El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-05-11

was no longer at liberty TO inquire
| There was nothing for IL but 70 vote
supplies and an army, and formal
I declaration of war was resolved upon
I May I3. 1876. before news OF the real
/ fighting on the Rio Grande had reached
the capital
Until autumn all things stood as
they We're between the belliCerents
while an army was made ready but
late in August Gen. Taylor moved
again. and within a month. by severe
. and logged fighting, tSept. 2I-25) took
the strongly fortified town Of Monterey.
a fun 10 miles TO the west Of AIata-
mOros. on the highway To the Mexican
capital In November Gen. Winfield
Scott. the ranking officer Of the fed
eral service. was given chief command.
and in January 1887. Gen. Taylor's force
. was reduced 10 o. sc2lt 5000 to recruit
the immediate command of his superior,
sent Ey sea to attack Feracruz-
ION the ed and 23d Of February,
Santa Anna attacked him, with four
times his numbers. where he Law at
defence on the broken plain of Buena
Vista. thinking TO crush him while he
was weak, and was repulsed. The
Americans were no longer raw militia
men and officers alike. as they had been
in the eXtemporized armies OF 1913
Though they We're for the most part
volunteers. their officers were profess
SIGNALS and they were drilled and
handled with q skin and thorOughness
that made veterans of them with q
single battle.
Their steadiuess and proves were
put TO full test with Gen Scott in the
south They had not only TO take
VeracrUz by set siege March $50,
1870 in order TO make good their land
ing. but had also TO scale the huge
escarpments Of the vast tablelaud upon
which the Mexican capital lay. 200
miles away. more than 1000 feet above
the sea, and to make their way across
the broken billy plains beyond, fight
ing everywhere as they went against
an enemy who Outnumbered them and
was secure against surprise within safe I
inner lines OF communication And yet
from the carrying of the pass at CerrO Z
GOrdO lApril IS. 1870 10 the stOrming
Of the high fortress Of Chepultepec
sept. 80 there was no pause OF mis- I
carriage IN the steady process Of their I
victories
The City Of Mexico lay amidst I
guarding fOrtresses and was set about Z
by increases crossed only by narrow l
causewlys- But the Americans moved !
everywhere with the bUsiness-Hke GER
tainty and precision Of men well I
handled. and their volunteer ranks &
other armies did. Individual pluck and .
dash and resOurceful daring showed. T
irresistible in all that they did They .
fought men as brave as themselves a I
subtle. spirited race tenacious TO the I
last Of all that IL could hold, they
fought also against odds and moved {
everywhere against fortified places, but I
they won. undauuted. at every onset
By Sept 10 they were in complete and Z
formal possession OF the enemy
caUital and Mexico was in their hands.
within but little more than SIX
months OF their landing
Meanwhile the government at Wash
ingJOn had brOadened the scope and
meaning Of the war beyond all eXpec-
tatiOu- During the summer OF 1876 and
the winter of lS46-1S+1 IL had seized
Texas claimed. but also the whole
country OF the Pacific sloue beyond. /
from oregon 10 the ella river. 10
which the United States could have no
quest The thing was easily accom- 3
piished- A fleet under cCmmOdores
Sloat and Stockton and 2 few troops
acting here and there UFirll Col kelr- {
ney and Capt Fremont moved almost
as they pleased, and @ territory Of 6O0-
600 GqUare miles was added to the
United States.
The war with all its inexcusabIe
brought TO its formal close by a treaty
signed at GuadllOupe HildalEO on Feb.
?. 1876 by which Mexico recognized
the Rio Grance as the uthwesteru
boundary line OF Texas and coded New
Mexico and California. Of which the
United states had taken possession -
force OF arms For this territory.
seized and ceded, the United States
agreed to pay Mexico S15,00o.oo0."
Our sailors and marines on the sun
baked decks o. United tSates warships
of Neracruz should never Erumble at
the climate. their food, and the general
surroundings. They are in a thousand I
g avs better OF than the poor fellows
who lay of the same port in 1S4T while
Gen Scott was fighting his way 10
Mexico City.
went through the cold storage com
1artments or a barrleshiD recently I
There were tons OF fresh beef hanging
on the walls. a little further on there
we're fresh vegetables in abundance
None of this in 1877. II was salt I
horse. or some Otuer equally horrible
sood-ar least horrible i'm the tropics ]
Instead OF the old fashioned triple I
plate hard tack, your 1914 Jackie revels