Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1844-05-09
Incident Of KendaIls Santa Fe Expedition.

The Monster SALAzAR. This mscreant, who
has been consigned 10 an immortality Of infamy by
Mr. Kendall, in his "Santa Fe Expedition" was
the officer in command Of the escort which con-
Quoted the Santa Fe prisoners for some distance
on the first part Of their miserable march to Mexi
CO He was employed in this service by Armiia,
Governor of Observation-Disclosures. In character
he was considered pcaroon or robber, and the
men in his command were little better than BAN
diui
In illustration of the brutality of Salazar, we
may state that man named Macalister native of
Tennessee and of excellent famly,wns completely
exhausted and could no longer walk Salazar,
after beating the other lame and sick prisoners,
came up TO him and ordered him to overlale the
main body, quarter of mile in advance Ma
caliser declared his inability to proceed on foot
Saazar then drew his sword, and ordered him to
hurry on Macalister still declared that he could
not. Once more the savage pointed to the main
body of the prisoners. and not w,hstandng he had
plenty ofmules ordered the cripple to "hurry for
ward" He could not.
"For,cardl" said Saluzar, now wrought TO a
pitch of frenzy FORWARD, or / ,oM shoot you on
the spot" "Then shoot"-replied Macalister,
throwing Off his blanket and exposing his manly
breast, 'and the quicker the BETTER" Salazar tool,
him at his word and single ball sent as brave q
man as ever trod the earth to eternity His ears
were then cut off, his shirt and panlaloons strip.
ped from him, and his body thrown by the way
side. as food for wolves
We mention two other instances of barbari,v,
almost withou, parallel. AS the sun was setting
says Kendall, those who were in front were star.
ted by the report of two guns. following each 9TH
or in quick succession. ave turned to ascertain
the cause, and found that poor unforu
nate man namel Golpn, a merchant who had
Joined the expedition with q small amount ofgoods
had been shot by the rear guard, for no other rca
son than that he was too sick and weak to keep up
He made a bargain with one of the guard, to ride
his mule for short distance. for which he was tc
give him his only shirt. While in the act of ia
king it off Salazar ordered soldier to shot him.
The first ball only wounded the wretched man
but the second killed him instantly, and he fel
with the shirt about his face.
The next day, just as morning dawned, maj
named Griffith gave out He had been WOUNDED
by the Indians, had ridden mule until his facul
ties were nearly parayzed with the cold, when h.
jumped of, and again undertook to walk, to-
weak however. and too lame to travel, he sank t
the ground. A soldier told him to rise. or h
would obey the orders given by Salazar 'to put a
to death who could not keep up'' Griffith mad
one feeble effort. The attempt was too MUCH
, He cast an mporing look at the soldieran Will
doing so, the brutal mscrean, Knocked his brain
out ioith musketl His blanket was then Stripe
1 from him as the reward of his murderer, his cal
t were cut off, and he was thrown by the road sid
j.. another feast for the buzzards and prairie wolves
Salazar robbed the poor prisoners, and nearl
# starved them TO death, although he had cattl
wherewi,h 10 feed them On arriving at E
Paso, he was put under arrest for his cruelty an
4 murders, by order of General Elias, and la,
account informs US, that while on recent exped
tionsn the Indian country stealing horses, he WI
! waylaid and scalped, and his body left to gore
. the birds and beasts of prey. philadelphia Inqu
y rer.