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PAPERS OF 1IIRABEAU BUONAP.\RTE L.\:M.\R
the moaning and sighing of parents for their children, or widows for their husbands; but in the cool, settled, and religiou determination, that in Tevenge, dii·e reuenge, they wm best serve the cause of Lib- erty and Christfanity. ordid principles of individual agrandizement may suggc t to the selfish knotty qne tion of neutrality,-! beg it to be understood, w·e a k for nothing which has not been the pra'Ctice, the rightful and aclmowlcdged practice of the w9rld, from the clays of primitive purity and innocence, to the present hour.
THOl\IAS J. GREE , Brigadier General of the Texian Army.
[April 5th 1836] [Addres edl
[Endorsed]
Colo. M. B. Lamar, Present.
Genl. Green's Proclama- tion New Orleans April 5 1836
TQ. 350 1836 .4p,·. 6, ,T. W. ROBINSON TO D. G. BURNET
Camp opposite the Ruins of San Felipe.de Au tin April 6, 1836
Tn
Hi Excellency
D. G. Burnet President of the Republic of Texas, D[r.] Sir,
This moment information has been Recd. here that Col. Fannin surrendered, on the express condition that they hould march back to Goliad & lay down their arms, & pa s their parole of honor not to fight against l\fexico during the present war, that they should then be forthwith ent to l ew Orleans by way of· Copeno at the expense of Mexico, which condition was not complied with on the contrary company after company were ordered out by the Mexican General and barberously shot. So says 4 of the 1st com- pany ordered out, who fell down among the dead, and afterwards ran away & there being no cavalry present, made there escape & are no,v with Col. Ward, & his 100 men at Fort Settlement on the Brasso . Thus the whole of the men & officers that \Vere surrendered by Col. Fannin are now among the dead, shamefully murdered, in utter con- tempt & violation of an arti [c] le of capitulation & the usages of civilized & chri tian Nations. 1It is my solemn opinion that you ought to make this atro-cious act of punic faith, officially known at the City of Washington to our agent or agents there and ask the recornition 0£ our independence and the protection of the U. S. If done at all it is important that it be done soon, as the Congress will probably adjourn next month. There is a recent ca e in point in the war carried on between Don Pedro & Don Carlos wherein a ub"ject 0£ Great Brittian ,; as shot under much less aggravated circumstance , and the Government of G. B-interfercd and obtained redress, and all Europe acquiesced in its justice, and conformity with the laws of nations, of rature & 0£
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