The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-05-20

point it out.
Where did those gentlemen find grounds for their
assertion that "to the Mexican Congress alone be
longs the right to declare war" Why, in the
Mexican constitution" to be sure 1t is there
very plainly written down, so tina, any one may
read it. Very true, gentlemen; and yet do but con-
slider for moment, and you cannot but become
aware that your text spols the whole sermon; that
is, in preaching from the Mexican constitution
you are guilty of the grosses of all possible here
sizes What do you mean by "the Mexican Con
0ress'n You read these words from the "consttu
ton" and you fancy that the Congress which they
speak of is and the same thing with the august
Congress of the nation" spoken OF by General
Peredes. Why, do you not recollect that the Mex
lean constitution is among the things that have been
Know we not that it has gone to take It's place win
More's Utopia; and that the one book exercises at
this moment just much influence as the other,
over Mexican affairs, internal or external Where
is Herrera, the con5titutionally elected President
of Mexico9 Where is the Mexican Congress-
which were sitting under the authority Of the con-
sttuton of the republic the advent Of the usurPer
in her capital Go and ask him, and he will tell
else prsvidedfor in the ed Mexican constit uton.
He will tell you, that the Congress to which he sees
fit to ascribe the exclusive faculty of declaring
Tin order that il war do happen, in the meanwhile,
Il shall be perfectly manifest to the whole world
that it cannot be considered as having been begun
by Mexico) is a totally different affair from the
thing called by the same name, which he saw fit to
dsperse; that it is the august" Congress, HIS Con-
gress, the Congress the election Of which he has
taken into his own hands, the Congress by
his eonpoc aioria-not the Congress Of the con-
,uuton. He will tell you this, and Perchance
he may add the injunction never again to
bsIttk him and his greatness, by resorting
to so pitiabe an expedient that Of quoting tha
Mexican constitution" in order 10 establish any
point necessary to be established with respect to
Mexican affairs, whether it be for the purpose Of
proving the United States to be in the wrong, for
any other purpose; never again to do anything so
very little as this, while the destines Of the Mexican
r nation shall be swayed by the good sword of d ON
MARIAso Paroles ARILLAGA.
Upon the whole, the appearance of this manifesto,
Just as it is, is matter of congraiulaton. IL ascer-
tans officially and beyond doubt, the settled pur-
pose OF Mexico to wage war upon us, making the
annexation of Texas her pretext for such course
1t satisfies us that Mexico is nOo determined &c
make tcar upon long occupy Texas
But as we cannot will not, abandon one inch o.
legitimate soil to Mexico-as it is now fairly ours,
by the free consent Of her own independent people
we will fight for it until Mexico relinquishes he
own absurd pretensions by ad justing the boundary
, ,ko-. bau.
it So She has made the war, and we must carry 1t OF
with all the energy and vgor which free and patriots
people, rushing to the support Of their government
will enable firm, active, determined administration
TO mpart to our military operations. She has she'
: the blood of our own citizens upon our own soil
and it cries for justice, if not for vengeance W.
must strike with all force, until we conquer
, peace, and compel Mexico TO abandon the. wal
with her idle pretensons. But we have other mat
tiers to settle by the sword than to repe her nva
sions upon our own territory, and to prevent thei
repetition. We have other wrongs which de-
, mand PREPARATION. That she has been urgeC
, to this nefarious and fatal step Of making
war by other considerations, cannot be doubt
ed. In utter disregard Of all the obligations
lof justice, of comfy, and of good faith which bnt
civilized nations together Mexico has for the las
twenty years been perpetratng against the person
and property of our citizens and against the homo
of our national flag floating at the masthead Of on
vessels in her ports, series Of outrages for which
as she well knew, and still knows, a heavy day o
reckoning must come. These outrages she has &C
knowledged in the most authentic form, by treaty
spulations to make what reparation money car
60 III bu If mill
of dollars The men who, of late years, have swayet
her government have been VIGOROUSLY, almost avow
edly, indeed, the punderers of her public treasury
The funds which were ours by every rightful claim
and by express stipulation, have been diverted to
sustain and pamper the tyranny Of such men as
Santa Ana and Paroles, These men know that they
cannot redeem their pledges to us. They know thai
, the venal sodiery which sustains them in power
must have is wages. Hence they break off nego-
tiaton with us, to escape the necessity of making
reparation for the wrongs they have inflicted They
choose war rather than reparation and Texas-tht
whole of Texas, to the Sabine, and not to the Nue.
r ces-becomes their pretext.
1t is, we need not say. a pretext which the govern.
n ment of the United States can never admit. We &C
. into the war with Mexico with clear understand
o ing of the relative positions of the two nations
We have alternative but to prosecute that witt
f the utmost vgor till all its shall have beer
e. removed, till all the wrongs which Mexico has
hcaped upon us shall have been fully atoned for
till her absurd territorial claims shall have been
G inquished and till we dictate to her the terms o
f ha, just honorable, and permanent peace which sh,
now deliberately refuses.
From the "Dario Official" Getty of Mexico April a. 1916
h Translated for The Union.l
. MANIFESTO OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT
, AID INTERIM OF THE REPUBLIC TO THE MA
/; | TON.
On assuming, in the beginning of this year, the
heavy responsibility Of guiding the destines of tn,
e nation during short period, | determined reso
I,al, 10 chnnnn liz nolIcu from uueak and