The following letter from Santa Anna to a distinguished foreigner, will afford the reader a specimen of his personal modesty and political humility. The individual to whom it was written, was afterwards expelled by Santa Anna from the republic during his presidency, after having been invited by him to the country:

See Gen. Waddy Thompson's Recollections of Mexico, p. 69, for Santa Anna's wretched vindication of these sanguinary deeds.

Memorias para la historia de la Guerra de Tejas, vol. ii, p. 543.

See Major Ripley's History of the War with Mexico, p. 148. et. seq.

See the admirable Map and Memoir of Lieutenant M. L. Smith, and Brevet Captain E. L. F. Hardcastle, published in the Senate Document, No. 11 of the first session of the 31st Congress: 1849 '50.

Ripley's War with Mexico, vol. 2, 181.

Ripley, 2d vol., 182.