The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, July 1920 - April, 1921 Page: 303
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Some Precedents of the Pershing Expedition into Mexico, 303
lastly, by interior disturbances which appeared to the successive
Mexican administrations more important than the disorders on
the frontier. This, side of the question could hardly have been
expected to make a strong appeal at the time, however; and such
a view of the matter would have afforded small consolation to.
those inhabitants of the United States frontier who were being
injured and outraged by Mexican Indians and bandits. It will
not occasion surprise, therefore, when it is learned that numerous
punitive expeditions invaded Mexican territory during this period.
Venustiano Carranza's List of Invasions. In fact, the expedi-
tions were so numerous that when the late President Carranza de-
sired to prove that the recent so-called violations of Mexican soil
by the United States were not confined to his administration, he
did not have to go outside of the decade subsequent to 1873.
Within that period he was able to find some twenty-three in-
stances.27 The remainder of this paper will be confined to a de-
scription of the more important of these and the circumstances
under which they proceeded, and to a statement of some of the
agreements which President Porfirio Diaz and the United States
government were able to reach in regard to the mutual crossing
of the border in pursuit of depredating bands.
The MacKenzie Raid. Carranza began his list by referring to
the Kickapoo troubles which culminated in the MacKenzie raid
of 1873. For several years these Indians had made bold incur-
sions far into the interior of western and northwestern Texas, so
far indeed as to arouse suspicion that they were being led by white
men.28 In 1869 the United States began urging upon the Mex-
ican government the necessity of co-operation in an attempt to
bring the culprits back to their reservation in the United States
and the advisability of permitting troops of the United States to
cross the line in pursuit of the hostiles. The Mexican foreign
office replied that the latter request could only be granted with
the consent of the Mexican Congress, and showed great reluctance
to ask their consent. The United States first warned Mexico that
it might become necessary to pursue the hostile Indians into Mex-
ican territory without the permission of the Mexican government,
but later decided, out of consideration for the embarrassment oc-
"7Message of September 1, 1919.
28Ha. Ex. Doc. No. 1, 41 Cong., 2 Sess. (Ser. 1412), Part II, p. 143.
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