Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-12-17


of the said rewards, and the interest accruing
thereon" stipulated to 'be paid in FIVE years.
in equal 'instalments evey three months" Not
withstanding this new Convention was entered
into at the request of Mexico, and for the pur-
pose of relieving her from embarrassment, the
claimants have only received the interest due on
the Both OF April, 1843, and three of twenty in
stalments. Although the payment of the sum
thus liquidated, and confessedly due by Mexico
to our citizens as indemnity for acknowledged
acts of outrage and wrong was secured by trea-
ty, the obligations Of which are ever held sacred
by all just nations, yet Mexico has violated this
solemn engagement by failing and refusing to
make the payment. The two instalments due
IN April and July, ,1844, under the peucliar crcum-
stances connected with them, have been assumed
by the United States and discharged to the cla-
mants, but they are still due by Mexico But this
Is not all OF which we have just cause of COM
plant TO provide a remedy the claimants whose
cases were not decided by the Joint commission
under the Convention of April the 1lth, 1889, it
was expressly stipulated by the sixth article OF
the Both Of January, 1913, that "a new Conven-
ton shall be entered into for the settlement OF
all claims of the Government and citizens OF the
United States against the republic of Mexico
which were not finally decided by the late COM
mission, which met in the city OF Washington,
and of all claims of the Government and citizens
of Mexico against the United States
In conformity with this stipulation, third
Convention was concluded and signed at the city
of Mexico on the 20th November, 1913, by the
PlenlpOtentlarleso OF the two woGovenments,by which
provision was made for ascertaining and paying
these claims. In January, 1914, this Convention
was ratified by the Senate of the United States
with two amendments, which were manltestly
reasonable in their character. Upon a reference
of the amendments proposed to the Government
of Mexico the same evaslons, dlfficu ltles and de-
lays were interposed which have so long marked
the policy of that Government toward the United
States. 1t has not even yet decided whether it
would or would not accede to them, although the
subject has been repeatedly pressed upon its con-
sideraton.
Mexico has thus violated second time the faith
of treaties, by failing refusing TO carry into eff
feet the sixth article of the Convention of Janu-
ary, 1913.
Such is the history of the wrongs which we
have suffered and patiently endured from Mexico
through long serious OF years. So far from
afordlng reasonable satisfaction for the injuries
and insults we had borne, great aggravation OF
them consists in the fact, that while the United
States, anxious to preserve good understanding
with Mexico, have been constantly, but vainly,
employed in seeking redress for past wrongs,new
outrages were constantly occurring, which have
continued to increase our cause of complaint and
to swell the amount of our demands. While the
citizens of the United States were conducting
lawful commerce with Mexico under the guaranty
OF treaty OF sanity, commerce, land navigation"
many Of them have suffered all the I'M uries which
have resulted in open war. This treaty, instead
OF aftording protection to our citizens, has been
the means of inviting them into the ports of
Mexico, that they might be, as they have been in
instances, plurdered of their property,
and deprived Of their personal liberty if they
dared insist on their rights Had the unlawful
seizures Of American property, and the violation
OF personal liberty of our citizens, to ynothng
Of the insults to our flag which have occurred in
the ports of Mexico, taken place on the high seas,
they would themselves long since have constitu-
ted a state of actual war bcaween the two coun-
tries. In SO long suffering Mexico to violate her
most solemn treaty obligations, punder our citi-
zens of their property, and mprison their persons
without affording them any redress, we have
failed to perform one of the first and highest du-
ties which every Government owes to its citizens;
and the consequence has been that many of them
have been reduced from state of affluence to
bankruptcy The proud name of American cti- |.
zen, which ought to protect all who bear it from
insult and injury throughout the world has afford
ed no sucn protection to our citizens in Mexico
We had ample cause of war against Mexico long |
before the breaking out of hoStilities. But even
hen torbore to take redress into our own hands,
until Mexico herself became the aggressor by in
5ading our soil in hostile array and shedding the
blood Of our citizens.
Such are the grave causes of complaint Oh the !
,art OF the U. States against Mexico-causes
which existed long before the annexation of Tex
IS to the American Union; and yet animated by
he love of peace and magnanimous modera-
ION, we did not adopt those measures of redress
which, under such circumstances, are the justifi-
ID resort of injured nations
The annexation of Texas to The Z. States con-
tItuted no Just cause of0ffence TO Mexico. The
retext that it did so is wholly inconsistent and
rreconclable @ith well authenticated facts COL
ected wlththe revolution by which Texas became
Independent of Mexico.-1'hat this may be the
lore manifest, itmay be proper to advert to the
auses and to the history OF the principal events
that revolution.
Texas constituted portion of the ancient prov
ice of Louisiana, ceded to the United States by I
rance in the year of 1903. In the year 1919 S
he United States, by the Florida treaty, ceded c
D Spain all that part Of Louisiana within the I
resent limits of Texas and Mexico, by the rev. :
luton which separated her from Spain. and rem !,
cred her nn independent nation, succeeded to the
iehts Of the mother country over this territory.
IL the year 1924, Mexico established Federal q
'oaslitut OF, under VII ca the Mexican Rupublic Q