National Affairs: Texas Threat

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besieged by Santa Anna). Bunker's Monthly, unique journal of and for Big Texas, would become just an ordinary interstate publication. Proud columns of Texas figures would wilt away. Vainly did Mr. Garner argue: "To divide the State would in no wise detract from the glory of the past but would add to the glory of the future by reason of additional political power and the enhancement of sectional initiative. . . ." This sentimental opposition to any partition of the State the New York World described thus: "A Texan is so proud of Texas as it is he can hardly sleep at night. He boasts that if all the steers in Texas were one big steer the critter would stand with his forefeet in the Gulf of Mexico and his hindfeet in Hudson's Bay and would drink water out of the Panama Canal while brushing the flies off the North Pole with his tail."*