The Morning Star. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 512, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 13, 1843 Page: 2 of 4
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THE MORNING STAR.
Housten, Tuesday,June13, 1843.
friends, will deliver an address at the Presbyterian Church
this evening at 4 o'clock.
to-day for Washington.
incidence. Com. Moore without knowing
and his vessels were in danger. Col. Morgan however
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We understand that those miserable aventurers who
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BUENOS Ayres, 20th March, 183.
The latest advices, from Montevideo are to the 16th
General Oribe. The inhabitants were well, provided vith
and in connexion with Col. James Morgan, also Naval
It is well that European interference in Ameri-
now give merely
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precall'd, and should not go unrecorded.
Admiral Brown, who has heretofore been prevented,
will now be } to co-operate wh the land forces, and
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een miles to sea, & his famous
is act Com. Moore is still guiltless; and we hope his Ex-
llency will not persist in styling him a pirate; contrary
the law, the dictiory and coimon sense.
LETTER OF INSTRUCTION TO NAVY
COMMISSIONERS.
Executive Department, )
i The British merchants of Montevideo, whose expectations
had been raised to the highest pitch, by his published
correspondence with this Government, now complain most
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attainment of the design of Congress in passing the secret ! inst. It continued tbe closely invested by the troops ol
act for the disposition of the Navy. / " 1 C L_ "h ishahi ""
Col. William Bryan, Consul ofrTexas, and Nayal.
Commissioner, will immediately proceed to New Orleans/ '
to address the association, state his plan for a further
movement in the cause, and he would
Bexar.—We have been informed by a gentleman who
arrived on Saturday from Victoria, that the trade between
the merchants of Bexar and he Mexicans of the Rio
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Commissioner, employ al proper an J legal means to get
possession of the national vessels—the ship Austin and
brig Wharten; likewise all the publicstores, arms, equip-
ments, and public property of every description belonging ,
to the Republic, holding the same subject to the future
orders of the Government of Texas. }
Should any L sistance be kde to the orders of this
Government by any officer of the Navy, or by other per-
sons, you will apply, in the name of this Government, to
the federal, or other proper; authorities, of the United
Court Martial if he should be found in that section. We
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ing precious specimen of Mexican bravado. It seems the
Mexican Admiral Don. Thomas Marine caused this arti-
cle to be published in a hand bill and posted up in the out-
skirts of San Roman, unthe night of the 15th ul., and by
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foreign governments, and while their,enemirs are hemn-
ing them in in every,side, they are lgf to thei fateunaided
- pd unpitied. Heaven grant that a similar policy may
not. urge Texas further on the downward path of ruin:
States, and demand of the same such aid as may be com- correspondence with this Government, now complain most
patible with the volitions of Abe two countries and the bitterly, and have protested against him.
laws of nations. So Ur as we now set', the conduct of both the English
Post Captain E. W. Moore has had do authority from : and French ministers is likely to result to the complete
this Government to ship men, appoint officers, enhet ma ' disgrace of both their nations in the eyes of all America
rines. or do any other act or thing, but to sail to the port ; Their blustering dictations to Mr. Rosas have excited the
of Galveston and report, or “turn over the command of people of the whole republic against foreigners of every
th* Navy to the senior officer next in rank present," and i class, endangering their peoperty and very existahce in
the country. The poor Orientals have been encouraged, .
at an immensessacrifice of blood and treasure, to hold ost
' iintle-
iament was—namely 300. They would
follow the EnglisHplan of the Reform Bill by the division
of the counties. They would give the city of Dublin
eight members, four for the north side and four for the
ing sunk, and do not forget finally that Mexico gave them
lands, and rights of citizenship, loading them with favors,
in order that they might treacherously plunge a poinard
in her back/ taking advantage of oqk intestine dissen-
tions » . ,
; What can the people of Yucatan hope for at the hands
ofsuch ingrates?
E. E pE PACIFIADOR.
Buena Vista, May 15th, 1843.
Santa Fe ExPEDInoX.—A rumor has reached us
by way of Nacogdoches that messeng er from Col. Snive-
ly had arrived in the upper seulemeats on Red River, and
brought news that our troops had intercepted and captur-
ed a caravan from Santl Fe, and that Gen. Armijo was
one of the captives. We do not credit the report, as the
troops under Pol. Snively did not start from Coffee’s Sta-
lion until the 25th April, and he has scarcely had time to
reach the trail of the Santa F traders leading from Santa
Fe to Independence. His progress must have been great-
ly retarded by the heavy freshets in the numerous streams;
andit is doubiful whether he will reach the Santa Fe trail
until the middle of June.
pgeaee,e=g-e
ma of either exposing the shameless delinquencies and
rant crimes of its officers or suffer itself to become the
object of contempt or the victim of insubordination and
anarchy.
Our national humiliation is attributable to a few disor-
ganizing men, who seek power without merit, and a few
incendiary presses supported by such mi n with the avow-
ed degn of prostrating the constitutional officers by revo.
lution. They shall fail.
