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throw me iyranis who haFe DESTROYED YOUR liber.
tesi bot We come 10 make no war upGn The peo.
PIC oi Mexico, nor upon any form of free gov.
eminent they may choose 10 select for them.
selves. Ii Is our wish 10 see YOU liberated from
despois, 10 drive back the savage Camanches. 10
prevent the renewal of their assaults and 10 com.
pei them TO restore to YOU from captivity vour
long lost wives and children. Your religion.
your allars and churches, the property OF vour
churches and ctZens, the cmblems OF your lailb
and ITS ministers. shall. be protected ana remain
IInNoaie. Hundreds Of our army, aud hundreds
|ol thousands OF our people, are members Of The
catholic church. IN every State, aud in nearly
every CITY aud village Of our Union, Catholic
churches exist, and the priess perform their no.
ly functions IN peace and security, under the sa-
cred guarantee OF our constitution. We come a.
mong the people ef Mexico as friends and repub.
lIcan brethren, and all who receive US as such
shall be projected, whilst all who are seduced into
the army Of your dictator shall be treated as enc.
mics. We shall want from you nothing but food
for our army, and for this you shall always be
paid, in cash, the full value. Il is The settled
policy Of your tyranIs TO deceive YOU in regard
10 the policy and character Of our government
and people. These iyranls fear the example Of
our Tree institutions, and constantly endaayor 10
mIsrePresent our purposes, and inspire you with
hatred for your republican brethren Of the A.
msrican Union. Give US but the opportunity to
undeceive you. and you vii, soon learn Thai all
The representations of Paredcs were iuIse, and
were only made 10 induce you to consent to the
establishment Of desporc government"
Wei, now, SIR, what was thai granny, that dcs-
Ipousm! Why it was Parcdcs, military chief
TAM who had succeeded Santa Anna, another
military chieilain. according to The order Of Mex
ican succession for The last twenty years. The
.dcspOtic authority here alluded 10, we find Mr..
Polk speaking Of, IN his message to Congress OF
December last. Speaking Of Paredes. he saws:
There was good reason to believe. from all his
conduct, thai il was his intention to convert the
republic Of Mexico into monarchy, and TO call
a Iorclgn European Prince tothe rhrone." Now.
where was Santa Anna all this lime, and what
was he doingl
lie, Mr. President, was then in Cuba. But
some time in June, or Whereabouts. he left Cuba.
made his way to Vera Cruz, aud was there nd.
mned into Mexico, by Commodore Conner. ac-
cordIng 10 the order Of our government. Before
ne reached Mexico he had made his proclama-
.non. That is 10 say, he had caused pronuncia.
mcnios to be made IN various districts, for put.
ing down Paredcs aud preventing the establish.
monI OF monarchy. The Injunction was thai
The orders OF Paredcs should not be ubeyed. be-
cause they had been issued with The "evIdcnt OBJ.
'lect OF making the nation appear 10 call for n
monarchy with foreign Prince to govern il. :"
/ Now, whether Santa Anna borrowed from our
President, or our President borrowed from him,
or whether the remarkable condolences of idea
and language, in the TWO proclamations, were
only The jumping conclusions of two great geni.
uses, do not know But here is the fact. The
sentiments Of both were the same, and they were
pronounced at the same time. When General
Taylor was invading Mexico on the North, and
issued the PROCLAMATION sent TO him from Wash
."6,on, Santa Anna's agents were possessed Of
his plan Of rronuN"iamenlo, 10 the same pfl,cl.
containing the same ideas, and expressed in the
same Ianguoge Ihereupon, Sdas, who com
manded the troops in Mexico, dcposed Parcdes
about the LIST Of August, 1916, and he was well
understood to be acliug as the agent Of Santa
Anna.
Now, sin, in rhcclabora,c commentary on these
transactions, in tho Executive Message Of last
year, the President Of the United dSmtcsacknowI.
edges, and he could not deny, that his object was
to overthrow the Government Of Paredcs; that is
| to sny, that he sought, by war, to reyourionize
! me Government of another country. This is
openly ayowed. He says indeed, that he saw
! no other way Of getting rid of our difficulty with
| Mexico, than by bringing about arcvourion in
/ Mexico. confess, Sir, that, when first raad
that message, was struck with equal morlifca-
non and asronjshmrnt. We, Of the u. States,
cluzens living together under this Constitution,
aud twenty millions of us, while we have n lust
cause Of war against Mexico, cannot get rid of
Iho difficulty, without attempting to subyert the
temporary existing Government of that misera-
| Die nation, aud play of one contemplate militia.
/ ry chleilain against another! We Comcnt insur.
rccrlon; we foment rebellion; we promise succor
and support to those who shall rebel against the
existing Government Of their country. Canany.
hing less become us than this! Aside from the
want OF dlgnlty-which, it seems TO me, almost
covered the Government with disgrace, in lomcn-
ing revolution in anejghboring countrv-it GER
lanIy appears TO mo that it was extremely weak,
| |lII.ludgcd, and iuoxpedent.
Well, sir, Santa Anna got to Mexico, under
! the permission Of the President of the {. States.
General Taylor distributed the proclamation
with which he had been furnished by his gov
ernment. Tho President admits, in his message
| OF December last, that he then hopcd for coun.
sells moro favorable to the United States from the
authority of Santa Anna, than from the authority
lot Paredcs. These more favorable counses re-
speccd, of course, the acquescencc of Mexico
| in the annexation of Texas to the United States.
How far he has been disappointed in this hope,
the event has shown. TO what extent our own
President and the Mexican military chiellain en-.
tered INTO precise agreement, of course can
not say; but that there was general understand.
mg between them, is evident from all the circum.
stances OF the case. Whether Santa Anna was
unable or unwilling to carry out that understand
ing, or whether he found the sentiment of The
nation too strong for him, leave you to Judge;
but the fact is, we find him. soon after. nj the
head Of the army and in direlul aud bloody con-
lIct with the army Of the United States. lie
had come to Mexico, either at the suggestion, or
at least, by the permission of the President of
the United States He had put himself at the