Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-05-23
ACTION OF CONCppSo

LUX, T. H.
ACTION OF CONGRESS
/ TEN MILLION OF DOLLARS ,ppno
r PROPRIATED; PRESIDENTpl,or p Ts
MESSAGE; VOLUNTEERS WAN HS
, ED, &c. "ANl'
GTWe are indebted to the aBpps,;,
, Extra" of the 18th for the following v.v
important intelligence. The Pres9asDi,
Message to both Houses of Congress, m
; Monday the llth inst, is too long for mb
llcatlon in our extra. A SYNOPSIS ofs
contents we give below. The action Of
Congress is worthy Of the emergency
The question of sending on a large rein.
iorcement to Gen. Taylor's army is now
definitely settled all who present them. |
seires wiH be al once mustered into serpiir
The President, in a plain business Ike
Message, recounts the many acts of 49,
erosion and bad faith of the Mexican Gov
eminent, from the failure 20 indemnify
our citizens for the spoIiations upon our
commerce through a series of years, down
to the Withdrawal. of Mr.. SIideIl from The
CITY OF Mexico, under circumstances Of
lndgnlty and aggravated insult, sufficient
ia themselves TO throw down the ven
geance ofany power not powerfully intent
upon maintaining peacoG,J relations Tho
torbearance Of the United States up TO thai
period when (orbearance verges upon pu
is ably set forth. The onu'
OF the present warlike attitude Of the two +
nations is made to rest precisely where It
ooght--upon Mexican bad faith and va
III alton. So much for the body Of Tho
Hessage-its closing sentences we have
embodied in our Extra.
EXTRACT FROM THE MESSAGE
The Mexican forces at Matamoras assum.dl
attitude, and on the 10Th of April, 4
zen. AhPUDA, then in command, notified Gen
AYLoR to break up his camp within twenty.6m
oars and to retire beyond the Neuces river
nd' IN the event Of his failure to comply with
ne demand, announced that arms, and arms
lone must decide the question. But no open
Gu OF hostility was commenced until the l2hOf
prl. On that day, Gen. ARsrA, who had sue
'eded to the command of the Mexican forces
'mmunIcated to Gen. TAYLOR that abe consid
ed hostIlltles commenced, andshould prosecute
en-"
"A party of dragons of sxty.thtce men and
hcers who were on the same day dispatched
ON the American camp up the Rio del Norter
ITS left bank, to ascertain whether the Mex
II troops had crossed, or were preparing to cross
c,rVer, "became engaged with large bodyo
csc troops, and after a short affair, in which
me sixteen were killed and wounded, appear
nave been surrounded and compelled to sur
lder."
The gricvous wrongs perpetrated by Mexico
on our citizens throughout long period OIL
lrs remain unredressed, and solemn treaties
dying her public faith for this redress, have
n disregarded a Government either una
or unwilling 80 enforce the execution oil sucn
ates, fails to perform enc of its plainest du'
Dur commerce with Mexico has been almost
INFLATED. 1t was formerly highly benencia'
both nations; but our merchants nave peen
erred from prosecuting it by the system"
rage and extortion which the Mexican au
rites have pursued against them' whilst lhsA
eaIs through their own Government ior m
unity have been made in vain. Our iorpoai
e has gone to such an extreme as to DC lhs'
en- in its character. Had we acted Win "
in repellng the insults and redresslhg NV
ries inflicted by Mexico at the comm9" ~.
It, we should doubtless have escaped al Wv
culties in which we are now inyoiEcu, ,,.
lstead of this, however, we have beeh eAG :ii
our best efforts to proptiate her goou "a"
n the prstext that Texas, nation asin t.Ts
lent as herself, she has affected 10 O'n.I
we have severed her rightful territory a Lss
ffical proclamations and manItestocs 4,
atty threatened TO make war upon 10 ~
purpose of reconquering Texas. III
ltime we have tried every effort at recOHs~
n. The cup of forbearance had been -
ted even before the recent information nm ~,
rontier of the Del Norte. But now I'm an
rated mcnaces, Mexico has passed inc w.
of the United States, has invaded our ~
=, and shed American blood upon Aho, ns.e
She has proclaimed that hostllltles ~,
lencod, and that the two nations a'o"O
lr. ~ our
what exists, and, notwithstanding ,a.s;co
s to avoid it, exists by the act OF M tSar,,
IL, we are called upon by every cons '.L a..
f duty and patriotism to vindlcate WIZ Il
the honor, the rights, and the inter''~
1untry. .;s Ike
.icipatinr the possibility Of crss ,
,bicb b,s arrived. instructions were gV0as
lgust last, as precautionary h. ~,,,bor.
i iny,sInp ar threatened invasion, autho''