The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1845-01-03
MESSAGE
To the Senate
and House of REPRESENTATIVE

and House of Representative
! transmit herewith copies Of dispatches
received from our Minister at Mexico, sinCv
the commencement of your presen session
which claim from their importance, and
doubt not will receive, your calm and delib
crate consideration. The extraordinary and
highly offensive language which the Mexi-
can Government has thought proper 10 EN-
ploy in reply to the remonsirance Of the Elk
scutive, through Mr.. Shannon, against til
renewal or the war WIN Texas WINE IN
question of annexation was pending befor
Congress and the people, and also, the pro
posed manner OF conducting that war, will
OF fail to arrest your attention.
Such remonstrance, urged in no unfriend-
ly spirit ts Mexico, was called for by consid>
erations of an imperative character, having
relation as well to the peace of this country,
and honor of this Government, as 10 the
cause of humanity and civilization. Texas
has entered into The Treaty of Annexation
upon the in vitatiOns Of the Executive; and
when, for that act she was threatened with
renewal of the war on the part OF Mexico,
she naturally looked 10 this Government TO
n,erpose its efforts TO ward off the threaten
ed blow. But one course was left the TX
ecutive, acting within the limits OF its con-
sttutsnal competency, and that was to pro-
iesi in respectful, but al The same time strong
and decided terms against il.
The war thus threatened to be renewed,
was fromnle ated by edicts and decress, w hich
ordered, on the part OF the Mexican military
the desoation of whole tracts of country,
and the destruction, without discrimination
OF all apes, .sexPs, and conditions of exist
encp. Over the manner OF conducting war,
Mexico Possesses no control. She has no
right TO violate at pleasure the principles
which an enlightened civilization has laid
down for the conduct OF nations at war; and
thereby retrograde 10 period OF barharism
hich, happily for the world, has long since
passed away. All nations are interested in
enforcing an observance OF those principles
and The u States, he oIdesL OF the Ameri.
can Republics, and the nearest OF the civil.
lied powers to the theatre on which lhost
enormities were proposed TO be enacted
could not quietly con ent themselves 10 wit
ness such a state Of things. They had
through the Executive, on another occasion
and as was believed with the appreciation al
the whole country, demonstrated against out
RACES similar, but even less humane, than
those which by her new edicts and decresi
she has threatened to perpelrate, and o
which'the late inhuman massacre at IobascC
was but the precursor.
The bloody and inhuman murder of Fan.
min and his companions, equalled only iT
savage barbarity by the usages of the untu
tored Indian tribes, proved how little con
fdence could be placed on the most solemn
stipuations Of her Generals, while the fate
of others who became her caplives in war
many Of whom, no longer able to sustain the
tatigues and privations OF long journeys
v ere shot down by the way side while thei
companions who survived were subject Il
su offerings even more painful than death
had left an indelible stain on the page ofcivil
ization. The Executive, with the evidence
Of an intention on the part of Mexico to re-
new scenes SO revolving 70 humanity, could
do no less than renew remonstrances form
erly urged. Fer ful hlling duties SO impera
tive, Mexico has thought proper, through
her accredited organs, because she had re-
prosentedto her the inhunanity Of such pro
ceedings, TO indulge in language unknown
to the courtesy Of diplomatic intercourse, anC