Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-10-07
.N0ITH.IGog,4s Sentinel.

To inE Il Hon. III d. R. f1mLpESa anb dErur,
4 AopEBN-AW y Hle s pERFENpERs,,a ~ or Il riaiE riaiE
CAUSE OF THE; Rotary llILITARyj DEs-
ssfoTIsNsI OF MEyIco, bsagis4ohag ed-v
@Fhope MreI Iiden will lInotsdeem me in,
vidious. in addressing him by nal name, as lie
has made himsalf Somewhat z conspicuous On ic e as
defender Of the Mexican * side aof this war "
question, by thee circulation0 ofihis printed
sPeechin Congress, and BY speeches before
thepeople- -ofihis district. % As q lneighbor
and a CITIZEN Lam his friend. Is He has ey.
ef treated 1me kindly, band r would never
meet kindness with anything that would be
deemed.mcourteous. But on the subject of
our relations with Mexico, as we'll as seve.
raj other political questions, we are as anti
|podes.aaAfter alshort, friendly, discussion
VI. with MT, asfew evenings since, on the
subject ofthe war.with Mexico, he, present
me a pamphlet copy Of his late speech in
Congress on that subject and desired me to
read it, which have done, and which in
duced me 10 examine, thesothefside of the
question as. Irfound tspread outin the doc
unents accompanying the Presidents Mes
sage communicated to Congress, May j 1th
l846. IF Mr. n! will carefully peruse
those documents, he will, think, withdraw
the unjust,statement he makes in hisspeech
( 10th page, I'd column, nearthe top )where
he says, The President has made no hon.
est effort for peace Hasnot Minister after
Minister been sent to Mexico with full
powers and instructions to negotiate and
settle all matters in dispute between the
two governments2 and every proper effort
has been made to negotiate treaty. Where
is the evidence that President has been
llthis time acting the hypocrite, forfeiting
his; oath and his honor, and deceiying the
peopleg There is no such evidences. but
much evidence Of zeal and sincerity in Of.
forts for .peaces Even now, when our
troops are victorious at every point, he
makes a new effort at negotiation. Mr.. T.
tells me that none of his statements have
been denied, that he knows of. most un-
unequivocally deny his statement (page 1l)
that Mexico had agreed to receive a COM
missioner to treat with her exclusively on
the question Of boundary. The Mexican
Secretary, Mr.. Pena yPena, through whom
the arrangement relative to sending min
ister to Mexico was negotiated, says no
thing of "a commissioner to treat exclusive
ly on the question Of boundary But on the
proposition Of our consul to that govern
ment, to receive an Envoy, to settle the
matters in dispute between the two govern
ments, he fully assents 10 without any, re-.
serve whateyer. And why should he make
any exception?' for he knew that Mexico
owed our citizens, some eight millions Of
dollars for piratical spoliations; and with
what face could he say, we will treat about
and settle what you owe us in the affair of
= Texas, but what we owe you, although it
is for wanton outrages and has, lain many
years we can never pay it,rand will make
no offset nor will we settle, both matters at
the same time! When, however. Mr.. Sill
del arrived in Mexico, with full powers to
treatwi that government, circumstances
were changed. Some demagogue friends
Eof Paredes, a new aspirant, were clamoring
forwar with the United States and exaspe-
rating the Pophlace against us and Presi-
dent Herrera, felt, that This administration
was 'tottering'-that an attempt to- treat
would be seized on as q pretext for his. over
throw, especially ifthe claims Of the Uni
ted States on Mexico were to be- consider
cd. This induced President Herrera to in.
vent a pretext to eyade the promise to re.
ceive an envoy, and treatswith him on all
matters in dispute And is it possible that
we have intelligent men among US, citizens
Of the United States and protesting patriot.
ism and who can justify such diplomacy
! 1Itreminds Us Of the conduct Of the tories Of
revolutionary times, of Fadernlists of the
Hartford Convention stamp in, the war Of
1872 and Of the self-styled National Re.
puplicansof yaekon's 2ndte when Jack.
son demanded and obtained justice Of the
French Govetnment, Y ! And more recently,
[,toos the wings have advocated the British
claims to Oregon, and abused Cass, Allen,
and,others who supported our claim. All
have justified alike the foreign government
and abused our own. 4s0sl ID, IA ss5.a
Much the greater part of Mr.. us. speech
I consider quite irrelevant 70 the subject,
He dwells much on the march Of General
Taylor and bis troops into the country be.
tween the Rio Neuces and the Rio Grande