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Laredo During the Texas Republic
DERED AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE MEXICAN
'PUBLIC."3
Dld Don Ildefonso Ram6n was done. His term of office was
n to expire; but he had begun to feel that Laredo was only a
cee of convenience for the government, and if it was not con-
lered "as an integral part of the Mexican Republic," he inti-
ited that they would look elsewhere for relief in the future. This
%y account for the friendly reception accorded General Lamar
ien he arrived in Laredo some ten years later to establish Texas
w west of the Nueces.
Laredo was forgotten by the government officials so far as
lief was concerned. Actual hostilities had broken out in Texas.
eneral Cos, who had so recently passed through Laredo full of
mfidence and conceit, was forced by the Texas troops under
eneral Burleson to sign the articles of capitulation in which he
greed that he and his officers would retire into the interior of
lexico under parole of honor and would not in any way oppose
ie re-establishment of the Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824,
rhich the Texans up to that time had only sought to enforce.
general Cos and his army retired to the Rio Grande, and it was
. dismal Christmas day in 1835 when he arrived in Laredo, a sad
,nd broken man, on his way to make his report to his kinsman
mnd chief, General Antonio L6pez de Santa Anna, president of
Viexico. While encamped at Laredo, two days after his arrival,
}eneral Ramirez y Sesma joined Cos with fifteen hundred men
;rom Zacatecas, for the crossing of which body Sesma had ordered
the old alcalde to be ready with rafts and boats. By this time
Santa Anna, who was then at Saltillo, had received the news of
the defeat of Cos and his army, and had immediately ordered Cos
to continue his retreat to Monclova, and Ramirez y Sesma to take
up a position at San Juan Bautista on the Rio Grande, some eighty
miles above Laredo. So all Mexican troops were withdrawn from
Texas soil. Santa Anna then made preparations for a new inva-
sion, which resulted in disaster to him and the formation of the
republic, of which Texas so recently celebrated the centenary.
These military operations did not disrupt the administration of
the civil affairs of Laredo. On January 30, 1836, the regular city
soLaredo Archives, letter, Ildefonso Ram6n, alcalde, to governor of Ta-
maulipas, dated Laredo, December 21, 1835.
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