The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-04-24
Mexican Negotiations

/ Dor neighbors of the Delta had, yesterday
Iayery able article on the subject of the mode
Lin which the Government had conducted some
lof its negotiations with Mexico, and particu.
IlaIly as to one Of its agents, Signor Atocha.-
| We wonder our neghbors have not before
their eyes the fear of being called the friends
Of Mexico, when they thus venture to cen
sure any of our official proceedings ON the
subject. The following paragraph as regards
the last agent selected by Mr.. Polk, to carry
on highly important negotiation, contains in.
formation Of which some o. -puT readers ma,
MT have been preyx te. We hac
ourselves heard some of the warmest supper
tiers Of the administration express utter as
constituent that he should have been selected
to carry even dispatches, much less to act as a
negotiator bulletin.
Not to allude to other laundering embassies
and overtures made by our executive we come
down to the folly of picking up a renegade
Mexican, or South American, in the streets OF
New York and investing him with the high
dignity and responsibility of an American
plenipotentiary. Senior A tocha is well known
here and his sudden elevation is re garded by
his acquaintance as utterly incredible That
an humble member of the night-watch of
the LIST Municipality should suddenly, without
any previous exhibitions of superior talent
and character, rise to the lofty dignity of en-
bodying, as representative to foreign ma
ton, the power and grandeur of the United
States, with right to dispose of fifteen millions
of dollars, and to negotiate treaty and ter
inmate war between two great Republics,
is the most encouraging example of sudden
rise, which our history, ab,unding as it does
in similar proofs OF the eevating tendency of
our institutions, has yet afforded. But it is not
in this view that Atocha's mission excites in
this city and elsewhere such unbounded as
constituent and modification. Had Mr. Bu-
chanan, to whom we attribute this piece OF
unparalleled verdancy, desired to select out
of our twenty millions of people a messenger
to the Mexican Republic, whose character,
position and past relations, would excite in
the minds of the whole Mexican people and
other Government, the profoundest contempt
and Indignation, he could not have done bet
ter than he did in selecting Senior Atocha.-.
A long residence in Mexico, profitable toady-
ism to Santa Anna, whose money-bag he car
red to the cock-pits frequented by his Excel
lency, an extensive shaving and pawnbrokerage
in small way, in addition to petty intrigues.
all terminating in rendering him so obnox-
lous TO the Mexioans, as to suggest the expe-
diency of his leaving the country, are the
qualifications of the individual selected BY
our Government, TO bear the olive branch to |
the Mexican Government. On what ground
this choice was made we are at loss 10 dis
cover. 1t certainly could not have been made
because of any scarcity of capable men among
the citizens who are always ready to fill with
honor any public Office. The complete failure
Of this mission, and the almost unrestrained
indignation AMI contempt exhibited by the
Mexicans towards Senior Atocha, sufficiently
demonstrate the weakness and folly of this
appointment.