The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-02-17
CARA "PROCLAIMS'
Ills Appeal 10 MexicanS to Arouse To
Arms.
DENouNoEa GENERAL STANLEY.


Cara Charges the American Ofiicer
with Cruelty Aiding the Iyrant
Diaz In His War Against Liberty.
The Revolutionist Confident 81
Success.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb. 17.--While
the United States troops IN Texas are
mentally surrounding Cara and an
nouncing daily that he viii probably be.
prisoner In their hands before night
he is quietly sitting in his quarters in
Coahnila, on the Mexican side Of the
river, writing open letters and man
ifestoes to the president Of the United
States and all others in authority, and
enthusing his people to strike for liberty
and their constitutional rights.
The fact Is that he Is not likely to be
caught, for he can, always make good
his escape to the Yaquis Indians, who
are the hereditary enemies Of the Next
can government, and would shelter its
enemies as constructively their friends.
Garza's literary productions are mas
terpieces Of composition, and IL he was
us good leader Us he II an editor the
rebellion would long since have ended,
and Diaz and his reign been things Of
the past.
Garza's latest proclamation Is in sub
stance as follows;
GarzA's Latest Proclamation.
''CoMPATRioTs-As the forces Of the
tyrant Porfiro Diaz invaded In d disor-
DERBY manner the neighboring soil Of the
frontier, the patriotic sons Of Tamaulipas
Nuevo Leon and Coahuila defer 70 those
who, like ourselves, rise to the voice Of
insurrection, bearing arms and proclaim
ing the same cause. the same principles
and the identical flag; these are citizens
who proudly can Be called Mexicans;
they, and no others, should compose the
popular jury, TO Judge the crowd Of
corrupt rulers, who, while shielding
themselves under their Magma Charta,
have accumulated treasure Ii foreign
banks Is well as our own, the withdrawal
Of which win be the Inevitable, Just and
necessary result of successful revolution.
"While0ur insurrect ionary forces lead
| the way upon the battle field for the
populace, and even with the very heart
of the enslaved regular army of Diaz,
secret and clandestine treaties have been
entered into with our neighbOrs, which
border upon barbarous extremities,
| without regarding the indecency Of such
offers - have BEEN mutually exchanged
~ the tyrant Diaz and General Stanley
Denouncine General stanley.
..The first named officially authorize.
the murder of Mexicans residing In
| Texas whom, In his last circulars, hi
| endeavors, though uncOnstitutionally, u
deprive Of the sacred rights Of citizen
ship. The second cruelty, and forget.
ting that he belongs TO an army worthy
of q Democratic republic, offers to con.
tribute to the ends Of the first.
4 lis this worthy Of the republic OF thu
United States, where George Washing.
ton established the principle Of ii.
dividual rights and personal security,
Is it possible that the country We regard
as q brother shall accept such indecoroui
4 treaties as that proposed by that set 81
Mexican traitors who are now com
/ promising our national dignity? / df
! not believe it, because know the i'm.
partially and the upright attitude 81
! the American government upon the
| question of civilrights and the interests
/ of its neighbors.
lis it breaking the laws Of neutrality
| for two, three, ten or even more united
| Mexicans on Texas territory to try IL
reach their country in order to help these
TO proclaim liberty for the people? No,
| the laws Of neutrality are framed upon
an international constitution, and are
not written to make 1t easy to stife the
cry Of people born to be free.
An Appeal 70 President Harrison.
Therefore, as chief Of insurgents. /
respectfully call the attention Of his ex-
| cellency, President Harrison, of the il
lustrious congress Of the Union, and 81
his excellency, the governor Of Texas, to
these recent events, not ON account of
| any reverses my cause may have received,
but by the bond Of sympathy 80 often
manifested for my exiled compatriots,
always relying upon the guarantees
which American laws afford to the hon
orabie foreigner, as well as under the
supreme obligation that, as q Mexican,
owe to those who, under the verdict Of
the cynic Diaz, have neither representa-
| ton, home nor country.
valiant frOntiersmen, one more step
and we will have arrived at the object
i've point. The revolution has spread in
most parts of the states of the Mexican
confederation, and this indicates that
the masses have appreciated our sacri-
fees for the liberation of our country
COmpatriots, to arInsi Die with honor
rather than live abiect and degraded"
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