CanyonAg77 said:
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You do realize that you are quoting one of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, right?
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I don't have a definitive link. Secondary information.
Here is some support:
http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/yatron-yontes.html:
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Yelderman, Pauline of Rosenberg, Fort Bend County, Tex. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1940, 1948. Female. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Monument-sits-in-shadows-of-Richmond-s-historical-11882539.phpQuote:
Yelderman, the local author, described the Jaybirds as "courageous and determined white men whose efforts brought honest and decent government to Fort Bend County." Her 1979 book includes details provided by local residents, newspaper clippings and records.
Associating Ross's name with the new government does nothing but lend legitimacy to it. Yelderman had an agenda when she wrote the book that wikipedia quotes.
Here is a link to the Rice paper:
https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/13861The quote here was :
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Immediately after the riot Governor L.S.Ross along with a company of Texas Rangers quickly traveled to Richmond to reassert some semblance of order, but he acquiesced in what must have been a fairly illegal forced removal of almost every elected official in Fort Bend County.
The paper cites three newspaper articles written during the time period.
"Acquiescing" to a coup-d'etat by white supremacists certainly isn't a good look, but it is nothing like what Yelderman says. It would have been much better, by 2020's moral standards, if he would have forced open and fair elections again. But, Ross was there to keep the peace, and that was unarguably his primary priority, and the last free election resulted in a deadly riot. Of course, the result of the coup was a disgusting violation of the constitution that disenfranchised black people for decades, but it's wrong to pin the results of the coup on Ross without further information, unless you are just try to confirm your own opinion.
The extent of Ross's involvement is still an open issue for me, I haven't read enough contemporary sources to come to a conclusion on what he actually did besides cool tempers, and put a lot of murderers in jail. That murkuyness of what actually happened needs to be considered in light of all of the rest of the good that Ross did that is clearly on record. If anyone can point to some contemporary articles, I would love to see them.
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
--Thomas Jefferson
