committed in Uvalde county. Three men were in
confinement for the crime. Judge Noo)na wrote a letter to Governor Pease
in which he asked: " Would it not be well to try them by military commission?"
This was transmitted to General Hancock, and answered by Colonel
W. C. Mitchell, Secretary of Civil Affairs, by order of the Commanding
General. We copy a few paragraphs:
In his view it is of evil example, and full of danger to the cause of freedom
and good government, that the exercise of the military plower through
military tribunals created for the trial of offenders against the civil law,
should ever be permitted, when the ordinary powers of the existing State
Governments are ample for the punishment of offenders, if those charged
with the administration of the laws are faithful in the discharge of their
duties.
"If the means at the disposal of the State authorities are inefficient to
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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/m1/420/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .