The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-06-07
pillows Mexican Plan.
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General Pillow has submitted
some suggestions to the President
relative to the Mexican question,
which have received the attention
of the War Department and the
Cabinet.
He believes that the pursuit OF
the Mexican raiders across the Rio
Grande on Mexican soil will be re-
garded in Mexico as a declaration
Of war, and that the only remedy
against the repeated incursions is
for the United States to annex the
territory north and east of the Sier-
ra Madre mountains. If the Next
lean Government refuses a fair
price for this territory, then Cen
eral gPillow thinks it should be
seized. This territory would en-
brace in part the States of Tamau-
lipas. Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chiu
ahua, and Sonora, and Lower Cali
fornia wos Id, of course, be taken In
to round eff the land grab. The
population is about 100000 in an
100000 square miles.
In his letter to the President, Gen
eral Pillow, who has marched all
over the region under discussion,
states that during the war he
marched his division from Malta
moras through San Fernando, San
Martin and Santa Barbara to Tam
pico, passing through tract of
country embracing also New Leon
and Tamaulipas. The first 300
miles was along the base of the 81
ezra Madre mountains. These are
5000 feet high in an unbroken
chain of basaltic stones, and there
are but two passes in them for 600
miles. They are but mule passes
about 5000 feet above the sea level.
A single company with a battery
could defend these passes against
an attacking force of 10000 men
The Panuco river on the south is
the boundary of Tamaulipas. 1t is
400 yards wide and deep enough to
float large man of-war At dis
lance of $50 miles from its mouth il
cuts through the Sierra Madre
mountains. From thence it runs in
a straight line between high, per
pendicular- faced rocks, without
trace of verdure on the summit, to
Saltillo. 1t is in front of this posi-
ton that Taylor fought the battle
of Buena Vista. In the rear is
Monterey, strongly fortified. When
Pillow passed over this country he
discovered the great natural advan
tages of locating the national boun-
Diary. He communicated the result
of his discoveries to President
Polk, who sent Nicholas p. Trist as
a special commissioner to Mexico to
make treaty that did not have
the Sierra Madre as line of boun
Diary. At the same time a special
commission was sent to Pillow for
double security empowering him
to annul any treaty that
Trist might make which did not
embrace the north and east of the
Sierra Madre mountains as to the
part to be coded to the United
States. President Polk, in a perso-
nal letter to General Pillow, begged
him to protect the honor OF his AID
ministration and his Government.
1t was the darling ambition OF Polk
to secure these northern provinces
of Mexico, so rich in mines and
natural advantages, equal to those
of Cuba. When our army entered
the City of Mexico, Trist met
with the Mexican commission, and
was so manipulated by them that
he agreed to treaty making out the
present boundary. Pillow was at
the time lying in a hospital disa-
bled by a gunshot wound received
at Chapultepec. Pillow reported at
once to Polk Irist's action, and
Polk ordered him home. General
Scott for some reason or other re-
fused TO see that the order was
obeyed. Trist did notscome home,
and ultimately his treaty came to
the President. Polk refused to re-
ceive it as treaty, and sent is to
the Senate as proposition from
the Mexican Government where it
was adopted. Pillow, after reciting
the history Of former Mexican
troubles, goes on TO show how al
lowing Ord to cross the border in
pursuit of the thieves will not break
up the present system of border
outrages. For 600 miles, pursuing
the winding of the Rio Grande, the
CATTLE thieves can cross. They ride
mustang ponies that can make a
hundred miles within twenty four
hours without injury. Their riders
are dressed in heavy suits Of buck
skin that enable them to escape
pursuit from all not dressed in :
similar armor by dashing away
from them in-the chapparels. II
our troops cross to pursue them,
they scatter like rabbits, and there
is no way of identifying them. Ten
regiments would not be enough to
properly patrol the Rio Grand.
General Sherman is said to approye