Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
From Zebulon Pike
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.
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