The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-18
FURTHER VIEWS FROM MEXICO

The following extracts are taken from the Mexi-
can papers which have been transmitted to the Ma
Wy Department. Among these is the circular of
Almonte which the New Orleans Picayune thinks
is "written with marked ability" We confess we
do not perceive this "marked ability" at ALL 1t is an
appeal to the pride and prejudices of the Mexican
people, as well insdous manifesto for enlistng
the feelings of Europe against the United States
The bold pretensions with which it opens in behalf
of the fidelity with which Mexico has religiously
complied with her engagements is ridiculous rho
domontade. She first seized the property of our
people-refused to pay for it-and when compelled
to provide for the partial payment of it, she hos
violated the treaty and betrayed her faith. How
carefully she has cultivated her International rea-
tons, appears also from the complaints which
were once uttered by England, and the forcible
attack of France and the capture of her strong
castle, until she was compelled to do justice to
that power. We were the first to recognise
her independence, and the anxious to preserve
amicable relations with her; and il is caumny up
on our character to say that we have fomented hel
| domestic discussions. We introduced none of our
| citizens into Texas. It was Mexico herself who in
vited them, and then violated her political engage
ments with them, broke up her federal system, and
| attempted to Cypress the citizens Of Texas. They
resolutey asserted their rights by arms, and estab
shed their independence at the battle of San Jacinto
1t was some time after this important event, thai
| the United States acknowledged her Independence
along with England, France, and other powers
| Our countrymen had fought in Texas, just as the
EpoIish had for o,d ,bo
lish government did not attempt to forbid them
After recognising their independence, declined
| their offers Of annexation, until time had com.
pletely developed the inability Of Mexico to recon.
quer them-and then, at her repeated request W,
agreed to reune Texas to our borders by the free
consent of the two republics. These are the facts
and Amonte grossly msrepresents them in his
manifesto of "marked ability"
Iii true, too, that adopted the cause of Texas
! as our own, when Mexico was about to invade her
but it because Texas was then, by her own free
! consent, part and parcel of the United States Ii
was for this attempt to invade and reconquer her
when Mexican troops had crossed the Rio Grande
and sprinkled the blood of our own citizens upon
our own soil-and when she had thus declared
upon US, that the Congress of the United States
recognised the existence of the war she had made
upon US, and determined to support rights and
our honor by the sword. These, too are the facts
| of this part of the transaction which Almonte SC
grossly misrepresents. War, then, exists--and we
have determined to wage it until we can compel he,
to make an honorable and permanent peace. Fo,
this purpose, we have invaded her territory, block
AIDED her ports, paralyzed her commerce, and cut of
her ordinary resources. Our perseverance is equa
to that Of NEIGHBOUR energies and our re-
sources far superior to her own. Almonte may
appeal to the pride Of her people. Our people arr
as proud as they are. They value the honor o.
their country as highly az any Mexican car
value the honor of Mexico. We deny tn,
existence Of that ambition with which he charge,
us in the face of the universe Forced, as we are
into war with this lawless and inconsiderate peo
plea war which she had long time before pro
voked by her numerous aggressions, and which
France or England, under equal insults and inju
ries, would long since have waged against her
we are determined now to have justice at her
hands. We have no desire to grasp the whole o
"the vast possessions of the Mexican nation; and
it is vile libel upon US to say after the respec
which we have paid to her religion, that we wish tC
destroy her temples her nationality We attack no
the religion or the independence of Mexico. sbt
may pride herself il she can, upon the honor Of he
arms. Let the battles Of Palo Alto and Of Resact
de la Palma, and our glorious capture Of Mon
terey refute this idle rhodomontade-and all thi
superauous vaporing. But the most ridiculous par
of the whole manifesto consists of its threats to dctat
to us, and to exact from an indemnity for the in
juries Of which they idly complain Mexico bu
deceives herself both to the past and the futur,
and the day may come, "and perhaps not YER
distant" when Almonte himself may have to an
swer TO his countrymen for the decisions which