We, of the Church of the Creator, are proud of the yeoman service rendered by the early Texas Rangers in the expansion and advancement of the White Race in America. They were a camaraderie of brave and heroic men at a time when the White Race in America was building the world’s finest empire – an empire that was soon to reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
They were lawmen and they were pioneers. They were gunmen and they were Indian fighters and they were racists. They were the protectors of the pioneering White settlers from the marauding Indians and also the encroaching Mexicans. Their motto in the mid-nineteenth century was: "The only good Indian is a dead Indian!", a policy which, if it had been continued by the Federal government, would have saved today’s overburdened White taxpayers from having hordes of these pathetic and useless semi-savages on the public welfare rolls.
But the early Texas Rangers were not only protecting the fledgling White settlers from the Indians. They did much more. It was their avowed goal to drive every Mexican and Indian from out of the then Republic of Texas. And drive them out they did, with a zeal that we would do well to emulate today.
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It was Stephen F. Austin who pioneered the colonization of Texas by the White Man. His father, Moses Austin, had visions of bringing White settlers into the then Mexican held territory of Texas, and started the initial negotiations with the Mexican government in 1820. His early death the next year left the unfulfilled plans and obligations squarely on the shoulders of his son, Stephen Fuller Austin, who at that time was 28.
By 1824 Austin had almost fulfilled his contractual obligations with the Mexican government of bringing in a total of 300 settlers, each of which received a grant of 4605 acres, and who in turn had certain contractual obligations to Austin and to the colony.
One of the problems the struggling new colony had to provide for was that of maintaining law and order in a wild and wide open territory of considerable dimensions. Though the settlers themselves were mostly good solid citizens (their character references had been carefully checked before acceptance), there was still the problem of outlaws, desperados and marauding bands of Indians.
When Stephen Austin put forth the call for volunteers, the men quickly replied to the need, and formed local defense groups that Austin organized to repel Indian attacks. These militia companies soon switched from stationary defense to wide-ranging horse patrols, and concluded that the best defense was to go on the offensive. Thus these patrols came to be known as "ranging companies" and became the forerunners of the legendary (and notorious) Texas Rangers.
Initially, the chief targets were the Indian tribes that Infested their territory and settlements, and any Indian was fair game. Attacks on Indians were not only a practical necessity for the survival of the settlers, but a contractual duty that Austin owed to the Mexican government, who at that time still had sovereignty over the territory, and in some instances such Indian raids were carried out with the collaboration of, and on direct orders from, the Mexican military.
By the year 1836 when the fledgling colony had expanded its numbers of White Americans, the Indians were not the only menace. The Mexican government itself became a thorn in the side of the White settlers. As it watched the Incoming Americans increase, the Mexican government became apprehensive of their growing numbers and became more hostile and oppressive to the settlers over which it nevertheless still considered itself as the sovereign lord and master. The White settlers, on the other hand, were chafing under the taxes, the customs and the Catholic regimen of what they now considered as a culture and a government alien to their own.
The massacre of the 176 brave men at the Alamo in February of 1836 both panicked and also galvanized the spirit and determination of the freewheeling White American settlers.
On March 16, the Texans promulgated their own Declaration of Independence and elected David Burnet as provisional President of their newly formed Republic. When Sam Houston and his rag-tag band of 800 volunteers trapped and then annihilated Santa Anna’s army of 4000 at San Jacinto on April 21 of the same year, they sealed their independence in blood.
Houston’s heroic battle at San Jacinto was one of the more important victories In American history. Although small in comparison, it was the battle that decided that Texas was to become the White Man’s domain and not that of the mongrelized mestizo Mexicans. The decisive San Jacinto victory rightfully earned Sam Houston a glorious place as an outstanding hero not only in Texas and American history, but also in the history of the entire White Race. We of the C.O.T.C. recognize him as such and are hanging an oil portrait of him in our gallery of "White Men of Whom we are Proud" in our World Headquarters.
