The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1845-07-04
From the Nep Orleans Bee, Jane Is.
IMPORTANT FROM TEXAS.

information of importance end interest.
President Jones, after months Of torluous
simplicity and hypocritical double dealing
has boldly thrown of the mask, and Yirlu.
ally proclaimed his disgraceiui over'ures
to Great Britain and Mexico, and bis dead.
~ hostility 10 Annexation. We cannot, IN
the crowded state of our columns, com.
menl u CT this lute Digence al the length
we could desire, and must content uur.
selves for the present with synopsis Of
the news,
Tic Galveston Nous Extra, publishes a
third Proclamation of President Jones,
preceded by prollI preamble, 10 which,
that worthy attempts TO gloss over HE con
duct with the tlnsel Of spurious patriot.
ism. tie begins thus: -
The executive is now enabled 10 declare
10 tie people Of Texas the actual state Of
their affairs with respect to Mexico, to the
end that they NAV direct and dispose Of
them "a they shal, Judge best for the honor
Gnd ermaH4Lt interest Of the Republic.
He then goes on to say that last sumner
he learned from clcjuahe sources that
the Government of Mexico was disposed
to acknowledge The Independence Of Tex.
as, upon the understanding that Texas
would maiuloin Lor separate existence !,
that in March last, the representatives Of
Great Britain aud France jointly renewed
The ofer q their INTERPRETATION with Mex.
leo for this purpose that "a they were
unaccompanled by nay ealanglng conci-
tons, he could not consent 10 reject them,
and therefore placed in he hands Of their
representatives. statement Of conditions pre-.
liminary TO treaty Of peace. These
conditions having been accepted b. the
Governments Of Mexico, through the friend
y in'erp0sition If Eagland and France,
he deems il his duty to issue the following
proclamation -
WIaRRAs, Authentic proof has recently been
Ia d before no, to The effect that the Congrsss
Of Mexico las authorized the Government to
open negotiations aud conclude a treaty with
Texas, subject to the examination ard appro
baton Of That body, and further that tie Gov.
eminent Of Mexico has accepted the conditions
prescribed the pltt Of Texas as preliminary
10 final sud definite peace
Therefore, !. ANSON JONES, President Of
the Republic of Texas, ana Comma ndsr.in Chief
Of the Army and Navy and Militia thereof, do
hereby make known these eircunst1nces TO tie
citizens OF tbls Republic, TIL the same can DO
more fully communicates TO the Honorable Con.
gross and Convention or tho People, for their
lawful action, at the period Of iheir assembling
on tho 18Th OF jane and 4ta Jdly next and psnd.
ing the said action by vrlue Of the authority in
me vested | do hereby declare and proclaim
,F l.p nd spf Nv e.
tho Republic of Mexico, or against the citizens
and trade thereof Ia testimony whereof have
caused tic Great Sell OF the Republic to be
thereunto affixed.
l. S Done at Washington, this fourth day
o. June, in the year Of our Lord, ono thoasand,
eight hundred and forty FIVE, and Of tae inde
pcndenca Of the Republic the tenth.
ANSON JONES.
By the President:
EBES'R. ALIEN, Attorney General, and
Acting Secretary Of State.
The above proclamation does not dis.
close the terms Of the proposed treaty be-
tween Mexico md Texas. The Houston
Telegraph OF the llth instant slys Of il:
"WO learn from high authority ;ha, tho pro,
positions lately received from Mexico arc vague
and indefinite, like those TINT we're offered ~ ihe
Commits. oner, appointed few months since By
Gen. Wolf They merely convey an assurances
on tho p.rt Of Mexico TINT she is willing to open
negotiations with our Government as an inde.
pendent nstion, hui they coGian no admission
that tho Mexican Government IS willing to re.
cognse our boundary 10 the Rio Grands. II sp.
pears that ,h:s old question OF boundaries is 10
remain unsettled, Of 10 be referred for settlement
10 European Powers Such terms are Of course
inadmssibe and we ago assured that President
Jones, who has elready bean apprrzsd Of their
character, considers them Of toe little importance
evan to convene hi, Cabinet and uct upon tlein "
The National Register has an article in
reply to the Galveston News, which at.
tempted to induce the belief that President
Jones had opened anew negotiations with
Mexico for independence for the purpose
Of defeating annexation, and that he had
actually proposed such negotiations ns
would in his opinion obtain that object.
The Register says:
Now what are the facts Of the case They
arc TO this efTett; Immediately after the passage
of tho Joint resolutions and the signature Of the
President to the same was known in Mexico, or
rather as soon Is il was considered probable, the
Mexican Government submitted TO this Govern.
mcnt 10 know what propositions would DO re-
ceived and acted on. 70 this our President 70.
piled that no proposition other than that Of indie
pendence, uncouped with any satanglng ALI.
ancc, could or would be received, and no PROPOSE
ton would be acted on by him; that he would
receive and lay before the people md the Con.
gross any proposition acknowledging the mds.
pen lcncs Of Texas but that on no account must
ii be considered that hs fu'iher pledged to act
than this, Thcte and these only, are the pro.
posas alluded to by the Mexican MiniIter in his
message te the Chambers. This, and this only,
is our President pledged TO do aud this, we are
happy TO understand, be intends dong in as short
aume as the necessary documents can BE trans.
lated and submitted to the people,
The Neu Orleans Bee says that most Of
the Texan newspapers are excessively in
dlgnani at the foregoing developments,
and even the most moderate, such as the
Houston Telegraph, expresses m emphat.
&c belief that the proposals Of MEXICO will
be promptly rejected by Congress,
The Mem Orleans Baiietta says that,
whatever the terms of the treaty may be,
it may well be presumed that they viii not
al.