[3132) [RINCON to the PUBLIC]
[Manuel Rincon, Puebla, lo the Public, May 22, 1836, as Governor of Puebla, announcing the caplure of Santa Anna.] [3133) [RUSK to STRICKLAND]
New Quarters Army, Colorado 22nd May 1836
To Capt Strickland,
You will proceed to Victoria where in Conjunction with Col Sherman, you will remain until the army reaches, or until further order, in the meantime keep out spies and scouts and prevent the driving of cattle and horses beyond the Guadalupe, and prevent as much as possible any Communications with the Mexicans in that neighborhood until the main army reaches them I have the honor to be with great respect your obedient Servant, Tho. J. Rusk [Addressed:] To Capt Strickland near Victoria [3134) [---- to ----] Matamoras, May 22, 1836. Our commerce has been gradually on the decline, which we may attribute to Santa Anna in keeping the country in a continual war; and I sincerely pray he has shared the fate which he so richly merits. If the Texians have shown him mercy, il is as great a crime as the many murders the unfeeling wretch has committed. If every hair of the tyrant's head possessed a soul, they all should be made to suffer death, aflcr the murder of La Bahia, by his order. Gen. Urrea, who was victorious there, and very far from being a feeling man, refused lo execute the diabolical act, no less than four times: he despatched a Col. Pepe Minon, with our friend Col. Carray, to see the infernal deed executed. If the Texians have let Santa Anna and Cos, and the
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