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Scyier's mission lo Mexico
 wsshali rsEy bsieAy dispnss sf this compound of
 two eeiamns. q malice, csBeeit and ignerSnce; for
 ii is ,ot our hubss te waste tme apoa stupidity. or
 b kill snipss with buck slssl < Osieizl calls wcse msss upon the executive ut the
 late session sf Congress- for copy of the instrue
 lions given by the governnent to Messrs Sevisr and Clifford. relative to the trvaty with Mexico. and
 alsc. for copy ofihe correspondence between the
 governsuent oI tl,s United States and these com
 n,issioners upon the same subject
 These instructions and csrrcspondf nee, the Pre-
 siicnt for high public considerations sec,nc il iH-
 cxPcdient to commanieaic aud oa that account, did
 not furnish the inforn,asieu Congress had called for. Msjor BorlaBd knows this. US well as his
 venerable servitor, tIe editor and possibly t has
 been communicated by The Major, to this new
 recruts ~ho seens 10 f,ncy hc con biak unless the
 MsioF should consider hini loo green for doPosi tary of such n State secret. Major BosIsnd has
 also learned. but woodrulr aud the SaJ have not,
 that neither Scvier or Clifford, with honor or pro
 prie.y, as the trusted agcats of the government, could make that pubhc which their government for
 reasons of State policy have thought proper te con
 ceal.
 Bat Ut tfepsoper lime pcrbaps In the course of year if not sooner these State papers will be pub lished, and their qualifications we vcatare 10 as- scrt. will not be greeted. by any one, win more heartfelt satisfaction than by Col. Sever himself
 Knowing tlis to be the position of this Mexican question: knowing that inc evidences naa nfy of viers services in regard to it, are for the present anpr taI fs.t tI,a Ca.fa un organized band of revilers have attempted to palm of upon the public as al, the scan,y scraps connected with inc subject, which they have here and there picked up; and even these they have not detailed with fidelity, but discolored and fisiGied, us VIC shall now attempt to show.
 Was the mission to Mexico, at the time of Col sevcrs apfoiatmcnf, useless or an important one That t was regarded as one involving inc tsost delicate trusts and the deepest interests of the eoun and treated by the puress and aLlest statesmen In the republic. or such magnitude was it considered. t,rat Benton, Webster, Mangum, Crittenden, Johnson, Clayton and others, thought t should consist of five commissioners to bc seec- ted from the ahiest men in the Uaion, and chosen from the different sectioas and political parties in it. They reminded the pHbic, on that occasion, that since our present form of government the country had created but mission of similar character and that was in 1913. for the purpose of making at Ghent, treaty of peace and commerce with Great Britain. That commission consisted of five mem ! bers. Messrs. Clay, Adams, CaIatin, Russell and | Bayard.
 IL was thought that this was safe precedent to Fsllow. That though necessity of saeh one might ! not bc so great in the in tine other. yet IS Mexico was repubIic, unstable in her govern 2 nent, with impoverished, di idcd and desperate people. and her pride wounded, it was thought l matter of policy, if not of absouie necessity that he mission to that country. 10 make treaty cf peace and commerce, should be an imposing one--- These views were not adopted by the President. 1 Instead of such mission, Col Sesirr was appointed 'ole commissioner, in March last and on the night preceding the day fixed for his departure, he was prostrated by sickness and for three days was sup posed to be in a critical condition.
 The intelligence in Washington then, was, that i he government of Mexico rested upon very frail oundaticn; that al any moment Ii might tumble to 'icces that it was using Its efForts against com 'ined and powerful opposition to get Congress ogether to act. early in The month of the ensuing April, upon the treaty in question: ta, it quite uncertain if the government could raise funs 10 efray the expenses of it's Congress if il could be rot together; and further, il was uncertain if a aorum of that body could Dc retained if assembled or any length of time.
 Win this knowledge before orr government and ountry; with the public press bcching forth it's fires upon the administration for it's iardiness and clay and with the conviction on the part of our of the necessity that there was for the Mexican government to have with them upon it's or. anizaton, official copy of the treaty as amended y our Senate; endcr such circumstances the Prcsi. cnt did not hesitate as to the course he should pur se. Col. Seyier and others were consulted upon hese things, and the result of the conference was, he appointment of Mr. Clifford, an associate com. missioner. That gentleman was immediately, and n less than 24 hours after, his way 10 Mexico Fith tiie amended treaty. Col. SzFier recovered nore rapilily than expected In five days fierwards, te was convalcs on his way also to he city of Mexico, and before Mr. Clifford reached hat city. he was passed Iy the British Courier, who informed him, that Col, sescr had arrived in Vera 1rnz, and would be in Mexico only four days be- lind him.
 Informed or Col sevisf's near approach, and learn ng on his arrival that Congress had been assem- 'led at Qaarctaro. NIT. Clifford dti nothing wIth hat government until after Col. S.'s arrival The 'rst dispatch and each succeeding one until Col S er Mexico. was jointly signed, and every paper the Mext~au IT'S during Col. se'ier's stay ia hat country, was addressed to them jointly.
 DF ReybaFn, whom his intina.e frienia iocu. arly called the Surgeon Of the Legation and James Johnson weat wi h Coi. s. to Mexico. and re- urned with hi'n to the United States. These zen. le'nea cost the government nothing no, one cent. his Knowledge, no doabt, will gFatify 'OxE WHO ]