The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-04-28
OUTRAGES.
sOlutions Of Mass Meeting at Browns.
Vile, Texas.
hfaI of fhe Charges Made by
the Mexican Minister.
Americans Have Ever Participated In
the Raids.

TOWNSVILLE, April Is, via New
r.s.. April 18.-The following is
report Of committee appointed by
.neciaF mass meeting OF citizens of
Evansville. The members Of the com
toe we're all Union men, and three Of
= ar general officers Col. HAYNES,
lactor Of the Port Col. q. Davis.
L,utv Collector; and Edward Downey,
tmaster. The report vas unanimous
dopted Hon. j. l.. Haynes, Chair
and William Kelly, Secretary of
mass meeting;
Eonr committee TO whom was referred
subject matter Of alleged statements
sanor Mariscxl, Mexican Minister at
Ellington, in regard to border troubles
he Rio Grande, as much the work of
Iericans IS Mexicans, and that Amer
citizens. disguised as Indians and
.icans, frequently raid upon settlers,
that the more daring Of the parties
aged in these frequent raids are ex-
federate soldiers, who, ruined by the
Il and deprived Of the support of slave
b.. prefer the life they are leading to
linz an honest livelihood, the commit
saw they are satisfied that Senior Mar
id has been misinformed and grossly
lived as to the true condition Of affairs
HIS frontier, and that he has thus, I'M
kntioaally, probably, done the Ameri-
N citizens OF this frontier a great wrong
injustice, as can be easily proved by |
&lnost undoubted testimony. The time /
en your committee is too short to pre-
il fall refutation of the unjust asper-
rs contained in the correspondence Of |
Bor Mariscal and your committee
LID recommend the appointment of a
hmittee to collect facts and submit
|m to the consideration of the Honora-
Secretary of State, to refute the
rges Of the Mexican Minister.
[n the meantime, your committee
|mit the following resume of facts,
lch are susceptible of the clearest
bf:
|. That for at least ten years since the
le of the civil war, there has not been
hgle act of invasion or plumber or fill
tering against the Republic OF Mexico
b the Republic Of Texas, nor the act
single person even passing from this
he other side Of the Rio Grande with
such intent, and we challenge any
itilla of proof to the contrary.
| For the last ten years, since the
{ Of our civil war, raids of volunteer
parties from Mexico to this side of
Rio Grande have been continuous
persistent, and these plundering par
have drawn from our stock ranches
dreds of thousands of stock. They
e committed murder, robbery, arson,
against repeated complaints made to
Mexican authorities for their rendition
he hands Of justice, deaf ear has been
led. We cite the following recent
notorious cases The robbery Of ,
store al Penscott, and the murder of
Martin brothers and Il. e. Asbury :
he store at Los Animos murder of +
Fuller, Postmaster at FL Sanse, and
,Ierk in Hadalgo county, murder of |
al La lille by Richards, at Flores, !
III PastllI attempted assassination I
aptaln King and party of friends !
San Fernando, and the murder +
he Of his friends; the murder of !
(. Morreli, in Staple county, and =
y others, which Will be detailed here !,
and lastly, the recent raid of forty !
htty men in body, near Corpus
su, which band captured and held as \
'ners many persons, including three +
Is, and which finally surrounded the :
oi Roma, on their return to Mexico, !;
ne purpose of robbery, from which .
were only deferred by the presence +
party Of United States soldiers. .
proofs of the extent of the robberies :
nltted by these plundering raids, !
'Een IN the report of the Frontier :
MISSION, to which additional evidence !
Be added. 7
10 charge that the crimes have been :
n.tted by Confederate soldiers, dis !
d as Mexicans and Indians, and rem y
/ desperate by the loss of their slave !
srty, Is an absurdity on its face, into :,
a the Mexican Minister could only =
been led by his ignorance of this :
Of Texas. In the first place, there !
never any slaves west of the Nueees d
! mentioning, the census of 1860 !,
ing the total number In this vast re :
equal to the State of Pennsylvania
tent, to have only numbered 24S, !
west of San Antonio river the nun
iid not exceed 5000. There are !,
eight Americans who were ex-Con- /
ate soldiers in the county of Cam /
aud west of the Nueces there are =
aoly not fifty x-Confederate soldiers, :,
hose would hardly disguise them !
10 prey on their own stock. This :
e Is absolutely false, for no Ameri- =
mas ever been caught among the :,
captured, nor is there known to be &
gle one in the frontier States of :,
co, and we challenge any proof or :;
OF single individual subject to the i
,es Y
sned) EDWARD DowNEY, +,
Chairman of the Committee. o
d. }. H. Haynes, Chairman of Mass /,
etng Of the Citizens of Brownsville, G
xas. C