I suggest these facts that you may meet and counteract
their influence, for the nation's sake and honor.
a singular C
that such «L
The intrepid Chief, Don Thomas Marine, has challen- !
ged the Commander of the Texian Corvette- through the
medium of the Captain of the American ScHooner Fanny,
to a special combat, inviting uim to come out into three
’ fathoms water at least.
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If his Excellency had examined the Constitution he
would have found that Treuson consists only in “levying
war against the Republic or adhering to its enemies, giv-
ing them/aid and support,” and not in defying the officers
of goverument. If he had examined the dictionary he
would/havetoundthat "to persist," is not piracy; on thel
contrary, piracy is the act of robbing on the high sea. Of
British and French Mediation.—The following
extract from the Boston Advertiser relative to the affairs
of Buenos Ayres, shows the disastrous effects of the me-
diuti on of the British and French governments in that
quarter. We hope this picture of suffering and misfortune
attending foreign mediation will be a useful lesson to our
Enire-Rios, has crossed the Uruguay and entered the
Banda Oriental with a force of about 4,000 men, to ad in
combination wjh Oribe.
It now appears that Mr. Mandaville, the British Minis-
ter, is endeavoring to back out from the pe sition he has
heretofore taken,’ leading to a decided hostile intervention.
j with his azstance during the premeditated attack, the
town Will no doubt fall into the hands of the besiegers.
Irish Parliament.—Mr. O’Connel is still agitating
the Irish “repeal system,” and in a late speech suggests
the following plan for the establishment pf an Irish Par-
liament:
“He would,” he said, "on the next day he had the honor
1 every thing but Irrsh'provisions. prices of bullocks had
risen to eighty Spanish dollars each. The besiegers l ad
received the heavy ordnance from this by Governor Rosas,
and were preparing to attack she wals on the evening of
the 18th. Gehetal Urquiza, the actual Governor of
an outline of it. (Hear, hear.) He proposed, then, as
soon as 3,000,000 of Repealers were enroled, to take up
will show thut the gallant Cooke has added new laurels
to those so nobly won at Bexar and San Jacinto.
X drunken Helmsman.—The passenger who lately
arrived at Havana, on board the British Steamer Spy from
England, states that it was generally believed that the
decent shipwreck of the Steamer Solway was caused by
the helmsman, who was drunk at the time the Solway
struck upon the rocks I Thus were nearly a hundred
bum in beings hurried in a watery grave by the careless
ness of a drunkard.
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Washington, Texas, March 23d, 1843 5
To James Morgan, and William Bryan, E^rs :
Gentlemen:—Your official report of the 10th in. t,
with the accompanying papers has been laid before me
by the Acting Head of the War and Marine Depariment I
in full contemplation of all the subjects involved in the
transaction, I must now render my orders touching the
Grande has for several weeks been uncommonly brisk,
and an immense amount of goods have beep told.
About the first of June, there were thirty one wagons at
port Labacca loading with goods for Bexar, and about
twenty more were daily expected from the latter place.—
Itisa little singular that while this trade is carried on,
Agaton with one or two hundred men continue* to hold his
position on the Nueces. It is probable however that he
requires the traders to pay "black mail" on all the goods
they transport to the Rio Grande. He seems to have set L.
the Proclamation of President Houston at defiance, and j
would probably endeavor to arraign Capt Hays before a
I beseech you to intermit nothing until you have ac-
complished the objects of the law, for the prompt execution
of which you were appointed.
Should sickness or any other cause prevent the Com-
missioners from acting jointly, they, or either of themh,
may act in all things separately and singly, but not ad-
versely. I have the honor to be
MM Da Broglie, Passy, de "Tracy, Tocqueville, and oth-
er philosophic Liberals are on this commission.”
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Your ob't serv’t,
SAM. HOUSTON.
Col. CookE.—Inthe letter we recently received from
Col. Morgan, he mentions that Col. Cooke would readily
be placed in command of five hundred or a thousand
Yucatanese troops if he could speak their language. Gov
Mendez regretted that he had not one or two hundred
riflemen to lead on the Yucatanese troops to the attack.
call themselves the auxiliaries of Yucatan, and who will
merely suck from her miserable population 8 8,000 per
! month, will take very good care not to accept the glorious
challenge sent them by the Mexican Chief, because should
they be so foolhardy, the Eagle of the Aztecas would re- j
ceiva one day of jabileeburrying in the waves these intru-
sive Yankees, who have every where been routed by those
brave men whom in the ignorance of their pride they des
pise as of different race, calling us in their public prints
and conversations, Indians, imbecite, cowards and thieves. /
Yucateces}, are you not ashamed tosconsider as protec-/
tors ajilth^abble who detest you from the bottom of thei
souls, and who, with the sole object of drawing money
from you and making war on the Supreme National Gov-
ernment, have come here to fake a hand in our family dif-
ferences ? We do not lose the hope that the valient/Cam-
pechenos, so soon»as they awake from the lethargy in
which they are sunk, will return to their honor/sending
off that rabble never again to behold them.
