We do not blame you, for the gods of Anahuac have deserted us as we have deserted them, and the gods alone stand between men and their evil destiny.

Whatever misfortunes we may have borne, you have shared in them, and so it is now at the end.
Nor will we go back upon our words in this the last hour of the people of the Otomie.

We have chosen; we have lived free with you, and still free, we will die with you.

For like you we hold that it is better for us and ours to perish as free men than to drag out our days beneath the yoke of the Teule.' 'It is well,' said Otomie; 'now nothing remains for us except to seek a death so glorious that it shall be sung of in after days.

Husband, you have heard the answer of the council.