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Outrages In Mexico

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
November
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The liallimore Clipper says : ''The York Monitor publishes an extract of an official letter received in Washington from Major Lally, nccusing Cnptrin Walker with disobedience of orders and his comp-iny with drunkenness and other crimes, among them of rolbing Mexicnn churches. We ihink there must be sorne mistake about tliis afluir, fis Capt. VV'alker's company is composed of some of the most respectahle and orderly young men of Mnryland, who we feel confident would not so far degrade t' emselves and their country as to be guilty of such outrages." The extract leferred to is as follows : Jalapa, Sept. 11, 1847. " You speak of rumors in relation to ; I have no doubt they are tru". It appears that Colonel Wynkoop hemd I was in greatdnnger, nnd tlirre (Jays nfter my arrival nt tliis place he cnme down wiih th ree hundred men, 's company included. The men wera drunk when tliey carne to town, and remaineil so until they went out. Severa] robberies werecommitted here. hut the most reprehensible act was in ging to Cautcpec, where they met with no resiitancc, but robbed almost everv house, and, to cap tiie climax, robbed the chureh, and destroyed wtiat to them was useless, but to the chureh valuadle. The same thing was done at Sin Miguel. 1 have promised to pay the chureh for lts losses under

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