The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-07-16

We have a striking correspondence between General
Canalizo and the governor Of the State Of Pueba. Not
of the cavalry the battle of Ceno Gordo Santa Anna
has remained seadfast to him. President Anaya re-
moved him from his commands but Santa Annals gov
eminent has conferred upon HIM dcatoral powers the
State of Puebla First, martial law is proclaimed in the
State in consequence of the presence OF the American
army IN the city of Pueba and next, Canalizo is au-
hozed TO dispose of the of the State, as well
as those OF the territory of Tascaa, 10 be applied at his
discretion, to the exigencies of the war The governor
OF the State upon being notified BY Canazo OF the pow
inrusted 10 the latter, replies to hun the Odd 6f
June, with spirit The government of the State, he
says, indignant at such delegation of authority and
regards il as unconstitutional and revolutonary--as
attack upon the sovereignty of the State lie argues the
question with point and force and then announces that
instead of yielding to the demand OF surrender Of these
powers, they have appointed committee to confer with
the supreme government upon grave matters involved
II obvious that the State of Pueba Is not at all disposed
TO acquiesce in the yranncal rule OF Santa Anna or
Canalizo.
We find in FL Nacional of Puebla the concluding por
ton of the reply OF Mexican citizen to the address OF
an American officer alluded to in our last We hnd HIM
urging the necessity OF continued resistance to arms,
by appealing to facts the history OF our own revoiu
ton He points to the days when disaster having fol.
lowed disaster Washington found himself at the head OF
but handful of men, and these without shirts or Shoes
or provisions, and then asks--What would have been
the result had the Americans dsheartened by these re-
verses then abandoned the conflict Clearly he says,
they would have been to this day colonss OF England.
He applies this illustration to the circumstances OF Mcx
and to the assertion OF this principle that reverses are
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fore her enemies.
Again he urges that the very OF Mexico rem
der peace at present mpossbletha were she TO yield
after repeated defeats only she would be disgaced in the
eyes of all Chrsendom. He defends his countrymen
from the charge OF stupid obsnacy, by citing the uni
form of the Continental Congress to the British
commissioners, that they would enter into truce until
the British government should withdraw its fleets and
armies. Why, he asks, should history celebrate this
reply as grand and dgnifed when made by the United
States and stgmatise it as stupdly barbarous on the
part of Mexico'
Cursorily stgmatizing the mission of Atocha new
and unprovoked insult he passes discuss the terms
on which peace is possible These conditions are, he
and Chihuahua, and OF the whole OF New Mexico, be-
sides fifty sixty millions OF expenses incurred
the United States in the To this he answers: sand
who will satisfy Mexico for the twenty millions OF duties
she has lost in year, the vast expenses she has in
CURED in armng her troops, for the losses which her
peaceabe citizens have sustained in consequence OF the
military occupation of foreign forces for the lombard
and destruction OF her Cities for the misery and Or
phanage of the families OF the thousands OF citizens who
have persisted since the war began?"
| And again he asks: Surprising that Mexico submits
lose all this and pay all that demanded, with what
is she to do this' What treasurywhat revenue-wha
time would be sufficient to satisfy this debt' With what
principle of justice and legality she impose new con-
iribuons upon people already ruined by civil and for
egn war; J" You yourselves see, he continues, that
the supposon of peace not possbe that is better
for Mexico that the conquest should be consummaed
that her cities should be laid in ashes, than to enter into
terms which would evidently reduce the Mexican nation
| to a condition than it held colony oil Spain
We regard it favorable symptom that the Mexican
mind has become subdued that is willing at last to
reason calmly and with dignity about the war and its ter
Quoted with the courtesy of diplomacy and OF the
frankness 1t is highly interesting, too, and we may
hereafter recur to It,
| From The n Dela July