Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-08-18

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ges the Maiamoras papers:
4 Proclamation.
Blythe General Commanding the ARM Of
the Y. States Of Americas.
10 TIE PEoPLE OF MExIco:-s4fter
many years OF patient endurances the U
hited states are constrained to acknowl-
edge that war nowexists between our
government and Mexico. For MANY
years our citizens have been subiecfedfo
repeated insults and injuries. ourzresscIe
and cargoes seized and conIiscated our
merchants have been plundered, manned.
| imprisoned, without cause, and without
Preparations; and at length your govern
nent acknowled the justice Of our claims,
and agreed by treaty to make satisfaction
| by payment of several millions of dollars;
but this treaty has been violated by your
rulers, and the stipulated payments have
been withheld. Our late effort TO termi-
nate alldifficulties by peaceful ne gotiation
has been rejected by the Dictator, Pare
des, and our minister of peace, whom your
rulers had agreed to receive has been re-
fused a hearing. He has been treated
with indignity and insult, and Paroles
has announced that war exists between
US. This war, thus first proclaimed by
him, has been acknowledged as an ex:s-
| ting fact by our President and Congress
with perfect unanimity, end will be pros
ecuted with vigor and energy against your
army and rulers; but those ofIhe Mexican
people who remain neutral will not be
molested.
! Your government is in the hands of ty-
rants and usurpers. They have abolish
ed your State governments, they have over
thrown your Federal constitution, they
have deprived YOU of the right of suffrage.
destroyed the liberty of the press, despoil-
ed you OF your arms, and reduced you to
state absolute dependence upon the pow
er OF Military Dictator Your army
and rulers extort from the people by griey- :
Gus taxation. by forced loans, and militia
~ seizures, the very money which sus.
| talns the usurpers in power Being dis
armed, you were left defenceless, an easy
prey to the Camanches, who not only de-
stroy your lives and property, but drive in
to captivity, more horrible than death it
self, your wives and children. K is these
tyrants and their corrupt and cruel satel.
lites, gorged with the peoples treasury,
by whom you are thus oppressed and i'm
poveFisked, some of whom have boldly
advocated monarchical government. and
would place European prince upon the
OF Mexico. We come to obtain PREPARATION
lor repeated injury; we come to obtain in
demnity for the past, and security for the
future; we come to overthrow the tyrants
who have destroyed your liberties, but
we come to make no war upon the people
OF Mexico, nor upon any form offree gov
eminent they may choose to select for
themselves.
1t is our wishto see you liberated from
despots, to drive back the savage Canaan
ches, to prevent the renewal of their as
sauits, and to compel them to restore to
you from captivity. your long losi wives
and children. Your religion, your alters
and churches, the property of your chur.
ches and the citizens, the emblems ofyour
taIth and its ministers shall be protected.
and remain inviolate. Hundreds of our
army, and hundreds of thousands of our
people, are members of the Catholic
Church. In every State, and in nearly
every city and village ofour Union. Cath.
Ole Churches exist, and the Priest per-
form their holy functions, in peace and So.
curity, under the sacred guarantee of our
Constitution. We come among the peo.
pie OF Slexico as friends and republican
brethren, and all who receive us as such.
shall be protected, whilst all who are Sc.
duced into the army of your Dictator, shall
be treated as enemies, We shall want
from you nothing but food for our army.
and Tor this you shall always be paid
in cash the full value. II is the settled
Poilcy OF your tyrants to deceive youth re-
gard to the policy and character of our
Government and people. These tyrants
Tear the example of our free institutions
and constantly endeayor TO misreoresent
our purposes, and Inspire you with hatred
Tor your republican brethren of the Amer
Ican Union. Give US bnt the ooportuni.
nlty to undeceive you, and you viii soon
learn thatall the representations of Pare
des were false. and were only made 10 ia :
duce you to consent to the establishment
OF desPotic Government.
lnyour. struggle for liberty, with the
Spanish Monarchy, thousands ofour conn.
trymen rlsked their lives and shed their
blood in your defence. Our own Comrno-
dore, the gallant Porter, maintained ia
triumph your flag upon the ocean, and our
Government was the first TO ackpo,vledoe
your independence. With pride and
pleasure we enrolled your name on the
list ofindependent Republics, and sincere.
iy desired that you might in peace and
prosperity enjoy all the blessings Of free
government. Success on. the part of your
tyrants against the army OF the Union Is
impos sible, but. if they could succeed, it
would only be to enable them to fiji your
town withtheir soldiers. eating out your