The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 9, July 1905 - April, 1906 Page: 150
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warned not to enter, as yellow fever held the town. Here was a
dilemma. Young Bennet was just from the North, a fine subject
for the fever, of which he had a mortal dread. To send a hired
man into danger, from which he himself shrank he scorned to do,
and to return to that father with the mission for which he had
gone so many miles unaccomplished, did not occur to him. So re-
moving from its greasy receptacle the money and cleaning it as
best he could, he tied it in a wallet to his saddle, mounted his
horse and at high noon rode into the plague-stricken city, dis-
charged the duty and the debt and galloped back to the camp.
Here he found Larrabee with the frugal meal ready, the oxen yoked,
and the heads of those oxen turned to Gonzales. But this happy
home life at Gonzales lasted only a short time, as, early in 1841,
Mr. Bennet was re-commissioned major in the quartermaster's de-
partment and sent on the Santa F6 expedition, the hardest cam-
paign of all his life-that which shattered his strong constitution,
tried his fortitude, and broke his spirit.
To discuss the wisdom, or the policy, of this undertaking would
be foreign to the intent of this article. The following brief sum-
mary from the Galveston News of August 2, 1892, will suffice:
"During President Lamar's term of office, the Congress of the
Republic having failed to make provision for the support of the
army, the troops were disbanded. 'The President in his message
of 1839, had recommended measures for the assertion of the juris-
diction of Texas over the Territory of New Mexico, and bills had
been introduced into both I-ouses of Congress for the purpose of
authorizing an expedition to Santa FP, and making small appro-
priations for that object, but both bills were rejected. Neverthe-
less, in the spring of 1841 preparations were made under the sanc-
tion of the President for such an enterprise, but the intention was
declared to be simply to invite the people of that region to accept
the jurisdiction of Texas, with an offer to assist them in resisting
the Indians and the authority of the supreme government of
Mexico.
"The command was instructed not to attempt the forcible sub-
jugation of the country in case of resistence, and Colonel W. G.
Cook, Dr. R. F. Brenham and Colonel Jos6 Antonio Navarro were150
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