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Show * Fa THE FE EXPEDITION rae TEXAS-SANTA ee ae ee Shs yeaTz He appealed to all the friendly powers to mediate in their behalf. The congress of Texas had adjourned after the news of their capture had arrived, without doing anything to aid the president in restoring them to their liberty. They had been given up as doomed men; they had gone to Santa Fé in violation of the law of nations, and with no constitutional authority from their governme nt. They had been thrown on Houston’s hands; his only reliance was on the terms of their capitulation, for he insisted that, even if they had been outlaws before, this had brought them within the pale of civilized warfare. The details of the negotiations that were carried on for the release of these brave but misguided men belong to the history of Texas. General Armijo was now a man of great prominence in the department. He had executed a great coup de main. His reputa- pelt Salt) 8— 9—d. tion as a soldier and Pie o# 3 r ae aeee oe Coe eeel deleeee icans a TREN) > executive necessarily was enhanced of government in Mexico. The Mexican in the course which had been pursued. ni im Lea 81 an TT! the Texans were nothing short of at the seat authorities were justified In the eyes of the Mexdesperadoes, entering a Peaceful province under false pretenses for the purpose of stirring up trouble and in aid of the Texan republic. The fact of the capture of the printed proclamations and their contents is enough to justify the Mexicans in their estimate of the entire performa nce. Armijo really is deserving of some congratulation in having so easily taken the Texans into camp, for it was no simple undertak- ing, considering the plished this feat. character of Armijo’s forces, to have accom- Even if it be admitted that Armijo did break his Promises, still, when he ascertained from an inspection of the Lamar proclamations, just what were the intentions of the invad- ‘ng party, he was justified in disregarding any promise which he Saag and ie that United X1¢O, of Kendall’s wrongs, real or pretended, States, have very little importance as an innocent citizen as part of the annals of of New Thomas Falconer, an Englishman, who was with the party, and who was set at liberty immediately the arrival of the at the City of Mexico, wrote Notes of a Journeyupon through Texas and New Texans Mexico in the years 1841 and 1842, Of the capture and the terms, Securing of McLeod, ‘igned by the officers of on the march Several men to the both were he says: ‘‘A surrender was agreed upon, party the treatment of prisoners of war, were sides.’’ He confirms Kendall’s statement that shot and their ears cut off. : ew addy Thompson, United States minister to Mexico at the time, mentions on affair in his Recollections, and states, what is practically » that the prisoners were well enough treated while in Mexico. admitted by |