Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-04-06
rom the Brownsville Ranchero, Feb. 24.)
Frightful Mexican AfrOcity.

| We published yesterday the order of Gen.
Mariana Bscobedo, directing that all tho
| prisoners captured at San Jacinto Rancho
on the first day oil this month, not born in
Mexico, be put to death. This order was
executed on the third instant, at seven
O'Clock in the evening; or, rather the exc
cution of one hundred and twenty-three
( prisoners was finished at that hour. One by
one, the prisoners were shot, and each
bloody body was left as it fell tor the next
victim in order to look upon. We are in
formed that but few of the doomed victims
faltered and when marched out for execu-
tien most of them sang the Marseillaiso
hymn. We have been promised the full
I particulars of this awful massacre, and when
received they will be laid before the public
in order to complete the black and damning
record.
1t has long been the custom in Mexico 10
shoot commissioned officers captured in bat
| tie, but this is the first instance for many
! years where any considerable number of pri-
vote soldier prisoners have been sentenced
| to death and executed. During all the wars
the Mexican commanders have regarded the
private soldier as an irresponsible instru-
ment in the hands of conscripting commits
stoned officers Then why, let us ask, have
they at this time dragged one hundred and
twenty-three soldiers to the executioner's
block There is but one answer to he Civ
en- These soldiers were foreigners. They
were only Frenchmen, and when dissrmed
were heroically put to death. The perpe-
traitors of this atrocity were perfdious,
treacherous assassins.
EsCoBEDo's oRDER-THE BLACK RECORD.
The following is a careful translation OF
Escobedo's order to execute the prisoners
of war captured at San Jacinto:
MEXICAN REPUBLIC, ARMY OF THE NORTH
GENERAL-1 IN CHIEF.-The constitutional ar
my have been over magnanimcus with tn
armed foreigners who have come to wag
the most unjust war registered in our an
nails; when foreigners have brought fac
although hostile, it could in some measur
protect them in their billigerent rights, br
when that flag has been turned aside frui
the Intervention which they wished to in
posed on US, and those who served under
without belonging any longer to it, neith'
to the Mexican nationality, have voluntari
enlisted in the service of the usurper, to tai
part in our domestic dissensions, to excl
the passions and agitate civil war, besid
committing depredations and assault
which humanity is outraged. as has be
done by the foreign foicers which lately
vaded the capital of Zacatecas, have lost
right to all consideration of humanity, ha
converted themselves into bandts--the
clared enemies of humanity and the pes
of society-it becomes necessary to ma
through them, an example which will d.
punish them and satisfy public opinion abb
the horrible outrages which they have CO
mitted Therefore, the officer command
will proceed to execute all the foreign
taken prisoners with arms in their hands
, the glorious battle of the 1st inst, with
exception Of the wounded prisoners,
give due notice of the execution Of
order to these headquarters.
Independence and Liberty.
MARIANA EscoBEp,