American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-12-09

,Lo C,r,,.r ho, rin,r date on the l7th |
vi No. In,,or IN tho Is,L of December 1915, |
-'',';,s,rI,n,L oru,h;ch ecoonnancd my mes.
,,Lo,o C,s,gros. nj, fine lllh o! May Iast-werc |
.a-,,,.,,d -, ,ho DEPARTMENT of Slate. These
,,a,,,n,5,,,,ons rendered il iIhlv probable, i'll
-,nI aLsnI,,olv GER aim. that our minister would
&C.,, bo rocsivrd by The Government OF General !
u.r,o,, (, was also well known that bat lit |
Ne hone rnuId be entertained of a different re- ,
qpn from General Parctes ia case the reyolu- |
,.,,.,r,, ,r,,,,.u,rrt which he was prosecuting
shnnIL nrove successful, as was highly probable !
Tin, nar,,saps Of Plrcdrs. rs our minister, in |
Nae drspatch referred to, states, breathcd the |
Sarc.st bosrlIity auaInsl the United States, de- !
,,g,,,c,d IN, uroonscd NEGOTIATION as treason, |
and nrcolv called upon the troops and the peO-
rIa IN out down the government Of Herrera by !
S,rrs. The recongucst of Texas, and war with ,
.he limited States. were openly thrcatcned.-- /
Tbrsc were the circumstances existing, when !
II was deemed prooer to order the army under
eba command Of General raglor to advance 10
,hs western frontier O. Texas, and occupy a
,,os;l;,n an ar near the RIO Gtande.
The anprrhrpsiors Of a contemplated MeXj-
,an invasion have been since fully justified by
Mo aynot The determination of Mexico to
vnsh into ho,tIl,,,es with the United States was
afterwards manifested from the whole tenor OF
;be note of the Mexican Minister Of Foreign
ATurs ia our minister, bearing date on the
twelfth of March. 1876. Paroles had then re-
,nlution zed the government, and his minister,
,rrr referrlnU to the resolution for the annexa.
lion of Texas, which had been adopted by our
Congress in March, 1915, proceeds to declare
khat ga fact such as this, or, to speak with
Ureater exactness 80 notable an act of usu pa
9ion. created an imperous necessity that Mexi-
= 4 IL !,
DER firmness and dignity. The Supreme Gov
grnmcnt bad beforehand declared that it would
look upon such an act as a casttS belh and, as
:, conseonence of this declaration, negotiation
was. by It's very nature, at an end, and war
was the only recourse of the Mexican govern
nentn
Il appears, also. that on the fourth of April
Gollowinp. General Paroles, through his min
jster of war, issued orders to the Mexican Gen
oral in command IN the Texan frontier TO
.ssttackn our army sbv eyery means which
war permitsn To this General Paroles had
teen pIedyed to the armv aud people of Mexi-
90 during the military revolution which had
breu5bt him into power. Ga the eighteenth
Of April 1916, General Paroles addressed a
letter to the commander on that frontier, in
which he stated to him cat the present date
yuppose Won are at the head of that valiant
army plhpF tIFhtInp already. or DrpDurlDU tor
Che operations of Il campaiGn:m and, "suopos-
M Won already on the theatre of operations
and with all the forces assembled il is ir6Is-
2snsabIe that hostiltes be commenced, YOUR
seIrtakinc the initiative AGAINST the enemv.n
The movement of our army to the Rio
Grande was made nv the commanding general
pDdcr pos,tlve orders to abstain from all sC-
pfessiye acts towards Mexico, or Mexican citi-
Ten., and to rerard the relations between the
two countries rs peaceGIl. unless Mexico |
sh.,,,l lcl,re war ar cornuit oc,s or hostiIit,
indicative of a state of war: and these orders
he lilhrllIy cycculpd. Whilst occuDving his |
to.itjnn On The east hank of the Rio CIranda /
rithin the limits or Tevas them recently nd. |
rnitted as one Of the States of our Union. the
commanding general of the llexican forces
Who, in pursuance of the orders of his govern
ment, had collected large army on the oppo-
site shore of the Rio Grande, crossed the river.
invaded our territory, and commenced HOSTILE |
lies bv attacking our forces
Thus, after ali the injuries which we had re-
cajyed and borne from Mexico, and after she !
had insultingly rejected minister sent to her
on 4 mission Of peace, and whom she had So
}s,onlv agreed to receive. she consummated
her long course of outrage against our country !
kr commencing an offensive war and shedding
s6e blood of our citizens on our own soil.
The United States never attempted to &C
quire Texas by conquest On the contrary, at
an early period after the people of Texas had
achieved their Independence, they sought to be
annexed to the United States. At general
election in September 1886, they decided with
great unanimity in favor of "annexatcn,n and |
ia November following, the Congress of the !
republic authorized the appointment of min
fser to bear their request to this government.
This government, however, having remained
9eutral between Texas and Mexico during the
War between them and considering it due to
she honor of our country, and our fair fame
among the nations of the earth, that 1t should