The Alamo’s Connection to Slavery, the Menger Hotel, and the KGC
A short time before the Civil War racist military units were being organized in Texas. Slave owners were beginning to worry that their horrid institution of human bondage was being challenged. The Battle of the Alamo fueled much of this white supremacy as it was a lightening rod to unify racists around protecting slavery. In the San Antonio the Alamo Guards, the Alamo Rifles, the Alamo Rangers, and the Order of the Lone Star was formed to push the idea to develop a geographic circle of slavery stretching from the South, Mexico, South America, Cuba, and the Caribbean. The Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC-1854) was a part of each of these groups and eventually part of the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Members of the KGC included Sam Houston, William Walker, Asa Mitchell, Samuel Lockridge (Lockridge was a hired killer and later a Confederate officer). Samuel McAllister (The grandfather of Walter McAllister, a former mayor of San Antonio, was Samuel McAllister). These groups and individuals would all play a hand in invading Mexico, Nicaragua, and other areas. In fact the Alamo Rangers (Alamo Guards) would send some 100 racist troops to Nicaragua to help William Walker steal land and declare himself president of the Nicaragua. His racist dreams ended with his execution. Veterans of the wars with Mexico flocked to Nicaragua to help support the mercenary William Walker to build a slave empire. In fact several hundred Texas racists went to settle in Nicaragua in the hope that they could set up slave institutions. These soldiers of William Walker were thugs and hoodlums much like some of Trump’s friends. There were other people associated with the Alamo and the wars against Mexico that were all part of this racist plot. The KGC was a sponsor of the Alamo Guards and the San Antonio Guards including the Lone Star Rifles in 1857. The KGC had named its branch groups “Castles” a term copied by the KKK in later years.
A KGC oath included a promise to murder Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth, the killer of Lincoln was reported to be a KGC member. A convention of the KGC was held in San Antonio at Braden Hall which is now Market Street. Other white supremacists associated with the Alamo, the war in Nicaragua, and the KGC include Jose Angel Navarro III, Samuel Maverick, and Asa Mitchell of Mitchell Lake Bird Sanctuary fame. Oscar Menger and George Menger of Menger Hotel and Menger Creek fame were also white supremacists in the KGC and this explains their pro-slavery stance. In fact, slaves were sold at the Menger Hotel in private viewings. Additionally, so-called Tejano families were slave owners or pro-slavery men and included; the Casiano Family, the Seguins, the Navarros, the Veramendis (one of them was Jim Bowie’s wife), and Ruizes. They all wanted to claim “whiteness.” The Tejanos that opposed slavery were erased from the historical record.
The Alamo battle created the racism that followed William Walker into Nicaragua as they were quoted as saying that they wanted to “kill greasers,” a racist slur. Of course, most of them claimed God sanctioned slavery and white supremacy and often pretended an allegiance to God when in fact they were married to hatred. These killers carried “Bowie Knives” and soldiers that fought against Mexico at San Jacinto and in 1848 carried their racist howls into Central and South America. Today, many of the street names are named after these racists but they really try to hide this.
