The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-12-14

uvon she Mexican Government is resolved to declare
war SO soon as i receives o. saen an
not taken place but without any ioundatlon which the
Government Of Mexico ought to nave placed confidence
in is certainly in bad taste and might well be deemed Of
ensiye it. upon consideration OF all the any
intention to offend could be inferred supposed But
far from such an intention being presumable find
that General Amonte in his letter oft 18th November
the letter OF the Secretary of State treating
the language above referred to offensive threat
that he considers il his duty repeat to the Secretary
State in order that he be pleased to communicate
his Exceency the President that neither he nor his
Government have intended and that it should not have
supposed that they would have intended to cast i'm
putaton agraviar upon the Legislative body and much
less to admonish the Executive to its duties His de-
sres have tended solely to the maintenance Of the
and harmony which ought subsis between two neigh
boring and friendly nations" sc.
In the absence of the original letters of the Mexican
authorities (Which have not been sent to Congress we
cannot undertake to whether the translation OF the
passage which has given offence to the President be be
not literally correct But admitting the translation to be
exact, must however may blame the ndiscretion
Of the language used admit also the force OF the positive
disclaimer by the Mexican Minister Of any design to
offend; which, considered in connexion with the exem-
Pary fidelity with which Mexico u.s. under all her emear
with the United States is demonstration to mind that
the last thing the government OF Mexico dreams OF is
seeking quarrel with the United States
The safest to arrive at true understanding Of
the ground taken by the Government of Mexico appears
be- looking beyond the language employed by her
Minister to this country to resort the fountain head
and what the President Of Mexico himself has said,
through his Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Gen Thomp
son, Minister at Mexico. The following the Ian
guage employed by that functionary being evidently the
same which General Almonto was instructed to employ
in his correspondence with Secretary Of State
"The Mexican Government has collected sufficient evil
dence published in abundance by the American press,
that proposition is to be submitted to the deliberations
of the Congress of the United States at its ensu.
ing session to incorporate with them the so-called
Republic of Texas and although his Excellency the Pre-
sident hopes that authority crcumspec will defeat
design unjust and attack decisive the rights
of the Mexican nation that territory he has ordered
the undersigned to declare to the Hon. Waddy Thompson
that the Mexican Government will consider equivalent to
declaration of against the Mexican Republic the
passage of ah act for the Incorporation of Texas with the
territory the United States the certainty of the fact be-
ing sufficient for the immediate proclamation of war eav
ing to the civilized world to determine with regard the
justice of the of the Mexican nation in struggle
which it it has been SO far from provoking"