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ment, to join us, and consummate a measure e.
sential to their and our permanen, peace, welfar,
and safety, to be desolated; her inhabitants to b
butchered or driven out, or, ~ order to avert S
great calamity, TO be forced, against her will
into strange alliance, which would terminate i
producing lasting hostities between her and us
to the permanent injury and perhaps ruin o
both z"
| The right OF this government to propose an
nexation and the right of Texas 10 receive tina
proposition, as an independent State, are insisted
/ upon strenuously. MIR. CALHOUN goes so far a.
to contend that Texas has never stood i'm relation
to Mexico rebelious department or province
and here his ideas Of State sovereignty come
into play. Tho true relation between Mexico
and Texas, he afIirms, is that of independent
members Of Federal Government, the weaker OF
which has successfully resisted the attempts oil
the stronger TO conquer and subject her to its pow
er. III Mexico takes offence at the proposal OF
7nnsHsunn, we IRE the party to answe,~-rot Tex
as. Hence our honor is implicated in upholding
Texas free from harm if any danger is 10 be in.
Cured by her for listening to profler which we
chose to make and which we had a full right to
make. "Entertaining these views" says Mr..
CALHOUN, "Mexico would make great mistake
If she should suppose that the President would
regard with Indifference the renewal of the war
which she has proclaimed against Texas. Our
honor and our interests are both involved"
In consideration of these facts and circum-
stances Mr.. SHANNON is instructed to address to
the Mexican Government protest against the re-
newal of the against Texas while the aues-
lion Of annexation is pending, and also against
the manner, "barbarous and bloody in which it
is intended to be conducted-and he is to couch
this protest in ''strong language" accompanied
by the declaration that both the war and the man
ner of it will be "highly offensive TO the United
States"
MIR. SHANNON, with the fidelity Of one of Ho-
MaR's messengers, speaks as he is charged to the
Mexican Government. His letter to REJoN, the
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, is in strict accord
ance, and, in many parts, in the very words of
Mr.. CALHoUN's letter of instructions. The reply
OF RECON, which has arrived since the delivery of
the Presidents Message, does not appear in the
lntelligencer Of yesterday, but there is an alb
stract of ii in that journal, which gives its sub
stance The Mexican Secretary is very indig-
nant at the avowal that the United States have
been for twenty years steadily pursuing the de-
sign of acquiring Texas This confession, he
thinks, makes it apparent that The entire revolt of
Texas, Gall her citizens and soldiers being drawn
from the United States,) her declaration of indie
pendence, and all the rest, the deliberate work
OF tins country. IF this be so, what reality can
there be, he asks in any of the reasons of justice
or humanity now urged? IL such things can be
avowed, why may not any country foment an in
surrection In neighborng one, send its people
hther as citizens, then stimulate il to declare it.
self independent, and proceed TO annex it? In
such plan it may prove "that the United States
deludes itself with its own fctions, but will be
able to deceive nobody else.''
He goes on TO say that Mexico, notwi,hstand-
ing she has been faithessly dealt with for twenty
years. wishes no rupture with the United States.
She will bear the bad treatment she has received;
but not the seizure of her provinces. The res
possibility Of altering the existing relations Of
peace, If such alteration occurs, will belong to
the United States, and not 10 her. This note is
dated Oct. 3Ist.
Mr.. SHANNoN's answer Of Nov Sd expresses
his surprise at Senior REJoN's language, considers
1t grossly offensive to the people Of the United
States, as accusing them Of fasehood, arlifce in
trigue, dishonorable designs, &c. He believes it
was meant TO be insulting, and asks its with
drawal.
To this the Mexican Secretary reioins on the
9th. He is not astonished, he says, that Mr..
SHANNON, after so repeatedly styling the Next
cans 6arbaTous should now take refuge in the pre-
fences of courtesy to which he seems to think
that he and Ills Government were alone entitled
He (Mr. S. has employed without stint towards
Mexico language for which it would be easy to
obtain diplomatic reparati0n, but that it was plain
proper object of diplomacy, (peace,) but a quar-
rel. On his own part, he meant to give them no
right grounds for He is bound, therefore,
10 persist in what he has said, and is instructed
to repeat it.
SO stands the matter as disclosed by the latest
advices; and with this statement Of the case, as
brief as we could make it, we leave the subject
for the present.