Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1846-04-23
UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.

Affairs with Mexico have assumed threaten.
ing aspect, as will be seen by the intelligence
given in another column. The Mexican Govern.
ment has finally refused to receive Mr.. SLrpELL
as Minister Plenipotentiary, or in any capacity
other than as commissioner for the arrange
ment of questions growing out of the annexation
OF Texas, and he has returned home. The New
Orleans Delta gives the following synopsis OF
the correspondence which passed between Mr..
SLiDELL and the Mexican Minister for Foreign
Affairs.
Ii appears that on the LIST of March, Mr.. Sill
dell addressed communication to the Mexican
Government, requiring defni.ive answer as to
It's intention to recognize him as Minister or not
in which he says:
On the 10th December the undersigned was
informed by MIR. Pegna y Pegna. that difficulties
existed in relation TO the tenor of his credentials
which made il necessary to consult the Council
OF Government thereon, and on the 10Th of the
same month he was advised by Mr.. Pegna v
Pegna, that the Mexican Government had decided
not TO recognize him in his capacity of Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.
10 this communication of the Minister of Fo-
reign Relations, the undersigned replied under
dates OF 2O!h and 24th Dec, futing the reason.
ing by which the refusal to recognize him was
attempted to be sustained, vndicatlng the course
pursued by his Government and declaring his in
tention 10 proceed to Jalapa, there TO await in
structlons adapted to an emergency SO entirely
unlocked for.
He has now received these instructions. The
President of the United States entirely approves
the course pursued by The undersigned, and the
communications by him addressed TO the Mexi.
can Government. -t--t"
Had the then existing Government continued
IN power, as no alternative would have remained,
the undersigned would have been directed to de-
mand his passports.
The President Of the United States would
have submitted the whole case to Congress, and
called upon the nation TO assert Its lust RIGHTS.
and aVeDge its injured honor.
The destines of the Mexican Republic, how
ever, having since been committed TO other hands,
Ve president rs nnOiMng TO take course aUhich
'couId inevitably result in Uar, Vithout making
another Effort to avert so great a calamity.
lie wishes, by exhausting every honorable
means OF Cancellation, TO demonstrate to the CT
vlized world, that if its peace shall be disturbed.
tbe responsibility must fall upon Mexico alone.
He is sincerely DESTROYS to preserve that peace.
but the state of quasi hostility which now exists
on the part oil Mexico. is one which Is incompaG-
ole ,oiM the dignity and interests of The u. States,
and It is for the Mexican Government TO decide,
whether it shall give place to friendly negotia-
lion or lead 10 an open rupture.
To this request he received an answer, dated
at Mexico on the 10Th Of March, peremptorily
refusing to receive him, and declaring, among
other things, that "lhe Supreme Government had
declared beforehand that they would look upon
as easus Jeii conformably TO this
declaration, the negotiations were of necessity
TO be ended, and war was the only resource of
the Mexican Government" The letter then pro-
ceeds TO reiterate the complaints and charges
which have heretofore been made by the Mex-
can Government against the U. States.
To this communication Mr.. Slidell replied on
The 18th March. He demands his passports
and after answering the charges of the Mexican
concludes by saying
The undersigned has already exceeded the IL
nits which he had prescribed TO himself for re-
ply; the question has now reached point Dhere
Cords must giUe place TO aeks.
While he deeply regrets a result so little con-
empla;ed when he commenced the dates Of his
mission Of peace, he is consoIed by the reflection
hat no honorable efforts 10 avert the caamiies
# war have been spared by his Government,
md that these efforts cannot fail 10 be properly
appreciated, not only by The people Of the United
States, but by the world.
The passports were despatched On the 21st,
md the Minister retired.
The Norfolk Beacon states that Capt. Joseph
;hoot has been ordered to the command Of the .