The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-04-17
Direful Vengeance.

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twenty-six Mexicans-peaceable cit zens !
Agua Nueva-by American troops at the @.
de Aqua de Catana.. Santa Anna made II
statement on the authority Of Gen. Andrad
Fascinated, sixteen were taken prisoners. w
| did not doubt that there was exageration
Andrade's report and we SO stated. We griev
to say that we fear our doubts were unfounde
and that Gen. Adrade's statement was minute
ly true. We copy from the last ST. Louis Re
publican the following extract from the lette
Of their correspondent, written on the l8t
Of February, from Aqua Nueve. The detail
are horrible. II is impossible to excuse til
conduct -four volunteers byany plea Of retalia
ton, and il is wrong to conceal the facts of tn
case. If II be true as has been alledged, tina
any portion Of the Arkansas volunteers fatere,
in the action of the 23d uIt. it must have beer
those engaged in this measure.--Pic.
Camp OF THE ARMY OF Aqua NUEvA, MExIcol
February l3, l847.
Some most unfortunate events have trans
pired in our column lately, which will arouse
the vengeance of the sspisanos'' in this countr,
against our troops, and will furnish The disaf
fected at home with new food tor vituperator
against the war. Occasional murders of oul
men have been perpetrated eversince we have
been in the country--all killed by the lasso
The Arkansas regiment of horse, from theil
having been employed as scouts and occupying
the outposts have oeen particularly exposed to
this guerrilla warfare, aud have lost four or five
of their men. The day before yesterday il
was reported that one of their number had been
killed by the Mexcans, as he had been missing
from the comp since the day before, when he
went out to look for his horse. Search was
made for the body, end it was found about a
thousand yards from our camp, with lasso
around the neck, and tied to prickly pear,
having been dragged some three hundred yards
upon the face through the chaperral 1t pro-
septed horrible sight; the name of the young
man was Colquitt, nephew of the Senator.
The Arkansas men vowed vengeance deep and
sure. Yesterday morning number Of them
some thirty persons, went out to the foot of the
to which the s'pisanos," of qua
Nueva had fed upon our approach, and soon
commenced an ndiscriminate and bloody mas
sacre OF the poor creatures who had just fed to
the mountains and Businesses for security. A
number OF our regiment being out of camp, |
proposed to Col. Bissel to mount our hor
ses and ride to the scene of carnage, where |
knew from the dark insinuations of the night |
before, that blood was running freely. We
fastened off as rapidly as possible, but owing
% the thick chapparas the work of death was
over before we reached the horrible scene, and
Is perpetrators were returning to camp, glutted
with revenge"
The tyrannous and bloody act is done;
The most arch deed of piteous massacre,
That e'er yet our land was guilty of,
las been consummated almost within sight of
i've thousand soldiers, pre- Tossing to be Chris
ians, and belonging to one of the most en-
Ugh ened and civilized nations of the globe.
.et US no longer complain of Mexican barba-
ity-poor, degraded, "priest-riddenn as she is.
70 act of inhuman cruelty, perpetrated by her
most desperate robbers, can excel the work I,
{ yesterday, committed by our soldiery. God
nows how many of the unarmed peasantry
ave been sacrificed to atone the blood of poor
elquiti. The Arkansas regiment say not
'ss than thirty have been killed l think,
owever, that at least twenty of them have
cen sent to their eternal rest.
No earthly power now exists to punish the
operators of this horrid outrage. Congress.
its wisdom, has refused to sanction execu-
ons in the field for murders committed here.
I'D all that can be done is to send the perpe-
ators back with disgrace. TIE army con-
ennis the bloody deed, and but through the
gency of Capt Cofy, Of our regiment, who
'llied his men and stepped between the VIC
ms and their executioners, seventeen others
oud certainly have been killed, who were
fought by him into camp. Had the A kansas I
en-, in the first flow of their excited feelings.
lot down Mexican or two in retaliation for
cir murdered cOmrade, | could pardon, tho, .
1t justify it: the wholesale slaughter, | fear.
i'll bring reProach upon the whole volunteer
rec. 1t was but the act of a few reckless ,
'sperado's, who care neither for God, man or
emselves
Gen Scott made pretty guod haul at vera !,
'uz, in the way of prisoners On the goth.