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Excerpt from Message of Gov. F. R. Lubbock to the Extra Session of the Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas: Delivered, Feb. 5th, 1863 While I recognize the right of the Confederate Government to dispose of prisoners of war, taken by its armies and while it would be impolitic and unadvisable for the State to interfere therewith; I yet think that, where parties are taken upon our soil, committing murder and arson, and inciting to rebellion our servile population, the plea that they are soldiers of the United States Government, should not be allowed to save them from the same sum mary punishment as would be visited upon our own citizens if convicted of the same nefarious crimes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.