Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-05-17
MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES.
From the New orlean. Bee-May 2.

From the New Orleans Bee-May 2.
We have received from Mexico, by
way Of Havana, the Diario of the Sd
April, in which we find the following
document, which, under present CIR
cumstances, is very interesting. At
that date, there was no discussion of
the Presidential election, and every
thing seemed quiet in Mexico.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT,
OFFICE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
To his eTcellency the Secretary
Of Foreign Affairs Of The U. States.
MEXICO, March 81, 1887.
The undersigned, senior officer, char
ged with the foreign affairs of the Mex
lean Republic, has the honor to address
the Secretary of the same department
Of the United States Of America, in Or
der to express to him the just surprise
with which the President ad interim Of
this Republic has seen the annunciation
IN the New Orleans Bee Of the 18th Of
the present month, Of the acknowledge
ment by the Congress of the United
States of the independence proclaimed
by the insurgents Of Texas, and the
subsequent appointment by the Govern.
ment Of Mr.. Alcee Labranche to be
minister plenlpotentiary to the preten.
ded republic.
Measures thus premature have caused
the more astonishment i'll the Mexican
Government, that it had no reason TO
believe that they would be adopted,
and that it expected actions conforma.
BILE to the friendship that exists between
the two republics, guaranteed by So
lemn treaties, and the assurances which
that government has given, the most
recent and conclusive of which the un-
dersigned takes the liberty to cite.
When on the Oath of May of last
year, Mr.. Gorostiza, Mexican minis.
ter to that Government, on the subject
ofthe proposition made 10 the Senate
of the United States to acknowledge
the independence of Texas, offered re-
presentations and objections which he
wished to render valid, the Hon. Mr..
John Forsyth, Secretary of Foreign
Affairs, stated, in his answer of the
29th of the same month, which is now
under my eye, that he had received in.
structons from the President of the U.
States to assure him that the Govern
ment would adopt no resolution or de-
cision on that question which was not
founded on the same rules and princi-
plos which had guided it in the dissen.
sions between Spain and her colonies
that only when the parts should be
well known, and not before, alter a |
complete, impartial, and serious exam
nation, and having always in view the
due to the friendly en-
gagements that subsist between the two |
the Government would then |
proceed to decide question which, |
with the Mexican minister, is consider
ed as of the greatest importance in its !
effects and in its inevitable |
results.
Such is precisely the language held
by Mr.. Secretary at the end of the
month of May of last year, Immediate
ly after the victory obtained by the in
Has the case supposed by |
MIR. Forsyth now occurred Z Are the
Texans in the same position that the
Mexicans were in regard to Spain,
when the United States acknowledged
their independence? Is there the slight
est point of identity between nation
of more than SIX millions of inhabitants
who by their sole efforts, had thrown
off the yoke of Spain, after sanguin.
airy struggle of eleven years, and few
thousand vagabonds, without country,
without virtues, and without laws, me-
naced by numerous army, full ofen.
thusiasm, marching to recover the lau-
rels which a capricious destiny ravish-
ed at st. Jacinto? Shall the attrocious
insult be offered to Mexico to suppose
that it is incapable of indicating her
rights on the territory which those mi
SCRABBLE adventures have usurped, and
shall she submit to the sheer Of that
republic -?
If the undersigned should undertake
to give solution of those questions, he
would render this note tedious by its
length, and call in question the know
ledge of the Secretary whom he has
the honor to address.
A document not less interesting than
that just cited, is now under the eye Of
the undersigned refer to the mes
sage of his Excellency, General Jack.
son, to the House of Representatives
on the 2lst of last December, trans.
hitting extracts from the report of the
agent whom he had despatched to col.
lect information in relation to the sit
uation, political and civil of Texas, in
consequence of the resolution Of the
two Houses, which declares that the
indappndanca Of TaxoS should no NJ