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EIGHT
OUR LAST WAR WITR MEXICO
1 —
How It Started, How It Was Fought; What It Cost in
Lives and Money and What We Gained By It.
(Thi» concm history will be earn*
fdotod in six installments. to be pub
ished consecutively.)
Chapter I.
] am to write h complete atory of
the Maxloan wnr of UM 47 Its
raiutea. conduct and reeulte—a true
and faithful account of the things that
led up to It. Its battlea and battle
lnase*. and the ronnequencea of the
memorable conflict, hh summed up In
the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; eo
that, the reader* of thta newspaper
may have a thorough understanding
of that moat Important pagn of our
American history.
I.*t It he understood, however, that
no lptelltalble account can be given
of the Mexican war without first tell
ing the story of Texas. It was
ly on account of Texas that the llnl©
ed States had Its battle-dash with
Mexico, and the lame Star Stain must
first of all receive our attention.
So far aa We know, the flral white
to game upon the broad pralrlas of
Texas was the Spaniard Alonso Al
vsres de l>lit*do, In th# year 161». He-
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(By Rev. THOMAS B. GREGORY)
tween 1540 and 1543 Coronado and
l>e Soto may possibly have visited
the region, but the earliest attempt at
a permanent slay was not made until
10M, when the famous La Halle, of
Prance, effected a temporary lodg
ment near what Is now Matagorda
llay.
After La Halle's "flash In the pan,"
thirty-two years passed before the
Hpaniards planted themselves at Sail
Antonio and HI. Miguel de los Adalo.
But these so-called settlements wore
little better than mission points, and
when President Jefferson purchased
the great province of "Louisiana’'
from Napoleon white men of any na
tionality were few and fur beiween
from Texas to California
Tha Treaty of 1819,
When Jefferson made his stupen
dous real estate deal with the great
emperor It was understood by the
United States authorities that Texas
was included In the deal, but, after
long and acrimonious discussion, the
United state*. In ism, In the treaty
by which It acquired Florida, ceded to
Spain and renounced forever Its
"rlsht*. claim* and pretensions" to
Tuxa*.
In the fall of the year IR2O, Marli
nes, governor of the province of Texas,
was greatly surprised and shocked
when a Connecticut \ ankee rode Into
Han Antonio and coolly requeated that
a tract of land he given to Ulm as the
site of a colony of Amretcans. The
Yankee w as Moses Austin, the "Father
of Texas." While Austin was In the
midst of his dickering with the royal
governor, Mexico suddenly declared
Its Independence of Spain, and, from
the "Kmperor” Iturblde. Austin got
permission to settle with hla brother
Americans.
Slowly the Americans began to drift
serous th* border, and by 1535 they
numbered approximately 15,000. They
were always ready to obey the law*
which they themselves had made and
which they understood, for that had
been their custom, and the custom of
their fathers, for many generations,
llut there was one thing they would
never submit to ttxey would never
submit to a race they regarded aa In
ferior. They wer» Industrious and
brave, and their morality, on the
whole. Sb-od high. "The politics! con
ditions of their existence," say* Rives,
“were already difficult, and were cer
tain to become more and more so, as
the disproportion Increased twtw „u
the numbers and wealth of the colo
nists. on the one hand, and of the
Mexicans on the other. On the side
of the Mexicans was legal authority,
backed by th# distant government In
the City of Mexico; on the side of the
newcomers were Industry, frugality
Intelligence, courage. The st r u**.i«
was Inevitable"
The meeting of the Mexican con -
greae In January. 1135. helped along
the inevitable clash. Harratan. a ser
vile tool of the unscrupulous Hants
Anna, was declared p.esubnt, with
ptwer to make any constitutional
change* be "might think were for th*
THOS. W. HARDWICK
SPEAKS AT OPERA HOUSE TONIGHT
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Candidate for United States Senate
good of the people.” The despot
proved tobe the prince of reactionists,
and under his evil guidance what had
been barely endurable became posi
tively unbearable.
Immediately the men of Amerlciyi
blood resolved to rise against the mock
government and, on November 7, 1535.
a unanimous declaration was adopted
setting forth that the people of Ti sjyi
bad taken Up arms in defense of their
rights and liberties which Were
"threatened by eneroachments of mili
tary despots," and tn defense of tho
"republican principles" of the consti
tution of IRJ4.
Of course, the central government
got busy at once; a Mexican army wag
sent Into Texas; Its commander. Ram
frez, receiving from Santa Anna the
significant hint; "You know that In
this war there are no prisoners."
The buttle was on, and there was
about to bo written the story that will
thrill men's souls forever!
