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national PALACE, Mexico, Nov. 6, 1874.

WILSON SHANNON.
NATIONAL PALACE, Mexico, Nov. 6, 1874
To hi, Ercellenoy Wilson Shannon, ENJOY Er-
traordinary Of the United States of .4merica:
The undersigned, Minister of Foreign Rela-
tons, &C., has received the note of his Excel
lency Wilson Shannon, Envoy Extraordinary,
&C., of the 4th met, relative to the letter OF
the undersigned dated the 3lst of October last
repeling the protest which his EIcellency made
against the invasion of Texas by the Mexican
Government, and the mode in which it was
intended to be accomplished.
The course of conduct pursued by the Co.
vernment and Southern people of the United
States in the question of the said province, be-
longing to this Republc, having been very ir-
regular, the undersigned has not been surprised
that when the question was placed in its true
point of view, stripped of the embarrassments
in which it has been sought to disguise it, the
American Legation has not chosen to enter up
on E-setting up the pretext that it is not per-
mitted to maintain communication with this
Government except upon terms respectful to
the Legation, and the Government and people
which it represents. And, in fact, to what 9TH
or cause can be attributed this exclusive solicit
tude which his Excellency Wilson Shannon
manifests to demand for himself, his Govern
ment and his people-diverting attention from
the true quesion-those tokens of respect
which he has so many times, in his note of the
i4th OF October, denominated barbaroVE Is
it that the Government of the United States
is superior in dignity, or does its Legation pos
scss the right OF falling short in SO grave man
ner in its intercourse with Government to
whom it has refused those obserVances which
are due, as matter of courtesy, TO private in
dividuals?
Mexico could with justice advance claim
for reparation of these injuries, and would We
ny easily obtain it, if the American Govern
ment, in place of desiring to cultivate relations
of good understanding and friendship, did not
seek for opportunities to shift or change the
issues-provoking rupture which the Govern
ment of the undersigned has endeavored, and
will still endeavor, to avoid. This Government
would have been able to return insult for insult,
employing the same language, haughtily dis
courteous, which characterized the two former
notes of the American Embassy, more particu-
arly the last one; bat it knows too well what
is due to itself, in seeking to shield itself from
opprobrium in the eyes of the world on ques
ton in which Justice and reason are on its side.
Ii Mexico has been compelled TO refer to
important acts by which to show the disloyalty
of two Administrations and of the Southern
people of the United States, it was because no
other resource was left by which to make her
rights palpable, as well as the injustice by
which it is sought to wrest from her an impor-
tant portion of her territory, the acquisition of
which had been thought necessary by all par
ties and Administrations of the American Re-
public for twenty years, as is proved by the
note of the American Legation of the 18th of
October last Nevertheless, the Mexican Go
vernment has aimed to limit itself to that
which was necessary to make itself understood
in the matter, maniiesting always in its discus
sions the consideration due to the majority of
the American people, from whose representa-
tives it looks for satisfaction for the want of
respect exhibited in this matter by the actual
President of the Republic, and whose respecta-
BILE Senate, and distinguished men, like Adams
and Clay, have given to Mexico proofs of their
justification of its course.
Thus, the Government of the undersigned,
far from finding any motive to withdraw the
note which it directed to the American Lega-
ton on the 3lst ult., the more the subject is
considered the more it is convinced of the ne
cessity of allowing it to stand in the terms in
which it was transmitted, feeling that it has
not exaggerated those facts which it has used
to expose to the world the system of falsehood
which has been pursued towards Mexico for
twenty years, and which the note of the Anne