The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-07-20
THE INTELIIGENcER AND MEXICO.

THE INTEILIGENcER AND MEXICO
The Inlelligeneer publishes ~hs, Purports to be
letter from Santa Anna to Bocanegra, giving an ae-
count of conversation said TO have been held WI"
Mr. Gilber, Ii Thompson. accompanied BY = com
mani which Is certainly the most extraordinary pa"
OF the very extraordinary exhibition when '"a' pa
per has given us on the subject OF Mexican Affairs
The Intelligencer quotes at length the Presidents
declaration, that "no messenger has been sem 10
Mexico to obtain her assent to the treaty with Tex
AZ, ~ and saying Of MIR Thompson that he had been
sent TO Mexic sas bearer Of the dispatches already
communicated TO the Senate, and which Is 10 DC
found in the letter addressed to Mr. Green and forms
par, of the documents ordered confdentialiy to be
printed for the use of the Senate" And then as
serts that the letter Of Santa Anna as published,
proves that Mr. Thompson s'was instructed to make
direct approach and overture TO the President Of the
Republic, and to offer to that Republic competent
indemnity as inducement 4, surrender her right IN
Texas" And, as ifthis impeachment OF our own Exc
cu,ye were not sufficient the Intellgencer concludes
by high eulogy on Santa Anna, at the expense oil
the United States; contrasting Santa Anna with the
American Executive, 10 the disparagement oil The
latter Ii the Intelligencer were the paid organ
the bribed advocate of Mexico, it could not have
performed lis duty more in character than it has
done.
One less in the interests Of Mexico, and less OPP
posed to this Government, would have seen on the
face of what purpors to be official letter Of San
ia Anna, that II is a communication got up for The
IT acting on elections and in s'nn""' ~
the issues made for this country, after Mr.. ihomP
son left, and Of which he could know nothing That
the letter does truly represent the conversation
which did take place between Mr.. Thompson and
Santa Anna is apparent, because it makes Mr..
Thompson speak Of facts of which he could know
nothing and what is more important those facts
stituIe the essence of the charge now made against
the Notwithstanding that they either an in.
terpoaton in Santa Anna letter, that the whole
letter got up under instructions from here, to be
used, il is, for eectioneering purposes. Thus
Mr.. Thompson is made TO say, "That the President
Of the United States had signed Treaty with Com
missioners on the part Of Texas thereby iDcorp
ting its territory with that of the Union that this
treaty had been brought before the Senate and upon its
discussion there il had been deemed indispensable act
Of justice, before any d.faiie action the subject TO
fer cth .MeIco seeing the relations Of omy rhich eria
bei,resn the hoo Rspubiics'
Now the facts are that when MIR. Thompson left
here, there had been discussion in the Senate the
Treaty.. MIR Clay's letter did not appear until some
days thereafter, and, as Mr.. Thompson left before
tho publication Of that letter. and before the discus
sons in the Senate, and made the voyage by steam,
he in advance Of any other conveyance to Mex
ico and it is impossible that he could have made
the communication here stated, because it is impos-
sbe that he could have known the facts, which
transpired after he had left here.
We might well say, in the words Of the
Intelligencer that our purpose is not to
ment this Extraordinary disclosure, but merely 10
direct the attention of readers the fact - but
the lneligencer proves that the letter of Became
gra appears to have been consequent upon Santa
Annas, being declaration to the foreign porii of
The sentiments and purposes already previously an
bounced to the United States Of the Government Of
Mexico, in the circumstances in which il then
found itself placed"
On this appeal TO the foreign uoridn the lntell-
s-ns~ 1910 ,.~-.,>s,,
to be an American newspaper. 1t is remarkable
fact that before the conclusion of the Treaty. there
was no indication that any serious opposition to its
ratification would be made. 1t was believed that
both parties would unite in its support Neither the
friends Of MIR. Clay, of Mr.. Van Buren, nor Of Colo
mel Benton, prepared for the which they
afterwards pursued but II appears that the
British and Mexican Governments were so we'll in
formed, in advance, Of what would transpire, that
they prrdicaed the official action Of their respective
the that the Senate would
reject the Treaty. The reliance of Lord Brougham