Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-03-29
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA.
From NE Charleston .nercurH.
CuARLEsIoN. ). C.. March

To his Ercelieacy Don antonio Lopez dc Santa lima,
President Of the Repubttc Of MEXICO.
Sir Although have not had the honor To receive IN
manuscript the letter which you have addressed me
through the Gazette Of Mexico, under date OF the
18Th February, feel too senslby this distinction not
to make my acknowledgment through similar me-
dunn.
However gross the violation OF confidence of which
vour Exceency has been guilty in publishing letter
marked c0nfdentai (Which seal you have yourself re-
cognized) will take exception to your employing
the occasion of Wanting your own honesty, and ca
erng for popularity OF which you may stand great.
y in need.
When offered YOU an indemnity of five millions OF
dollars for paccaon and boundary between The Re-
pr5lics oil Texas and Mexico, ! acted under commits
sion which was unrevoked by the Government of the
former, and under which had negotiated treaty OF
mediation with the Government OF her Britannia Males
~ providing for the payment of this for the same
objects The supplementary offer of two hundred thou
sand dollars for contingencies and service were to de-
fray the cost of running boundary line, the expenses
of the respective legations, and for secret service
You too disciplined veteran IN the politics oil your
own country know the necessity and value Of this
last item Yet you have thought proper il appears, TO
pay yourself the compliment OF surprising that design
ed that this money should be nsnuated as bride To
Yourself | assure your Excellency that am too we'll
aware Of the spo,ess integrity of Don Antono Lopez
de Santa Anna President of the Republic of Mexico to
have hazarded such experiment the virgin purity
of your Exceency's honor
If your Excecncy can perceive "mpudence and
audacity in friendly offer Of peace, and pledge OF
nv exertions to induce gallant people TO pay live
mons Of dollars for realm which they had already
won by every title which just revolution and VIC
torious sword could confer, am quite content to sui
fer under the reProach of having less modcsty than
yourself
After thus dscour,cously disposing of myself, your
Excellencv pleased tn lavish upon the people, 10
whose mercy and nagnanmlty you owe your life, the
grossest abuse In the course of which you say that
there more scandaous robbery than the
focble possession OF the territory of Texas by lis pre-
sent settlers. Have you forgotten, Sir, the charter
and guarantees under The faith of which Stephen Aus
brought his colony into Texas, which, in lie, lber
~ and property, was scandalnusy violated by your
own Government; and this too towards man who
rcscmbed in the purity of his life, and in the WIS
dom and moderation nj his character the veneratcd
founder Of the State of Pennsylvania These colonies
Of the Anglo American introduced To pro
tect your Mexican settlements from the hordes
Of Commanche Indians from whom, in spite of theft
vounted bravery, your troops had 80 ngorlouslv He'd
Are you not that Of the of the Revo
luton of Texas was yonr own usnrpation Your tyran
meal overthrow al the Constitution OF lo23, and with IL
The tederave SYSTEM nf which, integral portion of
the State of Coahulla Texas member? Have you
forgotten tina, by the establishment of central dcspot
the ruins Of this system furnished 10 the CT
tzens Of Texas stronger Justification for revolu ton
than to be found the which led to The resist
of the thirteen North American colonies to the in
justice of their paren, State After inviting the infant
Hercules into your country you attempted perfdousy
To ste hun in his cradle, and you have reaped the full
harvest of the consequences.
You say, that when you commenced your memora
BILE campaign, in l-36 il illustrated by series
of victories, until the occurrence Of what you
please 10 term the unfortunate "accldcnt of San ia
cln,o Your victories, sir, if History is not greater
novelist than the most authentic OF your bulletins,
consisted in your heleagnerng, with well appointed
army of three thousand men, post defended by
one hundred, who kept your entire force for several
days al bay and the capture OF which found every
man glorously slaughtered at his post, and in the still
more gallant achievement of numbering in cold blood
five hundred brave men under the unfortunate Fannin
who had laid down their 10 force Of six times
their number under the faith of captuation, which
even horde of Calmuc 1artars would have respected
Al San Jacinlo your were defeated by the "accident
OF your having more than two TO OF the band
who were led by the benefa to whom you your
life, and by the still marvellous "accident" of
his having killed, in your ranks than his whole
force, and captured an amount of prisoners that out
numbered the vctors. These, your Excellency must
admit such remarkable accidents that neither Mar
shall SAKE in his reveries, The great Condo in his
strategy has made the slightes. provision for their
currence.
Your Excellency, not content with afording me the
instructive history of your campaigns has been pleased
10 touch chord which you knew we'll would vbrate
most sensitivey throughout the civilized world when
you are pleased to that Of the objects of
your medated crusade against Texas is TO extrpate
domestic slavery. Before you commence your march
for this purpose, had you not better emancipae the
miserable victims of compulsory labor in your
country who slaves in every thing but in the terms
Of nominal bondage, and who would be in n condition
of qualified freedom if they had half the temporal COM
forts of the blacks of Texas' Do yon suppose, that
when debauched by power you riding roughshod
the miserable victims of your ambition and
cupidity, you can hoodwink and deceive any others
than the victims of fanaticism who frequent Exeter
Hall, to be pucked BY tax gatherers cormorant
than your excisemen at home. This flimsy expe
dent to gain popular favor is really unworthy of The
good eense of one of your disciplined knowledge of the
world, and comes with truly seasonable grace from
man of your known regard, to the value Of human life
and liberty.
lfyour letter, Sir is commenced in the purple light
of the Aurora Borealis it concludes in thunder dark.