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Cogswell, a former member of Toledo's party, reached Bexar be-
fore Toledo's messenger. Cogswell informed Guti6rrez that Toledo
was a traitor to Mexican independence, who plotted to end repub-
licanism in Texas by seizing chief command there. Guti6rrez, he
advised, must not permit Toledo to enter Texas, if he did, he
would "in the end rue it in tears of blood." Gutierrez followed
Cogswell's counsel. He courteously ordered Toledo to return to
the United States. Toledo complied.70 On May 29 he was back
in Natchitoches. Shaler followed on June 4. To these seasoned
diplomats Gutibrrez's action indicated that his removal would
require more than mild artifice. Their skill burst with a fury in
relaunching in Natchitoches their campaign against Gutierrez. To
B6xar they sent agents to direct the campaign, the son of General
Wilkinson and a Mr. Bullard. There they proclaimed without
stint Toledo's talent, his knowledge of government, and his mod-
eration-qualities needed to save Texas and Mexican independ-
ence.70a Gutierrez was removed from command and exiled to the
United States. On August 4, Toledo assumed the slipping scepter.71
Now Shaler's victory toppled into defeat. His wisdom failed
to foresee the human element, but only trailed the facts. Discord
ran deep and wide in B6xar. Inhabitants and "Mexican troops"
were disconsolate. They stood steadfast in their faith to Gutierrez.
He was their kinsman on the Rio Grande. Toledo the gachupin,
as they called him, the foreigner and the traitor, was deserving
of no obedience. Toledo notified Monroe that he would purge
the army and government of all of Gutibrrez's satellites if a
royalist army were not approaching, but time permitted only
preparation to meet Arredondo.7"
The insuperable commander whose vengeful destruction of re-
bellion from the interior of Mexico to the northern provinces had
7o"Colonel Nathaniel Cogswell to Generals Gutisrrez and Magee, Pitts-
burgh (State of Pennsylvania, U. S.), December 29, 1812," Special Agents,
William Shaler, 1810, II, MS., State Dept.; Guti6rrez to Cogswell, San
Antonio, April 11, 1813, MS., ibid.; General Bernardo Gutierrez to Citi-
zen Toledo, San Fernando (no date), MS., ibid.; Toledo to Citizen Guti6r-
rez, Nacogdoches (Y?), 1813, MS., ibid.
7oaShaler to Monroe, June 12, June 20, July 10, July 14, 1813; II. H.
Bullard to Shaler, San Antonio, June 27, 1813; Joseph B. Wilkinson to
Shaler, San Fernando de Bexar, June 27, 1813, MSS., State Dept.
nAroche, President of Junta, to Toledo, State of Texas, June 28, 1813,
MS., State Dept.
n7Shaler to Monroe, August 24, 1813, MS., State Dept.; Garza, Dos Her-
manos Hdroes, 69; Operaciones; Arredondo, IV, 194-195.304
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