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P,\PERS OF 1ImABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
Trespelacious In J 822 when coming to St Antonio at the head of Durango Regt. to take possession as Govr. be was accompaied by Capt. Gaines. when at the Lake 6 miles from Madina where the Patriots were defeated in 1813, he asked Capt. Gaines jf he would assist in doing honor to the bones of his brave coutymen. 'rhey fell said Trespelaeios in our cause in defence of Mexican liberty & Independence, & it is not rightJhat---. their bones should lie thus unburied. He asked Gaines if he could say the Lords prayer. He replied that Dr. Hart could. Heart expressed his readiness to do so. Trespelacious, now gathered all the bones of the Americans, leaving those of the Guarchipins and fonnig hiii army in a.solid _square he addres~ed them in a pathetic and patriotic speech !auditory of the Americns who fell there, and then buried them in one common grave on the Battle ground. It was the bones of the Body only that were bnried here ; the sculls were taken on 6 mUes further to Madina whre at the foot of a pecan tree he buried them in the honors of war. Trespelacious was infavor of a Southern confederacy We wanted t_o separate the southern states from the north; he said the King fa- vored the northern interest in may monopolies, in Tobacco &c, and that they couldnot get on harmoniously.- Teran is said to have secretly cherished a similar·design at a later period- The origin of the Revon. in Texas 1812 At an early period of the Mexican Revolution Hidalgo, Ryon, Victoria and other leaders of (the] Revolution, sent Bernard Gutaris [Gutier- rez] to the United States for assistence as agent etc. He came from the Interior thro' Texas travelling in disguise & secretly thro' the woods, and arrived at Bayou Pierre, which at that time was not known whether it beloged to the US. or to Spain; he was persued by the Spaniards & overtaken at said Bayou· Pierree, he narroly made his escape in his drawers & shirt i and getting safely to Natchitoches, he got money there and proceded on to Washington City. He lost his papers; he appeared there without a commission; and making a verbal . statemt of the object of his mission, he was recommended to repair back to Natchitoches and proclaim his views, which he did. He pub- lished a proclamation for volunteers, offering to each a League of Land aud au, equal division of all the spoils of war. He succeded in raising 60 under the command of McGee, who rallied 3 miles from the Sabine whre Wilkison had concluded his treaty with Herrera. San Branon who had about thii,si ti1r1ie had arrived at Nacog- doches on a trading expedition with ,v ool, heard of McGee, and at once calling on the millitia he rallied 300 men and with them went against McGee. He arrived in the swamp near where McGee lay; 4 of l\foGees spies discovered him as he advanced and fired upon them so effectually as to kill one and wound two. San Bramon took the alarm, fled back to Nacogdoches, and thence with all possible speed to St Antonio, leavig [his] 100 Bales of wool behind. McGee pressed on & took possession of Nacogdoches-Here he recruited, and moved
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