The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, July 1928 - April, 1929 Page: 331
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Tadeo Ortiz and the Colonization of Texas, 1822-1833 331
sity of annuling the immense concessions and privilege which,
without due knowledge of the localities, the government of Saltillo
and even the federal government have granted to many adventur-
ers who are incapable of complying with their contracts. This
has been detrimental to the general welfare. This is especially
dangerous unless certain guarantees are demanded of them. I
mention, lastly, the advantages of the opening of the ports of
Texas for a definite time without the imposition of duties.
Most Excellent Sir, the time has now arrived when the supreme
powers should realize that the Comanches, Lipanes, Tahuakanos,
and other small bands of savages have not only hindered the set-
tlement of Texas, the States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Chihuahua,
and New Mexico, but for more than two centuries, have laid their
villages waste and have committed thousands of murders, rob-
beries, and other crimes. These depredations have clothed fami-
lies in mourning and have filled their eyes with tears.
The government should realize that, with the most baseless hope
and paralyzing fears, the cowardly governors and ecclesiastical
councils have tolerated great crimes, under the deliberate and
childish pretext that these barbarians will some day be converted
to the faith and reduced to their intolerable dominion. To these
views of a perverse and degrading policy, innumerable victims
have been and are still being sacrificed. Millions of pesos are
being spent on it and on the impossible truces, which under the
name of peace, are ignominously formed. These truces, made
with the so-called chiefs of a troop of wandering savages, who live
by robbery without order or agreement, fail to observe the rights
of men and outrage the national sovereignty. By a strange anom-
aly, as is everything touching this inconceivable and shameful
management, these chiefs in certain instances are treated like the
legal representatives of a powerful and recognized form of govern-
ment and in other cases they are considered as its subjects or
favorite sons. Their good will is won with numerous presents at
the expense of the people wrom they continually insult, murder,
and despoil of their property. Most Excellent Sir, is it not an
insult and degradation to the honor of the nation to reward with
the offices of colonels the leaders of barbarous highwaymen, who
are unfaithful to their compacts, thus injuring the nation by cur-
rying favor with its most bloodthirsty and treacherous enemies?
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, July 1928 - April, 1929, periodical, 1929; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101089/m1/336/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.