June 4 1836 to July 21 1836 - PTR, Vol. 7

(3358] [SANTA ANNA to BURNET)

Office of the Private Secretary of the President of the Republic of Mexico, General-in-Chief of the Army of Operations. I, Antonio Lopez de S. A., &c., do appear, by means of this solemn document, before the Government, ad interim, of the people of Texas, for the purpose of making known thereby that I am resolved to publish to the civilized world the following Protest: I protest against the violation of the faith engaged in the agreement made between me and the government of Texas, signed the 14th May ulto., and commenced verbally with the General-in- Chief of the Army of Texas, Samuel Houston, And T. J. Rusk, Secretary at War; wherein the following is stipulated: [Public Treaty of May 14th, 1836.] I protest, lstly. For having been treated more like an ordinary criminal than as a prisoner of war, the Head of a respectable Nation, even after the agreement has been com- menced. I protest 2dly. For the treatment as prisoner of war, and ill usage received by the Mexican General, Adrian Woll, who had come into the Texan Camp with a flag of truce, under the safeguard and word of honour of General Houston, and with the consent of the Members of the Cabinet. l protest in the third place, against the non-fulfilment of the exchange of prisoners, stipulated in the 9th Article, inasmuch as up to the presenl time not one even, Mexican prisoner of war, has been set at liberty, notwithstanding the liberty given to all the Texans in possession of the army under my command. 4thly. Because the "sine qua non'' of the I 0th Article, as follows. has not been carried into effect; which is, "that I shaU be sent to Vera Cruz when the Government shall deem it proper?" whereas the President himself, and the Cabinet of Texas, being convinced that 1 had punctually fulfilled all my engagements, viz: that the Mexican Army, 4000 strong, should retreat from the position it occupied on the Brassos to beyond "Rio Grande;" that all the property should be given up, also the prisoners of war,-had determined on my embarkation on the Texas schooner of war, the

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