Winning the Southwest: A Story of ConquestA. C. McClurg & Company, 1912 - 225 páginas |
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Página 123 - If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country. VICTORY OR DEATH.
Página 156 - Armijo is no longer your governor. His power is departed; but he will return and be as one of you. When he shall return you are not to molest him. You are no longer Mexican subjects; you are now become American citizens, subject only to the laws of the United States.
Página 123 - AND COMPATRIOTS,— I am besieged by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna.
Página 157 - Mexican subjects; you are now become American citizens, subject only to the laws of the United States. A change of government has taken place in New Mexico and you no longer owe allegiance to the Mexican government. I do hereby proclaim my intention to establish in this Department a civil government, on a republican basis, similar to those of our own states.
Página 123 - I have answered the demand with a cannon shot and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism, and everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch.
Página 156 - God an account of his acts here on earth, whether they be good or bad. In our government, all men are equal. We esteem the most peaceable man, the best man. I advise you to attend to your domestic pursuits, cultivate industry, be peaceable and obedient to the laws. Do not resort to violent means to correct abuses.
Página 14 - The real Kit Carson I found to be a plain, simple, unostentatious man ; rather below the medium height, with brown, curling hair, little or no beard, and a voice as soft and gentle as a woman's. In fact, the hero of a hundred desperate encounters, whose life had been mostly spent amid wildernesses, where the white man is almost unknown, was one of Dame Nature's gentlemen — a sort of article which she gets up occasionally, but nowhere in better style than among the backwoods of America.
Página 215 - These men had passed years in the wilds, living upon their own resources ; they were a curious set. A vast cloud of dust appeared first, and thence in long file emerged this wildest wild party. Fremont rode ahead, a spare, active-looking man, with such an eye ! He was dressed in a blouse and leggings, and wore a felt hat. After him came five Delaware Indians, who were his body-guard, and have been with him thr.ough all his wanderings ; they had charge of two baggage horses.
Página 215 - ... dry. The saddles were of various fashions, though these and a large drove of horses, and a brass field-gun, were things they had picked up in California.
Página 98 - I had undertaken no light task, I can assure you. There were hillsides to cut down, rocks to blast and remove, and bridges to build by the score. I built the road, however, and made it a good one, too. That was what brought the Santa Fe Trail through this way, and as the same trail extended to Chihuahua in Mexico, my twentyseven miles of turnpike constituted a portion of an international thoroughfare.109 After I got my road completed the next thing was to make it a paying investment.