Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1844-12-19

f'cr 81 dil oh' Piolffsions OF neutrality an,
i"l tie treaty 81 limitations with Mexico
THAT annexation Inns brcn measure @
poiiey long cherished and deemed ,udi.pcn
s,tlc to the salty aud welfare ofthe Unnee
Static" altogether holds tone al ono,
pct6jlous and offensive.
A copy oflhe despatch which bears dat,
llh October was transmitted to The sc
rotary Of State on 2Sth Ociubcr, when
Mr. S says no answer TO II had bcen rccciv
81 We have good reason to know that tn,
answer Of the Mexican Secretary Scnor
RECON was Transmitted on the 2ia or nj n
nv rate before the messenger LEI, the CITY o.
Mexico and Il seems reasonable TO infer
that copy olii was sen, by the messen
ger
It's not, nevertheless, communicated
10 Congr9ss-an omission which
strikes us, under the circumstances, as
very uncomfortable.
The answer, we hear, was very
strongly written, both in language and
argument, much so, that Mr..
Shannon required that it should be
withdrawn as offensive to the dignity
of the United States. Instead of with
drawing il however, Senior Rejon reaf-
lirmed it most emphatlcally.
Such we believe, upon sufficient in
| formation, to be the facts, If so, either
Mr.. Shannon has not used due dill
gcnce in communicating them to his
Government, or the State Department
has, very culpably, as it seems to us,
Withheld them from Congress. But of
this more on Monday.
POSTSCRIPT.
Since these remarks were in tyre,
we have seen files of the Diaro di Cobb
emo to the 9th of November from
Mexico, and in them we find the reply
of Mr. Rejon to Mr.. Shannon, dated 81
st. October, in which Selling upon
Mr.. SIS admissions, that for 20 years
this country had contemplated the ne
cessity of annexing TeXas,-he recapit
ulates the Interference of Americans in
the revolution ofthat country-implies
that Gen, Houston was sent there by
President Jackson, to aid the revolu-
tion-and taxes with bad faith and du-
plicIty the whole intercourse of the
United States with Mexico on this sub
iect--concluding with the declaration
that Mexico will never consent to the
annexation, and, throwing upon the
Government of the United States all
the consequences Of "unprovoked ag-
gression"
The Diaro of 9th November contains
note from MIR. Shannon dated 4th
November in which referring to Mr.
Rcjon's despatch he says, che can hold
no communication with the Mexican
government except in language respec-
tful to himself and to the government
and people he represents. The note
Of Mr.. Rejon repeatedly and in the
grossest terms charges the government
of the United States with falsehood, ar
tifice, intrigue, and projects of usurpa-
ton. 1t imputes also that Gen. Jack
son, as President Of the United States
had sent Gen. Houston to Texas with
the secret and dishonorable purpose of
exciting that people to rebellion, with
view to ultimate annexation to the u
nited States"
To these imputations so gross and I'M
founded, Mr.. S. says he cannot reply,
and therefore requires that the note
them, be withdrawn, adding
that he was about sending a special
courier home, and desired an early re-
ply.
On the 9th Mr. Rejon replies that no
language used by him is harsher than
that repeated by the American Minis
ter's note, when the Mexican Govern
ment is again and again spoken of as
barbarous- that the Mexican Gov
eminent isquite as tenacious ofits dig
nifty as the American can be.
M Rejon then goes rapidly again O.
yer what he considers the just cause of
complaint on the part Of Mexico against
the United States, and says in conclu-
sion, that $50 far from Withholding the
note, the more it is meditated, the
greater appears the necessity of letting
it remain precisely in the language u
sed; and therefore he is instructed to
reproduce it in all its parts, and to add,
that if by reason of Mexico's thus using
her undoubted rights, the subs sting
friendly relations between the two
countries are to be interrupted-the
Mexican Government, in accepting the
hard conditions forced upon it, viii re-
pei, the unjust aggression, holding the
Government of President Tyler re-
sponsible for all the evils which may
ensue."
This would to be predicament
where neither party could give way.
We learn however, that Mr.. Shannon
Notwithstanding his declaration that