The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-03-18

the ,iins of the Mexican eo0fedcracy. Texas re-
fused To acknowledge his authority, aud he Abolished
her local Legislature. She called convention
framed provisional government, and PiooBod hsr
self 10 stand by the original constitution, hha so
an army TO subdue her His army was defeated
captured and released upon parole Of honor, ana UNI
der an agreement on his part not 10 oppose iurthei
the constitution OF 1924 under which Texas entered
the Mexican conioderacy
The military despotism continuing to bear sway
in March, 1886, the people OF Texas, being gosuoo
beyond endurance by repeated and aggrssa'ee
wrongs elected delegates 10 convention, Who 10 tn'
true spirit Of the Revolution rected, 10 glowing Ian
guage, the reasons which compelled them to scpa
ration and closed with the following emphatic do
earation of rights
awe, therefore, the delegates, with plenary pow
ers, of the people Of Texas, IN solemn convention
assembled appealing TO a candid world for Inc neees
sites Of condition. do hereby resolve and deciar'
that political connection with the Mexican ma
ton has forever ended and that the people OF Iexa'
do now constitute a FREE, SOVEREIGN, and IN
DEPENDENT REPUBLIC, and are fully Invested
with all the rights and attributes which properly DC
long To independent nations and conscious OF the
recttude Of intentions, we ieaIessly and com
IDENTIFY submit the issue TO the Supreme Aroer oil Tic
destinies Of nations"
Then came the monster and military despot, San
Ia Anna, at the head OF army OF eight thousand,
declaring indiscrminate death 10 all who should OPP
pose his progress authority. This warof eItermi-
nation prosecuted his part against the devoted
Texans with more than savage lerocity. Look al
the history Of the Texan revolution literally Writ
ten in blood. See your own brave chained, i'm
prsoned, starved, and wsntonly murdered, because
they fought like their fathers 10 defend their homes
and their hresides, their wives and their children,
against the RIGHTEOUSNESS, murder, and rapne oil
bloodhrsly and merciless yrant, TO whose caprices
~ Is
gave them birth, aud had promised, IN the lace Of
civilized world, TO nourish and protect them.
For the benefit Of those who had been so lavish IN
their oensure Of this brave people, and had apPa-
rently justified the prosecution OF the Mexican war
he desired attention for a moment TO the execution
of prisoners at Goad after they had surrendered un-
der written stpulatons that they should be treated
prisoners Of war; according 10 the usage of civilized
nations. Il was an extract of a letter from MeNi-
officer, and might be found in Pease's History Of
Texas:
"Ths day, Palm Sunday, March 81, has been to
me 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 were executed and fell dead
in heaps And what spectator could view II without
horror They all young, the Oldest not more
than thirty, and Of fine horid compilations When
the unfortunate youths brought 10 the place OF
death, their lamentations aud the 6peals which they
uttered To heaven in their own language, with extend
ed arms, kneeng or PROSTATE on the earth, were
such might have caused the very stones TO cry out
IN compassion"
But the same blood which had been poured out
IT Lexington and Bunker's Hill, at Saratoga and At
Y Yorktown, still coursed in other yeins-the same
high hopes and manly darng-the same scorn OF a
Lyrants frown and a tyrants chains, animated the
oosoms OF the brave sons Of Texas. They met their
Oppressor at the great tribunal and dernier resort
IF natlons-the field Of strfe-once more wsged their
battle upon the plains OF San Jacnto. Despotism
was overthrown-liberty uiumphed. Santa Anna
was then the acknowledged dictator and cheftain Of
Mexico, and as such, together with his generals, be
made, signed, sealed, and delivered treaty acknow
edgipg The independence of Texas, and containing,
among other articles, the following:
Fourth That the President, (Santa Anna in his
,ficial capacity chief OF the Mexican nation and
he Generals Don Vincente Fllasola, Don Jose Urea,
Don Joaquin Ramir,S Sesma, and Don Antonio
Gaona, chiefs Of armies, do solemnly ackn ,wledge,
SANCTION and rauy the full entire, and perfect indie
,endsnce of the Republic Of Texas, with such boun-
iaries hereafter set forth and agreed upon for
he same"
The independence Of Texas has been acknowledge
ID by all the leading powers Of the EARTH and has been
by her involatc for about years and
yet told she is revolving province subject to
Mexico and that her independence must stand in
,beyance until Mexico shall find leisure and means
o reconquer her. And especially admoni-hed
~ the Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Morehead) to
abstain from any negotiation with Texas until Me1-
% shall have closed her intestine bros, and be no
onger at war with herself.
We are urged to square opinions and our ac-
ions TO suit the capnces of this suffering and ifu
yovernment-'his turbulent and fugitive psedo repub-
ic whose star of liberty wrinkles family for a mo-
nent upon the horizons verge and is then obscured
n blood and darkness.
It's leading spirits and dictators through its brief
history, had been Vibrating between the diadem and
he dungeon, giving lessons in cruelty and blood, aud
allIng victims TO their own sangunary code.
The Ahenians, in The capricious treatment of their
ulers said to have administered the hemlock one
lay as the penalty of real supposed offence
md the next TO have erected statue 10 commemorate
he virtues of the deceased But Mexico, reveIs ,ng
he order Of proceedings, first commemorate the vir-
ues, and then administers her penalties.
When (said Mr.. d. shall the vengeance of this
anguinary god be appeased OF stated If Texan in
dependence cannot be perfected without the further
of Mexico, how shall that be oh.
aimed Shall she yet demand that hecatombs of
uman victims be offered up as in the days when
he proud Azec reveled in the halls of the Montezu
mas, and the people of her mountains were thrown
OF support like lshmael upon the crossbow and the
hase! or can her negative caprice suspend nations
rthright, and enslave forever, by the impotence
If her will, people VINO have successfully defied her
rms
Mr.. ID. said he would inquire whether Texas was
be less an Independent, government because Mexico
ulleny refused to rati the treaty of her chieftaip
acknowledging her independence; and, if so, whether
he United States would now be colonial dependen-
les if Great Britain had chosen to withhold her as
ent 10 treaty of peace and separation, but had ac-
uiesced in bothl
Won Marten says:
"a foreign nation not under any obligation to in
erfere, does not appear to violate its perfect oblpa
ons nor to deviate from the principles of neutrality
in adherlng TO the possessions (without examining
no its Legality Dit treats sovereign him who is ac-
nally on the throne, and, an independent nation
eople who have declared and still maintain them
elves independent"
And Mr. Webster, as Secretary Of State, in his
with the Mexican Government in |