The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-12-17

ore LuniFr1 and dirty nine dolsTs and
sixty-eighl eFngs. There wFEe PFNaRg
b. fare lllr nmFiEe Nhrn he r0amassioa
erpirsd sddiioaal rlaims which bad trsn
faaminrd aad awarded hy he AmtEissn
eonmissioners. and had nj beea allowed |
~ he Mexicsn commissioners, amoaui-
he 10 nirs hundred and tsenly-sigsi
lhousasd .ix hundred and tWsn'y seven
dollars and eighiy-sighI rFnis. HPan ~haeh
he did not dseidr. alleging iLsi his sn-
lhnrigr lad ceased nilh lie examination 81
lie l..inl ermmissiOn. hssiees uarse
claims. uhsre were olhsrs &c AmfEirsa c.
liEens amounting . ihgse n'iiiion three
hundred snd lhirly-siK thousand eight hun
dreI aa,i ll,iEiy-ssyrn dollars ard sve
Cents. ~ hish hal hffn submil'ed 10 tie
bpsri. AMI mon whirh shey had sat time
Ia DECADE before lhsis FINAL adjoaramfnl.
Tie sum Of iwo million lweniy.six
lhOussnI one hundred anil lhiriy-niEe ts'l-
lals and sixiy.sishl cents. whieh had bsEn
awarded tn lhe claimants, HAS iiqaisisi'
eli anil aseeIiained debt ,lne by Mexico. D
bort which there could be m DISPUTE. snd
whirh she was bound 10 pay according I"
the terms Of the convention. SnUn after
tie final awards for This amount had been
made. tie Mexiean government asked lar
a poslponemenI of the time Of making
PAYMENT. alleging that IL would he iEcon'
vrnirni io make The payment II the time
stipulated. In the spirit Of farhesring
kindness towards 4 sister republi", which
Mexico has so long abused, tie Uni'ed
Stats promptly complied with her re.
quest. A second convention was accord
ingly cont lutled between the iwn govern
menis on tie ihlrlieIh day Of January.
lsi3. which upon iis face declares that
"ilis new arrangement is enter d into Tor
The accommodation &C Mexico" By the
terms nf this convention. al the interest
due on the awards which had been made
in favor of The claimants under the ron.
sention of the eleventh Of April. 1899.
was tn be paid To them on the lhirtirih "l
April. 1913. and "lhe principal Of the
said awards, and the interest arerning
thereon" was stipulated to "be paid in
five wears, in equal insIalnents every three
months" Notw outstanding this new ron
veniion was entered inin Al the request 81
Mexico, and for the purpose of reIinsin
her from embarrassment. the claimants
have only received the interest due on the
shirtieIh Of April, 1919, and three of the
twenty insialmenls. AIhnugh the pay
ment &c the sum thus iiluilalcd, and con.
fessedly due by Mexico To cur citizens as
indemnity for acknow lodged aris Of out
rage ard wrong. was secured hy treaty,
the obligations of which are ever held sa-
cred by all just nations, yet Mexico has
violated this solemn engagement by fail.
ing and refusing 10 make The payment.
The two instalmenIs due N April and Ju.
, ~. 1874, under the peculiar circumstan-
ces connected with them. have been as
sumed by the United States and dischar-
ged 10 the claimants. tn, ,hcy still .lna
by Mexico. But this is no, all OF which
provide a remedy for the claimants whose
eases were not decided by the joint com.
mission under The convention of April the
eleSenth. 1889, il was expressly siipula.
ted by the sixth article of the convention
Of the lhirlielh Of January. ls43. that " a
new convention shall be entered into fnr
the settlement Of all claims Of the gov.
eminent and cilizers!of The United States
against the republic of Mexico which
were not finally decided by the late CON-
mission, which met in the city of Wash
lngion, and Of all claims Of the govern
men; and cilizens of Mexico against The
United States.
In conformity with this stipulation, a
third convention was concluded and sign
ed at the city Of Mexico on the twentieth
Of November. 1913, by The rlenipoien.
tarles Of the two governments, bv which
provision was made lnr asrerlainlng and
paying these claims. In January, 1874,
this convention was ratified BY The Sen
ale ri the United States with two amend.
mentS, which were manleslly reasonable
IN their character. Upon a reference OF
The amendments proposed 10 the govern
meni.of Mexico, the same evasions, diff
hrnlIies, anddelays were interposed which
havessn long marked the policy of that
government; towards the United States.
1t has not even yet decided whether il
would or would not accede to them, a.
though the subject has been repeatedly
pressed upon lis consideration.
Mexico has thus violated second time
the faith Of treaties, BY failing or refusing
to carry into effect the sixth article of The
convention of January, 1913.
Such is the history Of The wrongs which
We have suffered and patiently endured
from Mexiro through long series or
years. So far from afrording reasonable
satisfaction for the injuries and insults we
had borne. great aggravarion Of them
consists in the fact. that while the United
States. anxious to preserve good under.
Standing with Mexico, have been con-
stantly, but vainly, employed in seeking
:sdress. fer past wrongs, new outrages