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PaICE 5D

The independence- of Texas, then, being a fact con-
ceded by Mexico herself, she had no right to prescribe
restrictions as to the form of government Texas might
choose to assume, nor can she justly complain that
Texas, with a wise appreciation of her true interests.
has thought proper to merge her Sovereignty in that of
the United States.
The Mexican Government cannot shift the respon-
sibility. of war upon the United States, by assuming that
they are the aggressors ; a plain, unanswerable fact,
responds to all the subtleties and sophistries by which
it is attempted to obscure the real question. That fact
is the presence in Mexico of a Minister of the United
States, clothed with full power to settle all the questions
in dispute bstween the two nations, and among them
that of Texas. Their complaints are mutual, the consi-
deration of them cannot be separated, and they must be
settled by the same negotiation, or by the arbitrament
which Mexico herself has elected.

With what reason does Mexico attribute to the
United States the desire of finding a pretext to com-
mence hostilities? The appearance of a few ships of
war on the Amer!ca,n coasts, and the advance of a small
military force to the frontier of Texas, are cited as evi-
dence that the declaration of a desire to preserve peace
is insincere. Surely it cannot be necessary to remind
your Excellency that the menaces of war have all pro-
ceeded from Mexico; and it would seem that the eleva-
tion to power of its actual Government was too recent
to have afforded your Excellency time to forget the
ostensible reasons for which that which preceded it
was overthrown. The crime which was imputed to the
then President—a crime so odious as to justify his
forcible expulsion from the Presidency, to which he had
been but a few months previously elected, with unpa-
ralleled unanimity, and in accordance with all the forms
of the Constitution, was that of not having prosecuted
the war against Texas, or, in other words, against the
United States—a crime, of which the enormity was
aggravated in a tenfold degree by his having accepted
the proposal of the United States to negotiate.
To suppose that the present Government has not
always intended. and does not still intend, vigorously to
prokecute an offensive war against the United States,
would be to insinuate the degrading charge of making
declarations, which it did net design to fulfil, with the
unworthy motive of supplanting a rival.
With these avowed intentions on the part of Mexico,
and so far as words can constitute war, that state actually
' existing, with what fairness can she complain of pre-
cautions having been taken by the United States to
guard against the attacks with which they have been
menaced, so far at least as their very moderate peace
establishment would permit them to do so ?
Are they patiently and meekly to abide the time when
Mexico shall be prepared to strike with due effect the
threatened blow?
Your Excellency has alluded to the internal dissen-
tions of Mexico, and accused the United States "of
taking advantage of them, beguiling its vigilance by pro-
testations of friendship, bringing into play every kind of
device and artifice, and appealing alternately to intrigue
and violence." Were the disposition of the United
States such as your Excellency is pleased to attribute to
them, they would have eagerly availed themselves of the
opportunity afforded by the first refusal to receive the
undersigned, and c, rtainly no moment more propitious
thanthe presenthave bteoen selected.
carry their ambitious schemes into
effect could
degree of forbearance, that by ma , ,
Instead of availing themselves of it,
ptehreLphsa,vbeywmithosat
the best calculated
rejected under circumstancesi
impartial observers, will
been be considered humiliating,
to offend national pride;
the aggrieved party, is said by
repeated the overtures foarndnet:ostiamtioons:
conciliatory
hliathorayd
to be an attempt which he
proper name (una
ejanodnuvnarnntepeEe xrureildtlechni embYys elf to call by its
tentativa que el infrascrito no se permite calificar).
This reserve is remarkable, when contrasted with the
terms of vituperation so freely employed in other parts
of the note ; or is it that Y. E. could discover no epi-
thet sufficiently energetic to stigmatise an offence so
enormous, as a renewed proposition to enter upon ne-
gotiations ?

The undersigned has already exceeded the limits
which he had prescribed to himself for reply ; the clues-
tion has now reached a point where words must give
place to acts.

