ment in six articles intended to pave the way for peace and the recognition by Mexico of the independence of Texas. Below will be found the said articles.[1]
The Mexican congress issued a manifesto[2] repudiating this arrangement and exhorting the people to continue the war. Nor was the other side in any way satisfied with it. The Texan secretary of war, General Lamar, had on the 12th protested against any treaty being made with Santa Anna, insisting that he should be treated as a murderer. However, after the treaties were signed he acquiesced in them, and afterward vindicated his official associates when they were assailed for their action therein. The Texan army was greatly dissatisfied at Santa Anna's liberation, and resolutions were adopted disapproving the course of the government. A few days after, when Santa Anna was already on board the Invincible, which was to convey him to Vera Cruz, two vessels arrived at Velasco, with a large number of volunteers under General Thomas Green, who insisted on his
- ↑ Santa Anna solemnly pledged himself to fulfil the stipulations: 'Art. 1. He will not take up arms, nor cause them to be taken up, against the people of Texas, during the present war of independence: 2. He will give orders that in the shortest time possible the Mexican troops leave the territory of Texas; 3. He will so prepare matters in the cabinet of Mexico that the mission that may be sent thither by the government of Texas may be well received, and that by means of negotiations all differences may be settled, and the independence that has been declared by the convention may be acknowledged; 4. A treaty of comity, amity, and limits will be established between Mexico and Texas, the territory of the latter not to extend beyond the Rio Bravo del Norte; 5. The present return of General Santa Anna to Vera Cruz being indispensable for the purpose of effecting his solemn engagements, the government of Texas will provide for his immediate embarkation for said port; 6. This instrument, being obligatory on one part as well as on the other, will be signed in duplicate, remaining folded and sealed until the negotiations shall have been concluded, when it shall be restored to his excellency General Santa Anna — no use of it to be made before that time unless there should be an infraction by either of the contracting parties.' The foregoing is given by Thrall, Hist. Tex., 277-8, as taken from Yoakum, ii. app. no. 5, 528; Rivera, Hist. Jalapa, iii. 313-14; Zarco, Hist. Congreso, i. 107-8; Niles' Reg., lxix. 98; Bustamante, Mem. Hist. Mex., MS., ii. 86–90, vi. 35-8; Roa Bárcena, Recuerdos, 538-41.
- ↑ On the 29th of July, 1836. Méx., Manif. Cong. Gen., 1-20.
10. Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna will be sent to Vera Cruz as soon as it shall be deemed proper.' Thrall's Hist. Texas, 276-7; Filisola, Represent., 68-70; Id., Mem. Guer. Tejas, i. 298-300; Kennedy's Tex., ii. 233-5.
