. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. hundred republican women are imprisoned in abuilding, derisively termed the Ouuita, and compelled to make up twenty-fourbushels of corn into tortillas every day for the royalist army. Having thus sentup a sweet savor of revenge to the spirits of the murdered Salcedo, Cordero>Herrera, and the others, Arredondo finally gathers their bones together andburies them. In all this blood the prosperity of San Antonio was drowned. Tosettlers it offered no inducements ; to most of its former citizens it held out noth-ing but terror ; and it is described as
. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. hundred republican women are imprisoned in abuilding, derisively termed the Ouuita, and compelled to make up twenty-fourbushels of corn into tortillas every day for the royalist army. Having thus sentup a sweet savor of revenge to the spirits of the murdered Salcedo, Cordero>Herrera, and the others, Arredondo finally gathers their bones together andburies them. In all this blood the prosperity of San Antonio was drowned. Tosettlers it offered no inducements ; to most of its former citizens it held out noth-ing but terror ; and it is described as almost entirely abandoned in 181(1. In December, 1820, arrived a person in San Antonio who, though not thenknown as such, was really a harbinger of better times. This was Moses Austin,of Connecticut. He came to see Governor Martinez, with a view of bringing acolony to Texas. The two, with the Baron de Bastrop, put in train the prelimi-nary application for permission to Arredondo, Commandant-General at Monterey. Jr^Ci^-trz^^ ^yT^-rrc^n^€^. ^ RJ/fo jlo^cj
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