your conduct, that you could not have passed with your life to the Mexican Army; and when ever you say that indignation was improper or unjustifiable, I pledge myself to prove from the circumstances the contrary to you, and also to the world to whom you choose to my astonishment to appeal. It does seem to me that men who talk of honor, duty, humanity, the sacred rights of man, and sacredness of character, ought not to make an appeal to the world at large, unless the system of Moral Philosophy had first been so changed as to justify the commission of moral and legal murder. The scenes of La Bahia must be yet fresh in your recollection, and it is a matter of astonishment to me, that any one who talks of his honor, and attachment to the Mexican Army, should invoke the scrutiny of a world, and suppose for a moment that the world would justify a cold blooded butchery and murder, of brave and honorable men, in direct violation of the most sacred Treaty. But you choose to appeal to the world. Be it so. I have no objection to the Judge, but I confess my vanity had never extended beyond a very small portion of it. But if you suppose the world will stop its more weighty affairs, to take up and judge the case between two as obscure individuals as Generali Woll and myself, make the appeal as soon as you choose. But recollect that the world will one day know that a Mexican General who came to our camp, sent an ignorant, impudent [illegible] round to spy out our condition before he had been ten minutes in our encampment, in that same day the world will know, that the same General, in violation of all rule, thrust himself into the company of the prisoners in our camp, and received from them letters to carry back to the Mexican Camp, without submitting them to the examination of any one. In that same day the world wiU know that no armistice had or has yet been concluded between the two armies, and that the Mexican Army has been in the constant violation of the orders received from Santa Anna and which they had promised implicitly to obey. These and many other things the world shall know if you choose to make an appeal, as to the energy of the different generals of the Mexican and Texian armies, that had better be recorded by some other than the generals themselves. This course will save them time, and perhaps prevent some mistakes which might be made if the history was written in advance.
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