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These solemn assurances, in answer ia
our demand Tor redress, were disregar,leol
By making them, however, Mexico obtain.
cd farther delay. President Van Buren,. II,
his annual message to Congress orthe flil
OF December, 1887, states, tha, "ai,houal
the larger number" ofour demands for re-
dress, and "many ofthem aggravated cases
OF personal wrongs. have been now for
years before the Mexican government, aud
some of the causes of national complaint,
and those of the most olfensiye character,
admitted of immediate, simple, and salts
factory replies, il is only within a few DAYS
past that any specific communication in
answer to our last demand, made five
months ago, has been received from the
Mexican minister )" and that "for not one
of our public complaints has satisfaction
been given or offered; that but one of the
cases of personal wrong has been favorably
considered, aud ,hat bnt four cases of both
descriptions, Oui of all those formally pre-
scented, aud earnestly pressed, have as yet
been decided upon by the Mexican gov
crnmcnt." President Van Buren, believing
that IL would be vain 10 make any further
attempt TO obtain redress by the ordinary
ineans WITHIN tlic power of The Executive,
communicated tins opinion To Congress, in
the smessnge referred In, in which he said,
Con a careful and deliberate examination
of The contents" (of the correspondence
with the Mexican goverDment,) "and CON
sIderIng the spiri, manifested by the Mex-
lean government, IL has become my pain
iul duty tn return the subject as it now
stands, to Congress, to whom it belongs,
to decide upon the Time, the mode, and
measure of redress" Had the u. States
at That time adopted compulsory measures
and taken redress into their own hands, all
our difficulties with Mexico would proha-
bly, have been long since adjusted, and the
existing war have been aver,ed. Magma
nimity and moderation or our part only
had the elect 10 complica,c these difficult
tics, and render am amicable settlement al
them the more embarrassing. That such
measures of redress under similar provoca-
tons, committed by any of the powerful
nations Of Europe would have been prompt
~ resor,cd ia Ivy the United States, cannot
DE doubted. The national HONOR, and tile
preservation ofthe national character thro'
out the world, as well as our own scll-re-
spcct, and the protection due TO our citi-
Zrns, would have rendered such a resort
indispensable. The history of no civilized
nailon IN modern times has presented with
in so brief period so many wanton at
tacks upon the honor of its flag, and npon
the property and persons of lis citizens, as
had at that time been borne by the United
States from the Mexican authorities and
people. But Mexico was sister republic.
on the North American continent, occupy
ing territory contiguous TO our own, and
was IN feeble and distracted condition !;
and these considerations, il is pre- slImed,
induced Congress to forbcar still longer.
Instead of taking redress into our own
hands, new negotiation was entered up
on with fair promises on the part of Mex
leo, but with the real purpose as the event
has proved, OF indefinitely postponing the
reparation which we demanded, and which
was so justly due. This negotiation, after
more than years delay, resulted in the
contention of the eleventh Of April, 1889
Tor the adjustment of claims of citizens of
the U Is. OF America upon the government of
the Mexican republic" The Joint board
of commissioners created by this conven-
iioii 10 examine and decide upon these
clalnis was not organized until the month
of August, 1910, and under the terms of
The convention they were TO terminate their
duties within eighteen months from Thai
time. -Four of the eighteen months we're
consumed in preliminary discussions ON
frivolous and di!atorv points raised by the
Mexican commissioners and it was NOT
until the -mou,l. Of December, 1910. tina,
hey commenced the examination Of the
claims of our citizens upon Mexico. -Four
teen months only remained to examine and
decide upon thcsc numerous and compll-
G 1a,e cases. !" ne month OF febriiary,
Lo4H, 'he term "i The commission expired,
n",,"s may Grains uhdiSPoSed OF Tor want
" ''lnI. ne c'",'ns Which were allowed