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TEXAS STATE LIBRARY
The "Correo Atlantico" furnished the anti-ministerial periodical of l\fexico with arms sufficiently powerful to neutralize the false- hoods of the ''Estrella Mejicana," but in no one, of them .did the slightest defence of my name appear against the persona-I attacks with which I was favored, in. default of better reasons, by the hired journals of the government. With regard to strangers, there is but one feeling in Mexico. Libe'ral or .servile, friends or enemies, all who have not been born within the latitude and longitude of l\Iexico are heretics; vagabonds, intruders, scoundrels and monsters. The truths contained in my paper pleased some a-nd displeased others; but the foreign editor was nothing better than a mercenary writer ''in the service of Texas,'' in the eyes of the whole enlightened and hospit- able Mexican nation, and thus they account for the favorable recep- tion of the paper among the Texians. In the "Courrier de la Louisia-ne" published in New-Orleans, the following words occur in the number of the. 20th June: "The Mexican journal "El Nacional" (a ministerial paper) pre- tends that we should not credit what the North Americans and .the friends of disorder spread with regard to the situation of the Mexi- can army in Texas, and of its illustrious general now a prisoner. This sa-me journal declares that the principal author of these lying reports is Mr. de Santangelo to whom it applies an epithet, which we will not translate." After this it will not be doubted that not only the vulgar class of Mexicans, but their government itself spoke- of me with the most infamous contumely and disdain. I do not know with what justice the Texians could now regard with indif- ference an individual who has sacrificed in their ca-use even his honor. Of five hundred copies of the "Correo Atlantico," which were printed, three hundred were distributed gratis, that is, at my own expense, in the l\Iexican. territories. Its circulation jmpaired so greatly that of the clandestine "Estrella," that the coryphei of the country thought proper to create, as a check to the Correo, another paper, openly published in New-Orlea-ns. There consequently ap- peared, on the 19th of June of the same year, the French periodical entitled "L 'Echo de la Louisiane," which was but an echo of imaginary sounds and unreal voices. It was filled with assertions, the only proof of which was contained in its epigraphe: '' Incorrnpta fides, nudaqiie veritas;" which magical words, it was supposed, would annihiliate the Correo. This, however, did not suffice: more honorable measures were re- sorted to. l\Iy life was threatened by anonymous letters of the darkest character; and on two oca-asions I returned thanks to Provi- dence for having enabled me to escape the blow of an assassin. For- tuna-tely, however, the purchase of weapons necessary for my pro- tection, constituted the only trouble occasioned by these dastardly menaces. At the meeting of the 1st of July, wherein J\Ir. Solomon High was president, succour was demanded to defray the expenses of travel- ling of two hundred and fifty volunteers, who had arrived from Kentucky on their way to Texas. The eloquent addresses which were delivered, had produced but a sterile sympathy, and a hesita-tion
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