While he deeply regrets a result so little contemplated
when he commenced. the duties of his mission of peace,
he is consoled by the reflection that no honourable efforts
to avert the calamities of war have been spared by his
Government, and that these efforts cannot fail to be pro-
perly appreciated not only by the people of the United
States, but by the world.
The undersigned begs leave to renew to his Excel-
lency D. J. M. de Castillo y Lanzas, the assurance of
his distinguished consideration.

lon, the 3d
of March, 1836, declared herself sn inde t Repub-
lic
and nobly sustained that declaratio battle-
field of San Jacinto by the complete dea.,;-;:c•-8/;:j
struction of a numerous and well-a ion army,_
commanded by the President of the ett*lt
iepub-
lic in person. She then deinanded the r o on--ert-
her independence, and asked to be annexed to the United-;VJJ'Y
States. The language of President Jackionin a nom
munication by him, addressed to Congress on the sub-
ject, affords a striking illustration of the good faith and
forbearance towards Mexico which has ever charac-
terised the conduct of the United States. He advised
that no change should be made in the attitude-. of the
United States, if not until Mexico herself or ode of the
great foreign powers should recognise the inde] idence
of the new Government, at least until the lapse of time
or course of events should have proved beyond cavil or
dispute the ability of the people of Texas to maintain
their sovereignty, or to uphold the Government consti-
tuted by them.
These overtures on the part of Texas were pending
for several years, but were not entertained by the Go-
vernment of the United States until the period had ar-
rived when, in the language of President Jackson above
quoted, the lapse of time and course of events had roved
beyond cavil or dispute the ability of her people to main-
tain her separate sovereignty.
Her independence must be considered as a settled
fact, which cannot be called in question.
Nearly four years since, Mr. Webster, then Seeretary
of State, in a dispatch to the Minister of the United
States at Mexico, said—" From the time of the' battle
of San Jacinto, in April, 1836, to the present moment,
Texas has exhibited the same external signs of 'national
independence as Mexica herself, end with quite al much
ps teanbdi
el intyt,
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de natis a Pp real
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sovereignty
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yi
thede-
principal Powers of the world no hostile, foot
finding rest within her territory for six or seven
years, and Mexico herself refraining for all that
period from any further attempt to re-establish hir own
authority over this territory." Three additional years
of inaction on the part of Mexico elapsed before the final
quesimtioeaainiyuofraedthdseoitilieo;:iited States, the occupationlor annex-
ation, with the same Senate, whose prudence, circum-
aspe_etfion, and wi,dont your Excellency so justly eulogises,
atoffnodard,d by
Fore'gn Affairtsh,eMir., %LI eAvraasy7
st
th,o
declared—"ris e d b.?rh the sdhleensrasic.f:
ji sanction nshatcouldo,anttr
ophuragovriee been
it hraeqsnbeisieten.
pCmaroeenumgteiroe:Geds'osoas'en7thmeept Lecielai vT,i;l a tolife4 National
Tinhisotesruo-f
ffozaitcdledse6anbitiovvee.
treaty, and farther, that it.is 'disp..;sei.l to commence the
nrgotiaton as Texas may desire, and to receive the Com-
missioners which she may name for that purpose."
The first condition was," Mexico consents to acknow-
ledge the independence of Texas." True it is, that by
the second condition Texas engaged that she would sti-
pulateto theinany entruenatry
treaty not
whatever.to When i
annex herselfot
ab become sub-
jectrecollected
that this preliminary arrangement was made through
the intervention of the Ministers of Great Britain and
France, consequent upon the passage of the Act of An-
nexation, it cannot be denied that it was intended to
apply solely to the United States, and that while Mexico
acknowledged her inability to contest the independence
of Texas, and was prepared to abandon all her preten-
sions to that territory, she was induced to make this
tardy and reluctant recognition, not by any abatement
of her hostile sentiments towards her, so called, rebel-
lions subjects, but in the hope of gratifying her un-
friendly feelings against the United States.
The undersigned cannot but express his unfeigned
surprise, that in the faco of this incontrovertible evi-
dence, that Mexico has abandoned all intention, or even
hope, of ever re-establishing her authority over any por-
tion of Texas, Y. E. should have asserted that " Texas
had been an integral part of Mexico, not only during
the long period of the Spanish dominion, but since its
emancipation, without any interruption whatever during
so long a space of time;" and again, that " the United
States territory, regardless of the incontrovertible rights
of, the most unquestionable property and of the most
constant possession." How weak must be the cause
which can only be sustained by assertions so circumstan-
tial, with facts that are notorious to all the world, and
how unfounded are all these vehement declarations
against the usurpations and thirst for aggrandisement •
of the United States.