The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-29

An ln,pOstOr ON rexas History.
To the Editor Of the Herald.
Ia the Philadelphia Times, one Of the
Oldest, fairest and purest Of American jour-
mails, whose editor, Colonel A. X, Mcclure,
though republican, has won strong hold
on southern confidence by his independence
OF and opposition to rings and all the vile
modern corruptions in our politics, and his
fairness in matters pertaining to our section,
has been publishing series ofcontrbutiOns
on the history Of our revolution in 1885 6.
They purport to have been written by one j.
II. GreeEe l have only seen one of the
articles in the weekly Times. of April 9th,
and on the 18th. not then knowing il was
one of several articles, addressed polite and
courteous letter to that paper,
with private note to Colonel
Mcclure, showing the utter falsity of
Greene's statements. with abundant evidence
that he was either lunatic or an impos,er,
writing for the wages Of sin. The Times has
failed to publish the brief article, and hence
1t Is desire to show up the lalsity of Greene's
pretended narrative in the HERALD.
He SAYS tn It in the retreat of our army
before Santa Anna in 1886, he belonged to a
body of five or six hundred men commanded
by DIR. Bennett. Fesiherstohe, Cobler, Har.
riDgton, Gray, Hoard and Tally; that they
were encamped on the east bank of the
Brszos, opposite hamlet in which were
twenty-five barrels of whisky, and to which,
on a certain afternoon four bundred
Mexican lawyers were approach
ing that DR.. Bennett crossed the
river and drugged the whisky Just before the
Mexicans arrived which was about dark; that
they found the whisky, drank freely, for A
time becoming hilarious. but 0nallv stnnid
and silent, whereupon this imaginary bard Of
Greene's creation, leaned over in the dark
and killed nearly all of them. The truth ia
that no such men as the seven named be.
lopged to the army in 1885, no such com
msnd existed; no such occurrence transpired.
and there was not three gallon keg of whiskv
in hundred miles of the assumed locnlitv
He says the battle of San ,Jscinto was
fought in the night, and lasted three hours
that Houstons army was between five and
six thousand strong, that he (Greene) wa,
terribly wounded by a lance, and after The
battle occupied tent adjoining that If
General Houston, who was in y drunken
slumber when, in the dead bour Of nigbt
Santa Anna was brought in. when General
Felix Houston, cousin of General Sam,
rushed 10, exclaimine: "Wske I'D. Sam,
here Is Santa Anna" This il the statement
Of Greene, the Texas historian, in the Philn-
delpha Times. Elsewhere he SAYS that in
the battle Cobler commanded on the south,
Harrington on the north ana Houston in ihe
centre. If thou and approved Mona
chausen's we're boiled down into an eytrsct
the compound would no. equal the Gifts Of
this man Greene in that line of intellectual
depravity.
General Illusions force, instead of boing
between s 600 and 600 was nrec;sa,v Te5,
the line of battle was not formed ncr,n
and south; no such men MS Cobler
aud Harrington had any command: the bat.
tie was not fought 10 the hight, but at three
o'clock in tho afternoon it did not; low time
three hours, but by Cen. Hnnston,s ofin;ai
report within eighteen minutes every Meyi.
can not killed was fleeing for hi, life. Santa
Anna was not brought in during the night
but ut noonlide next day. Gen. Felix Hons,
ton did not say awake up Sam. - for tbe very
proficient reason that there was no suc6
man there. Gen. Folk Huston. the only
approximate name, but in no wise akin TO
Gen. Sam, and really of different name. had
not then arrived in Texas, had never been in
it, but was enroute from Mississipri win n
band of volunteers. No Texas soldier was
wounded las Greene saws he way Inv ~
Mexican lance: no j. n. Greone WAS
wounded in any manner and tho