April 11, 1863, San Antonio Herald
We cannot help believe that Gen. Bee has but performed his duty, in delivering up the traitor Davis, to the demand of the Mexican authorities. Davis, it is true, is a scoundrel whom any Texan would be justified in shooting down like a dog, should he be found voluntarily upon our soil. There was very naturally a general clamor for his death–but from important public considerations, Gen. Bee exercised the judgment and the firmness to return him. There is no computing the value of the Mexican trade to our Government and people during the war. It is worth the lives of a thousand such […..] Davis. A war with Mexico, at the present juncture would be a severe misfortune to our cause. It would not only cut off our supplies from the only portion of the Confederacy that the enemy has not been able to blockade, but would enable him to recruit the thousands of renegade desperadoes who infest that portion of Mexico by which our Southern frontier is bounded, and to keep a large army near our borders, sufficient to break up all the settlement between this city and the Rio Grande. Ever since the war began, it has been the policy of the Yankees to engender such ill feeling on the part of Mexico against the Confederate Government, as would lead to war. Had Davis not been given up, their schemes would have been successful. But thanks to the prudence of Gen. Bee, they have thus far been defeated.