Life and Times of Jean Laffite (Texas Digital Library - TDL E-Journals)
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The Establishment Of The Baratarians At Galveston in 1817
No full textI deem it my duty to state that the most shameful violations of the slave act, as well as our revenue laws, continue to be practised with impunity by the motly mixture of freebooters and smufflers at Galveston under the Mexican flag, and being, in reality, little else than the re-establishment of the Barataria band, removed somewhat more out of the reach of justice; and, unless the officers of the customs are provided wtih more effectual means for the enforcement of the laws, the treasury must suffer incalculably
