Turmoil in New Mexico

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William Keleher, 1982 - Počet stran: 534

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The Long Walk
275
First the Apaches
277
Then the Navajos
296
Baylor Governor of Arizona
323
Post War Indian Policy
349
At Bosque Redondo
368
Martial Law
385
Dr Michael Steck
409

Baylor Sibley and Canby
143
From Valverde to Apache Canon
165
Carletons California Column
211
Soldiers Wagons and Mules
213
On to the Rio Grande
234
Carleton on the Defensive
440
Navajos Released From Bondage
459
INDEX
513
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Strana 39 - An Act proposing to the State of Texas the Establishment of her Northern and Western Boundaries, the Relinquishment by the said State of all Territory claimed by her exterior to said Boundaries, and of all her claims upon the United States, and to establish a territorial Government for New Mexico.
Strana 17 - House dissenting) had declared that 'by the act of the Republic of Mexico a state of war exists between that Government and the United States...
Strana 287 - There is to be no council held with the Indians, nor any talks. The men are to be slain whenever and wherever they can be found. The women and children may be taken as prisoners, but, of course, they are not to be killed.
Strana v - Who knows whether the best of men be known ? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?
Strana 263 - ... and that they will not, knowingly, convey any person carrying on the business of transporting letters or other mail matter...
Strana 470 - State, which have heretofore established, maintained, or enforced, or by virtue of which any attempt shall hereafter be made to establish, maintain, or enforce, directly or indirectly, the voluntary or involuntary service or labor of any persons as peons, in liquidation of any debt or obligation, or otherwise, are declared null and void.
Strana 109 - the Mexican Government refused even to hear the terms of adjustment which he [our minister of peace] was authorized to propose, and finally, under wholly unjustifiable pretexts, involved the two countries in war, by invading the territory of the State of Texas, striking the first blow, and shedding the blood of our citizens on our own soil.
Strana 1 - As war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself, we are called upon by every consideration of duty and patriotism to vindicate with decision the honor, the rights, and the interests of our country.
Strana 132 - Numerous bands of fierce and warlike savages wander over it and upon its borders. Mexico has been and must continue to be too feeble to restrain them from committing depredations, robberies, and murders, not only upon the inhabitants of New Mexico itself, but upon those of the other northern States of Mexico. It would be a blessing to all these northern States to have their citizens protected against them by the power of the United States.
Strana 286 - ... and you have been sent to punish them for their treachery and their crimes ; that you have no power to make peace ; that you are there to kill them wherever...

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