The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-04-19
Mexican Outrages-The Mexican
Minister Contradicted.

Mexican Outrages-The Mexican
Minister Contradicted.
BROWNSVILLE, TEX, April lS,-The
following is report Of committee ap'
pointed by a special mass meeting Of the
citizens Of Brownsville. The members
of the committee were all Americans and
three are general officers. Colenel Hay
mes, Collector of Port; Colonel 6. G.
Davis, Deputy Collector and Edward
Downey, Post Master The report was
unanimously adopted, Hon j. F. Hay,
nes, Chairman and H. Kelley, Secretary
of the Mass Meeting:
Your commmittee, to whom was refer
red the subject of alleged statements OF
Senior Mariscal, Mexican Minister ut
Washington in regard to the border
troubles on the Rio Grande are US much
the work of Americans as Of Mexlcans,
and that American citizens disguised
as Indians and MexIcans
frequently raid upon settlers, and that
the most daring OF the parties engaged in
these frequent raids are eX-Contederate
soldiers, who ruined by the war and de-
prived OF the support Of slave labor, pre-
fer the life they are leading to earning
an honest livelihood The committee
say they are satisfied Senor Mariscal has
been misnformed as to the true condition
of affairs on this frontier, and he has thus
unintentionally probably, done the
| American citizens of this frontier great
wrong and injustice as can be easily
proved by most undOubted testl-
monv. The time given your
committee is too short to prepare full ref
utation OF the unjust aspersions contained
in the correspondence Of Senior Marlscal;
! and YOUR committee would recommend
the appointment of a committee to coll
lect the factL and submit them to the con
sideration Of the Hon. Secretary of State
to refute the charges of the Mexican
Minister. In the meantime your
committee submit the brief resume Of
facts which are susceptible to cleareSt
proof
First-That for ut least ten years since
| the cessation of our Civil war there has not
been a single act of hostility, invasion or
plundering or tillibustering against the
| Republic Of Mexico from the Republic OF
Texas, nor an act of n single person even
passing from this side to the other side Of
the Rio Grarde with any such intent, and
we challenge any scintIlla Of proof to the
contrary.
Second-That for the last ten years
since the close OF our civil war, raids of
volunteer parties from Mexico to this
side of Rio Grand have been continuous
NH do ff,tr
parties have drawn from our stock
ranches, hundreds of thousands of stock.
They have committed murder robbery,
arson, and against repeated complaints
made 70 Mexican authorities for their
rendition to the hands of justice, a
deaf ear has been turned. We cite the
following recent and
Notorious Cases.
The robbery of Il store at PenescaI and
the murder of the Morton brothers; the
robbery ofa store ut Los Almos; the muir
der of Mr.. Fullar, postmaster at Elhouse
and his clerk in Hdalgo county; the mur-
der of Vidal LaHillc By Ricardo Flores,
near ElpastilIi the attempted assassinn.
ton of Captain King and party Of his
friends near San Fernando, and the mur-
der of one OF his friends; the murder Of
Alex Morrell in Staple county, and many
others which will bo detailed hereafter;
and lastly the raid of forty or fifty Mex
leans in body. near Corpus Christi,
which band had captured and held pris-
oner many persons, including three ladies,
and which band finally surrounded the
town of Roma, on their return to MeXi-
CO. for the purpose of robbery,
from which they were only deferred
by force of US. troops There are,proots
of the extent of the robberios committed
by these plundcring raiders, except In the
report of the Frontier Commissioner, to
which additional evidence can be added.
An AbsurdIty OH It's Face.
Third that these crimes have been
committed by Confederate soldiers dis
guised as Mexicans and Indians and rem
dered desperate by the loss of their slave
property, is an absurdity on its face into
which the Mexican Minister could have
only been led by ignorance of this part OF
Texas. In the first placa there never
were any slaves west of the Neuces
worth mentioning. The census Of 1860
shows the total number in this vast
region, equal to the State of Pcnnsyl-
vania in extent, to have been only 259
while west of the San Antonio river the
number did not exceed 5000. There
are only eight Americans, who were ex
Confederate soldiers in the county of
Cameron, and west of the NeucoS there
are probably not fifty eX.Contederate
soldiers, and those would hardly disguise
Themselves to prey on their own stock.
This charge is absolutely false, for no
American has been caught among the
many captured, nor is there known to be
IL single one in all the frontier States OF
Mexico and we challenge any proof or
the name of single individual subject to
the charges.
GSigned EDWARD DowSEY.
To COL j. c. Haynes, Chairman Of tie
Mass ! cetU,gof Gt'=ens Of Brownsville,
TerGS.
Decorating Confederate Graves.
MEMPHIS, April lS.-At a meeting of
e1-Confederete soldiers held last night
10 uTTuUSc lOl utCbIdlluG lIlt sIdNts Ot
Confederates on the 22d of May, resolu-
tons were unanimously adopted asking
e1- Federal soldiers to participate in the
ceremony. Among those present At the
meeting were ex-President Jefferson
Davis, eX-Gov. Isham G.. Harris, Gems.
Cotton, Greene and Gordon.
Trouble I'm the Black Hills.
CHICAGO. April ls-A Sioux City
special says that Captain Ferris brings
news from Fort Randall that Il squaw ar
rived at the Brute agency, and stated
that the Indians had surrounded the
miners in the Black Hills and cndeavor-
ed to burn their stockade, but We're un-
successful. They killed and ,calped one
man, who was away from the stockade
while the fight was progressing. Govern
ment troops arrived and rescued the
party and took them from the Hills.
First Arrival of the Season.