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Show 6 Doc. No. 49. or otherwise, to such a port in 1\'lcxico as may be convenient for the greaiest despatch in the performance of the duty iutrnsted to him. I send by this post a letter to 1\'[r. Ellis, to yom care, which forward by Mr. McRae , if received in season. Your:;, with regard, DANIEL WEBSTEll. To the CoLLECTOR of I he Customs, • 1\?ew Orlean s. llfr. Jllvare= , consld of I he L'nited Stales for Satdo Fe, to lvlr. Webster . lNDEPt:NDl:NCE, l\f I SSOURI, 1Jeccmbc1' 15, 1841. SIR : I address this to you to make known lifiY arrival in the United States. After some repose, which is necessary to recruit my health, impaired by u toilsome journey.l shall proceed to the seat of Government, to lay before the President and yonrself the injuries suffered by the Ameri cans resident at Santa Fe and myself, from the hands of the Mexican authorities. At present, J forward~ the accotllpanying printed narrative, which I find Hearty agreeing with the facts as they tw.uspired ~ ubscquent to tlw arri val of the Texian expedition in New Mexico. 1 am charged with a statement. signed b\' the American residents which it shall be my duty to by hr fore yon as Soon as I can be allowed a personal interview. Yonr obedient servant , ~ I A!'WEL ALI'.\REZ. To his Excellency DANIEL \V EBSTER, S f'crelary of Stale o.f the U11il eJ Stah'i. .. 'rhis paver has not been f<)Uilti with the teltH Qt Jhc o~part mPnl of Stntr, l•ut i ~ belit: I"Ct\ 1.1) be the ~:nne which has ~ppearcd in thr 111m s puv~u llfr. Ellis to Jl[, .. IV~:b s t e r . No. ~I. LEGATJO:-. o~- TilE U:-~nEu S-rA·n: .;, 11/e:rim, Decembtr IU, 18 -41 . Doc. No. 49. 7 From I he Siglo XIX, of the 14th December. ' ' \\~e have the p ~1 iu to anuouuce to the public lUI act of barbarism, committed by Captam D. Dan1aso Salazar, who escorted the Texian prisoner~ to Chihualiua. Captaiu Sa\az;ar had the iniquitr to kill three of th ese pnsoners m cold blood, because they had become wearied. It was • reserved for ~a lazar ....t o eclipse _Ill~ tr!lllnphs of Senor Armijo by this cruel ~~nd brutal act ton .. Every oue IS mdtgnant at such au atrocious act, pecu· liar only to a caumbal. Don .lose i\Iaria Elias, colonel of the army, and commanda_nt of Paso del Norte, is prefe rring charges against this barbarous _captatn; and Seiior Conde, G?vernor of the Department, is very much mortt6ed by s11ch an event, wlm:h docs so little honor to Mexicans whose humanity IS th e ir principal device. ' '' We hope that such a scandalous act will Uc punished with all the ~e v e rily of the law." 1_'his ~old-bl~od~d and ~arbarous ad tucets with that reprobat ion aud md1gwtlton whtch tts atrocity i.s so well calculated to excite in the minds of. all honor~blc aud hum~ne men. The uufortunate 'J'cxian prisoners will . be here "'·the course ol 1 wo ~r tl_uec week.s. I cannot imagit 1e what pumshmeut th1s Govemmeut wtll tnfbct on them. The u~lifot~m practice of this legation has been nol oflicially to interfere In behalf of persons who l11WC placed themselves beyond the protection of our Go,ernment, by entering into the service of tli<.lt of T exas. If I am mistaken tn this principle of public Jaw , l beg you will be pleased to inform ~ u e !~ow fa_ r I can proceed, in my representative character, to serve the rexmn pnsoners. I have the honor to be, sir, your mosl obedient servant, POWHATAN ELLIS. To the Hun . .DAr-ut. \VF.nSTEn, S~cr e lary n..f State of the United States . Stx : Trusting that the Nr-w York packet may not leave Vera Cruz b_efOre t_his communication reaches that place, I a\;ail JI1 }'Sf'lf of the occa-swn _to mform. ron that Brigadier General l\IcLcod, who ~om mantled tlw f 1 T eKHuH!xpedillon to Santa Fe, l\fr. Van Ness, his secretary, Ur. Falconer, 8 Mr. Nnarro, thirly officers, and one hnndred and thirty-one soldiers, pris-oners of war, entered Chihuahua, on their way to this capital, 0 11 the 22d of November. They were escorted by a gnai·d of two hundred and five men. I_n looking ~vcr one of the daily pap~>rs printed here, I w:1s shocked at seem~ the pa1nful iutelligence announced of the fate of three of those young men, whose names 1 have not been able to ascertain. The follow ing is the snbstance of the publicatiotJ allnded to by me· |
