The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-23
An Army Incursion Into Mexico-Shnrp
Punishment OF the Kickapoos-Bor-

Punishment OF tho Kickapoos-Bor-
der War. a.fn sa8~s ai.se-
The HERALD special dispatches from San
Antonio, Texas, give us intelligence of an
affair which will doubtless bring our border
relations with Mexico into prominence.
The Kickapoo Indians have long pur-
sued their savage career OF murder
and robbery along the Texan side
of the Rio Grande, and have always hitherto
found a perfect asylum in Mexico The state
of terror consequent on these savage vista
tons can only be family imagined here. The
stock raisers' cattle and horses are
at their mercy, and the lives and
homes of the settlers exist only by special
providence. Our duty to the daring pioneers
who make their homes on the wild frontiers
compel US to insist that adequate protection
Indians are not alone in this work. The
Comanches Lipans and Kiowas take a hand
in the profitable employment when opportu-
nifty offers Nor are the half-breed and white
Mexicans of the border themselves 10th to
crafty their passion for other people property
when the way seems clear for escape. The
Mexican government whatever its inclination,
has repeatedly proved itself incapable Of re-
straining its eow-stealing citizens from their
raids into Texas, or of hunting down the
savages who make Mexico their headquarters
for planning depredations and disposing of
their plumber.
With this state of things promised we can
nj hat &ha oT
! Mckenzie, as elsewhere set forth, will be cor
daily approved by the people of the United
| States. That it will receive the endorsement
of the Executive of the United States we con as
confidently believe. The ride of the four hun
dred troopers of Uncle Sam, who whipped the
Kickapoos near the Santa Rosa mountains after
an eighty-mile ride into Mexico will probably
decide the question of policing the border
pretty effectually. If the Mexican government
protests it must at the same time admit it's
negligence or its inability to prevent the in
cursions of savages into our territory. If the
feeling for war extends beyond the line of the
Rio Grande Mexico will find that another
humiliation is in store for it at the hands of
the United States
| The punishment of the Kickapoos is simply
an act Of police justice, which United States
officer undertook, seeing the impossibility of
obtaining redress by applying to the Mexican
government. That sonic shots were fred at
the troops while recrossing the Rio Grande
with their prisoners must not be taken as the
act of the Mexican government. The inhabitants
of the Mexican border in that vicinity, cti-
zens, alcaldes and all, are VIGOROUSLY in league
with the savage and civilized cattle thieves.
Their appeals to national pride on the ground
Of violated territory are perfectly comprehen-
sible Excise officers nearer home have it in
their experience that every inhabitant hurled
o brickbat when certain low quarters we're
visited for the purpose of destroying an illicit
rum still If the national pride of Mexico
inspires sensible action it will induce the gov
eminent to clean out the bands of pred
atory savages who make Mexico their
nest, and maintain force on the border CON-
petent to capture and willing to surrender the
murderers and robbers who fly thither with
their booty. We are not sanguine that this
will be the result; but we applaud the DASH
ing manner in which General Mckenzie has
shown them how we can do it for them.