The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 21, 1914, Image 5
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HANTS HIS RELEASE
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BRYAN DEMANDS FREEDOM OF
AMERICAN CONSUL.
^ HE IS HELD PRISONER
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Mexicans Loot Consulate and Hold
Many Americans Prisoners,?Later
They Release Every One Except
4 Consul Sillimau?Government Is
V Active.
"While poace negotiations marked
> time pending formal sittings of the
?outh American mediators, to begin
Monday on Canadian soil, the mediators
and officials of the state department
at Washington Monday were occupied
with several serious phases of
the Mexican situation demanding immediate
attention.
^ Secretary Bryan called at the Argentine
legation late in the day and
spent two hours in conference with
tho South American envoys, discussing
the continued detention of John
It. Silliman, American vice consul at
Saltillo, by Mexican federals, tho Bobos
incident and tho case of the five
South Americans under arrest at
4 Vora Cruz for firing upon tho United
States sailors and marines.
Mr. Bryan insisted that tho release
of Stilliman must bo brought about
at once. When asked about the matter,
lie would not say what would
happen if tho vice consul were kept
in prison, but he was gravely ein^
phatic in announcing the government's
determination to have him
freed.
First official news of landing of
American sailors on Lobos island
reached tho navy department late
Tuesday bight in a cablegram from
Hear Admiral Mayo, stating that the
v Mexican keepers deserted the great
** light house on the island and that the
destroyer tender Dixie was "maintaining
it for the .benefit of navigation".
Admiral Mayo's report responded
to a request of the navy department
for iinmcdinate information concerning
the incident complained of by the
liuerta government to the mediators.
It said: "Lobos island has not been
occupied. The keepers of Lobos island
light house deserted it and the
Dixie is maintaining it for the benefit
of navigation. I understand that tho
destroyers have had occasional landing
parties ashore."
HHL* The report was sent at once to Secretary
Hryan. The department ofilcials
were confident that the explanation
would make it plain that there
had been no violation of the armistice.
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt
said tho Dixie anchored off Lobos island
only because it was a convenient
j plalfe to coal and that the light house
v keepers evidently quit their posts in a
panic at the appearance of the American
warships.
At that time Secretary Daniels and
his advisers will take up the problem
it
of tho closed light houses on the west
coast of Mexico. Some naval officers
^ favor the occupation and operation
" of all the abandoned lights along the
coast because navigation has been
hindered seriously. It is probable
that tho stato department will request
that tho light houses bo kept
open at the request of the American
government under the armistice
rules. It was said that foreigners on
board warships off Tampico wanted
refuge and not removal.
Disturbing elements continued to
1 arouse interest throughout the clay.
Gen. Funston at Vera Cruz was appealed
to by the Brazilian minister at
Mexico City to release some South
Americans, including three Brazilians,
who had been arrested and are
awaiting trial for "sniping" American
r / soldiers from the refuge of a tramp
if stecmer in Vera Cruz harbor.
Authorities were informed that
American Vice Consul Silliman was
j^orisonod by Iluerta's soldiers at
illo. From Tampico, where Mexican
federals and Constitutionalists
lftivo been preparing for .a sanguinary
^ struggle, came rumblings of battle
while reports that Iluerta's strength
was waning in Mexico City and that
the bandit leader Zapata was about
to attack tho capital from the south
served to arouse diplomatic agents of
foreign nations lest their people in
Mexico City might be in immediate
| ^ -danger of persecution or death,
i State department officials were In- J
dignant when it became known that
I Vice Consul Silliman and his clerk,
Joseph A. Marchani, as well as ssv er*l
other Americans, had been prisoners
of the federal commander at
^Saltillo and that the consul still is
i lield despito urgent representations
** for his release made by tho Brazilian
minister in Mexico City. Lato dispatches
were accepted as indicating
tnat tno Mexican war minister's assurances
to the French charge last
week that neither Consul Sllliman
, nor members of the consulate's staff
an(l Americans in Salt^i'.o "had been*
In danger" was intended only to de-ceive
state department officials as to
* tho real state of affairs *t ?a 11111 o.
