The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912 Page: 134
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134 Texas Historical Association Quarterly
storehouse of the villa were taken out, that the servants who were
not so provided might be supplied. And at the approach of night
sentinels were placed around the villa, while a squad of soldiers
was stationed in the church to guard the "Holy Sacrament and
things of divine cult."' All these plans had been determined
upon following the arrival of Hidalgo in the villa about seven
o'clock in the morning, and in less than four hours Xavier noti-
fied the Governor that they had all been put into execution as he
had ordered.'
Having adopted these defensive measures at Santa Fe, and
thinking that similar ones were being adopted in the various juris-
dictions, as he had ordered, it is clearly evident that Otermin be-
lieved all necessary precautions for the safety of the province had
been taken. Of the movements of the Indians, and the real seri-
ousness of the situation, however, he was in almost total ignorance,
and had he but known that at that very moment the Indians all
over the province were slaying the unprotected settlers,, devastat-
ing their property, and profaning the churches and convents, with
the aim of putting an end to the villa last, his surprise would
doubtless have been as great as was his anxiety for his own and
his people's safety some days later.
It was probably the kindness of fate, therefore, that new reports
of the extent and character of the revolt came in gradually, as
they did during this and the succeeding days, until the worst was
learned and the actual siege of the villa was in progress, conducted
by a horde of savage demons, who having killed as many of the
settlers elsewhere as possible, now danced in their glee around the
besieged refugees in the government buildings, thinking that they
would fall as had the others in the neighboring jurisdictions. The
next report that Otermin received, following that brought in by
Hidalgo, reached him about five o'clock the same evening, when
there arrived at Santa Fe the alfeirez Nicolas Lusero and Antonio
G6mez, two soldiers who had been despatched previous to the re-
volt by the alcalde mayor at Taos with notices of the conspiracy
and rebellion of the Indians there, but who brought other and more
serious news than that forwarded from Taos. These soldiers, as
"Auto (de Otermfn)," in Auttos tocantes, 3.
2"Testimo (de Xavier)," in Auttos tocantes, 3.
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Texas State Historical Association. The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 15, July 1911 - April, 1912, periodical, 1912; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101056/m1/139/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.