American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1844-12-14
OUR AFFAIRS WITH MEXICO.

Galveston on the eth November having or
board MIR. Duff Green, as bearer of dispatches
rom Mr.. Shannon to the U. States Charge
d'Ahaires in Texas, and Benjamin L. Green
as Secretary of the Legation in Mexico, as
bearer of dispatches to our Government. The
latter reached New Orleans on the Sd inst on
his way to Washington. We copy the follow
ing summary from the National Intelligcncer
This arrival conveyed to Galveston the same
news from Mexico that was received here few
DAYS ago, with the additional intelligence that
Mr.. Shannon had suspended all official inter-
course with the Mexican authorities until he
could receive instructions from his own Go
vernment. 1t is also stated, in q summary of
the news prepared by Mr.. Green for the Gal
weston papers, that the letters of MIR. Rcion TO
Mr.. Shannon had received the unanimous APP
prevail of the Mexican Congress.
Another piece of news which we obtain by
this arrival is an additional letter from Mr..
d. Shannon to the Mexican Minister of Foreign
Affairs, in reply to the note of the latter of the
4 9Th of November, the contents of which we
J have before briefly noticed This letter from
Mr.. Shannon is dated on the Sth of n November,
and opens with the following paragraphs:
"The note of his excellency NJ. G. Reion,
Minister, &C., of the 9th inst. is of such a char
acter as 10 leave the undersigned no alterna-
tive but to announce to the Supreme Govern
ment of Mexico that it, together with the note
of his excellency of the 8 list ult., will be imme-
diately referred to his Government for their fur
Their Instructions, and that, unless they are
withdrawn, all further official intercourse be-
tween the undersigned and the Government of
Mexico must be suspended until those instruc-
Nions are received"
The letter then proceeds with detailed an
swer to MIR. Reions note of the 9th November
the greater part of the allegations and charges
in which it treats as 'intentional misrepreseil-
tations," SIC. The subjoined outline of its con-
tents, written by Mr.. Green, appears in the
Galveston papers:
'Mr. Shannon also takes occasion to say
that he knows too well what is due to the
character of his own Government to make any
. reply to the charges contained in MIR. Reon's
! note, for the purpose of indicating the people
or Government of the United States; but that
inasmuch as the publication Of those notes by
the Mexican Government, and the comments
of the official newspaper thereon, showed that
n, they were written and published for the pur-
| Ppse of creating prejudice in the minds ofthe
|, Mexican people against the United States, and
inasmuch as Mr. Rejon had assumed that he
did not reply because he could not controvert
, the facts on which the false charges and unjust
imputatons were based, he would reply, not
d for the purpose ofvindicating the Government
! or people of the United States, but that the
', Government and people of Mexico might be
Il disabused, and made responsible for the calum-
A MES contained in Mr.. Rejon's notes, in case
4 they adopt and justify the same.
. "Mr. Shannon then proceeds to answer the
t, charges made by Mr.. Rejon, stating that the
l synigrants to Texas, WHO declared their indie
d pendence and conquered at San Jacinto, went
t. under special invitation from the Government
y of Spain, ofMexico, and the State of Coahuila
r and Texas, and that the Government and the
Il people of the United States had no agency
whatever in giving those invitations. He then
briefly reviews the progress of events in Mexi-
O co and in Texas, to prove that the declaration
II of independence was the consequence of the
4 subversion of the Constitution of 1924, and of
dthe attempts of Santa Anna to establish mill
ttary despetism on its ruins, indicating the
Ehonor and character of the Government and
people Of the United States, and retorts upon
MIR. Rejon and the Government of Santa
Anna the charge of bad faith, and asserts that
tTexas never owed allegiance to the Govern
..ystent of Santa Anna, or the present Govern
~ snt of Mexico, and that Mexico and not
4 mas. is the aggressor in the war;