Ponder How You'd Wander Away Yonder 'Til You're Free

I'm not going to explain what this meant, or means to me, but figure my readers are smart enough to get my point:

“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.” –General Orders, Number 3; Headquarters District of Texas, Galveston, June 19, 1865

It's remarkable they thought that could work - and don't forget this.

Put 'em together and - boyohboy - Texas is something else,...