Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-04-11
or: Gay 10 .1fr. Poinsen.
DEPARTMENT or Sr.-

G., g. Tdst'ngf0n. -Nor., Sth, 1925
.'ia once the Gate of my letter of the 26tb nj
re.oei iast' yrur dispatches 10 No. 81. bar.
100. iece"ed. That of the 18Th September
oeeh iaid before the President. and sbau -
MAKE 'he Temarkswhich appear TO be called for h.,
."e ''s', oeing be only one which seems m re-
iu.e particular Hotice. In that you state tba.
N o'e course oi your conferences with the plen;
po'eh'iaries OF the United Mexican States. ON ,b.
y. Tue Proposed commercial convention a
po,h' OF d'ficuiy has arisen, which has
10 be reserved. The point il an excen,ion II
oi 'ne America1 nations which were forn,sr,
spanish possessions, 10 which, on account &c ~,
.""i leia'!ons that unite them to the TJ,;,en
ieA'can States, The latter may grant special priv;.
eyes, "hich siail MOI be extended to the ao,n;,
On, ana CITIZENS OF the United States. The
that exception ~ "cceoe 10
The United States have neither ,os
sought 10 OMAN, for themselves. in tbe;- 80.
e'c'di teiatens with the new States an. ~;
.rSes w"sch we're not common to other pa,;nns
Ahey nave proposed, and only wished 10 estsbl;.,,
''e OASIS OF all their commercial treaties. tboso
=. q reciprocity. They can consent 10 M.
o'ne, hAdy, themselves, to extend to ,be ITn;N
'ed mexican States any favors which thew H..
s'"''eu l" o'her nations, the United State. fess
themselves authorized 10 demand, in this resn.c,
Perie'' reciprocity. They could not aeree o.,
Fea' on me principle OF a concesson to anv f.
ropean Power, Of commercial PRIVILEGES ,.iiot,
VIE uen'ea 10 them They would feel even
more Tfpu5nance 10 the adoption of sucb = 80,
cIPie' in respect TO any American n,.io, ta,..'
oy pHcing the United States, in some Ie,roa 49,.
OF the pale OF that American system. of Mi ~
iori no nnessenai part, il would natIrsIIv o,,,,
ns senSbiIlty OF the People of the I,nited sat-
az you hau not Time, at the dale of your desnatrb
80 communicate the reasons which were urged in
sNPpof' o, uhs extraordinary exception, thew can
only be collected from the tenor ofthe clapsa -
Ell IN the British treaty, which Won have c;,an
thM clause asserts, as the motives for the svca.,
.on ISL That the new States, in whose favo- :,
SO De applied, were formerly Spanish ros.
sessions aud ID, That certain fraternaI rel.,;o,,
"sIe '"e'' 70 .he Mexican States. The val,dt,.
.. neI'ner Of these reasons can be perceived -
- '''''e IN we nature OF the fact that those
nauors were once bound, by a Common ,IIeo;ans.
10 spain, toJasiiy the exceptions Can anv r,,Is 10
ialTIy dedUced from colonial condition L;I
should govern Independent nations mo Iongsr 49,
by any common tie? Is there not sometlie, -
aIory IRON the character of free States. and frs.
men, IN seeking 10 find rule for their comrerc;,
'",e'course IN their emancipated condition, from a
retrospect OF their colonial state which ,yss 80 e
dependence and vassalagel What is IN he a. y;
init OF This principle? II the accden, NJ coio,il1
cohheNlen' under common sovereign. is n ;,s,if
peculiar rule for The emancirated coJonieS ma.
MOI 'hal common sovereign also insist. ON Tho
GROUND OF ancient relations, upon special prvpves5
anu 'nen u would be incumbent upon the Irs;,5
States to consider il they had NOT bee, r.os-",,.
IN thefrerognIiion of the Independence ~ Tho -
ted Mexican States, But IL The fac. of ,hs So.
domi"ion having once stretched oyer lie -,
STATES IS to create an exception Of Commercial nj;
vIeges, in their behalf, the United States. uron
similar ground, have right 10 demand the hanoc,
Of 1t. For the same Spanish dominion. onco 80
az no very distant day, extended over ,be 49,
part OF their territories, and all that mar, ybicto
contentious with those of the United Msv;,..,
States "Ae"'edh
WHhrespecl TO The second reason dejncil,,o r,or,
me clause In the British treaty there js No s.to
oil The nature OF those fraernal relations ,vj; -.
supposed 10 warrant the execution Ce,.a;SI.
between the United Mexican Sfs,es .n,1 r. - -
new nations carved out Of tie former Spanish col
onies, none are known to the world which a.,
sanction the exception. The United Met.
states have,lt true, been waging war with Sect
contemporaneously with the other Stafes. d., ~
tberto there has been no cooperation If stros b.
tween them. The United Mexican S,s,es 49,
alone sustained their contest If the idea Of the
iIaternal relations is to be soueh, for in the svs
thy between the Amefcen beigerents. tbis 80,
paihy has been equally felt, and Constants en,,s
ed, throughout the whole struggle, bv tho Ttni,o1
STATES Ihey have not, indeed, taken M arms in
support Of the independence ofihe new state. bn,
the neutrality which they have maintaioed has er-
tentnltca on Fc,grth poef7