The North-Carolina standard., 1849-02-14
THE pRoFeeoI.7-Mss,s ,sTEPHENsa


Some of our readers have Rno doubt heard great
o1 of noise of lae in relation to the Protocol to the
Nexican Treaty, made under the direction of the
President by our Ministers, Messrs. Sewer and Cliff
ford. Mr.. Stephens, in the House, and Mr.. Mangum,
in the Senate, (his first movement, and apparently
ctious one that after his long absence from that
body) called for information the subject and the
National Inteigeneer went far as to declares that
these explanations thus made in relation to the Irea-
~ by our Ministers had rendered it null and void.
and that New Mexico and California no longer be-
1onoed to the United States The following facts
are set forth by the Washington Union:a1a55ia
{. Messrs Sewer and Clifford were sent to Mexico
for the purposes among other duties, of explaining
the Mexican government the nature of the amend
ments made by the Senate to the treaty OF peace.
Ths treaty. with the amendments of the Senate, had
been ratified by tie President before their departure.
Before their arrival at Queretaro, the 25th of May
1913, the treaty, with the amendments of the Senate
had been GpprOred both by the Senate and House Of Dpu
ties Of NeTico, according to the forms Of their constft~-
ton. Before the President of Mexico ratified the
treaty, it was deemed necessary, to satisfy Mexican
scrupes that an explanation should be made by our
commissioners, in the form of Protocol, on three
points. This explanation was made by the Proto-
col. When the treaty reached Washington, on the
18th of Julv l849 the 100000 dollars, the first in
staIment under the treaty, had been paid the block
odes of the Mexican ports had been raised and our
troops had left the city of Mexico, and Were fast
evacuating the country. The ratj6cations had been
exchanged on the Both of May, 184s, and the treaty
was the supreme law of the land. Had the Protocol,
contained any stipulation which violated the treaty,
there could have been no other remedy but to open
= new negotiation with Mexico on the subject. The
President, after carefully examining the Protocol,
found nothing in it which was not in conformity
with the treaty, and therefore did not institute any
new negotiation. #. .-t.sa..
GA protocol is nothing more than mere note from
one minister to another, conversation reduced to
writing, and can have effect whatever to alter or
amend the terms of a treaty."
But Messrs. Stephens and Mangum have been an
sered by the President On the 9Th instant he sent
in a Message to the House, which, by its calm and
lucid statement of facts, scaters this Whg ''mare's
nest'' to the winds. Tho Union of the 9th says:
Everything is now before the country and from
the force of the developmentsfro the feeling which
Yesterday prevailed after the reading of this frank
and able the triumph Of the friends of
the administration, and the subdued temper of its op
ponents have no doubt that every impartial man
will render unqualified verdict Of acqutai against
these hasty and factious charges"
So ends the talk about the Protocol and are
Messrs Stephens and Mangum, and their friend of the
Integencer, brought all at once to dead STOP