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Show ee ae rs et a Ree we he Bevee coed A Peeee e ere ee Py 72 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY leys, mountains, plains and large cities . . . by so many titles respectable,’ was convulsed at the apprehended approach of three hundred Texan traders! But what has been the sequel of this expedition? On their approach to the settlements of the Rio Grande they obtained supplies from the inhabitants, not as a hostile marauding party, but they paid a valuable conside ration for every supply they obtained. They were met by the Mexican authorities with overtures of peace, assurances of friends hip, and pledges of security, provided they would give up their arms for the purpose of tranquilizing the Mexican population. Detached, as the company was, into parties remote from each other, and deluded by pledges, they acquiesced in the wishes of the authorities of the country, thereby evincing to them that they had no disposition to disturb the tranquillity of the inhabitants, and that their objects were pacific. But no sooner were they in the power of the authorities than they were stripped of their clothing, deprived of everything valuable, treated in the most barbarous manner, and marched like convicts to the capital of Mexico. On their route cruelty and hatred was evinced. When every act of inhumanity their sick and helpless condition required the assistance of Christian charity and humanity, 1t was denied them. They were barbarously shot, their bodies mangled, and their corpses left unburied. The butchery of McAllister, Galphin, Yates, and others, appeals to Heaven and this nation for retribution upon the heads of their inhuman murderers. You may allege that you did not authorize the perpet ration of these outrages, committed upon men who had violated no rule of law known to this civilized age. This will be no excuse for you. Your Sanc‘ tion to these acts is as culpable as their perpetration was to their authors. detention as prisoners by you, may gratify ee el Oe ee aa ee a ee ee Pe re =" es Lt dy Ree RT aod rs n eng A i el Sn hel de tat eat te ‘> Er tenes Pe ta ee et es a a ir little minds; but the just, the chivalric, the pose, one of the ‘fr paniments of that destiny which will mark the course of Texas jeer difficulties between the two countr ies shall be satisfactorily General Houston outlines yv ery well what probably was the belief 4 great majority of the peo ple of the single-star republic, but the " Chief Justice Joab Houghton |