American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-05-21
WAR PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT
OF MEXICO.


OF MEXICO.
The New York Sun contains advices from
Havana to the 10th instant. The British mail
steamer Tweed had arrived at Havana on the
18th inst from lVera Cruz, with the mail of the
Sd, and Immediately departed for England.
Gen. Almonte went off from Havana in the
steamer Tweed, en- route to France and England,
taking with him the Proclamation of war issu-
ed by Paredes
Gen. Santa Anna remained at Havana, de-
voting hmselfto amusements, apparently quite
uninterested in the affairs of states or nations.
A large Spanish fleet was cruising around
the Island We hear nothing Of the two Mexi-
can war steamers. The people of Vera Cruz
were every moment expecting our forces to
commence the blockade and the bombardment
of the fort.
We make the following extract from the war
proclamation of Paroles, which was issued on
the 23d ut;
CAT the time MIR. Sldell presented himself,
the troops of the U. S. occupied our territory,
their squadrons threatened our ports, and they
prepared to occupy the peninsula of the Cali
fornias, of which the question of the Oregon
with England is only preliminary. MIR. Sill
dell was not received, because the dignity of
the nation repealed this new insult Mean
while the army of the United States encamped
at Corpus Christi, and occupied the Bla del
Padre; following this they then moved to the
Point Salto Isabel, and their standard of the
stars and stripes waved on the right bank of
the Rio Bravo del Norte, opposite the city of
Matamoras. blockading that river with their
vessels of war. The village OF Laredo was
surprised by party of their troops, and small
party ofour men, accommodating there, were
disarmed. Hostlities, then, have been COM
menced, by the United States of North Amer
lea, beginning new conquests upon the frontier
territories of the departments of Tamaulipes
and New Leon, and progressing at such
rate, that troops of the same United States
threaten Monterey in upper California. No
one can doubt which of the two Republics is
responsible for this war; war which any sense
of equity and justice, and respect for the rights
and laws of civilized nations, might have a.
voided. | have commanded the General-in-
Chief of our forces on the Northern frontier,
to repel all hostlities offered to US, which is
actual war against any power making war on
us, and calling upon the God of battles lie
will preserve the valor Of our troops, the UNI
questionable right to our territory, and the
honor of those arms which are used only in
defence of justice. Our General will govern
himselfby the established usuages of civilized
warfare. With orders from me to prevent, if
possible, the effusion of blood, he will intimate
to the General-in- Chief of the American troops
that he shall return to the other side of the
Rio de las Nueces, the ancient limits of Texas.
Those nations interested in preserving the
peace of so many years, and who may be in
jured in their commercial relations with the
Mexican Republic, will perceive the hard al
tentative to which they are reduced, by the
polite invasion of the United States, and they
the nations must succumb or defend their ex-
istence thus compromised. l solemnly an
nounce that do not declare war against the
United States of America, because it pertains
to the August Congress of that nation, and not
to the Executive, to settle definitely the rep
aration which so many aggressions demand.
But the defence of the Mexican Territory,
which the United States troops invade, is an
urgent necessity, and my responsibility would
be immense before the nation, if | did not
give commands to repel those forces who act
like enemies, and have so Commanded
From this day commences a defensive war,
and those points of our territory which are in
vaded or attacked will be energetically de-
| Tended"