New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-04
.rIIE NIsSvs FRs,nT oIE;xTCo 4,

However unpromisiug may be the prospect of
success there is little doubt chat Mexico, if we
may credit the news published in yesterdays
paper, contemplates an armed foray into Texas,
with view of reasserting her authority over that
State II il reported that the Mexican General,
Afnpudia, had issued proelamations and handbis,
scattering them all over the country, calling upon
the people to rally to his standard-that Texas
belonged 10 them of right, and now was the aus
picious moment to regain her left defenceiess, as
liz supposed, By the withdrawal of the United
States troops. And that at the head of three
thousand men, increasing in numbers at every
point, Ampudia was marching forward to attack
Brownsville.
These Mexioans must be exceedingly ignorant
the true state Of affairs suppose that the with
drawal of the United States troops has left Texas
without the means of defence We do not reco-
ect the exact number OF United States troops that
have been Withdrawn from Texas, but we are Of
opinion they did not exceed one thousand all told
If the fear Of one thousand men was all that re-
strained Mexico from attacking Texas heretofore,
her conduct now il equally as silly in sppposing
that the defence of Texas, by such withdrawal,
has been to any appreeiahle extent impaired.
For, there is not another such race of fighting
Of Texas The young men of that State are
soldiers both by descent and BY education. The
sons Of old Texan hunters and rangers, brought up
to the use Of firearms OF every description, ex.
posed TO the dangers5of the field and forest, and
Injured to every kind Of personal hardship, they
are the best fighters in the world and don't know
what il is to get whipped. Other countries have
trained soldiers, who fight like machines, and are
| apttp be overborne when met by superior num-
beers; bnt the Texans fight always to the death,
never leaving the field except pursuit Of the re-
treating enemy, whenever they are brought to a
I hand-to-hand conflict. =
We do not know the exact number Of men that
Texas could put into the field, but it must amount
nearly her whole adult male population, for every
man there is a soldier. Alone and unassisted, she
/ il able to repelany force MeSieomay send against
her but theoeeasion has only to arise for the aid
of her Southern sisters, when volunteers from all
parts Of the Southern Confederacy will rally to her
aid with the same alacrity as when they met the
Mexican legions in the late war, and humbed their
pride BY such series Of brilliant victories.
III that war, it will be recoeeted, Mexico
claimed the territory lying between the Neuces
and the Rio Grande. It was the presence Of
United States troops on the disputed territory that
Mexico alleged as the excuse for her taking up
arms But, in the present instance, there is no dis
pute about territory or boundary lines, because
the latter have been all arranged by treaties The
pretenee of Ampuda that the whole Of Texas
belongs to Mexico, notwithstanding treaties by
which the whole thing was definitely settled, is
therefore only a fiialsy pretext for waging war,
and taking revenge upon people that they are
foolish enough to suppose they can conquer, in
consequence of the domestic difficulties Of the old
Union, and the Withdrawalof the Federal troops.
This may be, as We said yesterday, an individual
enterprise Of Gen. Ampudia, or il may be BY the
authority and at the instigation Of the Mexican
Government itself. Ineither event, the results will
be the same. The policy Of Texas will be defen-
aiye until tie first gun is fired upon Brownsville
There are not Q few eager and Impatient spirits in
that State, who only need an opportunity to obtain
even greater indemnity for the past and security
for the futnr than Mexico was let Of with at The
close OF the last war.