{"id":89410,"date":"2020-03-04T17:02:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T22:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=89410"},"modified":"2020-03-27T06:10:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T11:10:04","slug":"difficulties-on-southwestern-frontier-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/difficulties-on-southwestern-frontier-16\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Adjutant General to Colonel Lee.<\/em><\/div>\n

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Adjutant General’s Office,          
\nWashington, March<\/em> 3, 1860.<\/div>\n
          Colonel: In further reference to the subject concerning which the Adjutant General had the honor to address you on the 2d instant, I am instructed by the Secretary of War to say, that should the Mexican authorities on the Rio Grande frontier refuse or fail on your requisition, or that of the officer you may delegate, to break up and disperse any band of banditti on the Mexican side of the river, having for their object depredations on our side, you will cause this to be done by the force under your command.
\n          I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,<\/div>\n
E. D. Townsend,          
\nAssistant Adjutant General.<\/em><\/div>\n
          Brevet Colonel R. E. Lee, U. S. Army,
\n                    Commanding Department of Texas, San Antonio, Texas.<\/em><\/div>\n
\n

A dispatch in Difficulties on Southwestern Border<\/em>, House Documents<\/span><\/span>, Volume 126; Volume 128, <\/span>United States House of Representatives, <\/span>U.S. Government Printing Office<\/span>, 1860<\/p>\n

During the 12 years following the Mexican-American War there were present on the frontiers of Texas and Mexico many factors that tended to create disturbances. The topography of the country, the sparsity and general character of its population, the lack of an extradition treaty and of sufficient national authority, wild Indians of uncertain abode, the Mexican tariff system, all caused friction and gave encouragement to lawlessness which not only retarded the development of the region but often threatened to interrupt friendly relations between the two republics. [<\/span><\/span>Border Troubles along the Rio Grande<\/strong>, 1848-1860, The Southwestern Historical Quarterly<\/em>, Vol. 23, No. 2 (OCTOBER, 1919)]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Adjutant General to Colonel Lee. Adjutant General’s Office,           Washington, March 3, 1860.           Colonel: In further reference to the subject concerning which the Adjutant General had the honor to address you on the 2d instant, I am instructed by the Secretary of War to say, that should the Mexican authorities on the Rio Grande frontier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":88999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-misc"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/townsend_e_d.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}