Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1846-06-30

The I3,b of January take up position the
Rio Grande quite early enough TO the scrupu
Ions honor of President, the matter of his Envoy
At most rejection of the Minister only 'Proba-
ble the mind of the President, when the order was
despatched and his final dismissal did not take place till
the March One day before that event took lace,
happened that army actually on us march for
the Rio Grande Twelve days before that IT seems that
Mr. Sdes letters from Mexico, he then being at JaaPa
spoke cnfdentiay Of his being recetred and
What il he had happened to have been received aiter m
SO far this point of honor, IT would appear
that civairy, the side the other TOOK very OPP
post President Parades procains on The sd OF
Aprl Mr.. Slde not received because the dg-
nitv the nation repeed this new insult In heA'-
CO. then deemed insult for us to send there
Minister Penpote ntiary under ,e circumstances of eH
listing relations and the hostile demonstrations made by
our Government Here. it was deemed Insult that
Mexico should refuse to receive and accred that Minis
ter OBJ Chevalier Bay ard. Admiral Crich-
Ton to resolve this point of honor between two ciYaric
nations, that else must needs end tins notable oer9hce
OF opinion by cutting each others tlroats
No read the President War Message without
perceving great is laid this matter as one
p,;ncinaI ground to Justify Mexico affected
deem il much ground of offence that Minister with
s,ch a commission as ours bore, her al all.
Our President complain. Of breach of faith the part
OF Mexico in refusing to receive Minister whom she
had promised recognize. The Me President de-
MES Indignantly that that Government agreed TO
receive Minister such terms would imply that re-
laoYs Of friendship restored bet~ the two coun-
tales so long that grand dif1cutyhe Annexation Of
tons, remained unadjusted. 4 Minister, or Connis-
adjust that difficulty, would have beer recev-
How much of this suggestion was sincere, and how
much diplomatic quirk. is not now TO decide Nr
1
honest for delay eff II were so. II were gre
fault' And, the other either because
parties really misunderstood one another or because
Mexico in the distracted Of her internal affairs,
with regular administration, the supreme power alto
pctt.r unhnged, held by one military chief to-day and
by another o-norrow, and the whole water
logged and a sinking condition. tit to degrade her
self by dplonazng aud quibbiing for delay against the
,st demands of rich and stern but not unjust creditor;
WHY for one other Of these very offences, the ad
ninsration . Washington pretend to have deemed 1T
necessary to puS, matters TO extremes
But whether this affair of the rejection OF the fresi-
Envoy, which he CONSTITUTES If Mexico had IN
lualifedy refised the offer OF peaceful adjustment i
diifcultes,"is to be regarded or not as one man
ground of the within the purvcw OF his message
cannot be doubted that at least ne means we shond
understand him as having made the fact OF such rejecton
though anticipating the event ne immediate occasion
his orders plant the standard Of war on The banks OF
the Ri del Nortc. "Ihs force, (the army, he says
"was concentrated Corpus Christi and remained there
until after had received such information rendered 1T
probabe if not certain, that the Mexican Cove
would refuse TO receive Envoy Ut Is not for TO
to reconcile this declaration with the disclosures
made in the documents accompanying ms message IL
there appears plainly enough, that tho military oceupa
ton of the country up to the no de- Nor.e was 1ore
gone concuson determined at W ashlngton even be-
fore Taylor left his station at Fort Jessup In
con6ont,I; letter directed TO him at this place under
date Of June H. 1916, from the Department Of ar,
Gen. TAYLOR had these significant instructions:
..You will forthwith make forward movement with
tl,e troops under Your command and advance to the
mouth Of the Sabine to such other point on the Gu"
of Mexico, navigabe waters in Judgme mt
may be found convenient for embarcation, at
the proper for the Western frontier Of Texas
"he point of your ultimate destination is the western
fr
or near The Rio Grunde del Nortc such site will
ss with the health the troops, and will best be adapt
ed repel aston, and to protect what IN the event o
annexation, will be western border
The time for this embarcaton the western frontier
Texas, viz for The Rio Grand was fixed for tn" Pc
Rod when the Convention or people OF Texas should re-
solve accept the proposition of annexation which zen
Taylor Informed would probably be on the 4th OF
July, very soon thereafter -
Th. carries MS back the original cause of our diff
cutes with Mexico-the question of anneMng Texas TO
the United Every body understands that when
pyafio 10
become part parce! of tho United Stass the terrific
~ Of exas whatever it should be, TO be
and deft nded if it was the soil OF Carolina
or New York. But every well-nforned citizen knows
also that what constitutes proper limits of Texas
the side of Mexico and is, wholly unsettled and DIS
puted; and, in the proposition made by us TO ue eP"o
lie of Texas the subject of annexation was expressly
reserved question Of boundary to be settled betwee
rs and Mexico. And another thing we all know; that
xaton was finally contaminated If at all only
BY the of the Congress Of the nited states IN ad-
hitting a State into the Union Tins hnal &C
of Congress. with the approval OF the PRESIDENT
now that the President determined, at early day. to
regard the annexation well enough consummated, at
the neon,s Of Texas should resolve to come
Union without waiting for Congress to on the ques
her admission and also upon that event TO regard
the EXTREMIST verge territorial limit which the Wild
est pretensions of Texas ever pushed nominal paper
claim of title the fixed boundary OF the State, for mil
itary occupation without waiting to hear what Mexico
had to say about it, consulting her IN the premises
He made preparations to act accordingly Wore IMAM
this He did wait for the action OF lcxas on
the question of anne xation Some time before that
event at the of cxaa Republic then as for
eiyn to Marino to day-he directed an
army to take post in country. for its defence; and
not content at that early period, with occupying
undispued Texan ground he took TO push his Army
of Occupation first across the Nucces-te Rubcon, be-
yond which every inch was disputed ground between
Texas aud Mexico-thcn await the action OF the Tex
an authorities on annexation and them he had area
confdeualIy advised the commander OF his forces, 10
.,ke for their ultimate destination, on or near The no
Grande."
Mexico had taken mortal oe nee for undertaking
10 receive Texas all, manner INTO our mon
Jnon this she had withdrawn her Minister from this coun-
try and closed all diplomatic relations with us Annex
alton ted in the most delicate manner seem
ed likely embrol the nations; but Il became evi-
dent after short tme that with the best Will TO make
war on Us that the wheel of revolution was
turning rapidly in her empire 70 admit OF ne
prosecuting such enterprise IL became Periecu,