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A smallish point....Mark made a comment about the Texas Rangers being the foot soldiers of the Civil War for Texas' contribution to the Confederate cause. While this is true...they did enlist...there were likely very few of 'em. At least as reconstituted after Reconstruction, their Charter limited the total force to 100. Could there of been more before this time? I don't now. Seems unlikely. To this day there are only supposedly 144 of them according the Wiki entry on them. So I doubt they played an altogether significant role for the slavers during the War. When I was working in Waco 10 years ago, I asked, naively, to some of my fellow workers, if the Texas Rangers were in essence, the "state police." They said no, there is a State Police but the Rangers are not them. They described the Rangers as simply "bad-ass" version of state cops. I responded... 'What do you mean? They are tougher or better trained?". They said to me, "nope, they can violate your civil rights whenever they feel like it and get away with it...". They didn't seem particularly well liked by these guys. David ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
