Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-05-22
THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.

In the Washington Correspondence Of the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger the writer thereof, well in
formed of all the acts and thoughts OF our Admin
istraton, gives us very distinctly to understand that
the entente cordiqie between the President of the
United States and the then Ex-Presdent of Mexico,
by which the latter was enabled to regain his office
and lead the forces of Mexico against those Of the
United States, has continued to exist up to very
recent date. We hope that no reader will either
overlook or forget this extraordinary revelation:
coRnEsPos DEscE PUBLIC LEDGER.
"WAsHNGToN, MAY l3, ls47.
with the defeat of SANTA ANNA my hope of
| peace is considerably diminished for, however
strongly the opposition press may have rallied against
what il was pleased to call the passport granted
to that Chief certain it is that our best hopes of
peace rested on him, and that nothing but the i'm
| possibility of sustaining himself in Mexico has
thus far baffied his efforts to make the Congress
agree to the proposition OF our Government to
| send commissioners.
|" The tone of his warlike dispatches was, from
L the commencement, forced upon him by the cir
| cumstances in which he was placed, and PER-
! FECTLY UNDERSTOOD HERE BY THE PRESIDENT AND
HIS CABINET. Santa Annals only hope of sue
cess consisted in first satisfying the national vani-
ty of his countrymen, or awaiting himself of some
| lucky accident TO turn for moment the fortunes
| OF war, and to improve that moment for conclu-
ding peace. lie came Uery near such chance
| at Buena UiSfa, but the battle of Cerro Gordo
has put end to his prospects, and, with them,
to oar calculations of peace from that quarter"
The following passage, in Letter of the Army
Correspondent Of the New Orleans Picayuae, ac-
quires consequence by the above disclosure of the
fact that the battle Of Buena Vista disappointed the
/" calculations of our Administration and of SAN
IA ANNA; which were, that in of the defeat OF
Gen. TAYLOR the latter would have it in his power
to make peace with the United States. 1t furnishes
also key to the late decree of the Mexican Con-
gress, denouncing as traitor any Individual /" let
him be private person or a public ftn,ctionary,''
who should enter into negotiations with the United
States
"JALAPA, (MExIco,) ApRIL 25, lS47.
"The Mexicans here and all, denounce Santa Anna
for coward traitor and every thing else bad and
verify believe that majority of them would rejoice exceed
ngy had Gen. Scott captured him the other day and hung
him upon the first limb strong enough 10 bear his weight
That he playing them false you beat of their
heads that he sold the battles of Buena Vista and Ceo
Godo for consideration they equally confident and in
proof they etenay talking about the S. oOO o0O They
do not understand why it that President Polk allowed
him to freely into Vera Cruz from Havana unless there
bribery and corruption at the bottom the idea that
troops whit better than theirs that they whip
hem two to when posted behind batteries has
entered their heads and hence better than none
there many of them who say that they have been sold
the sHero of Tampico" Again, there doubtless many,
perhaps the larger portion who have lost all confidence either
in his honesty bravery and although they may not desire
peace with us they still anxious get rid of the yrant
any Such is the state Of feeling here in Jaapa