I>ate in tho day Consul Canada reported
the arrival of Consular Clerk
Marchani in Vera Cruz. Tho clerk
informed Mr. Canada that before he
B *wn8 released from custody of the
I; # ^Texicans he was marched under
f' guard from the Jail to tho consulate
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REPORTS ON FIGHTING
TERSE DISPATCHES TELL OP
BATTLE AT VERA CRUZ.
Events Following: Landing of American
Marines Told by Ensign Martin.
With Spartan terseness are written
the army, navy and marine reports
which ofllcially tell the story of oyr
advance in Mexico. There is little attempt
at literary style and none at
bringing into prominence spectacular
events and heroic deeds. Yet through
these dignified, straightforward pages
runs an undercurrent for the caroful
reader that thrills with a tain r?f
romance and gallantry.
Here Is how Ensign Ralph Martin,
adjutant of tho Marine Battalion of
San Francisco, writing from the custom
house at Vera Cruz, tells his brigade
adjutant of tho capture of the
town. Ho heads his letter "data concerning
landing engagements".
"The San Francisco's battalion
landed at midnight, April 21. This
force consisted of nine officers and
11G men comprising two four-squad
infantry companies, two Benot-Mercier
automatics and special details
with gun-cotton party.
April 22.
"Upon landing reported to Regimental
headquarters at Hotel Terminal
and then proceeded to custom
house in rear of which our battalion
was directed to erect a barricade between
No. 1 warehouse and tho waterfront
in prolongation of Calle Miguel
Luerdo. This work was completed
and barricade manned before daylight.
"One of our automatic guns and
one from Utah mounted on tho roof
of south wing of custom house began
firing on Hotel Oriente at daylight.
Hotel was captured and several
prisoners were taken. Desultory
firing all along our front during
morning and forenoon, which wo sue
ceeded in silencing by volley firing.
About 9 a. m. tho second naval
regiment passed in rear of custom
bouse and proceeded to southward of
our line. When they came abreast
naval academy and tho incompleted
uarket they were subjected to a heavy
fusillade principally from these
buildings. Tho regiment deployed a
the plaza between these buildings
and Estaoion Sanidad. After a sharp
engagement in which ships in haVbor
assisted by shelling,' the naval academy
and market were taken. The
San Francisco's guns were firing on
the naval academy. Fire again became
desultory after this engagement
and at 10:30 our regiment was deployed
along Callo Zaragoza from C.
Benito to C. Estaban Morales.
"Tho San Francisco's battalion acted
as a support all along this line.
At noon we were quartered in custom
house and have since held custom
house and surrounding territory
assigned to our precinct. This district
comprised the section of the
city from Calle Zaragoza to waterfront
between V. Yicario and C. Montesinos.
Our position was fired on
by snipers from time to time during
night.
April 23.
"Snipers continued firing along our
front principally from incompleted
market building. This fire was
silenced as often as it broke out.
"Having suspected firing from the
"Sonora, a Mexican steamer moored
to tho sea wall just to northward of
muello Fiscal, we arrested the crew
of this steamer and they were incarcerated
in tho municipal jail.
April 24.
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otvinu uuiiuniuuo us preceding uay
except arrested Chief Engineer of
"Sonora" and a secretary of the Navigation
Company of Mexico who were
on that vessel. These men were
placed in municipal jail. German
steamer "Ypiranga" and Spanish
steamed "Libertad" were docked at
Muelle Fiscal. Both alowed to land
passengers and baggage.
"Patrolled district under our
charge day and night.
"During the period covered in
above report the San Francisco's battalion
has suffered no casualties. The
battalion were quartered in No. 1
warehouse in the custom house compound
during thi3 time.
"The list of dead and wounded
cared for by tho San Francisco's hospital
corps after the engagement on
April 22, 1014, is attached hereto."
and compelled at the point of a revolver
to open the safe and surrender
to tho Federal commander all the
consular records and all valuables,
including money and quantities of
jewelry left thero for safekeeping. It
is not known how many Americans
were imprisoned, but word was received
that all had been released except
Consul Silliman.
A telegram sent by Mexican Foreign
Minister Ruiz Tuesday said that
I Consul Rilliman, under arrest at Saltillo,
charged with aiding the rebels,
had been ordered sent to Mexico City
under guard to bo delivered to the
Brazilian minister for return to the
United tSates.
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Adopts Commission Manager.
By a vote of about one-half the
voters Rock Hill Monday adopted the
commission form of government,
with a city manager.
