Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-04-28
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February Ii, lSl7.
Some most unfortunate events have transplredl Ill
our column lately, which will arouse the vengeance
OF the pisanos i'll this country against our troops,
and will furnish the disafIected at home with new
food for vituperation against the war. Occasional
murders of our men have been perpetraed. ever
since have been in the country-ali killed by the
lasso. The Arkansas reg ment of horse from their
having been employed as scouts and occupying the
outposts have been particularly exposed to this gu
crlla warfare and have lost four or five of their
men. The day before yesterday 1t was reported
that one Of their number had been killed by the
Mexicans, as he had been missing from the 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 thousand yards from our camp,
with lasso round the neck, and tied to prickly
pear, having been draggedso three hundred yards
upon the face through the chapparal. 1t presented
horrible sight the name of the young man was
Colquitt, nephew of the Senator. The Arkansas
men vowed ycngencc deep and sure. Yesterday
morning number of them, some 90 or perhaps 40
went out to the foot of the mountain, two miles Oft
to an arroyo which is washed inside OF the mount
ain, TO which the 'psanos of Aqua Nueva had fled
upon approach, and soon commenced an indls
criminate and bloody massacre of the poor crea-
nesses fer security. A number of our regiment be-
ing out OF camp, proposed TO Col Bissel to mount
horses and ride to the scene OF carnage, where
knew, by the dark insinaations Of the night be-
fore, the blood was running freely We fastened
out as fast possible bat owing to the thick chap
arals, the work of death before reach
ed the horrible scene, and its perpetrators
| turning to camp glutted with revenge
The tyranous and bloody act is done;
The most arch deed Of pitous massacre,
That eer yet our land was guilty OF,
| had been consumated almost within sight of five
thousand soldiers protesting to be Christians and
| belonging to one Of the most enlightened and civ
il2ed nations OF the globe. Let no longer COM
PLAIN OF Mexican barbarity-poor, degraded, priest
hidden as she is No act of inhulnan cruelty, per-
petrated by her most desperate robbers can excel
the work of yesterday, committed by soldiery.
God knows how many of the unarmed reasantry
have been sacrificed to atone for the blood OF poor
Colquitt. The Arkansas regiment sayno less than
thirty have BEEN killed think, however, that at
least twenty CT them have been sent to their ctcr-
nal rest
| No earthly power exists to punish the per-
| petrators Of this how!d outrage Congress- in its
wisdom, has refused TO sanction executions in the
field for murder committed here, and all that can
be done is to send the perpetrators back with dis
| grace. The army condemns the bloody deed, and
but through the agency OF Capt Cofy, OF our reg
imcnt who rallied his men and stepped between the
victims and their eXccutioners, seventeen Others
| would have certainly been killed. who were brought
by him into camp. Had the Arkansas men, III
the first flow OF their excited feelings, shot down
Mexican or two for their murdered coinrade,
could pardon though not justify it the wholesale
slaughter fear, will bring reproach upon the whole
volunteer force. 1t was but the act of few reck-
less dcsperadocs, who neither for God, man. or
themselves.