The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1845-03-18

Anna, establshed central military dictatorship upo
The ruins Of the Mexican confederacy. Texas re-
FUSED To acknowledge his authority and he abolished
her local Legislature. She called convention
framed provisional government, and pledged her
sell 10 stand by the original constitution and he
an army to subdue her. His army was defeated
captured, and released upon parole of honor, and
der an agreement on his part not to oppose furthe
the constitution Of 1874, under which Texas sntsre'
the Mexican confederacy.
The military despotsm continuing to bear sway
in March, 1886, the people of Texas, being goadse
beyond endurance by repeated and aggravated
wrongs, elected delegates a convention, who, in thu
true spirit Of the Revolution, recited, in glowing Ian
guage, the which compelled them to sepa
ration, and closed with the following emphatic dc
claration of rights:
"We, therefore, the delegates, with plenary pow
assembled, appealing to a candid world for the
sites OF our condition, do hereby resolve and declars
that our political connection with the Mexican ma
ton has forever ended and that the people of Texa
do now constitute FREE, SOVEREIGN, and IN
DEPENDENT REPUBLIC, and are fully invested
with all the rights and attributes which properly be
long to Independent nations and, conscious of the
rectitude of intentions, feallessly and conf
IDENTIFY submit the issue to the Supreme Arber of the
destnies of nations"
Then came the monster and military despot, SAM
ia Anna, at the head Of army of eight thousand,
declaring ndiscrminate death to all who should op
pose his progress or authority This war of extermi
nation was prosecuted his part against the devoted
Texans with more than savage ferocity. Look al
the history Of the Texan revolution literally writ
ten in blood. See your own brave chained, inn
prisoned, starved, and wantonly murdered because
they fought like their fathers to defend their homes
and their hresides, their wives and their children,
against the RIGHTEOUSNESS, murder, and rapine of a
bloodthisty and merciless tyrant whose caprices
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gave them birth, and had promised in the face of
civilized world, to nourish and protect them.
For the benefit of those who had been so lavish in
their censure of this brave people, and had appa
rently justified the prosecution of the Mexican war,
he desired attention for moment to the execution
of prisoners at Goad, after they had surrendered un
der written stpulaons that they should be treated a.
prisoners of war, according 10 the usage Of civilized
nations. 1t was extract of letter from a Mexi-
officer, and might be found in Peases History of
Texas:
"This day, Palm Sunday, March 81, has been to
me a day of most heartfelt sorrow. At six in the
morning the execution of four hundred and twelve
American prisoners was commenced, and continued
till eight when the last of the number shot, At
eleven commenced the operation of burning their
bodies. But what an awful scene did the field pre-.
sent when the prisoners executed and fell dead
in heaps And what spectator could view it without
horror' They were all young, the oldest not more
han thirty, and of fine ford compilations. When
The unfortunate youths brought to the place Of
1eath their lamentations and the appeals which they
uttered to heaven in their language, with extend
I'd arms, kneeling or PROSTATE on The earth, were
such might have caused the very stones to cry out
n compassion"
But the same blood which had been poured out
It Lexington and Bunker's Hill at Saratoga and at
forktown, still coursed in other veins-the same
high hopes and manly daring-the same scorn of a
yrant's frown and tyrant's chains, animated the
'osoms OF the brave sons of Texas. They met their
'ppressor at the great tribunal and dernier resort
VI natonsthe field of strife-once more wsged their
'attle upon the plains Of San Jacinto. Despotism
was overthrown-lberty triumphed. Santa Anna
Was then the acknowledged dictator and chiefain of
Mexico and as such, together with bis generals, be
made, signed, sealed, and delivered treaty acknOw-
edging The independence Of Texas, and containing,
moDg other articles, the following
Fourth. That the President, (Santa Anna, in bis
ffciai capacity as chief OF the Mexican nation and
ne Generals Don Vincente Filasola, Don Jose Urea
Don Joaquin Ramirts y Sesms, and Don Antonio
iaona, chiefs of armies, do solemnly ackn )wledge
ancon, and ratify the full entire and perfect indie
'sndsnce of tho Republic Of Texas with such boun
lares as hereafter set forth and agreed upon for
he same"
The independence Of Texas has been acknowledo-
ID by all the leading powers of the EARTH and has been
years
yet We are told she Is revolving province subject TO
Mexico; and that her independence must stand in
lbeyance until Mexico shall find leisure and means
o reconquer her. And especially are we admonished
~ the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Morehead) to
bstan from any negotiation with Texas until Mexi-
% shall have closed her intestine bros and be no
oDger at war with herself.
We are urged TO square our opinions and our ac-
ions to suit the caprces Of this sputeriDg and ftful
.overDment-hs turbulent and fugitive psedo repub-
&c, whose star of liberty wrinkles family for mo-
nent upon the horizons verge, and is then obscured
n blood and darkness
It's leading spirits and dctators, through its brief
history, had been vibrating between the dadem and
be dungeon, giving lessons in cruelty and blood and
alling victims TO their own sanguinary code.
The AthenIans In the capricious treatment of their
ulers, are said 10 have administered the hemock one
ay as the penalty of some real supposed offence
nd the TO have erected statue 10 commemorate
he virtues of the deceased. But Mexico, reversing
he order Of proceedings, first commentaries the vlr-
ues and then administers her penalties.
When said Mr.. ID. shall the vengeance OF this |
anguinary god be appeased stated II Texan in |
epcndence cannot be perfected without the further
Of Mexico, how shall that be OBJ. |
aimed Shall she yet demand that hecatombs of |
uman victims be offered up in the days when |
be proud Azlec reveed in the halls of the Mon,ezu-
has, and the people Of her mountains were thrown
d support, like lsbmael, upon the crossbow and the
haseY or can her negative caprice suspend nations
irthright, and ensave forever by the impotence
her viii, people VINO have successfully defed her
rms
Mr.. d. said he would inquire whether Texas was
BE less an independent government because Mexico
uenly refused to ratify the treaty of her chcftain
owedging her Independence and, if SO, whether
ne United States would now be colonial depen Jen-
les if Great Britain bad chosen 10 withhold her as
mt to treaty of peace and sepa a,on but had ac-
uiesced in bothl
Won Msrten says:
"a foreign nation, moi under any obligation TO in
,rfere, does not appear TO violate its perfect obliaa
ons, to devate from the principles of neutrality
In sdhcrIng 10 the possessions without ex mining
ITO It's Legality It treats sovereign him who ia sc-
,al'y on the throne, and, as independent nation
eople who have declared and still maintain them
elves Independent"
And MIR. Webster, Secretary Of State, in his
correspondence with the Mexican Government in
s42, says;