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The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gun-shot wounds (search)
experience of thirteen years, and the immediate declaration of the Mexicans themselves that they intended, and have acted, to depopulate and render worthless this frontier, even at the expense of a war with the Americans. All we say is that we have been the first to denounce this unprincipled and unfriendly conduct, and have enunciated the only policy calculated to counteract the evil. The valley of the Rio Grande has been declining in wealth and population since the close of the war, and Mexican rulers see in our present war with the North a favorable opportunity to accomplish their design of entirely destroying the Texan settlements on the Rio Grande, and thus driving our frontier back to the Nucces Valley. We are still the objects of this disastrous movement, as any one may see who is willing to look at the matter philosophically. It now takes most alarming proportions, for if the bandit Cortina is making the movement rumor credits him with, he is doing it with the connivance o