Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-05-19
Horrible assaCre-Hutchery of
MeXicans.

We have already briefly noticed the fact, that
anumber of the Arkansas regiment of volunteers
had wreaked terrible vengearc e upon party of
Mexicans, beyond Aqua Nueva, in retaliation
lor the assassination ofseveral of their comrades
The correspondent of the ST. Louis Republi-
can at Aqua Nueva, furnishes the following
most affecting account OF the cold blooded butch
cry:
Occasional murders of our mol IL -
perretraIcuC ever since we nave been IN the coun-
try-all killed by the lasso. The Arkansas reg
iment of horse, from their having been emplo-
ed as scouts, and occupying the outposts, have
been particularly exposed to this guerilla war;
fare, and have lost four or five of their men,
The day before yesterday, ii was reported that
one of their number had been killed, as he had
been missing from camp since the day before,
when he went out to look for his horse. Search
was made for the body, and it was found about
a thousand yards from our camp with lasso
around the neck, and tied to prickly pear, hav-
ing been dragged some three hundred yards, on
the face through the chapparel. 1t presented
a 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 80
persons, went out to the foot of the mountain,
two miles off, to an "arroyo" which is wash
ed in the side of the mountains. which the 'spi-
sanos" of Aqua Nueva had fled to upon our
approach, and soon commenced an indiscrimi-
nate massacre of the poor creatures who had
fled to the mountains and fastness for security.
A number of our regiment being out of camp,
proposed to Col. Bssell to mount our horses &
ride to the scene of carnage, where | knew,
from the dark insinuations of the night before,
that blood was flowing freely. We fastened
out as possible but owing to the thick chap
parels, the work of death was over before we
reached the horrible scene, and its perpetrators
were returning to camp, flushed with revenge.
..The tyranous and bloody act is done
The most arch deed of piteous massacre,
That e'er our land guilty off,
has been perretrated almost within sight offive
thousand soldiers protesting to be christians, &
belonging to one of the most enlightened and
civilized nations of the globe. Let us no long
err complain of Mexican barbarty-poor degra-
ded, priest ridden" as she is. No act OF in
human cruelty, perpetrated by her most desper-
ate robbers, can excel the work of yesterday,
committed by our soldiery. God knows how
many of the unarmed peasantry have been sac
rficed to atone for the blood Of poor Colquitt.
The Arkansas regiment say not less than thirty
have been killed. | think, however, that at
least twenty have been sent to their eternal rest.
rode through the chapparels, and found num-
bers of their dead bodies not yet cold. The fea
lures, in every instance were composed and tram
OUTLYING upon their backs, eyes closed, and
feet crossed. You would have supposed them
sleeping but for the CORY stream which bedew-
ed the turf around them. In some instances,
in the overflow of demoniac vengeance, the car
bine had dashed ont the brains of It's clayey VIC
Tins. Death in all it's horrors have seen and
been familiar with from boyhood, and could
not feel the dread reality before me, until Col.
B.. and myself rode down the arroyo to where
from the curling smoke, we supposed the wo-
men and children of these poor creatures were
secreted. We rode up. Fear and anxiety
were depicted in every conference.-the wo-
men crowded around us for -protection-and,
Notwithstanding they were not more than half
mile from this scene of butcterv, they were
wholly Ignorant Of what was going on. An
old female, who looked as though she might be
the grandmother of the whole, advanced to us.
and in the most ilnplorng manner, asked us to
send back her husband and sons from the camp,
whore she supposed they had all been taken.-
/ then told them that feared their men were
killed. They soon comprehended nv fears -
and the old woman asked us to lead to the dead
bodies: and, accompanied by two little boys of
about two years of age each, we set out for the
scene of murder. - ~ 49,.
"The first body we approached" he writes,
the old woman.exefaimed was a caratero'-
ddonde estau los otros, madrc de dos, adonde