SPEAKS OF DYING
DEATH IN WAR OP SERVICE IS A
GLORIOUS OFFERING.
WILSON MAKES ORATION
Standing at lliers of Youths Who
llavo Given Their Lives at Their
Country's Call President Utters a
Nation's Gratitude?Tinge of Envy
Rroods Over Heroic Dead.
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ukwiunig nun uaiuu iicuu 111 iiui
inclosure at the Brooklyn navy yard
President Wilson Monday, before 10,000
people who had massed their way
in to pay tribute to the bluejackets
and marines who gave up their lives
| at their country's call, delivered this
j address:
"Mr. Secretary: I know that the
feelings which characterize all who
stand about me, and the whole nation
at this hour, are not feelings which
can be expressed suitably in terms of
attempted oratory or eloquence.
They are things too deep for ordinary
speech. For my own part I have a
singular mixture of feelings. The
feeling that is uppermost is one of
profound grief that these lads should
have had to go to their death. And
yet there is mixed with that grief a
profound pride that they should have
gone as they did and, if I may say it
out of my heart, a touch of envy of
those who were permitted so quietly,
so nobly, to do their duty.
"Have you thought of it, men.
Here is the roster of the navy, the
list of men, olllcers and enlisted men
and marines, and suddenly there
swim 19 stars out of the list, men
wiiu iiu,vt> kuhw suuueiny into uie
firmament of memory, where we shall
always see their names shine; not because
they called upon us to admire
them, but because they served us
without asking any questions and in
the performance of duty, which is
laid upon us as well as upon them.
"Duty is not an uncommon thing,
gentlemen. Men are performing it in
ordinary walks of life all around us
all the time and make great sacrifices
to perform it. What gives men
liko these peculiar attention? Not
because they did their duty, but because
their duty had nothing to do
with them or their own personal and
particular interests. They did not
give their lives for themselves; they
gave their lives for us because we
called upon them, as a nation, to perform
an unexpected duty. That is
the way in which men grow distinctive
and that is the only way?by
serving some one else than themselves.
And what greater thing could
you serve than a nation such as this
we love and are proud of?
"Are you sorry for theso lads? Are
you sorry for the way they will be remembered?
Does it not quicken your
pulse to think of them? I hope to
God none of you may join the list,
but if you do you will join an immortal
company.
"So while you are profoundly sorrowful
and while there goes out of
our hearts a very deep and affect ionate
sympathy to friends and relatives
of these who for the rest of their lives
shall mourn them, though with a
touch of pride?we know why we do
not go away from this occasion cast
down, but with our heads lifted and
our eyes on the future of this country
with absolute confidence of how
it will bo worked out, not only the
more vague future of thi3 country,
but the immediate future.
"We have gone down to Mexico to
serve mankind, if we can find out the
way. We do not want to fight tho
Mexicans; we want to servo the Mex
leans, if we can, because wo know
how we would like to be freed and
how we would like to bo served if
there were friends standing by ready
to servo us.
"A war of aggression is not a war
in which it is a proud thing to die;
but a war of service is a thing in
which it is a proud thing to die.
"Notice that tlieso men were of
our blood, men of our American
blood, which is not drawn from any
one country; which is not drawn from
any one language of the modern
world, but from everywhere people
have sent their brothers and their
daughters to this country in order to
make that great compounded nation,
which consists of all the sturdy elements
and all the best elements of the
whole globe.
"Listen to this list with a profound
interest at the mixture of the names,
for the names bear the marks of several
national stocks from which these
men came: but thov nro r?r?t THal?
| men nor Germans nor Frenchmen
nor Hebrews any more. They were
not. when they went to Vera Cruz.
They were Americans, every one of
them, and were no different in thier
Americanism because of the stock
from which they came. Therefore
they were in a peculiar senso of our
blood and they proved it by showing
that they were of our spirit, that no
matter what their derivation; no matter
where their fathers came from
they sought and wished and did the
things that were American, and the
ilng under which they served was a
tiag in which all the blood of mankind
is united to make a free nation.
( "War, gentlemen, is only a sort of
dramatic representation, a sort of
dramatic simile of a thousand forms
of duty. I never went into battle, I
never was under fire, but I fancy that
there are some things just as hard to
do as to go under fire. I fancy that
it is just as hard to do your duty
when men are sneering at your as
when they are shooting at you. When
they shoot at you they can only take
your natural life. When they sneer
at you they can wound your heart.
