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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
about sixty young men, nearly all settlers of German origin, had united to fly from the tyranny of the government of Texas, and to sustain each other on their march to Mexico. They thought they had taken all necessary precautions to conceal their project from the adventurers of every description who infested those semi-savage regions. But they were betrayed; and on the 9th of August about one hundred of these ruffians, under the lead of one Lilley, surprised their camp on the borders of Nueces River, about sixty-four kilometres from the Rio Grande. The Unionists had taken no precaution to guard against a surprise, and Lilley, falling upon them while asleep, deprived them of every chance of resistance. Some were killed while defending themselves, the wounded were finished with the revolver, and most of the remainder, once captured, were massacred in cold blood amid the most cruel tortures. Such was war in a country where no right was recognized except that of the strongest, and whe