See quotation. (Not mentioned in Harper’s Encycl. of U.S. History.)
1861. We found, for the last two or three years, that the members of the Methodist Church North, and others, living in Texas, were propagating abolition doctrines there…. They did not cease until they had organized a society called the Mystic Red. Under its auspices, the night before the last August election, the towns were to be burned, &c.—Mr. John H. Reagan of Texas, House of Repr., Jan. 15: Cong. Globe, p. 393/1.
