Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-08-20
The Mexican Protocol.

The attempt made to assail the adminis@
tration Of Mr.. Polk, says the Bedford Ca
zette: in regard to this protocol, like all sim
liar attempts has proved perfect failure.
1t is remarkable that the friends Of Mexi-
CO in this country, find no response to their
assault among the Mexicans themselves.
On the contrary, the government and the
people Of Mexico understand the protocol to
contain nothing new, and to be mere ex-
position of the true meaning of the treaty,
Just asit was understood by the late admin
istration. In fact, they have adopted the
very construction placed upon it by Mr..
Polk, in his message to the House Of Rep
Resentatives, of the 9Th of February, l849.
The friends Of Mexico, in this country, have.
therefore proved themselves to be more of
Mexicans than the Mexicans themselves.
Among the most rabid Of this class was the
editor of the Courier des Etats Unis. of
New York, whose paper of the 9th inst. is
now before US. 1t is amusing to witness the
awkward attempts which he makes to back
ont Of the scrape, whilst publishing an ex-
tract from letter from one of his corres-
pondents, dated at Mexico, @who has been
placed in favorable position to know the
intentions of the Mexican Government.
The editor expresses great surprise, that
I notwithstanding all the Importance, that has
been attached to the protocol in this coun.
try, it produced no sensation in Mexico.
The Mexicans obstinately refused to believe
that they had been imposed upon, in spite
of all the efforts which were made, in and
ont of Congress, to convince them of the
fact. "Neithel the Executive power" saws
the editor, @nor the Representatives of the
people, nor the Mexican journals, were ex.
cited. The importance which was attach
ed to the subject in this country, was not
sufficiently powerful to change their opin-
ions." We publish the concluding para
graph of the extract, our limits not permit
ting US to copy the whole. For the transla-
ton we are indebted to friend:
"No one has ever entertained the idea IN
Mexico, of attributing to this document anv
other meading that that which Mr.. Polk
has indicated in his message on the 9th Of
February, lS49. If the Mexican Govern
mcnt had been called upon itself to give. at
Mexico, aad not through thu interyen-
ton OF its Minister at Washington, its opin-
Ion In this particular, most certainly, the
message of which have just spoken, would
have been wholly unnecessary.
Zone material fact is eviden to the sens
es of all. If, 10 the opinion of Mexico, the
pretended protocol had changed the amend
ments of the American States, it then be-
came evidently indispensable to submit it to
the Mexican Congress; but this was not
done before the publication of the document,
and no one has claimed that this should be
) done afterwards. At Mexico, the authorities
have, on every occasion, Loyalty and Ie :
emtorially admitted, that the pretended pre-
tocol is perfectly in accordance with the
Treaty, which is modified in no particular.
They agree even, that if it we're complete
contradiction to the Treaty, it could mol
change one syllable of it. You may count
: upon the scrupulous exactness OF this infor-
nation"
So ends the last humbug against the adj
min1stration of James K Polk! 1t is re-
pudiated by the Mexicaas themselves!