CHAPTER II
[1]Victor Prosper Considerant, Au Texas, 1st, 1-6. There are two editions of this book, and, unfortunately, notes were taken from both. The editions will be referred to as 1st and 2nd.
[2]Ibid., 6; Coignet, Victor Considerant, sa Vie, son Oeuvre, 74, states that Considerant came directly to the United States in response to an invitation from Brisbane, intending to establish a colony.
[3]Considerant, op. cit., 8; Coignet, op. cit., 175.
[4]Ibid., Part I, especially 16-17.
[5]Picayune as quoted in the Northern Standard (Clarksville, Texas), May 21, 1853.
[6]Considerant, Au Texas (1st ed.), 23-28.
[7]Considerant, The Great West, 4-5; Au Texas (1st ed.), 28-29.
[8]Considerant, The Great West, 6; Au Texas (1st ed.), 32-33.
[9]“The town of Preston, from which all this misery for the Red Man emanates, is a collection of low groggeries and a few stores, lining the high bluff bank of the River.
It is notorious as the scene of some most cold-blooded and cruel murders, committed in open day, and with—up to that time—perfect impunity. This, together with the detestable traffic I have just alluded, whiskey traffic has brought such a stigma upon the place, that the very name is sufficient for all that is ruthless and vicious.”
W. B. Parker, Notes Taken During the Expedition Through Unexplored Texas, 72.
[10]Letter written June 9, 1853 from Cooke County, quoted in the Northern Standard, June 18, 1853.
[11]Considerant, The Great West, 9-10; Au Texas (1st ed.), 37-44.
[12]Ibid., 42. The Icarian movement was an attempt to form a French colony which had preceded Considerant’s colony by several years.
[13]Ibid., 10-11. Perhaps the tomatoes were of the climbing variety.
[14]Considerant, The Great West, 10-11; Au Texas (1st ed.), 44-45.
[15]Considerant, The Great West, 11.
[16]Ibid., 14.
[17]Ibid., 20.
[18]Ibid., 23.