The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-04-27
MEXICAN OUTRAGES.
Continued DepredatiOns by Armed
Bands Of MexlCans Along
The Rio Grande.
The Mexican Government Not Making
any Efforts 10 Prevent Raids.
American Residents OF the City of Mex
leo Fear That They Will be
Exterminated,

New ORLEANS, April 2G.-Colonel
Grant and Ex-Governor Brown, OF
Georgia, General George Ii. Sheridan
and others who left here two weeks
ago with Tom Scott, returned by the
steamer City of Merida. They state
that the Mexican government is not
making the slightest effort to prevent
raids across the Rio Grande, Although
the attention of the Mexican author
tiles has been officially called to the
matter, it is treated with the utmost
Indifference, and no notice will be
taken of it until the United States gov
eminent sends troops across the Rio
Graude to punish the invaders. Then
the MeXicans will commence hostil-
tiles. This is the settled opinion OF
Americans residiHg in the City Of Mex
leo, and they state also that the coun-
try there even now is gettingtoo warm
for them; that they will have to leave
upon the first indication of hostilities.
A prominent gentleman, over sew
enty years of age, and whose state
ments can be relied on, writes US as
follows concerning the recent and pro-
spective troubles along the Mexican
border 81 am getting data concern
ing the late raids. shall write an ac-
count thereof and send it to you for
such disposition as you may think best.
From telegraphic reports it appears to
me that Mr.. Secretary Fish gets his
ideas of matters on the Rio Grand
frontier, from Senior Mariscal, the Mex
lean minister. There has been no raid
10 OF
clesion of peace between that govern
ment and the United States in lS4S.
Texans have sometimes crossed the
Rio Grande in pursuit of murderers
and thieves, for the reclamation OF sto-
lei property, but not to plumber. Mr..
Fish cannot adduce proof to sustain a
single instance of raiding from this
side.
"Affairs between the Nueces and the
lower Rio Grande are siiDply terrible.
The Nueces people have been rohned
and outraged until they are well nigh
desperate. The late raid was the feath-
er that broke the camePs back. The
greasers left a bloody trail behind
them, and one that ought to be wiped
out by retaliation. When respectable
ladies were made prisoners aud forced
to travel barefoot before their inhuman
captors until they fell down from ex-
haustion; when it was understood that
their persons were outraged, they lost
all patience. The indications now are
that these long-suflering people look
upon all the Mexicans as their enemies,
and will wage war upon them with
out discrimination.
~ believe border war inevitable.
We have to defend our persons and
our property to strike our enemies III
their places of refuge where they or
ganize and deposit their plumber, or
they will cut our Threats by our very
firesides. This is no new thing, they
have made war upon us for ten years:
They have done so with the avowed
intention of driving us out of this
country, and they will succeed unless
something shall be speedily done to
punish them, to break up their organi-
cations, and give us protection for the
present and guarantees of security for
the future. For my own part, l had
rather fight; be hunted down by Uni
ted States troops, and die in prison,
than to be butchered like bringing
coward by these Mexicans. If 1t be a
crime in these United States to exer-
else the right of self-defense, to repel
aggression, to resist murderers and
robbers, to roll back the wave OF inva
sion, 1t Is time to let this sorely tried
people and the world know it. II this
Is the doctrine, let such code be pub