Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1845-01-04
From the National Inteligencor, Dec 20.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES AND THE MEXICAN
GOVERNMENT
GOVERNMENT.

than the usual one of Omitted States and
Mexico" for notice Of the message which
the President of the United States yeser.
day transmitted to both Houses of Con.
gress; for, certainly, if ever there was
case in which the Executive of the United
States was acting with perfect independ.
ence of popular sentiment and popular
feeling, il is in themanner as well as The
matter of its late proceedings towards the
government of Mexico. There is, in fact,
so far as the independent press of the coun-
try affords any indication of it, but one
opinion, and that opinion is decisively
against the late action Of the government
upon the subject.
| As long ago as Friday last rumor pre-
vailed through this city that a ,rar message
was to be forthwith sent TO Congress by
the President. Neither House being in ses.
sion on Saturday, rumor postponed the dire
explosion Of Presidential wrath until Mon
| day. On Monday it seemed to be gener-
ally understood that a message of some
sort was TO be sent in on Tuesday at fur
thest. in connexion with the dispatches
known to have been brought here by Mr..
Green, the United States Secretary Of Le-
|
| sent in. however, until yesterday.
In each House the reading Of the Mes
sage was heard in the midst of profound
silence on the part of the members; and.
! by both Houses, without word of debate,
| the message was referred TO their Commit
tees on Foreign Relations. What will be
the action on the part Of those committees
upon the message, or rather what views
they will take of this further development
Of the purposes and wishes of the Presi-
dent and his cabinet, we shall doubtless
know in due time.
Meanwhile. we place before our readers
to-day not only the message of the Presl-
dent, but all the documents by which it was
accompanied.
Upon the message itself-perfectly will
our readers-we shall not now offer any
remarks.
I We cannot dismiss it, even for the pre-
sent, however, without observing that the
disproportion between the magniloquence
and solemnity of the body of the message.
and the comparative inconsequence Of its
conclusion, would Justify belief in the
| truth of the report which has circulated
for day or two past, that the original
draught of the message actually closed with
a recommendation of open war upon Mex
leo, and that the delay in its transmission
to Congress is attributable to a change
which has been wrought in the message
under the joint influence Of unmstakeable
public opinion, and of cooler and wiser
counsels than those by which the first
course was suggested.
A WAR. indeedl A ,car against Merico,
because the paper pellets Of Mr.. Rejon
have hit rather harder than those which
Mr.. Shannon had discharged at him! War
with Mexico 10 salve MIR. Shannon's brui-
SEES! How could il ever have entered into
the head of Mr.. Tyler that a thinking, rea-
soning people like those of these United
States, would for moment tolerate the
thought of so consummate a follyl
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, December Is, 1914.
To the Senate and
House Of Representatives.:
transmit herewith copies of dispatches
received from our Minister at Mexico since
the commencement of your present session,
which claim, from their importance, and |
doubt not will receive, your calm and de-
liberale consideration. The extraordinary
and highly offensive language which the
Mexican Government has thought proper
to employ in reply to the remonstrance of
the Executive, through Mr.. Shannon,
! against the renewal Of the war with Texas,
while the question of annexation was pend
ing before Congress and the people, and
also the proposed manner Of conducting
that war, will not fail to arrest your atten-
ton. Such remonsirance, urged in no
untriendly spirit to Mexico, was called for
by considerations of an imperative charac-
ter, having relation as well to the peace of
this country and honor of this government
as to the cause of humanity and cviliza.
ton. Texas had entered into the treaty OF
annexation upon the invitation of the Elk.
ecutive. and when, for that act, she was
threatened with a renewal of the war on
the part Of Mexico, she naturally looked
to this government TO interpose its efforts
10 ward off the threatened blow. But one
course was left the Executive, acting within
the limits of its constitutional competency
and that was, TO protest in respectful, but
at the same time strong and decided terms
against it. The war thus threatened TO be
renewed was promulgated by edicts and
DEGREES, which ordered, on the part of the
Mexican military, the desolation of whole
tracts Of country, and the destruction
without discrimination, of all ages, sexes,
and conditions of existence. Over the
manner of conducting war, Mexico pos.
SeSSeS no exclusive control. Sha hos -; - ,