New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-11-30
- Wsis Young Mems General


The True Sun Of this City. which rarely AP
pears without some malignant assault On ""s
measures or Wing Statesmen. had an srtlcis ''''
terdsy. under the title Of Mr.. Clsys war Aver,
mart. /. IN which the great Kentockisa Is accused
Of "fabricating SANDER" for the ase u nu'OPea" 1
,o.rn.l and of deliberate fslsebood IN hail oozen
Hga,an, w.v. To set the public right on the
1o;n,. ro,.renresentsd by Mr.. Clay the True sun
fsvors its readers with chronology oil the events
,sfsr,ea TO- in which we find the following;
.s Sen, rsnitsd States Government, inquired through
CoBsn IL Mexico would receive Min'ster
NJ, Is MsIiesn Government replied Yes
Dee. Is-Mr sldsn presented credentials
pee 2Dels Pens refused 20 receive him, saying 'oF
loas determined on. 49,,
IS March llGsn Taylor ordered 70 s RIO CLende ana
encountered the Msrieaa invading army o. tN i0oy
These are egregious perversions or deliberate
falsehoods. Mexico did not agree TO receive
Minister but Special Commissioner. expressly TO
settle the differences growing out OF the Annexa-
ton OF Texas Our Government perfectly under
stood the distinction, and knew that Mexico could
not receive q Minister without virtual admission
that abe had withdrawn her Minister from wash
ineton without cause and was really not agsrieyed
by the Anne alton Of Texas. In other words, she
was reouired TO surrender the whole matter IN dis
mite a. q condition Of our treating with her re-
spectingit.
I. is grossly false that the Mexican Government
refused 10 receive MIR. Slids on the 2st of Decem-
Der. saying War was determined on" The True
Sun itself refutes this by adding
Dec so-Heuers driven from power by Paredes for
wishing to negotiate.
Here the very Government that is accused OF
having violated its promise to receive Mr.. sideD'
4. Il ~ IL nv in 10
next breath to have been driven from power only
nine dogs after. ard for rishing 10 negotiate Bot
not only is this not true but late as the 10th OF
the following February, long after Gen. Taylor had
been ordered to the Rio Grande. Tee Onion ex-
pressed stated that Mr. SIidel had nor been reject
ed bat received with much courtesy IN Mexico
that while "he had not been received by the Gov
eminent in an official capacity, asher had they de-
clined his reception And COW, in the face Of all
this 1t il pretended that tie refusal to Mr. Sldell
was the cause OF the march TO the Rio Grande, or
at any rate preceded it
The last two faIsehoods of the True Sun are A.
foolish as malignant. That the order 70 Gen. Tsy-
lor TO advance TO the Rio Grande was given on the
l3h Of January--two months earlier than the True
Gun asserts-is proved by its date and is admitted
in the Union Of Wednesday last Nothing con be
more certain than that. And, so far from "encoun
tering the Merican inrading army on the way ."
10 the Rio Grande Gen Taylor met Only small
body Of horse under Canaes at the Sal Colorado,
who were no more an invading army than they
had been for the preceding three years. They
were Just as much an Invading army as the custom
house at Point Isabel was an Invading custom
house or the cultvators opposite Matamoros were
invading farmers, and no more.
We will not yet believe that Mr. Clay can be
impudently lied down but il he can be the True
Sun Is the boy to do it. 1t is Indignantly Loco
Foco and unscrupuousy dishonest, and will stick
a. nothing to inure Henry Clay. Ought his friends
to aid it in poisoning the minds of the ignorant
against our noblest Statesman