The Republic of Texas a Brief History of Texas From the First American Colonies
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They at once determined that Santa Anna should not be liberated, and forcibly took him in charge, defying the Government and setting aside as it were the treaties of Velasco. He was taken up to the Phelps plantation at Orozimbo, where he was held until the following November. This ruffianism of our new friends is a chapter in our 151 FAREWELL TO SANTA ANNA history which, like the land frauds of 1835, we would like to forget. When the first Congress met in October, what to do with Santa Anna was... one of the live questions, and one can well imagine how a legislative assembly would approach such a topic. He was prosecuted in the Senate and the House, and the speeches of Mosely Baker, Stephen H. Everett, the Senator from Jasper, Vice-President Lamar and others, who would have hanged him, are powerful arraignments of his high crimes and misdemeanors. While the debate still ran high, President Houston assumed authority to cut it short by sending the captive home via Washington. On Novem- ber 20, 1836, he and Almonte left the Brazos for New Or~ leans escorted by Bernard E.
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