The massacre at Goliad was a ferocious crime.' "'It was precisely the same thing as the wholesale murder of Turkish prisoners at Jaffa by the great Napoleon.

Also I had the positive orders of my government to slay all Americans found with arms.' "'These men had given up their arms.' "'All Americans--my government said so.' "'Sir! YOU are the government of Mexico.

You obeyed your own orders.' "'You will at least allow that, in the eyes of recognized nations, your army was but a band of desperadoes, without government, and fighting under no flag.' "'Sir, you show a convenient ignorance.

We have a government; and as soon as we can lay down our rifles, we shall probably be able to make a flag.

I say to you, President Santa Anna, that the butchery at Goliad was without an excuse and without a parallel in civilized warfare.