Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-12-24

existing relations Of peace, the response
bility will not be Msxico's.'
This noe is dated OH the 3lst October
The answer of Mr.. Shannon is Of the Sd
November. 1t expresses his surprise says
that he can hold no communication with
Mexico but in terms respectful toward.
himself and the nation he represents thai
the language Of Senior Rejon is grossly of
fcnsve 10 the people of the United States
accusin 6 them Of falsehood, artfice, in
trigus, dishonorable designs, and i'm
pudent usarpation, &c. In short, afte'
sew GRE reprisals in the way Of incyilifies
he says that the letter is grossly insulting,
could have been meant for nothing else
and tina, he has no alternative bu, TO ask
its withdrawal. He 10 about to send off a
courier home, he says: and as the further
relations of the two Governments raay de.
pend on wha, no is about TO report 10 his
own, he hegs for an immediate reply
On the 9th Senior Reion replies. He is
not as.onished, he says, that Mr.. Shannon,
after SO repeatedly styling the Mexicans
barbarous, should now take refuge in the
pretences of courtesy to which he seems
to think tina; he and his Government were
alone entitled. He (Mr. S. has employ
ell, without stint, towards Mexico, Ian
guage, for which it would be easy TO OBJ
tain diplomatic reparaton, bat that it was
plain that they who sent him desired not
what was the proper object of diplomacy,
(peace, but a quarrel On his own part,
he meant TO give them no right grounds for
one He is bound therefore, TO persist in
what he has said, and is instructed TO re-
peat it.
No one will fail to see in this matter that
our government is all wrong, being brought
10 this position by the political Don Quiz
otes at the head Of affairs. In the name Of
common sense what, at the present time'
are the affairs OF Mexico and Texas to US?
What right have we TO dictate to Mexico
what she shall or shall not do? No more
right than VIC have to dictate TO England or
France, for these countries are not more in
dependent Of US than arc Mexico and Tex
4s. We look confidently to sec Congress
robuke these dangerous assumptions on the
part Of the President and his cabinet, and
by proper concessions restore US TO our for
mer friendly footing with Mexico.
In Sluson TO tho probabilities Of war, the
New York Eveaing Post has the following:
awe shall not be surprised if the zealots
IF annexation now attempt to take advan-
tage of The Incorporate language into which
The Mexican government has been provo
ked, to excite the prejudices of our people
against Mexico and its government. If
feeling Of anger can be awakened by
dwellng upon the offensive expressions
which have been applied TO the United
States and lis policy, something will have
been done to lessen the unpopularity Of tho
war, which if we annex Texas without the
of Mexico, will be inevitable.
"Meantlmc, it is not war on the land side
that we have any reason to dread. Texas
herself, has little reason to aPprehend any
oil those fsrocities Of which the cerrespon-
doucr Is so full, and which Mr. Shannon's
protest deprecatss so pathetically. From
Mexican armies there is very little TO fear
bu, there is grent deal Of mischief to be
apprehendsJ from the depredations on our
commercs which will be committed by pi-
rates, not always Mexicans, but the daring
and desperate Of all nations, covering their
robbories with the Mexican flag. A har
assing. expensive, and lingering warfare,
for that is tho character of hostilities to
which the Spanish race is party, will Sc,
in, the end Of which no man can foretell
w it'll any probability.
"The rupture which the administration
have effected with Mexico, is not favorable
TO the success Of the project Of annexing
Texas. There are many who would be
glad 10 see Texas added 10 our territory,
bot net at the price Of such an interruption
TO our commerce and such drain upon our
resources, TO say nothing Of the ravages Of
pirotical warfare, as would necessarily en-
sue upon war with Mex CO The admi-
nistration has unwisely repealed The good
will Of all this class. The only effect Of
Mr.. Shannon's mission has been 10 exas-
perate Mexico, 10 make i a matter of ma
tional pride with her to continue the war,
and TO render it improbable that she will
ever aequlesce IN what she calls tho dis
memberment Of her republic by annexins
Texas 10 the United S.atesn
The Post also has the following with re.
gard to the conduct Of the off Gals in these
matters;
"l1ad an attorneys clerk trusted with :
cause in the Justices court, of tho value O
five dollars. rnismanaged it as this Texq.
business his been by Messrs Ty.er, Cal
htul, Shannon, and Murphy, he might for
ever despair of licence. The whole thins
is insXprcss;bIy disgrpceful 10 the conntrv
and would be inexprossibly lud;c if Sc
nous Consequences might not follow"
The Morning News, alludss to it IS 70,
lows:
Mr.. Calhoun isa great and splendid ms
and we were among those who enter,ainet
high hopes Of the administration OF III,
State department. in his hands; bu we ar,
constrained 10 admit that he has no, pro
we'd diplomacy to be the peculiar forte o
his brilliant intellectual powers. Thi
whole Texas business has been sadly mi.
managed from beginning TO end. A sim
pie measure has been complicated, /
straig h, one tangled, an easy one embar