Campechenos! remember that you fought against
those very foreigners in ‘36and 37, and that zome of their
vessels were taken and others suffered the sad fate of be-
own government. The poor Orientals have bee t brought
I to the brink of ruin by depending on the mediations of
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We copy the following document relative to the Navy
it will ill compare with the doc.
qteainbipWedagzeverely injTTEd that she was for some
qalmddtmmnlsabje Some persons her have cn- ; from the " • indicator.'
feaVsthat^^m Moore was worsted in the fight, U uments that issued from t
__ ___ _________________ 18368′7. We regret for the credit of the Presjdmt, that
in a letter dated the 181b, assures us that the crews are all ! It was ever published. Like the law to which it relates, it
in excellent spirits and anxious to renew the fight. He should have forever rephained secret Our readers will
says, "Have no fear for vs, all is safe and right j doubtless be inclined t smile, at the dogmatical precision
with which he defines thesterms mutiny, treason and pira-
cy. Take the following for instance:
“To resist them, is “mutiny,” and to defy them, is "trea-
son.” For him’to persist, would be "piracy.”
Executive Departnent in 1 A considvabternember af volunteers however had offered
------ 1 to make a ply under Col. Cooke, “just for the fun of
' fighting,‘and it is probable, the next news from Yucatan
the reports they had made to the association, as sugges-
1 for framing an act of Parliament for the constitution
.,j0. ________ ______________ of the Irish House of Common* (Hear, hear) They
more newspapers in the city of New Orleans, my procla had already suggested an allocation of the number of in- r
mation and forward an authenticated copy with which i dividuals who ought to be returned from each place to
you are furnished to the Mon. Ashbel Smith, Chargi the Irish Parliament, making the total of the entire what
d Affaires of Texas to France, at Paris; and also a copy the Irish Parli
to our Charg4 d‘ Affpires to the United States, the Hon. I cllomsha Enel
Isaac VanZandt, at Washington city. -
It is deplorable for a nation to be reduced to the dilem- |
Colonies, are going to propose its abolition. They have
two plans in view:—-the first fikesthe cessation of slavery
'•in 1858*, the indemnity to the Colonics is 150,000,000
francs. The second plan proposes ireeom to children
• born since 1838, and complete abolition in twenty years
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Aransas bay about the 1st of June, and captured the
_ families of Mr. Gourlay and Mr. Powers. They then fag
; turned in the direction of Comargo, and it is suppos- -5
— J ed have made an attack upon the Mexican settlements in
Gux Re« in compliance with the request of his j that section. They have probably been encouraged by/
....... . >.l_ L.. « . ------- the successful foray made a few weeks since upon the
settlemehts on the Rio Grande, and are extending their
depredations. As there are only a few*- troops on/ the
Gen. Murphy, Charge d’Afaires from the United J Mexican frontier, they will probably commit most serious
States, arrived in town on Sunday evening, and leaves ; depredations upon those settlements.
. Abolition in the French Colonies.—The Cour-
Col. Morgan has kindly forwarded to us the follow- rierdes Etats Unis mentions that "the Commissioners ap-
pointed to investigate the subject of slavery in the French
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CoMMANCHES—A large body of Communehes, (said
10 baseven or eight hundred strong) made a fory to the {
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tumacy to his superiors, or treason to his country.
fact of his shipping men or enlisting, or receiving volun-
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report in person to the Department, since the 29th Oct,
1842. He has had no authority to enter into any ar-
rangement with Yucatan, nor could he do so without con- to the last, and now, as if each of these diplomatic geHi
------i-- ------ *“ hi----The ' men had received his price, they quietly withdraw, and
WV.V. .... ___o________p --- leave them to perish under the aggravated wrath of their
teer marines, with an intention to go to sea without the enemies. I
orders or sanction of his Government, or contrary to or- | can affairs gos no further, but even this much is to be de-
ders, on armed vessels, will clearly reader it a case cogni- ----ted -nd chonld not » unenordad
cable by Government authorities of the United States.—
His setting at “defiance the laws of his own country," to
which he owes allegiance is clearly treason.
When the orders under which he received his “sealed
orders” were suspended by the order for him to repair to
Galveston, the “sealed orders” were of no avail, and it is
his dpty to return them “sealed” to the Departmentja
the event authorizing ike seal (0 be broken has no* ian-
spired, and cannot now occur under theisanction of his
Government Hisexistevceas an officer is derived from
the organs and functionaries, undos.the constitution and
laws of Texas, and he is bound to know and obey them.
Not to obey, “is "unofficerlike"- ta resist them, is “mutiny
and to defy them, istvreason." For him to persist, would
SBoudPost Gaptain E. W. Moore not forthwith ren- I
| der obedience to the ojders of the Department with which tions
you are furnished, you will have published in one or of thi
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