Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1845-04-12
THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO

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THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO
Since our remarks. in Tuesdays paper.
Says the National Inleligencer) on the
critical posture Of affairs between the Uni.
ted States and Mexico, our attention has
been called to an article on this subject
published in the Courier des EtaS UniS, (at
New York; which had before escaped our
attention. Considering the relations of the
editor of that paper. which bring him in
connexion with the best authorities in re.
gard to the acts and motives of foreign
powers, we incline to attach more impor.
lance to his remarks upon this question
than TO those Of journals who have not the
same advantages. We therefore invite the
most serious attention Of our readers to
the following extract from the remarks of
the Courier:
1--WE cannot blame The American Governme Mt
for this confidence, which it persists in maintain.
ing in regard 10 Mexico, and for its almost obsti
nate hopes in the preservation OF peace. This
confidence and these hopes may not be deceived
they are founded on certain rational probabilities,
witch we were the first 10 expose and aimit-
But it is nevertheless a great fault in politicians
TO loresee only the good and rot the evil chances
These last are numerous; they are even more
numerous than the chances OF peace, and if we
take into consideration not merely the declaration
Of Mexico. but the national character of the
people, OF whom vanity and obstinacy are dis
tinctive qualities. Among possible events, and
which Gen. Almonte himself regards as probable,
there is one Of which no person has thought, and
TO which we would call the public attention. 1t
may be that at the moment when the American
government is reposing in its somewhat blind
confidence; when it looks upon war, at any rate,
as an event still distant, and subject 10 protocols
and preclusivo negotiations, we say that at this
moment war may actually exist, and that the
next arrivals from Vera Cruz or Tampco may
bring US intelligence that an embargo has been
laid upon all American vessels now at Mexican
ports and that all American residents have been
made prisoners OF war and their property confs
Gated. The possibility, and in some measure
probability of these facts, logical results from an
opinion expressed by Gen. AImonte, and which
has been reported 10 US by one OF those TO whom
he uttered it. According TO the Mexican Minis.
ter, an Illusion prevails in this country as 20 the
immediate effect Of the vote in Congress upon,
and the sanction by the President OF, the annex
alton bill, in respect 10 the international reIa
TONS between the two countries. According TO
HIM, and according TO his government, whose
declarations have been explicit on this head, the
sanction oil the bill of annexation is equivalent
10 an immediate declaration Of war, and will be
regarded as such by the government Of Mexico.
We arc at war with Texas, says Gen. Almonte
We regard it as ore OF our Ievolted provinces,
you unite yourselves with it, and take it under
your protection; you are then at war with US BY
the simple declaration, and we may, we ought to
treat you Immediately as enemies, without The ne.
cessIy Of any previous notice; for the initiative
has come from you, and deeds only must respond
TO an enemy who has declared war. As con.
sequence OF this manner OF viewing it, which is
strictly rational, it cannot be denied. 1t NAV
be then, we repeat it, that at this very moment
the Mexlcans have already responded 10 the
vote on The annexation by con6scston and
essential hostilities.
The American press has not forseen this Sc.
rIous consequence because there is within is
bosom party that does not regard the question
oil annexation as yet settled. All that the bill
has effected, say these journals. is 10 approve the
principle OF annexstlOn, and 10 authorize The
President 10 open negotiations for The purpose or
reallznglt. This explanation is true at bottom
so lar as the United States are concerned, but il
il is not true as it regards Mexico. As to the
latter, we are to consider the effect OF the dplo
matte act by which it signi6ed it would regard
The vote on the bill OF annexation as a declara
hon oil war; and il had the right 10 give this con.
'tructlon to that act, because, between two coun.
rIes' parliamentary manifestation, purely moral,