; And men who are brave enough,
steadfast enough, steady in their principles
enough to go about their duty
with regard to their fellow men, no
matter whether there are hisses or
cheers?men who can do what Itudyard
Kipling in one of his poems,
wrote: I
| " 'Meet with triumph and disaster,
and treat these two impostors just
the same' . J
"The?e aro men of which a nation
may be proud.
"Morally speaking, disaster and
triumph are impostors. The cheers
of the moment are not what a man
ought to think about, but the verdict
of his conscience and of the consciences
of mankind. So when I look
at you I feel as if I also and we all
were enlisted men?not enlisted in
your particular branch of the service
but enlisted to servo the country, no
matter what may come. What though
wo may waste our lives in the arduour
endeavor! Wo are expected to
put the utmost energy of every power
that wo have into tho service of our
fellow men, never sparing ourselves,
not condescending to think of what is
going to happen to ourselves, but
ready, if need be, to go to tho utter
length of complete sacrifice. As I
stand and look at you to-day I think
of the spirits that have gone from us,
and I know the road is clearer for the
future. These boys have shown us
tho way and it is easier to walk on it
because they have gone before and
shown us tho way.
"May Clod grant to all of us that
vision of patriotic service which
awaits us."
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LESS WHISKEY SALES.
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Counties in the State Spent Less in
April Than February.
The report of the State Dispensary
auditor for the month of April shows
that there has been a decrease in the
sale of liquor during tho month of
April all over the State, that is, in
the counties that have tho dispen
sary. The total sales all over the
wet territory has been steadily dropping
since January, and is probably
due to lsss money being handy, rather
than to aversion to the liquor.
Following shows the sales by the
months sinco January 1:
January $ 330,123
February .;.... 305,087
March 2 95,359
April 2 S 1,716
Total $1,212,274
Following shows the sales by counties
for April:
Aiken $ 20,320.44
Beaufort 12,264.35
Barnwell 17,126.68
Bamberg 7,627.72
Calhoun 4,506.50
Charleston 4G,G7G.G4
Dorchester G,732.35
Florence 3 8,729.02
Georgetown 12,756.95
Jasper 1,626.55
Orangeburg 23,1*2.45
Richland 71,806.73
Union 12,997.55
Lexington 5,4 32.90
Total $281,716.63
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ALL NEWS CEXTUREI).
Mexico City Correspondents Have
Hazardous Job.
For some time the lifo of the foreign
newspaper correspondent in
Mexico City has been a hazardous
ono. Several have been reported* deported
and the minister of foreign
relations, Scnor Porlillo y Rojas, has
repeatedly informed them in more or
less pointed fashion that they must
send out no news favorabld to the
rebels. Of course he did not put it
that way exactly. ITo simply accused
them of sending out false reports
which were injurious to Mexican
peace. Hero is ono of his warnings:
This department has proofs that
the correspondents of foreign newspapers
in this capital are sending reports
which are falso and which are
favorable to the rebels and injure the
government of the republic, wherefore
this department reminds them
for the last time of tho resolution of
December 27 of last year, which savs:
"The government has noted with
profound displeasuro that certain foreign
newspaper correspondents are
devoting their attention to the transmission
abroad of false reports which
rebound to the injury of both Mexicans
and of foreigners resident in
this country, and for this reason,
said correspondents are warned to
change their conduct, since, otherwise
they will be considered as pernicious
foreigners and expelled from the national
territory according to Article
.13 of the federal constitution."
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Schooner Blown Ashore.
An unidentified schooner was
i blown ashore Tuesday near Lowes,
I Del. Lifeboats and tugs have hastened
to the rescue*
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1 SIDELIGHTS
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I BY A VI
Our sailors and marines on the
sunbaked decks of United States warships
off Vera Cruz should never
grumble at the climate, their food,
and the general surroundings. They
are in a thousand ways better off
than 'he p( or fellows who lay off the 1
ei.i tO An ...1. II- ^
ruvuic. jjui v ill JiO*t< WI111U uen. BCOll
was lighting his way to Mexico City.
I went through tho cold storage '
compartments of a battlsehip recently.
