The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-11-10

of that government to Mr. Slidel under date of Marcel
l2h, 1916 In letter of that date, Mr. Castillo Ian
zas the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations says OF
the Act of Annexation:
"a fact such his,-o to speak with greater exact
notable an act OF usurpatoncreated mperious
necessity that Mexico for her honor should epel il
with proper frmness and dignity The supreme govern
had beforehand declared would upon such
act as cas9s be; and consequence of this decla-
ration, negotiation was by its very nature at an end and
was the only recourse OF the Mexican government"
Here, then, we have the undisputed and ndisputabe
OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT, cover
ing the whole period from August, 1919, up to April
1916 and fully proving that during this whole period
Mexico constantly avowed her determination to regard
the Annexation of Texas not only as cause of war,
but as being in itself declaration Of and act
Of tcar part that in view Of Annexation she
raised in 1914 an army of thirty thousand to
invade Texas that in the latter half of the year 1915,
the Mexican general-in- chief of the army OF invasion
announced his determination to drive our troops out Of
the territory of Texas; and that in the beginning OF the
year 1885, the government of Paroles announced in
terms that the Act of Annexation of war, put
ting further negotiation out OF the question, and
that therefore orders had been sent to the Mexi-
army TO invade Texas, and attack the Amer
troops there. In pursuance OF this determine
ton, and upon this view of Annexation, the Mex
lean army crossed the ko Grande, and shed the blood
of our soldiers And Mr. Webster, after he and
his friends have spent eighteen months and more in viii
flying and denouncng the being an outrage and an
aggression part deliberately forward to tell
us that the Annexation OF Texas upon which alone Mex
leo claims to have waged war against us,
which gives to Mexico ono JUST COMPLAINT ?!
When before has great party ever been placed upon the
showing of its most distinguished leaders, in posi-
ton reasonable and Infamous Ii this declaration OF
Mr.. Webster be true, then the Mexican record shows
himself and his friends to have been steadily engaged in
justying and unfolding Mexico in war waged against
our own country upon wholly unfounded and most
insulting pretension and without any ''just ground of
complaint"
Such is the position in which the admission we have
quoted from Mr. Websters speech at Springfield places
the whig party We have only to add, that his posi-
ton, as defined in that speech, is more lament
able and shameful. Confessing Annexation to be
no "iust ground of complaint to Mexico, and fully
apprized by the record that Mexico has waged
upon us on the ground of Annexation alone, Mr..
Webster, in the same speech, not only afirms that
our government has unjustly made upon Mexico
upon IdlSc prcteNtS, Dut dllcScS that we nave
waged the with the "precise Object Of restoring
Santa Anna to po,oey in Msrico! Mr.. Webster knows
that this declaration, if true, would country
and our government with disgrace before the civilized
world He knows also that his declaration is not only who'll
" groundess and untrue but that it is contradced by the
whole tenor of the official Mexican documents which
have quoted Yet this declaration, so infamous in ITSELF
and so ouagng human declaration which,
if true would make every American hang his head for
shame-M Webster does not hesita tie to put forth to the
world, in speech which he is called upon to make by
wing convention in his capacity senator OF the UNI
ted States and this too when in the same speech that
measure upon which alone Mexico herself has placed
her war and rested its justification, is admitted to be
measure OF which she has right to complain 1t may
well be doubted whether the records OF the Hartford
Convention itself contain example OF moral treason SO
fragrant and atrocious as this