rare, 
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the Governor, has been pleased to issue the following de- 
cree 
ue That, as Don Angel Trias has withdrawn his prosecu 
tion, so far as relates to his personal interests, the Govern- 
ment, using the equity with which it ought to look upon 
faults committed without a deliberate intention to infringe 
the laws, which appears presumable in the present case, 
owing to the memorialist’s ignorance of them, the grace 
which he solicits is granted to him; and, in consequence, 
he is at liberty to retire when he chooses: to whic end, 
and that he may not be interrupted by the authorities, a 
il ransmi o him.? 
‘“* Tn virtue of the above, I inclose the said decree to you, 
for the purposes intended. 
“God and Liberty. Chihuahua, Nov. 9, 1839. 
“ AMADO DE LA Veaa, Sec. 
“To Don Jostan Greece.” 
Thus terminated this ‘momentous’ affair. 
The moral of it may be summed up in a few 
words. A citizen of the United States who, 
under the faith of treaties, is engaged in his 
business, may be seized and harassed by the 
arbitrary authorities of Chihuahua with per- 
fect impunity, because experience has proved 
that the American Government winks at al- 
most every individual outrage, as utterly un- 
——— of its serious consideration. At the 
e time, the Indians may enter, as they 
feqncntly do, the suburbs of the city,—rob, 
plunder, and destroy life, without a single sol- 
dier being raised, or an effort made to bring 
the savage malefactors within the pale of jus- 
tice. But a few days before the occasion of 
my difficulty at Torreon, the Apaches had 
ranchero or two in the immediate 
ed a 
aa of a same village; and after- 
