Tri-weekly journal., 1847-10-11
THE MEXICAN NEGOTIATION.
DOCUMENTS.


We give below the official documents, so far
as the american Protect is concerned. The part
of the Treaty proposed after the 9th Article,
we have omitted. 1t is unimportant We shall
give sketch of the entire negotiation as soon
as possible:
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA, general ofdi-
vision, well deserving of the country, and
President Gd interim of the Uuited Mexican
States, to all who shall see the present:
Know ye, that having resolved, in exercise
OF the powers conferred on me by the constitu-
ton, to hear the propositions of peace which
the government ofthe United States of Ameri-
ca desires to make through its commissioner,
Don Nicholas Trist, and having entire conf
dence in the patriotism, intelligence, and 9TH
er estimable qualities which..do honor to his ex-
celiency, the general of division Don Jose
Joaquin de Herrera, the licentiate Don Jose
Bernado Couto, the general of brigade Don lg-
nacio Mora Villamil, and The licentiate Don
Miguel Atristain, | have concluded to commits
sion them to repair to the town of Atzapozalco
to receive and transmit to me the said
propositions which the said Nicholas Trist
has come to make; for which purpose lgrant
to the four full power necessary, and Don Jose
Miguel Arroyo toaccompany and be present with
them in the capacity Of secretary and interpre-
ter, on account of the confidence which repose
in him also.
In faith of which, | have caused the present
to be issued, signed by my hand, authenticated
by the national seal, and countersigned by the
Secretary Of State for the despatch of foreign
and internal relations, in the federal palace of
Mexico, on the 27thday of August, 1917, and
9th [37thl ofindependence.
L. S. ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA.
JAMES X. Polk, President of she United States
of America, to all those qUhOHl these presents
may come, greeting:
Know ye, that, desirous of re--establishing
peace, harmony, and good relations between
the United States of America and the United
Mexican States, and to remove all grounds of
complaint. having especial confidence in the
integrity, prudence, and talents of Senor Don
Nicholas p. TRIST, we have named him COM
missioner of the United States to the Mexican
republic, and invested him, in the fullest and
most complete manner, with ample power and
authority, in the name of the United States, to
meet and confer with any person or persons
who shall have similar authority from the re-
tlate and conclude an afrangcnro-bq bql,a- to nego-
lerences which exist between the two conn
trles-a treaty OF peace, amity, and lasting
boundaries between the United States of Amer
lea and the Mexican nation-for the definitive
settlement ofall reclama;ions of the citizens
and government of the United States against
the government of that nation, and of all re-
CARNATIONS of that government and its citizens
against the United States, and in like manner
to determine the limits and boundaries between
the United States of America and the United
States of Mexico, and all other matters and
things suitable for negotiation, and bearing up
on the interests of both nations, transmitting
and delivering said convention, when it shall
be concluded, for satisfaction to the President
OF the United States, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate.
In testimony whereof this document is seal
ed with the seal Of the United States.
Done and executed under my hand, in the
city OF Washington, on this the fifteenth day of
April, IN the year of our Lord one thausand
eight hundred and forty seven, and in the sew
enty-fir year of the independence of the Uni
ted States. JAMES X. POLK.
President Of the United States.
JAMES BUCHANAN, Secretary of State.