In all the nnnnls of all the ngqp
there Is no name more glorious than
that of the "Alamo," a name that Is
forevermore to be the watchword o(
lovers of liberty the world over and
the ages through. Human valor and
courage never mounted higher than
they did In that Alamo fight, and In
the very forefront of the real heroes
of history will always stand Crockett.
Travis, Bowie and the less known but
equally brave men who died with them
In that hallowed pile.
For a long time the hundred and
eighty Texans held their own against
the four thousand Mexicans. Finally,
well nigh decimated, the bleedlrut
remnant consented to surrender, upon
the solemn promise that they should
be treated according to the usages of
livlllied warfare; and seeing, after
they had made ready to lay down their
anna, that the agreement was not to
be kept, they fought till they died,
unif they died to a man.
Remember the Alamo!
The massacre of the Alamo only put
fresh courage Into the hearts of the
Texans, and with “Remember the
AJanto!” as their slogan, they met
Santa Anna and his Mexicans upon
the Immortal field of San Jacinto,
close by th* present enterprising cly;
of Houston, and gave them the worst
thrashing that any army ever re
ceived on s battlefield.
The Texans, under grand old Pam
Houston, numbered eight hundred, the
Mexican force being about twice that
figure, and what happened te concise
ly told in Houston's report to the gov
ernor of Tl-x.ia: Mexican loss six
hundred and thirty killed, two hundred
and eight wounded, and seven hundred
and thirty prisoners- -against a Texan
loss of two killed and twenty-three
wounded."
Notice Jhe wonderful disparity be
tween the killed and wotfnded on the
Mexican side—more then three killed
to one wounded, when the ordinary
rule, even In hotly contested fights. Is
five wounded to one killed.
Evidently these Texans "meant bus
iness" when they went out to meet
Santa Anna that morning Nearly
every Texan killed hi* man, to aay
nothing of the wounded and prison
er*. Only thirty-two of the sixteen
hundred Mexicans got sway.
If the whole story of war t* able to
show a smarter battle than the Texans
put up at San Jacinto, will some one
t»e kind enough to point out the ttme
and place?
San Jacinto made Texas a free re
public. and the "Lone Star Flag" took
tta place among th* other banner* of
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA.
the Independent nations.
Texas in the Union.
It was already "manifest destiny”
that Texas was to become a part of
the United States, a member of tho
grout political sisterhood to which, in
all essential ways, she was so nearly
related.
But politics, especially that part o£
It which revolved about the exciting
subject of slavery, kept the Texan
overtures to us at arms end for a
long time. Almost Immediately aftqr
the establishment of her Independence
the voting republic knocked for ad
mission to the Union, but time and
again the door refused to open.
Finally, however, congress, ashamed
of Its delay, Invited her to come in,
and on February 16, 1546, J. Pinckney
Henderson was elected governor, and
a month later Ham Houston and
Thomas J. Rusk took their seats In the
senate of the United States.
It was a prize such as seldom com%j
to any nation—a magnificent territory
57,000 square miles larger than tkff
whole German empire, larger than all
France, with Sweden, Norway. Hol
land and Relglum thrown In; nn em
pire, In fact, capable with Its magnifi
cent resources of taking care of a
population of a hundred million souls.
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Germany already has 65,000,000 and
Texas is richer than Germany.
It Is no wonder thßt Mexico gpt
wrathy over what she considered the
theft of her splendid province. It wag
quite human and natural that she
snould have! done so. »
In the second chapter, which *tvill be
given tomorrow, the causes that
brought on the Mexican war will be
{plly and clearly related.
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Augusta Nobles Met Last
Night to Make Plans For
Great Trip to Atlanta Next
Month.
A meeting of Okari, Sons of th© Des
sert was held last night at the Masonic
Temple and arrangements were made
for the trip to Atlanta next month to at
tend the Imperial Council meeting, the
greatest event of the kind ever held In
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the South. Augugta will send a tra'n
load of Nobles, many of whom will take
their families.
Three palace Pullmans have been
chartered for the trip and while in At
lanta the Augusta party will have ac
commodations in their train and not go
to the hotel, as there is not a room in
a single hotel to be secured now. It is
said. All of the space in the Pullman
cars from Augusta has been reserved.
Some of the Augusta Bhrlners and fami
lies are going in automobiles.
The buffet committee of the local
Shrine lodge Is making arrangements
for every detail of this end of the trip.
It Is announced that the Very best serv
ice will be given the Augusta party. Be
fore leaving the train breakfast will be
served In Atlanta. One of the cars will
be equipped ns a diner and there will
also be a barber chair for the conven
ience of the Augucta Nobles.
FRIDAY, APRIL 24.