Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-07-03

MeNicans, a small remnant r|etreated towards
the States, but they were again Joined by vo-
l%unteers from the States, and by soldiers in
the service and pay of your Government, and
with these auNiliaries to assist them, they
t ced about and attacked the Mexicans at San
Jacinto, defeated and destroyed their army,
and took the President of the Republic of
Mexico, Gen. Santa Anna. prisoner.
Since that battle, with the exception of
some marauding expeditions, composed of
Texans and citizens of the United States,
which have occasionally started from Texas
on plundcring excursions against the McNi- |
cans, two of them having been captured. Cone |
at Allor, the ooher at Santa Fe,) but little has
been done until the United States planted It's
standard on the Rio Grande, opposite Mata-
moros.
But how came the troops in the service and
pay Of the United States in Texas! How
came they to fight the battle of San Jacinto ?
on called them d~eserters while there, but did
their pay stop while they were in Texas
fighting its battles! | put this last question
to you-the others | shall answer [ put Ito
the public, | put it to the government, and if
it is satisfactorily proved that their pay was
stopped while they were in Texas, under Tex
ian officers, then you may with some show of
truth, say that they were in fact deserters
| nun tlt liIlhS u inc AIllCTlcand army, instead
of being there by the direction of the Presi-
lent.
But how came they there! DIR. Branch Il.
Archer had been sent by the Texans as a
Commissioner TO the United States Govern
ment. They could not send a minister or a
Charge de Affairs, because the existence of
their government had not been acknowledge
ed. And while still filling his official station,
Mr.. Archer told me in the bar room Of Earby's
hotel in Richmond, Va, in the presence of
a number of others, that after the fall of the
Alamo and the massacre of Fannin's COM
mand, he applied to Gen. jackson, then Pre-
sidcnt, for aid against the advancing Next
cans, and | give you the reply of that profit
gate old man to this application, in the lam
guage repeated TO me by Archer himself
His reply to this application was, 81 can't
assist you, butJy God you Shan'tbe tohipped.'
| ask, was this an empty promise to get rid
of the opportunities of the TeNan Commits
%sioner? Was it a mere bravado, or was i
a promise that was afterwards literally full
filed.
That this promise was fulfilled the record.
of history proves. The following Treaty
existed between the United States and Mexico
"There shall be a firm, inviolable and uni
versal peace, and a true and sincere friend.
sup DGlNttl tIb Iulttu Suites Ol AIlcTlCi
and the United Mexican States, in all the eX
tent of their possessions and territories, be
tween their people and citizens respeu,. "
without distinction of person and places"
Under these circumstances tho Presiden
could render them no Ostensible assistance b,
marching an army there to fight under Unite,
States officers, but he sent an army there 0
soldiers who fought under Texian officers.
Co, Eainag ,t-aa cont with an orrnu =
miles into the interior of Texas, under tn
preteXt of protecting those regions from tn
depredations of the Indians. He was author
? lied to call upon the governors of sever
southwestern States for moro troops, if foun
necessary. A false claim was preferred to
g part of Texas. The Sabine river defined tn
S boundary between the United States an
Mexico; but another stream was claimed I
e be the Sabine. Every one knew this clair
; to be false one, and no one knew this bette
than Gen. Jackson himself. But he ha
q sworn by his Maker that the Texans shoul
not be whipped, and he was not the man t
he frustrated in the accomplishment of any
o his purposes.
- MIR. Archer, the Texan Commissioner, tol
me that the common soldier left the ranks
Gen. Gaines army, and fought under TeXa
officers at San .%Iacinto.
INC GpnSlcOId OIdLelAc CdllGu llcul uCSe
u tiers. and said that two hundred Of them, wea
inc United States uniform, were in the ranl
of the Texian army. But if there is any r
a. lance to be placed in the truth of the TeXia
lie Commissioners declarations, | affirm tn
10 they were not deserters, in feet only In form
We but on the contrary they were under the san
lc lion o. the Executive to accomplish the o
u iect for which they were marched into TeNa
y viz, to redeem the promise OF the ProsidS'
Us by preventing the Texans from "belI
-, whipped
y Mr.. Archer told me also that when the
% soldiers returned to their ranks IN Game
II army. that he pretended TO try them before
NJ court martial, but that it was a mere pl
. tense to satisfy the MeXicans, and that
III p~epalties were imposed upon them.
IL Here then was a base, prolllgate and Sal
on mic war wagod upon a people with whom
de Government p~rolcssed to be on terms Of peat
NJ ( war iniquitous ats inception, and one ii
he will be infamous in its consummathon.
he war now waged openly, whereas 1t had hei
'He toforo been waged covertly.
-"' Here then are some Of the causes viii
:, have brought about this open rupture W
- Mexico. The government charges NIeN
,oa with bcinr the aggrcssor IA charge as la
""s and hvpocrilical as was her professions
u cricndShip for Mexico while she was send
ri, soldiers into Texas to fight It's battles "
'ol. that Government