The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . commissioner totreat with the New Mexicans;was captured and carried to theCastle of Juan dUlloa, wherehe was kept in close confine-ment until his release in 1845. He was an object of specialhatred by Santa Anna, who condemned him to imprisonmentfor life, though during his captivity he was offered his libertyand high office if he would forever abjure Texas. Being anative Mexican and Texan, his zeal in behalf of Texas arousedall the ire of Santa Anna. Santa Anna was succeeded by Her-rera, a liberal, in 1845, and he released Navarro. He
The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . commissioner totreat with the New Mexicans;was captured and carried to theCastle of Juan dUlloa, wherehe was kept in close confine-ment until his release in 1845. He was an object of specialhatred by Santa Anna, who condemned him to imprisonmentfor life, though during his captivity he was offered his libertyand high office if he would forever abjure Texas. Being anative Mexican and Texan, his zeal in behalf of Texas arousedall the ire of Santa Anna. Santa Anna was succeeded by Her-rera, a liberal, in 1845, and he released Navarro. He arrivedat Galveston in February, 1845, after an absence of four anda half years. Upon his return home he was immediatelyelected a delegate to the convention which framed the firstState Constitution, in 1845, and afterward served his districtin the State Senate. He died in San Antonio in 1870, univer-sally beloved and respected by all patriots in Texas. Hisfather was a native of Corsica, and in compliment to Na-varro the county site was named Corsicana. 8. 114 The History and Geography of Texas POTTER. In Section 2 of Chapter CXIV, Acts of 1878, there is thefollowing language: The County of Potter is named in honorof Robert Potter, a distinguished Texan in the days of the Re-public. Wheeler, in his history of North Carolina, says of him:Robert Potter was a resident and representative from Gran-ville County. I once thought, after I had prepared a sketchof him, that I would omit it, and pass in silence the name ofone who had been a member of this county in the Assemblyand the Representative of his district in Congress. But truthdemands that not only the good should be noticed, but thosewho have been notorious for other qualities. This, too, mayhave a moral effect. It was the custom of the Lacedemoniansto intoxicate their servants on certain occasions before theiryoung children, that their young minds, seeing vice in so fright-ful a mien, might avoid its seductions. Robert Potter
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