Sam Houston became the first elected president of the fledgling Republic of Texas in October of 1836, his first term of office being limited to two years by the Texas constitution. When he came into the presidency the newly created Republic was in shambles. The land area claimed by Texas after the revolution was 242,594,560 acres, stretching from the Sabine and Red Rivers on the east, to the Rio Grande on the West. There were now 30,000 Texans who had settled 62,594,560 acres, but nearly half of this had been ravaged and devastated by Santa Anna’s marauding forces. The economy of Texas was in ruins, food was scarce and prices were sky high. Flour was selling at an unprecedented price of $18 per barrel, corn at $1.50 per bushel. The Republic was saddled with a public debt of $1,250,000 incurred during the revolution.
Furthermore, a seething and resentful Mexico refused to recognize the boundaries established by the newly formed Republic of Texas, and an invasion of 25,000 Mexican troops was feared by the spring of 1837. Not only did the Republic have the threat of the Mexican invasion hanging over their heads, but Indian depredations, too, were taking their toll. The Republic was bankrupt and could not afford to finance a standing army.
At Houston’s urging, the Texas congress turned its attention to the Texas Rangers. Veterans of San Jacinto and young brawlers from all over Texas came to join in answer to Houston’s call. Such outstanding and notorious fighters as Deaf Smith, Ben McCulloch, Edward Burleson, Noah Smithwick, W.A.A. "Bigfoot" Wallace, Jack C. Hayes, Samuel H. Walker and George Thomas Howard were all destined to become enshrined in the hearts of Texans, and, might I say, in the present era of the White Man’s struggle for survival, in the hearts of all Creators. Houston quickly organized 600 men into three divisions as a border patrol to guard against either Mexican or Indian attack.
For ten years the Republic of Texas walked a lonely road, constantly under threat of the more powerful Mexican Republic to the south, and the ever marauding Indian tribes in its own territory and on its extended borders. When Houston’s two year term as president was up, he was succeeded by his former vice-president, Mirabeau Bounaparte Lamar, a one-time Georgia newspaper publisher and poet. Lamar stated the racial conflict succinctly: "The White Man and the red man cannot live in harmony together. Nature forbids it!" He saw the conflict clearly, as a three-cornered racial war between the mestizo Mexicans, the Indians, and the White Man, It was such in 1840, it remains as such today.
During Its ten year tenure as an independent republic, the Texas government and its strong-arm Texas Rangers were well on their way to cleaning up the Texas territory for the White Man. Upon annexation of Texas as a state into the Union In 1845, the Federal government took control of Indian affairs. Much to the consternation of the Texans, the Washington government now took a paternal attitude towards the savage Indians. Whereas the Texans had from their very inception as an independent Republic sought out, pursued and destroyed the Indian villages and encampments within their territory, the Federal government now reversed this policy and set up Indian reservations on Texas soil. It made a number of meaningless treaties with these lawless savages and actually protected and fed them. Instead of solving the Indian problem, it now aggravated and promoted it, much to the chagrin of the Texans. The White Texans wondered just whose side the Federal government was on.
Finally in 1859, the Texans had had enough and took matters Into their own hands. They abolished every reservation, and drove every Indian out of Texas territory. It was a superb task, ably carried out by the Texas Rangers. Any Indian found on Texas soil after that was there at his own risk.
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We now want to highlight a few of the colorful characters of this noble and heroic band of racial warriors. There is a rich lore and there are a considerable number to whom we could refer, but we will pick only a few at random.
Captain Jack Coffee Hayes. It was Capt. Hayes who revolutionized mounted warfare in the 1840’s by adopting Samuel Colt’s newfangled handgun as a primary cavalry weapon. Invented in 1836, the early Colt five-shot revolver was fragile and prone to misfire. The U.S. Army had rejected the weapon as a mere novelty. But Hays thought differently. The Comanche Indians he was fighting could shoot a dozen arrows in the time it took his men to dismount, muzzle load their cumbersome rifles and fire a round. Captain Hays dispatched Ranger Samuel H. Walker to help Colt modify the revolver, and the result was a durable, quick firing, easy to load six-shooter, known as the Walker Colt. During the Mexican War when it was the Texas Rangers who were usually at the forefront leading the U.S. Army Into Mexico, the Walker Colt proved its mettle. The revolver wielding Texans proved so effective that this weapon was finally adopted as the official sidearm for all U.S. cavalry men.