There were tons of frsoh beef
hanging on the walls A little further
on wero fresh vegetables in abundance.
None of this in 184 7. It'was salt
horse, or scouse or some other equally
horrible food?at least horrible in
tho tropics. |
Instead of tho old fashioned triple
plato hard tack, your 1014 Jackie
revels in hot loaves and toothsome
biscuits. Thero are yellow omeletes
and in place of that questionable
lump of dough which now and then
a stray currant, which was called
"plumdufC" there are cakes and pies
and puddings.
Sailors nowadays have all tho purest
of chilled water to drink they
want. In 1 S4 7 they got a scant allowance
from the scuttle butt. There
was nothing frigid about that cup. j
It often had lain for months in tho
ship's tanks and was frequently both
foul and sour. A marine stood guard
over tho precious liquid. To relieve
tho awful tasto tho old seadog got his
tot of grog regularly. j
In stormy weather, despito tho
heat, tho hatches were battened
down. Thero wero no electric fans
and blowers. I
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Yet, all in all, our boys of to-day
are a brave lot and had they to endure
tho hardships of sixty years ago,
I am sure they would comport them-,
selves gallantly.
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Tho news that Tammany will send
a regiment to the front in case of
trouble with Mexico assumes a more
serious aspect, recalls to my mind tho
bravo part borne by men of the Four- |
teentli Street organization in our previous
international conflicts.
i ne society or Tammany is entirely
separate and distinct from the political
organization. But tlio same men
are members of both and it was the
political opinion of the Manhattan
regular Democratic leaders which
hastened tho call for the meeting.
It is the wish of Tammany political
leaders to express their loyal support
of tho president In this crisis, the
moro especially becauso the organization
had differed with both the president.
and Secretary Bryan 011 most
principles of government.
When tho sachems offered a fully
equipped regiment of 0110 thousand
volunteers to Governor Glynn of Now
York state they did 110 moro than had
been done by the heads of the organization
in 1S 12, 1 S I G, 1801, and 1 SOS.
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In his "History of the American
People," President Woodrow Wilson
by inference criticises President Polk
for sending Gen. Zachary Taylor to
tlie Kio Grando without first having
consulted congress and also asserts
our claim to tho territory ceded at
the end of tho war was that of conquest.
"The Texas boundaries," I10 says,
"wore another matter. Hero the government
dealt with a rival and neighbor
with whom no compromise was
necessary. Texas claimed not only
everything north and west of her that
had been Spain's or Mexico's all tho
way to latitude 4 2 degrees, but also
so much of tho territory of her onotimo
partner state, Coahuila, as lay
between tho Nueces and the Itio
Grande del Narto and Mr. Polk espoused
and acted upon her claims at
the south even before her formal admission
into the union was complete.
"Ho ordered Gen. Zachnry Taylor
to occupy the western bank of the
Nueces with a small forco of United
States tir>ops and during the Summer
of 1 845 sent him reinforcements
which raised his strength to nearly
1,00 0 men. In December, 18 15, Texas
became in full form a State of the
Union; and early in tho following
year tho President ordered Gen. Taylor
to advance to the Kio Grande.
His presenco there threatened tho
Mexican town of Matamoros, just beyond
the river and tho Mexican commander
at Matamoros demanded his
withdrawal to tho Nueces.
"General Taylor refused to withdraw.
Tho Mexicans crossed tho liver
on April 28, ambushed a small
body of American dragoons. Two
weeks later they attacked General
Taylor in forco and ho repulsed them.
(Palo Alto, May 9, 1 8 40.) Tho next
u;\v i ayior in ins turn attacked, and!
drove the Mexicans across the river;
In disastrous rout. On the 1 Sth Con.
Taylor himself passed tho Rio Grande ;
and occupied Matamoros.
"Mexico", the President told Conpress
on (ho 11th of May, while yet
he had no news except, that of the
ambush of the 23rd of April, "Mexico (
has passed tho boundaries of the >
United States * * and shed American
blood upon American soil/ War
jexists and exists by tho act of Mexico
herself.* He had not consulted Con-1
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press before he ordered Gen. Taylor
forward to the Rio Grande and thus <#
brought this momentous matter to a
head, though it had been in session
when the order was issued. He had
taken full responsibility for that ua011
himself. War, indeed, existed?
but by whose act Congress was no
longer at liberty to inquire. There
was nothing for it but to vote supplies
and an army; and a formal dec
laration of war was resolved upon
May 13, 1S16, before news of the
real fighing on the Rio Grande had
reached the Capital.
