The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-05-13


transmitting his passport to the Mexican minister
stated that he instructed by the President to say
shat the admission of Texas as one of the States
Of this Union, having received the sanction both
of the legislative and executive departments OF
the government, is now rreyocably decided, so far
as the United States are concerned. Nothing but
the refusal Of Texas to ratfy the terms and con-
ditions on which her admission depends can defeat
this object II Is, therefore, too late at present to
reopen a discussion which has already been ex-
hausted and again to prove that Texas has long
since achieved her Independence of Mexico, and
now stands before the world, both de jurs and de
JaetO, as a sovereign and independent State amid
the family of nations. Sustaining this character,
and having manifested Strong desire to become one
of the members Of our confederacy, neither Mexico
any other nation will have just cause Of complaint
against the United States for admitting her into
this Union" But whilst expressing these senti-
ments the note proceeded to declare that "he Pres
ident, nevertheless, sincerely regrets that the
government of Mexico should have taken offence al
these proceedings; and he earnestly trusts that 1t
may hereafter be disposed to view them in a more
favorable and friendly light. Whilst entering upon
the duties of the presidential Office, he eheerfully
declares in advance, that his most strenuous efforts
shall be devoted to the amicable adjustment Of
every cause of complaint between the two
governments, and to the cultivation Of the kindsst
and most friendly relations between the sister re-
pubcs.'
On the 28th March, ls45, the minister of foreign
relations Of Mexico addressed a note 10 our minis
ter there, announcing TO him that the Congress OF
the United States, having sanctioned the annexation
Of Texas to its territory, and the Mexican minister
Washington having ceased his functions, and pro-
tested against the act of Congress and the govern
ment OF the United States, no further diplomatic re-
latons could be continued between the two coun-
tries.
Notwithstanding this abrupt and unfriendly ter
mnaon Of diplomatic intercourse on the part Of the
government Of Mexico the President has ever since
pursued towards that republic the course which he
had prescribed for himself in the note Of the Secre
tary of State to the Mexican minister; and he has
exerted his best efforts to accomplish the amicable
adjustment OF every cause Of complaint between the
two governments but all these efforts have been
made in vain. The President had hoped that the
Mexican government, after afording it time for re-
hecIion would have taken a more reasonable view
Of the annexation of Texas That State, IN con-
junction with Coahuila, had composed one of the
nineteen sovereign States of the Mexican Union
under the federal constitution of 1924 When
this constitution, in 1885, was annued by force
and a central military government was established
in its stead the people Of Texas were LEFT free to ACT
for themselves in consequence Of the subversion OF
the Fundamental institutions which their union with
the other Mexican States depended. They refused
o surrender the State government which had beer
guaranteed to them by the federal constitution, and
TO become a distant and dependant department Of
Mexico. They declared their independence, and in
1886 gloriously maintained this declaration upon the
field Of San Jacinto. Their independence was ac-
of the leading powers Of Europe. Finally, having
maintained their actual independence nation for
more than nine years after the baole Of San Jacin
to, the Mexican government itself, on the 18th
May, 1s45, consented to acknowledge il, provided
Texas would not annex herself to the United States
This furnishes conclusive evidence that Mexico
had abandoned all hope of subduins the State of
Texas The question Of annexation was after
wards fairly submitted TO Texas and thus the novel
but grand moral spectacle was presented to the
world of free and Independent people, deciding
their own destiny and that Of their posterity at the
baot-box. The 4th July, ls45, witnessed the
final and happy contamination Of annexation on the
part of Texas, by the unanimous voice Of the con.
vention which had been elected to take this momen-
tous question into consideration; thus rendering it
utterly impossible that the government Of Mexico
could entertain the slightest hope that Texas would
ever again be subject to its dominion.
After all these events had transpired, the
President Of the United States deemed it q
propitious moment to attempt renewal OF
diplomatic intercourse and negotiations between
the two republics. Under the joint resolution
for annexing Texas to the United States, the
question Of the adjustment Of its boundary with
Mexico was intrusted to this government. The re-
dress Of the wrongs of citizens naturally and
inseparaby blended itself with the question of boun-
dairy. The settlement of the one question in any
correct view of the subject involves that of the other
The President could not for moment entertain
the idea that the claims Of our much-injured and
Iong-suffering citizens, many of which had existed
for more than twenty years, should be postponed
or separated from the settlement of the boundary
question.
But this branch of the subject is SO clearly get
forth in the Presidents message of Monday last,
that we beg leave to restate it in the words Of the
message ITSELF
"Itnow becomes my duty to state more in detail
the origin, progress, and failure Of that mission. IT,
pursuance of the instructions given in September
last an inquiry was made, on the thirteenth of Oc-
tober, lS45, in the most friendly terms, through
our consul in Mexico, of the minister of foreign af.
fairs, whether the Mexican government would re-
ceve an envoy from the United States intrusted
with full powers to ad just all the questions in dis
pute between the two governments;' with the assn
rance that should the answer be in the affirmative,
such an envoy would be Immediately despatched to
Mexico The Mexican minister, on the fifteenth
of October, gave an affirmative answer to this in
quiry, requesting at the same time, that our naval
force at Vera Cruz might be withdrawn, lest its con-
tinued presence might assume the appearance OF
menace and coercion pending the negotiations. This
force was Immediately withdrawn. On the 10th OF
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