Sketches of the campaign in northern Mexico : in eighteen hundred forty-six and seven / by an officer of the First Regiment of Ohio volunteers.

TIlE PERPETRATORS ARE UNDISCOVlERED. 3, 7
deed; which future historians, in the absence of all evicIdeceo
to the contrary, might perhaps charge to the entire escort.
Let the perpetrators, whoever they may be, vindicate their
own conduct. The Rangers denied plumply having been concerned. in it; but of that, the reader can now judge as well
as myself. General Taylor made every effort to discover the
offenders, but without suCCess,-tthe AMexican witnesses faia.ing to come forward to identify them; being afraid that thiy
mllight incur a similar ffate. The whole truth of the caise wiiAll
probably remnain locked up in thle cells of flinty and gnuit1y
hearts, until that day when the omniscient God who w'itnessed'
"it: shall come with righlteous ness to judge the w\orld tand
t.he people withl elquity.y