The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 13, July 1909 - April, 1910 Page: 106
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the 17th, and was there detained by the fog until the 19th. On
the 18th the American schooner Rosario arrived and anchored near
him, having had a passage of three and one-half days from Cam-
peche. She brought intelligence of the capitulation of the Mexican
troops under General Barragan, near the city of M6rida, and of
the division of the Mexican squadron, the Montezuma being off
Telchac. On leaving the mouth of the Mississippi, the direction
of the cruise was changed, at the suggestion of Colonel Morgan,
from Galveston to Yucatan. The reasons for this were given by
Morgan himself in his testimony before the court-martial by which
Moore was afterwards tried.1 In answer to questions from Moore,
he said that while the Texan vessels were still within the Missis-
sippi River, there came on board the Austin the captains of two
vessels who stated that they were just from Campeche; that the
Mexican and Yucatecans were about to settle their difficulties; that
Barragan and Lemus had capitulated; and that Ampudia was un-
derstood to be planning an expedition against Galveston. The wit-
ness had therefore hazarded the responsibility of suggesting to Moore
to go by Yucatn, on the way to Galveston, to prevent if possible the
formidable invasion of Texas that Houston had predicted. He ex-
pressed his conviction that Moore, without this suggestion, would
have gone straight to Galveston. In a letter to Moore, dated June 3,
1843,2 which harmonizes, so far at goes, with the evidence given
before the court-martial, Morgan states that he wrote from, the Balize
near the mouth of the Mississippi to his colleague Bryan, who was
still at New Orleans, not to go to Texas at once, nor to write to the
Department of War and Marine till he heard further from Morgan
himself; for information obtained on the outward voyage might
turn the squadron again towards Galveston. And Moore says that
he and Morgan had received, just before leaving New Orleans, in-
formation that they regarded as credible to the effect that Mexico
had pledged herself to England, in case she failed to prove her abil-
ity to reconquer Texas by taking Galveston before May 15, to agree
to an armistice.8
Moore now sailed direct to Yucat~n, and being much delayed by
'Moore, Doings of the Texas Navy, 12-13.
-'Moore, To the People of Texas, 171-172.
$Ibid., 145-146.
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