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Some Precedents of the Pershing Expedition into Mexico 309
gion around Fort Clark, where they picked up two or three hundred
head of cattle and more than sixty horses. Lieutenant Bullis with
his company, assisted by Captain Keys with two hundred negro
cavalry, pursued the band about one hundred and twenty-five miles
into Mexico, without being able to overtake them or to recover any
considerable amount of stolen property.43
The Ord Orders, June, 1877. In spite of these punitive expe-
ditions the Indian incursions continued, and there seemed less co-
operation than ever on the part of Mexico. The lack of co-oper-
ation may be explained in part by the political disturbances which
were occasioned by the attempt of Porfirio Diaz to depose Lerdo
de Tejada and gain control of the government. It was apparently
due in part, also, to the unfriendly attitude of a group of frontier
governors."4 At any rate, on March 9, 1877, Shafter was impelled
to write that "not the slightest attempt" was being made by the
Mexicans to prevent the Indians from making incursions into the
United States, but, on the contrary, they were "finding a refuge in
the towns when pursued, and a market for their stolen plunder at
all times.4"" When General Sheridan forwarded this letter to
Washington on March 19, he recommended that "the Mexican gov-
ernment be compelled to prevent these hostile incursions.""46 A
few days later the hostility of at least one of the frontier governors
was evinced by the proposal to punish as traitors certain of the
Mexican guides who had aided the American troops in their pur-
suit of Indians upon Mexican soil. News soon reached General
Ord that two of these were being held at Piedras Negras, and there-
upon he dispatched Colonel Shafter and Adjutant General Taylor
to rescue them; but the prisoners were hurried away before the jail
48Ibid., pp. 190-191.
"Speaking of an interview which he had with the foreign minister,
Foster wrote: "In connection with the embarassments attending bor-
der affairs, I referred to the fact that the governors of all the Mexican
States on the Rio Grande were regarded as hostile to the United States.
The reputation of Governor Canales, of Tamaulipas, was notorious in
both countries. Governor Charles, of Coahuila, was in open opposi-
tion to the American officials . . . General Trias, just elected gov-
ernor of Chihuahua, in a recent letter to a newspaper of this city, has,
over his on signature, manifested his hostile sentiments." Foster to
Evarts, June 20, 1877, House Exec. Doc. No. 1, 45 Cong., 2 Sess. (Ser.
1793), Part I, p. 413.
4"Shafter to the Assistant Adjutant General House Exec. Doc. No. 13,
45 Cong., 1 Sess. (Ser. 1773), pp. 4-5.
"Ibid., loo. cit.
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