The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-12-13

ties, who cannot be supposed 10 Wish 10 alarm
their Government by uncertain and groundiess infor
nation. The Government relied the faith which
should be placed those authorities, and consider
cd that they, when addr ssing their Government on
subject serious IN all ITS relations and aspects,
did 20 the discharge the functions civil aud mil
tary, which they exercise In their respective depart
ments.
Governments depend upon the testimony afforded by
their agents. and If they deprived Of this means
for the support OF their measures, what other they
have In order TO become acquainted with the ercum-
stances which require their attention.
In the Offices Of the Department of State docu-
ments which induced the belief in a new invasion,
and the order Of General Houston for its cessation de-
stroys all doubt on the subject.
With regard TO the incorporation of Texas in the
United States, the principal object Of this note, and
on which the honorable Mr.. Thompson treats in his
reply of the Gath Of August last, the information Is
still more positive, as to an affair which neither is
can be indifferent TO theAsupreme Government OF
Mexico, because IL has calculated and foreseen the
exaggerated preiensions OF those who IN the United
States support the pretensons OF the advenurers Of
Texas. The communications, public and private,
from that country, It's newspapers, and the rtImors
there current, and the invitations signed at Washing.
ton on the 5h Of March of this year. are circumssn
ces which cannot be treated as vague rumors. The
fact that the General Congress Of the United States
has already been occupied with The subject of the
nexation Of Texas, not only not destitute Of foun-
dalton, but most positive proofs Of ii have been OBJ
tanned and il is not therefore Of those anecdotes
which editors In the habit of introducing into
their newspapers order 10 render them more pleas
ing II Is thing certan--most certain, unless the
publications Of the enlightened John Quincy Adams
and the opposition made and now in preparation
against this project al the head of which that person
age stands, be fables.
To insist on what is positively known, that the
States Of tie South are promoting and agitatng the
aggression upon Texas would be an offence TO the
enlightenment and judgment Of Mr.. Thompson.
The probabilities that the Congress at Wash
ington will again take up hi, affair at us next ses
sion, and that the reason justice, and clrcumspec-
ton Of body which, from ITS nature, proceeds with
the utmost caution nddur deibsration in affairs Of
less importance, will Illustrate pretensions based sole
Iy on private interests. The undersigned hopes,
with good reason, from the prime piles OF justice
which ought to preside the deliberations Of the
Congress of The United States, that it W i'll never s-
ten to suggestions nor 10 private interests derimen-
tai to the law OF nations md international law but
as it may happen That ambition and deuson may pre-
vail ,ubc proprety that personal views may tr-
umph and Just ideas, and that the vigorous
reasoning Of MIR. John Quincy Adams and his CO
laborers may be Intellectual how it be consider
ed straage and out Of the way that Mexico un ier
such suppostion should announce that she will re-
gard the annexation OF Texas an act of declara-
ton Of war; Mexico, therefore, does MT threaten,
and still less does she provoke and excite what she
says is that which cannot be denied to her-that she
will regard the annexation of Texas to the United
States hostile act inasmuch this act involves
violation of the law Of nations, and particularly
OF international law, by its nfraclion of the first
article of the treaty OF April 5, 1881, published in
Mexico IN 1912, which says: " There shall be
firm, involable, and universal peace, and true and
sincere friendship, between the United Mexican
States and the United States of America in all the
extent OF their possessions and rritories, and he
tween their people and citizens, respectively, wi h.
out distinction Of persons or places"
Mexic" has always taken to fulfil her s,ipu-
lations, because she knows what she owes to other
nations; but she wishes ALSO that what is due to her
self should be observed and maintained and if on
these principles she has protested, and does protest
she does in this no more than fl I'll an obligation
which is peculiar to her sovereignty and indie pend
ence, without proposing, ever so dstany, to intimi-
date or TO warn but to show what il is proper for
her to do.
The undersigned herewith repeats 10 the Hon
Waddy Thompson the assurances Of his most dis,in-
guished consideration.
JIM. DE BoCANEGRA.
Hon. w Appr THOMPSON,
Enroy Extraordinary and Minister Pienipofeniarg
ofhe United States y ,hncfca
NJ Thompson 10 .M. De Bocdnegra.
LEGATION THE UNITED STATE, OF AMra,cA
MEMco, September "a, 1913.
The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter Plenpotentary Of the United States Of America
has seen in the Diario del Goberno- Of the Odd in.
slant order OF the most excellent the President of
the Republic Of Mexico, prohibiting foreigners, after
the expiration Of six months, from engaging in the
retail business Of any kind.
The third article Of the treaty Of amity, commerce
and nav CATION between the United States and the Re-
public OF Mexico is in the following words
The citizens of the two countries, respectively,
shall have liberty freely and securely 10 come with
their vessels aud cargoes, TO all such places ports
and rivers OF the United States Of Americ, and of
the United Mexcan States to which other foreigners
are permitted 10 come, TO enter into the same and To-
remain and reside in any part of the said territories
respectively also, 10 hire and occupy houses and
warehouses for The purpose of their commerce. and
TO trade therein IN all sorts Of produce manufactures
and merchandise and, generally, the merchants and
trader. of each nation shall erioy the most complete
protection and security Tor their commerce"
Language comprehensive and clear, in the
judgment of the Undersigned, could not have been
employed.
II cannot now be alleged that the term trade
was meant only 10 imply buying and selling by whole
sale. Such Is not the true meaning OF the term and
If such had been the intention Of the parties the
treaty, the term should have been qualified and
stricted.
But II is perfectly clear that such was not their in
tention. The terms "merchant" and trader are
both used. IL wholesale commerce was meant the
term merchant" was all-suf lent and why was the
other term "tr,der' also usedi Blu, the &c IN "trs-
der'' has n English a distinct and specific meaning,
and that meaning IN it, general accep,a,on, is rot
the opposite.
The term "commcrcat" (the Spanish word used.
according to The "Diccionario de la Academia /,
Defined THUS "Negociar hafc@, compreDado ven
dendo o permulando generosn-to trade or tr,ai ;,
buying and selling or exchange Of goods
The meaning Of the word "negc car" rs given by
the same authority, is "trstar which also defined
10 trade or ira nic
IL seems, therefore, that the privilege of trading
and traihckng. by wholesale or retail without any re-
slriction secured by the above article Of the irea
y, as clearly by the Spanish terms employed as by
the English; and the undersigned therefore solemnly
fpsta tho A n ~
direct violation Of the treaty between Mexico and
the United States and he G,,,bor r,o,.s,. =,