Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-08-05
their outraged honor had no rieht to claim

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The committee Of Congress upon For,
eign Relations and upon War made a joint
report on the 10Th upon that part of the
message Of Paredes relating to the United
State. The report recommends the pass.
age Of q bill declaring Mexico to be sin a
state Of war with the United States" We
do not find that the bill had actually been
passed. The project of the law, or bill, will
be- found below.
The General left in command Of Vera
Cruz on the 30th ult., formally declared
that city to be in state OF siege, in order to
prepare all the people for DIN anticipated at
tack upon it. The garrison Of the Castle
had received orders to be In the alert, par
ticuiarly at night, as the danger Of q night
attack was thought imminent.
n. The movement of Gen. Taylor's troops
towardsReynosa and Camargo is duly chron.
icled, though the numbers which had act,i-
ally taken up their line Of march is exag-
gerated. The papers appear to be fully
appraised, too, Of his ultimate design upon
Mon;ery and Soltillo.
Gen. Arista was at Linares on the ''4th
of June, and upon giving up the command
of the troops to Mejia he issued an address
to the troops, in which he expresses his re-
gret at separating from them. He is to be
tried by council Of war.
Gen. Tornel has again assumed the func-
tions of Minister of War.
The papers are full Of individual tenders
Of money to carry on the war. .
The Mexican Government has declared
the ports of Mazaltan and Matamoras clos
ed to foreign commerce. x
Complaint is made in the same paper, of
the 10Th ult., that two boats from our squad
ron had landed at the point Anton Lizardo,
and there endeavored TO purchase some cat
tie. The owner Of the property refused to
sell them any thing, but the boats, in spite
of his resistance, carried off COW and three
lambs! A detachment Of cavalry was there
upon ordered to the Point 10 prevent any
further depredations there.
An American sloop-of.war arrived off
the port of Vera Cruz on the S0th ult.,
and an American brig-ofwar at the same
date was seen sailing towards lsla Verdes.
On the 18th ult. there was an American
frigate at SACRIFICES, and a brig-of.war.
On the Goth the Spanish ship Flor de Blanes
spoke an American vessel of war twenty
leagues from Vera Cruz, which he suppos.
cd to be the flag ship Cumberland.
We annex translation Of the projet de
l;o, or bill, reported in relation to the war,
by tho committee to which it was referred.
Bocanegra and Valencia were among the
members Of this committee. After short
report upon the circumstances Of the case,
the committe propose the following:
The Extraordinary National Congress
Of the Mexican Republic considering:
That the Republic Of the United States
Of North America, with notorious violation
Of all right, has instigated and protected O.
penly and perseveriDgly the insurrection
Of the colonists Of Texas against the nation
which had adEnited them upon its territory
and generously shielded them with the pro-
teetion Of its laws.
That It has Incorporated the same terri
tory of Texas into its union by an act Of
Congress, notwithstanding it has always
belonged by undisputed right to the Mexi-
can nation hasbeeN recognized as such,
by the United States themselves, as appears
BY the boundary treaties Of 1882 and 1886:
That it has not maintained those solemn
assurances and reservations in regard to
tho rights Of the Mexican Republic, which,
by means ofits agents, it had made in con-
forraity with those treaties:
That it has also invaded the Department
of Tamaulipas, introduced an army upon
the left bank Of the Rio Bravo, giving oc-
casion and origin to the battles Of the 9th
and 9th Of May ofthe present year:
That in time Of profound peace, and du-
ring established relations Of amity between
the two countries, it has invaded by land
and sea the territories Of the CALIFORNIA;:
That it has blockaded the ports Of Mata-
moras, Vera Cruz, and Tampico Of Tam
aulipas, opening its fire upon the defence Of
the latter: ~
That il has authorized a levy Of troops
against Mexico:
That il has declared war against the Re-
public; under the pretext that the said
States had been invaded, when in fact they
made the invasion: s
And lastly, considering that the nation
ality Of the Mexicans is seriously compro-
missed by the power and the spirit Of usur-
patton, iagrantly manifested BY the neigh
boring nation Of the United States--DE-
cnEEs, NJ N
Let. The Mexican nation, in the exer-
else Of its nataral defence, is actually in a
state Of war with the United States Of A.
n1erica. i4
In consequence thereof the Government
will employ all its resources and powers to
render the war effectual TO the reparation
of the injury done to the Mexican nation:
it will complete the bodies Of the permanent
militia, and levy new forces at once to the
extent II shall deem necessary, both 70 fill
up the bodies at present on foot, and to ere.
ale others Of the same description; and il
it shall need other special alpowsrs, Congress
will confer them.