dear general, I do long for this unfortunate war to be over, and then I want to see you in Mexico, where I can reciprocate your kindness.'*

"In a few days I was ordered, with what forces I had at Velasco, up the Brasos to repel an Indian incursion, and turned the prisoner over to the President.

"On the day after I marched from Velasco, Santa Anna made a protest to President Burnet against his detention as prisoner, &c., in which much of his unjust spite seemed levelled at me. He says, 'I repeat that I protest against the President and cabinet's condescension in issuing their orders for that measure' (bringing him ashore), 'thereby making a show of me before those men, as in former times was done with the chiefs of conquered nations, considering them as trophies of their victories: with this difference, that in my case a solemn treaty already existed.' It is hardly necessary for me to say that President Burnet's answer to said protest was triumphant."
 
 
 
*While a prisoner in Mexico, I related this anecdote to a Mexican officer, and jocularly requested him to say to the dictator, his master, "that I had visited Mexico, though not in the manner we spoke of at Velasco in 1836." The only answer I ever received was twenty pounds of iron, and an order to perform menial labour. Having no power to resist the irons, I promptly replied that I would die under any tortures he might choose to inflict upon me sooner than submit to the latter degradation. The order was several times repeated, accompanied with severe threats, and my countrymen will bear me witness that it was as often resisted with the most open contempt.

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