The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], November 3, 1860
The San Antonio Herald publishes a two column and a half report of Gen. Geo. Bickley’s K. G. C. speech at Austin on the 17th. He disclaimed the title of a filibuster for himself or order—intimated that they were a humanitarian society—would “perfect” negro slavery in the South and extend it abroad—were not leagued with any political party in the country—did not propose to march into Mexico as an armed force, but as a defensive colony, (per invitation of certain intelligent State Governors,) pledging allegiance and assistance to the liberal people of that country, who are kept “under the surf” by their revolutionary brethren, etc., etc.
The K. G. C. platform reads well on paper, but we have serious doubts whether there is enough powder in their guns to cure the “sick man” on the other side of the Rio Grande. The Mexicans are not very apt to affiliate with the “barbarians of the North,” and well informed letter writers say that such a movement as that spoken of by Gen. Bickley, would meet with determined resistance from all parties. We advise young men in the States to stay with their parents a while longer, and seek some surer path to emolument and fame than becoming Bickley Mexico colonists.