Herod's bloody decree against all the male children of Judae, (that our Messiah might not escape his vengeance,) has shocked the has shocked the moral sense of the whole Christian world, for 1836 years. Al the end of which this is charitable and humane; that neither age, nor sex, nor condition, shall be spared, who speak a language, or hold a religion, different from his own. These things wiU be remembered: they cannot be forgotten. They are engraven deeply upon the heart of every freeman. They will be handed from sire to son, for ages yet to come. To fire the young idea, and ever keep separate and hostile the future generations of Anglo-Americans and the adulterate and degenerate brood of the once high-spirited Castillian. They teach a lesson which will hug closely and fondly to the heart, and which a combination of all the despots on earth can never eradicate- yes,my countrymen, the tyrant judged poorly of us - this conduct, which would have disgraced the Savage Indian, in his wildest slate, instead of shaking your firm hearts; and inducing you to lay down your arms, with a prayer of forgiveness- has fired the noblest spirit of our natures- has sealed and confirmed the liberty of our country. Shall we, after such brutality, committed by men under their parole on honor, yeild ourselves to the lenient mercy and scrupulous justice of Santa Anna? Never! there is not, my existence upon it,- a man, woman, or child, who would not first witness the burning of the last log hut and pannel of fence. and themselves driven to the fastness of a cane brake for Shelter. Since the exhibition of their brutality al the Alamo, I have witnessed this spirit, not in the violent outpouring of a nation's grief for the unnatural end of her bravest men; not in the moaning and sighing of parents for their children, or widows for their husbands. but in the cool, settled, and religious determinia- tion, that in revenge, dire revenge, they will best serve the cause of Liberty and Christianity. Sordid principles of individual agrandize• ment may suggest to the selfish knotty questions of neutrality,- I beg it to be understood, we ask for nothing which has not been the practice, the rightful and acknowledged practice of the world, from the days of primitive and innocence, to the present hour. Thomas J. Green, Brigadier General of the Texian Army [April 5th 1836] (Addressed:] Colo. M. B. Lamar, Present.
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