The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-12-19

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CUES, as in the former case, that they are
not Texans who have maintained her indie
pendenee, but that they are citizens of the
Southern States who have done it-not to
make of Texas an Independent nation, but
to annex her to the United States under a
show ofright. The note of Mr.. Shannon,
be says, raises the veil with which this coun-
Try has sought to conceal its real purpose
and intri gues.
With the argument ofGov. Shannon as to
the prevalent belief in this country that Tex
as was coded to US in 1903 and lost unfairly
in 1878, Senior Rejon deals very summarily
and with .great adnotness; but we have no
room for this part of the discussion. The
appeal to the treaty Of 1928, between this
country and Mexico, is very forcibly made,
the minister deeming il impossible for us to
go behind that TO hunt up a title in law
to Texas. So, too, with the argument as to
the necessity of Texas to our safety. He
replies to this that if we may take Texas
for this purpose, the same necessity would
Justify us ia going TO the Pacific and SEEING
uponlheC CALIFORNIA;. Other parts ofGoy. Shan
mons letter are disposed oEin the most ingen-
ious manner the disioyalty ofthe people and
Government of this country is continually
insisted upon; and the changes are rung in
every paragraph, almost, upon the admission
that the acquisition OF Texas had been the
object of every successive Administration in
this country for twenty years. The letter
concludes with refusing to %relinquish the
Mexican claim TO Texas, and denying our
|rightto interfere with the assertion OF Mexican
sovereignty. The letter is the best speci-
men of mexican diplomacy we ~.recollect to
have read, but we have moi room to do it
justice. The following letters conclude the
correspondence. We give a free translation
ofthem, but in justice to Gov. Shannon, we
should state that bis letter thus undergoes
the murderous process twice, having been
first rendered into Spanish, and beng now
r~e-translaied into English:
EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES.
Mexico, Nov.4, 1914.
To his Ercelency IA. C. REGION, Minister
IForeign Relations, &c, of the.
Merican Republic:
TIE subscriber, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotenliary of the United States
of America, has received and read with sur
prise the note of bis excellcncy NC. Reion,
Minister ofForeign Relations of the Mexican
Republic, dated the 3Ist ult., which was de-
signed as a reply to a note of the subscriber
OF the 18th ofthe same month, protesting
against the proposed invasion of Texas by
Mexico, and against the manner in which it
was to be conducted.
The undersigned canaot hold commune
IN 4,~o nth &bo &c M-o -
cept in terms respectful to himself and to
the Government and people which he has
the honor to represent. The note of his
Exceliency Senior REIGN accuses, with reit-
Grafton, in terms the most grossly offensive,
the Government Of United States of deceit,
a%rtifce, intrigues, and designs ola dishonora-
Bile character and of shameless usurpation. 1t
further imputes to Gen. Jackson that he sent
to Texas, while he was President ofthe United
States, Gen. Houston, with the secret pur-
pose and d~ishonorable design Of exciting the
people 10 revolt, with the view of procuring
the annexation of the said territory to the u.
States. These imputations are founded, in
part, upon a Misrepresentation oil the note OF
the undersigned SO gross and palPdbie, and
it is repeated with such frequency, and in
language so offensive, as to manifest a de-
sign deliberately to insult the people and
Government OF the United States. To these
imputations so u~nfounded, m ade in language
so insulting and with the same object, the
undersigned cannot reply he has, therefore,
no other alternative than to request that the
note be Withdrawn.
The undersigned, proposing to despatch
~ n eDaainl rnhA ,.fll cot or,+
from here Immediately, Communications to
his Government, and as the future relations
which may subsist between the United States
and Mexico may depend on the representa-
lions which may then guide his Government,
he begs that an immediate reply may be
made 10 hisnote. The undersigned, &C.,
WILSON SHANNON.
NATIONAL PALACE, Mexico, Nov. 6, 1914.
To his Erceuency Wilson Shannon, ENJOY
Extraordinary Of the United
States of America:
The undersigned, Minister OF Foreign Re-
%lations, &c, has received the note of his
ExcelIency Wilson Shannon, Envoy Extra
ordinary, &C., of the 4th inst, relative to the
letter of the undersigned, dated the 3lst of
October last, repelling the protest which bis
Excellency made against the invasion OF
Texas by the Mexican Government, and the
mode in which it was intended to be accom-
plished.
The course pursued by the Government
and Southern people of the U. States in the
gu estion of the said province, belonging to
this republic, having been very irregular, the
undersigned has not been surprised that
when the question was placed in lis true