Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-03-20


object, the patriotic motive of which we do not
mean TO draw in question, but the legality and
morality OF which, il must be admitted, are more
than merely questionable We mean the co-ope-
ration of our invading army with SANTA ANNA
well understood both by him and by our Admins
traton, TO overthrow the existing Government OF
Mexico for The purpose Of replacing SANTA ANNA
al The head of that Government. A design so wild,
scheme SO exotic, policy so foreign to the genius
Of this Governmental opposed to all the maxlms
consecraed by the wisdom of the Fathers OF the
Republic fought not, we admit, TO be suspected
upon light grounds, nor believed but upon strong
proof. We proceed TO collate the circumstances
which have forced upon our mind the unwilling
conviction Of this abuse-or mistaken use, as the
reader peases--by the Administration of the power
which the People have placed in It's hands.
To. recur TO the Manifesto addressed by this
Government, through the Commander of our Army,
to the People Of Mexico "PARRDEs has announc-
: ed that war exists between u.s. This war; thus
first proclaimed by him, has been acknowledged as
an existing fact by our President and Congress"
&c. Your Government is in the hands Of tyrans
who have reduced you to this deplorabe condition.
tits those tyrants, &c, some OF whom have boldly
advocated moparchical Government, and would
/. place European prince upon the throne OF Mex
I. leo. We come" TO overthrow the tyrans who
have destroyed your liberties 'meaning the liber-
ty of the press, &c, as above. "All who are Sc
: duced into the arms of your Dictator the actual
+. Government of Mexico shall be treated as ene-
miles," &c. And in conclusion, says the Pro-
clamation
Mexicans, we must treat as enemies AND OVER
: THROW the tyrants, who, whilst they have wrong
ed and insulted us, have deprived you OF yorr
: liberty but the Mexican people who remain neu-
trail during the contest shall be protected agains.
: their military despots by the Republican arms 81
: the Union"
That common purpose existed between our
Administration and the exiled Mexican Military
Chietan, the object of which was, by his supposed
hold upon the soldiery of Mexico on the
one hand and the advance of our armies into Mex
leo on the other, to overthrow the "tyrants " and
the /" military despots' actually in power in that
country, apparent on the face of the "Proclama-
tion," is also evident from other circumstances.
For example, in the Plan of 'Pronunciamento,'
sent by SANTA ANNA to be distributed by his friends
in Mexico to all the military posts and towns, the
fundamental article is in the following words
Article FIRST The people and garrison Of the town Of
disavow the summons to Congress issued on the nth
of March last by the 50 called President ad interim Parees
and his Minister'S the "tyans" and military despots whom
it was proclaimed that our army "came into Mexico TO
overthrow as being direct attack upon the Sovereignty Of
the Nation by the Dictator PAREDEs the Proclama-
ton calls him. and issued with the evident object of making
the Nation appear to call monarchy with foreign prince
to govern it,"
This last was the great bugbear held out TO the
Mexcans by President Polk well as Ex-Presi-
dent SANTA ANNA. These tyrante, says the
Proclamation, some of whom have boldly advo-
Gated a nonarchicdl Government, and would place
European prince upon the throne of Mexico
The identity Of the language of Santa Annals
!. Plan and Of the Proclamation show plainly
enough that the one served as mould for the other;
which might easily be, when II is known, from the
documents transmitted to Congress by the President
along with his last annual message, that copy OF
the Plan of Santa Anna was received by the
President in letter from Mr.. BLACK, our Consul
at the city Of Mexico, under date of April 26, 1916,
five weeks before the Proclamation was sent from
this city,
The correspondence between the purposes of
SANTA ANNA and our Administration is further es'
tablished by evidence afforded by the government
paper in this city. Thus, for instance, we find in
I" the Union of June 10 (some days after the
!" Proclamation "to the Mexican People" was
sent from this city, the following
aNEw EVENTS IN MExIco.-The following arti-
Gle. translated for the Union will afford idea
of the way that Paredes's Government, founded
on military usurpation, is working:
From the Vera Cruz Locomotor Of May %.
isThe Supreme Government has intercepted it is said,
part of the correspondence which kept by various in
di,duas in Mexico with the revouonsts Of the SOUTH and
in consequence the citizens below named Immediately
arrested from their being directly OF indirectly implicated
Don Ignacio Trgueros," &c. &c.
r. This is the designation applied TO Gen. Alvarez and all
others who refusing recognise the usuped authority OF
Paredes ara seeking that of the constitution Of Mex
ico.- Union
We have here the same phrases with which the
Proclamation is so thickly nterlarded. "Your
Government is in the hands Of tyrants and usurp-
ers," dependant upon the power of military
dictator" says the Proclamation. President Pa
redes's Government is founded on military usurpa-
tion,' is an usurped authority" says The gou-
eminent paper
We were completely puzzled for time how to