The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-03-13


sensations and pacific negotiations And if, by
these means, they should not be enabled to come
to an agreement, resort shall not, on this ac
count, be hsd to reprisas, aggression, or hos
ility of any KIND by the one republic against the
other, until the government OF that which deems
itself aggrieved shall have maturely considered,
in tho spirit of peace and good neighborsh' p,
whether it would not be better that such dfier-
ence should be settled by the arbitration of com.
mlssloners appointed on each side. or by that OF
a friendly nation And should such course be
proposed by either party, II shall be acceded to
by the other, unless deemed by it altogether in
compatible with the nature of the difference, or
the circumstances OF the case
ARTICLE XXI.
II (Which is not to be expected, and which
God forbid y war shall unhappiy break out be-
tween the two republics, they do now, with a
view to such calamity, sol emnly pledge them
selves to each other and to the world, to observe
the following rules, absolutely, where, the ma
ture of the subject permits, and as closely as pos
slble all cases where such absolute obse fvance
shall be impossible.
/. The merchants of either republic then re-
siding in the other shall be allowed to remain
twelve months, (tor those dwelling in the inte-
rior,) and six months (for those dwelling at the
seapor.s,) to collect their debts and settle their
affairs; during which periods, they shall enjoy
the same protection, and be on the same footing,
in all respects, the citizens or subjects OF the
most friendly nations; and, at the expiration
thereof, or at any time before, they shall have
full liberty to depart, carrying of all their fleets
without molestatlon or hindrance; conforming
therein to the same laws which the citizens or
subjects of the most friendly Rations are required
to conform to. Upon the entrance of the armies
OF either nation 1nto the territories OF the other
women and children, ecclesiast,cs, scho lars of
every faculty, cultvators of the earth, merchants
artisans, manufacturers, and fishermen. unarm-
ed and lnhabiuDg unfortihed towns, villages or
| places, and in general all persons whose occupa-
| fit of mankind, shall be allowed to continue
| their respective employments unmoested in their
| persons. Nor shall their houses or goods be
| burnt or otherwise destroyed, nor their cattle
| force into whose power, by the events of war,
| they may happen to fall; but if the necessity
arise to take anything from them for the use of
such armed force the shall be paid tor at
schools, colleges, Libraries, and other establls h.
ments, for charitable and bene icent purposes
shall be respected, and all persons connected
with the same, protected in the discharge of their
duties, and the pursuit Of their vocations
2 In order that the fate of prisoners of war
may be alleviated, all such practices as those of
sending them into distant, Indictment, or un-
wholesome districts, or crowding them into
close and noxious places, shall be studiously
| avoided. They shall not be confined in dun
geons, Prison shios, or prisons; nor be put in
use of their limbs. The officers shall enjoy
| liberty on their paroles, within convenient dis
| tricts, and have comfortable quarters; and the
common soldier shall be disposed IN canton;
exercise, and lodged in barracks as roomy
aud good as are provided by the party in
whose power they are for its own troops.
But if any officer shall break his parole by leav-
| ing the district so assigned him, or any other
prisoner shall escape from the limits of his can
| Torment, after they shall have been designated
to him, such Individual. officer, or other priso-
ner, shall forfeit 81. much OF the benefit of this
article provides, his liberty parole or in
| cantonmsnt And II an officer SO breaking his
! parole, or any common soldier 30 escaping from
| the limits assigned him, sha IL afterwards be
| found in arms previously to his being regularly
| exchanged the person so offending shall be
/ dealt with according to the established laws o.
war. The officers shall be daily furnished By
! the parry in whose power they are, with as many
ratons, aud Of the same articles, as are al owed
either in kind or by communication, 10 officers OF
| equal rank in It's own army; and all others shall
be daily furnis shed with such ration as is allowed
| to a cOmmon soldier IN Its own service: the va
ue of all which supplies shall, at the close OF
the war, or 1t periods to be agreed upon between
the respective commanders, be paid by the other
party, on mutual adjustment of accounts for
the subsistence OF prisoners; and such accounts
shall not be mingled with or set Oft against any
others, nor the balance due on them he with
held, as compensation or reprisal tor any
cause whatever, real or pretended. Each party
shall be allowed to keep commissary Of prison
ers, appointed by itself, with every cantonment
OF prisoners, In possession OF the other; which
commissary shal see the prisoners as often
he pleases; shall b. allowed to receive, exempt
from all duties or taxes, and to distribute, what
ever comforts may be sent to them by their
trieuds; aud shall be free to transmit his reports
IN open letters to the party by whom he is EN-
ployed.
And it is declared that neither the pretence
that dissoves all treaties, nor any other
whatever, shall be considered as annung or
suspending the solemn covenant contained In
this article. On the contrary, the state of
Is precisely that for which it is provided and
during which, its stipuatons TO be
credly observed as the most acknowledged obl-
rnf ions nI.r latxy = aat,t
ARTICLE XIII.
This treaty shall be ratified by the President of
the United States OF America, by and with the
advice and consent Of the Senate thereof; and
by the President of the Mexican republic, with
the previous appreciation OF It's General Congress-;
and the ratihcatlops shall be exchanged in the
city OF Washington, IN four months from the
date OF the signature hereof, or sooner If practi-
cable.
In faith whereof, we, the respective plenpo-
tentiarles, have signed this treaty of peace,
friendship. limits, and settlement; and have
hereunto affixed our seals respectively. Done in
.quntuplicate, at the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
on the second day OF February, in the year of
our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and forty
I eight. N. p TRlST, [L.s1
BERNARDO COMIC, L..
MIG. ATRISTAIN, L.
additional and secret article of the treaty of
peace. friendship, limits, 'and settlement, betreen
the United States Of America and the Mexican
IP"oHc, StS"eo WtS udy W MeH TeSPtCttCe PIE
n,potentiaries (Expunged
In view of the possibility that the exchange of
the publications. of his treaty may, by the circum
Distances in which the Mexican republic is placed,
he delayed longer than the term of four months
fixed by its twenty-third article for the exchange
of Publications of the same, it is hereby agreed
that such delay shall not, in any manner, affect
The force and validity of this treaty, unless IL
should exceed the term of eight months, counted
from the date of the signature thereof.
This article is TO have the same force and vir
tue as If inserted in the treaty to which this is
an addition.
In faith whereof we, the respective plenipo-
tentiaries, have signed this additional and secret
article, aud have hereunto affixed our seals, re-
spectIvely. Done in qulntuplicate at the city OF
Guadalupe Hld-lgo, on the second day of Feb
ruary, IN the year of our Lord one thousand