"Until Autumn all things stood as
they wore between the belligerents
while an army was made ready; but
late In August Gen. Taylor moved
again and within a month, by severe
and dogged fighting took the strongly
fortified town of Monterey, a full 170
miles to the west of Matamoros, on
the highway to the Mexican capital.
In November Gen. Win field Scott, the
ranking officer of the Federal Service
was given chief command, and in January,
1 847, Gen. Taylor's force was
reduced to a scant 5,000 to recruit
tho immediate command of his superior,
sent by sea to attack Vera
Cruz.
"On tho 2 2iul and 2 3rd of February
Santa Anna attacked him, with
four time his numbers, where he lay
at defense on the broken plain of
Ruena Vista, thinking to crush him
while ho was weak, and was repulsed.
The Americans were no longer raw
militia men and officers alike, as they
had been in the extemporized armies
of 1813 Though they were for the
most part volunteers their officers
were professionals and they wero
drilled and handled with a. skill and
thoroughness that made veterans of
them with a single battle.
"Their steadiness and prowess was
put to full test with Gen. Scott in
flirt QaII rPllrt*r U rt /I 1 1 " ~
HIV uuuui, I HUJ lltiVl IIVJL UH1.Y IU VclKtJ
Vera Cruz by set. seigo in order to
make pood their landing, but had
also to scalo tho huge escarpments
of the west tableland upon which the
Mexican capital lay, 2 00 miles away,
more than 7,000 feet above the sea,
and to make their way across the
broken, hilly plains beyond, fighting
everywhere as they went against an
enemy who outnumbered them and
was secure against surprise within
inner lines of communication. And
yet from tho carrying of the pass at
Cerro Gordo (April 18, 1S17) to the
storming of the high fortress to Chapultepec
(Sept. 13) there was no
pauso or miscarriage in the steady
process of their victories.
"Tho City of Mexico lay admidst
guarding fortresses and was set about
by morasses crossed only by narrow
causeways. But tho Americans moved
everywhere with tho business like
certainty and precision of men wellliandle.d,
and their volunteer ranks
seemed less in need of officers than
other armies did. Individual pluck
and dash and resourceful daring, irresistible
In all that they did. They
fought men as brave as themselves, a
subtle, spirited foe, tenacious to tho
last of all that it could hold; they
fought also against odds and moved
everywhere against fortified places;
but. on they won, undaunted, at every
onset. By September 15tli they were
in completo and formal possession of
tho enemy's capital and Mexico was
in their hands, within but a littlo
moro than six months of their landing.
"Meanwhile tho Government at
Washington had broadened the scope
and meaning of the war beyond all
expectation. During the summer of
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had seized not merely the disputed
territory which Texas claimed, but
also tlio whole country of tho Pacific
slopo beyond, from Oregon to tho
Cilia River, to which tho United States
could havo no conceivable right except
that of conquest. The thing was
oaril} accomplished. A Meet under
Commodore Sloat, and Stockton and
a few troops acting here and there
until Col. Kearney and Capt. Prominent
moved almost ns they pleased;
and a territory of 000.000 square
miles was added to the United States.
"The war with all its inexeusablo
aggression and fine fighting, was
brought to its formal elose by a treaty
signed at CJuadeloupe Hildalgo on
February 2, 184(1, by which Mexico
recognized the Rio Grande as tho
south-western boundary line of Texas
and ceded New Moxieo and California,
of which tho United Stats had
taken possession by force of arms.
For tWs territory, seizor and ceded,
the United States agreed to pay Mexico
$1 5,000,000."
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River Reaches High Mark.
Tho Arkansas river at Wichita,
Xan., readier the highest mark
known in 20 years. Flood waters
ilue to recent heavy rains in western
Kansas and eastern Colorado have
sent tho stream tern feet abovo low
water mark, causing the railroads to
fear for tho safety of bridges. Tho
river is believed to liavo readied ltss
maximum height
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Newspapers fight, ea^h other too
much. They should work together
for tho advancement of their common
interests.