Letter
[Translation.], February 10, 1866.
No. 3.
[Translation.]
Expeditionary column at Laguna, San José de los Alamos, February 10, 1866.
I have received your communication, and I am by no means pleased with your reply to my orders to burn the houses of the deserters. What you say is only an evasion, an excuse for disobedience to superior orders, and it therefore becomes necessary to punish a judge severely as a warning to others.
If my order to burn the houses, whether rented or owned, is not obeyed by the time my forces reach the place, the whole town shall be destroyed.
MAXIMO CAMPOS, Commander-in-Chief.
The Associate Judge of San Lorenzo.
The two notes above are true copies of the originals, as certified by me, at San José del Burro, on the 19th of February, 1866.
EDUARDO MUZQUIZ, Secretary.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty.