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THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO
Mr. Calhoun 10 Mr.. Shannon.
DEPARTMENT or STATE. I
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 1914.
Sir: There can be no longer any doubt that
Mexico intends TO renew the war against Tex
as on large scale, and carry it on with more
than savage ferocty. The loan she has au-
thorized, and the expensive preparations she
is making, by land and sea, are sufficient
proofs OF the former, and the orders of the
commander of the army of the north, General
Woll, issued the Goth day of June last, and the
decree ofSanta Anna, general of division and
provisional President of Mexico, on the 18th
day Of June, ls43, Of the latter. The decree
makes the generals-in-chef of divisions Of
the army and the commandant of the coast
and frontier responsible for its exact fulfil.
ment. 1t was under that responsibility, it
would seem, that General Woll, to whom the
Texian frontier was assigned, issued his or
der of the 20h June. After promising, that
the war was renewed against Texas, that all
communications with it must cease, and that
every individual, of whatever condition, who
shall have communications with it shall be
regarded as traitor, and as such, be punish
ed according TO the articles of war. tho order
announces, in its third article, that "everv in
diyidual who NAV be found at the distance of
one league from the west bank of the Rio
Bravo will be regarded as n fayorer and ac.
complice of the usurpers of that part of the
national territory, and as traitor to his
county" and. after summary military trial,
"shall be punished accordingly" And, in its
fourth article. it also states. "ihat eyery indi.
yidual who NAV be embraced within the pro-
visions of the preceding article. and NAV be
rash enough to Gy at the sight of anv force
belonging 10 the supreme government, shall
be pursued until taken or put to death"
In what spirit the decree of the 18th of June
which the order is intended exactly 10 fulfil,
is to be executed, the fate of the party under
general sentmanat, at Tabasco, affords an
illustration-,hey were arrested under it, and
executed without hearing or trial. against the
indignant remonsrances of the French and
Spanish minister, near the government oil
Mexico, who in vain invoked the voice of hu-
manity. the sacred obligations of the const.
tuition. and the sanctity of treaties, in behalf
oftbeir countrymen who were executed under
this illegal and bloody decree.
If the decree itself was thus enforced in
time of peace ON subjects of friendly powers,
and against the remonstrance. oftheir minis.
tiers. some faint conception NAV be formed OF
the ferocious and devastating spirit in which
the order of Gen Woll is intended to be exc
cuted against the inhabitants of Texas, and
all who may in any way, aid their cause, or
even have communication with them it was
under decree similar 10 tha, of the l7th Of
June, 1843, and issued by the same authority
on the 3Olh Of October, 1885, but which was
not SO comprehensive in its provisions or SO
bloody and ferocious in its character, that
the cold blooded butchery OF Fannn and ms
party, and other Texan prisoners, was order
ed by Santa Anna in his invasion Of 1888.
That decree was limited 10 foreigners who
should land at any part of Mexico, or arrive
by land,being armed and having hostile lnten
tions, or who should introduce arms and mu
nitions of war, to be used ata any place in re
bellion, rplaced in the hands of its enemies
As savage and outrageous as its provisions
were, by order of Gen. Woll, intended to car
ry out that OF June, l843, goes far beyond. Il
embraces every individual who may be found
east of line drawn three miles east OF the
Rio del Norte, without distinction OF age OF
sex, foreigner or citizen, condition or voca
tion. All OF every condition whether they
resist or surrender, are to be treated as tral
tors, and all who fee to be shot down. INT
war is intended, in short to be one oil ute
eItirpation. All that breathe are to be dc
stroyed or driven out, and Texas left desc
late waste, and SO proclaimed to the world b.
}, Mexico, in advance OF her projected invasion
( The n.rst question which presents itself 10
consideration on he statement OF iactls, shal
we stand by and witisss in silence the rs