text:  "_Misericordia! Cuartel por el amor de Dios!_" shrieked they in heart-rending tones but their supplications were not listened to and every man of them would inevitably have been butchered had not General Houston and the officers dashed in between the victors and the vanquished and with the greatest difficulty and by threats of cutting down our own men if they did not desist put an end to this scene of bloodshed and saved the Texian character from the stain of unmanly cruelty