The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1847-07-24
Still Later from Mexico.

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Special Overland Express from NeD Orleans 10
Phiiadeiphia and thence Photographed 10 The
Journal Of Commerce.
PHILADELPHIA, July lS--P, NJ.
Tho Picayunc Extra, of July 18th, has
been received.
by the arrival of the steamer Mcl<im,
which left Vera Cruz on the 4th inst. wo are
~ possession Of adyices from the city of Mex.
leo, to the Goth ult.
The government paper publishes com
munlcation from the Minister Of Foreign Az
fairs, addressed TO the members of the McXi-
can Congress, referring to them despatch
from Secretary Buchanan, informing them
OF the appointment of Mr. Trist. MIR Buchnn-
ans letter is dated April 18th. 1t acknowl-
edges the receipt Of tho Mexican Minister'S
letter of the 22d of February, declining to
nccedc to our proposition to send commits
sonors to Jalapa, Havana, or any other point
before the blockade of the Mexican ports
should be raised and the Mexican territory
evacuated by our troops.
MIR Buchanan writes that the President
holds such conditions absolutely nadnlissi-
bic, neither demanded by national honor, nor
sanctioned by the practice of nations.
There Is no indication in it of the basis up
va Nbl'h WI i ] lSl 10 UullluIlSGt 10 COIClUut
treaty. This letter the Mexican minister
acknowledged on the 22d April, saying that
the President had instructed him to reply,
that the whole subject matter of had been
expressly referred to the sovereign Congress
OF the nation for its control, and that the let
ter would be at once transmitted TO it for its
action.
We learn by the Mexican papers, that Con-
grcss was at once convened to take the mat
ter IN consideration, but up to the 20h of
June no quorum had been procured.
By n letter from a source entitled to great
respect, we learn that Gen. Scott gave the
Mexican government to the Both ult. TO act
upon the letter, when, fnothing should be
done, he would march on the Capital.
Nothing further had been heard from Gen
erals Cadwaladcr or Pillow, at Vera Cruz;
but it is presumed they had arrived at Cen
SCOTS head quarters.
We find in FL Nacional, OF Puebla, the con-
Guiding portion of the reply ola Mexican
citizen TO the address ofau American officer
alluded o in our last. We find him urging
the necessity ola continued resistance to our
arms, by appealing to facts in the history
of our own revolution. lie points 10 the days
when disaster having followed disaster,
Washington found linselfa at the head ofhut
Il handful ofmcn, and these. without shirts
VI SIlpCS, VI ana lllell w llnl
would have been the result had the Amcri-
cans, disheariened by these reverscs, then IL
bandoucd the conflict? Clearly, lie says,
they would have been to this day colonsts
of EngIand. lie applies this illustration to
the circumstances of Mexico, and to the as
scrtiOn OF this principle, that reverses are
nothing when n nation has resolved not to
succumb Lciore her enemies.
Again he urges that the very rcverscs of |
Mexico render peace at the present impossi- |
BILE. That, were she to yield after repeated |
defeats only, she would he disgraccd in the |
eyes of all Christendom. lie defends his |
country men from the charge of stupid obst- |
macy, by citing the uniform answers of the |
Continental Congress TO tic British Commits |
sioGcrs That they would enter into no truce !
until the British Government should with |.
draw It's fleets and armies Why, he asks, /.
should history celebrate this reply as grand |
and dignilicd, when made by the United |
states, and stigmatize itas stupidity bnrburous /
on the part Of Mexico?
lie passes on to discuss the terms on which |
peace is possible. These conditions are, he !
says the loss of Texas, of part of Tamauipas,
Couhuia and chihuahua, aud of the whole |
of New MeSico besides millions of dollars
ofeXpense incurred by the u. States in the
war. To this he answers: "And who will |
satisfy Mexico for the twenty millions ofdu-
ties she has lost in one year, the vast eXpen-
sas she has incurred in arming her troops.
for the losses which her peaccablc citizens
sustained in consequence ofthe military oc-
cupatlon oftorcign forces, for the lombard
ment and destruction of her cities, for the
misery and orphanage of the families OF the
thousands of citizens who have persisted
since the war begau?"
And again he asks: "Supposing that Mex
leo submits to lose all this and to pay all that
IS demanded, with what is she to do this?
What treasury, what revenue, what time
would be suili cicnt to satisfy this debt? With
what principle OF justice and legality can she
impose new contributions upon n people al
'cady ruined by civil aud foreign WARP "You,
see," he continues, "that the sup
position peace is not possible; that it is bet
er for Mexico that the conquest should be
that her cities should be laid
II ashes, than to enter into terms which
would evidently reduce the Mexican nation
o condition worse than ifheld as COLONY
'fSpain."
We regard it as favorable symptom that
he Mexican mind has become so subdued
hat it is willing at last to reason calmly and {
With dignity about the war and its termination |
The discussion before us in the papers is con- o
ucted with the courtesy of diplomacy and {
more ofthe flanknoss. 1t is highly interest '
~, too. and we may hereafter recur to it. c
NJ y. Pic. SM. q
Groton, Vt. July II, l847. r
Editor of the Caledonian-Dear Sir: Pre- il
uming on the lberality of your paper, and a
elieving it to be devoted to the public good o
make this request of you, that you will print r
ne following notice in the next No of the t.
,aledonnn. A. II. HILL Il
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arrar, Esq. of Boston, will address the peo- k
lie of Vt on the increase of RomoujSu and s