Ranger Captain Ben McCulloch led 40 men through Texas lines to find a route from Matamoros west to Monterey for the Invading U.S. Army. In ten days, he and his men traversed 250 miles and raided several villages and rancheros without being once sighted by the Mexicans.
So fierce and elusive were the Rangers that the Mexicans called them Los Tejanos Diablos – the Texas Devils. After the capture of Mexico City, with much credit due the Rangers, the Texans earned another name: Los Tejanos Sanguinarios – the Bloodthirsty Texans. Quick-triggered at best, the Rangers were enraged when one of their men was murdered in a villainous part of the City, and went on a shooting spree that left 80 dead Mexicans lying in the streets.
Captain John S. (Rip) Ford. The Comanches came to regard the Texas Rangers with ever greater fear and terror. In the 1850’s, the seek-and-destroy missions staged in the 1820’s were refined to a bloody art by the latter-day Rangers. In 1858 Ranger Captain Ford was given command of all Texas state forces – militia as well as Rangers, and ordered to use whatever means necessary to end Comanche pillaging in northern Texas. Ford gathered a force of 215 men, mostly Rangers, and tracked a band of Comanches all the way to the Canadian River in Oklahoma. The trail led to a large Comanche village, defended by 300 warriors. They were, however, no match for the well armed Texans, who lost only two killed and two wounded. In the encounter they killed 76 Indians, including the chief, took 18 prisoners, captured 300 horses and destroyed the village’s food stores.
In the years to come, the Rangers used their effective mobile assault forces to drive the Comanches and the Cherokees out of Texas. After the Civil War, the U.S. Cavalry adopted the Ranger’s tactics to crush Indian resistance in the West.
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Today the White Race faces a very similar racial dilemma which is crowding in on us and threatening to destroy our White civilization, our race and our gene pool, as did the early Texans from the depredations of the Indians and the Mexicans.
In the latter part of the twentieth century the White Race is besieged not only by a scattering of Indians, but by millions of Mexicans, millions of niggers, millions of Asiatics, and in fact all the scum and freeloaders of the world, not the least of which is the tribe of Judah. The racial war may be much more complex today than it was in the early days of Texas, but the issue is basically the same. It boils down to one eternal law of history and of Nature, that was enunciated by President Mirabeau Lamar in 1840. That law still stands today: "The White Race and the mud races cannot live in the same territory. Nature forbids it!" We will either cleanse our territory of the mud races as did the Texas Rangers a century and a half ago, or we – the White Race – will be utterly destroyed. If we, the White Race, do not take a firm hand in changing the course of racial flooding of the mud races that are being dumped upon once White America, we will In the course of the next generation be deluged into extinction.
White people awake! In our creed and program we have stated again and again what the grim lessons of history have repeatedly taught us – namely, that a polyglot nation or a polyglot society can neither be governed nor can it endure. By sheer breeding alone the mud races will crowd us out of our own territory and off the face of the earth. As I have pointed out in any number of chapters and articles, a fate similar to that which befell San Domingo awaits us here in America. (See the White Man’s Bible, "The Grisly Lesson of San Domingo – A Forerunner for White America.")
Whether we like it or not, grim and appalling disaster is staring us in the face. Nature’s Finest – the White Race – is doomed to rapid extinction unless we take determined and, yes, ruthless action, as did the Texas Rangers in the early history of that state. We must again realize our racial values and guard and protect them with our very lives, as did the valiant heroes at the Alamo, and as did Sam Houston and his rag-tag army at San Jacinto in 1836, as did the heroic Texas Rangers. We must drive the alien scum from out of our midst as did the Texas Rangers in the middle of the nineteenth century. Furthermore, we must make it clear that we are determined to hang those racial traitors who are now selling us out to the enemy, as did Gen. Winfleld Scott to the San Patricio traitors in 1848 at the end of the War with Mexico.
Ben Klassen
Founder Church of the Creator
