The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-12-23

! that country 10 maiDtsin their separate sovereignty
or 10 uphold the Government constituted by them.
Such was the language OF President Jackson. Th'
contingencies contemplated by him have been ac-
complshed. The independence Of Texas has been
acknow lodged by than Of the great foreign
Powers, and eight years have elapsed, and Texas
during all that time has proved beyond cavil or dis
pute her al lity to maintain her separate sovereignty
During the greater part Of that time her proposition
Tor annexation was pending before the Government
OF the United States, and yet such the respect
Tor the Government Of Mexico, and such the desire
TO preserve ITS friendship and good will that although
no one could believe that the Government of Mexico
could feconquer Texas, and although the acquisition
OF texas has been the subject OF negotiation by
almost every Administration for the last twenty
years, The Government OF the United States has
iorporne TO agree to the proposition for annexation
unui, III the progress OF events, new circumstances
connected with negotiations between the Govern
nents OF England and MEXICO forbade any further
delay.
For further proof that the declaration of the indie :
pendeuce OF Texas was the work Of the Govern
ment OF Mexico and not of the Government of the
United States, the undersigned refers TO the adms-
sion made 10y Mr. Re)on himself, that the revolt as
he terms it, in Texas was occasioned by the refusal
OF The Mexican Government to approve of the Con-
st'u'lon adopted by the people Of Texas for pur-
pose oil becoming one of the Contederated Mexican
States and by the decree aboishng slavery and the
measures adopted by the Mexican Government TO
compel them " to comply with laws which they des-
pissed"
HIS Excellency admits that the Government of
SPAN hrst invited citizens of the United States TO
iexas, and that the Government of Mexico renewed
lhai invitation by rendering large grants Of land
lhese invitations were accompanied by pledges Of
protection OF person and property, and the Mexican
Government should have foreseen that natives of the
Unted States, we'll informed what their rights
were, and accustomed to Government in which lust
laws and good faith prevail would resist the attempt
OF The Mexican Government TO subvert the constitu-
tional Government and laws and it is therefore mani
fest from Tins statement of the that their remoy-
al to Texas and their declaration of independence
was the work Of the Government of Mexico and not
OF the Government of the United States as is unjust
y charged by his Excelency.
The undersigned refers to these facts conclusive
not only 10 disprove the calumnies against the Gov
eminent of the United States which il is the purpose
ot7hs eIcellency Mr.. kejon to impress upon the
people OF Mexico but also to show that in forbear-
ing TO accept the anne xaton Of Texas for so long
PERIOD when rendered by those who alone had the
right 10 90 SO, and who had achieved her ndepen-
dence OF Mexico, and IN renewing the assurance that
:" 1t is now adopted in spirit Of hostility to Mex.
CO. and that II anne xation is consummated the Uni
ted States will be prepared TO adjust all questions
growing out Of It, including that OF boundary, on the
most liberal TERMS" his Government has given the
strongest proofs OF desire TO preserve the relations
of peace and good will with the Government and
people OF Mexico; and the undersigned takes this
occasion 10 say, that should those relations be dis
turbed, or should the Government of Mexico fail
hereafter to receive the compensation which the Gov
eminent OF the United States, for the sake of pre-
serving those relations, would willingly have given
for territory over which Mexico does not now and
cannot hereafter, exercise Jurisdiction, the MeI-
can people must charge the loss which they will thus
sustain TO his exceency Mr.. RejoD, and the Govern
ment by hose order his notes Of the 3lst ultimo
and the 9th instant were written.
His Excellency makes elaborate comment, the
purpose Of which is to induce belief that the Gov
eminent OF the United States is about to seize upon
the territory OF Texas upon the ground that at was
embraced in the cess.on Of Louisiana by France to
the United States in l603 and was improperly sur
rendered by the treaty OF 1873" In reply TO all that
his EXcelency has said this subject il is suic tent
to say that the United States do not seek and never
have sought, the acquisition of Texas on any such
preience, and that the undersigned IN AIDE the remark
which his Excellency has quoted, and of which he
has made use so unfair and uDcandld in connexion
with the fact that "a large portion of the te rrtory
lies in the Valley of the Mississippi and is indispen-
sable to the defence of distant weak and impor-
tant frontier" as why his Government seeks
to acquire Texas, not by sezing il under a pretence
OF night under The treaty OF 1893, his E1ceency
would persuade the people of Mexico TO believe but
by negotiation hrst from Mexico and from Texas
And the undersigned cannot forbear to express his
surprise and his regret that his Excelency BY quoting
part and suppressDg the material part Of what the
undersigned had said, and using the part thus un-
fairly quoted for the purpose Of creating unjust
and unlounded prejudice IN the minds of the Mexican
people against the Government and Southern people
of the United States has given another proof not TO
be Misunderstood, al his desire TO omeut hostliies
between the two countries; for his Excollency must
know that the remarks Of The undersigned furnish
justification for the comment made thereupon, and
The purpose of suppressing the material part thereof
Is palpabe Tor, at the same time that his Excellency
sbors TO impress upon the people of Mexico a belief
that the Undersigned had admitted that the United
States were about TO seize upon the territory OF Iex
as under the pretence OF claim under the treaty of
1903, his EXcellency must have known that The
marks OF the undersigned did not warrant the
struction which his Exceency endeavored TO give
them, and he also knew that the United States set
up no such pretence Of claim II the purpose
OF his comment TO charge upon them.
His excellency Mr.. Re on also states that the peo
pie of Texas were bound to submit TO the form of
Government adopted by the other States and mas
much as they did not do SO, he claims the right 10
Mexico to treat them as rebels and TO wage war Of
determination against them. The undersigned is by
means willing TO concede the proposition Of hrs
ercellency MIR. Reon, aud much less to agree his
conclusion. II must be recolleced that the Spanish
provinces embraced in Mexico declared and achieved
their Independence Of the Spanish Crown, and in
1924 established Cor federation Of $ aios similar IN
all respects TO the United States Coahua and Tex
as formed one Of the Conlederaed Mexican States,
and was sovereign and independent, except 50 far a.
she had delegated TO the General Government por-
ton of her sovereign powers. She was entitled TO
and enjoyed her own local legislature, and was only
bound TO the General Government according TO the
express terms of the Constitution Of 1924. When
the army, therefore, destroyed that Constitution the
State OF Coahus aud Texas was remitted TO its orr
gina sovereignty, aud the Constitution of 1924,
which bound the States together, being destroyed,
and consequently Texas owing allegiance to that
which had no existence, left free to choose and
adopt her own form of government best suited to
her interests. The other States had right TO force
upon her a form Of government Of which she did not
approve, and much less the army without consulting
the will of the people, the right TO do so. II follows,
therefore, that as Texas never agreed to the pre-
sent Government OF Mexico, which erected
by the army the ruins of the Constitution Of 1924,
the present Government of Mexico, in seeking TO sub