The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-02-24
TRANSLATION. mo. 3.
DEPARTMENT or INTERIOR AID EoREloN AKA rIoss
DUPLICATE NO. l34.
-adpsnce Of $500 600 Of IL indemnify.

DEPARTMENT or INTERIOR AID EoREioN axLArIoss
i DUPLICATE NO. 1874.
i -adpsnes Of $500 900 Of tks indemnify.
\ NATIONAL PALACE,
| .Mexico, December %, 1850.
Mosr EXCELLENT Sin: In note dated the 27t
OF December, his sxcellency the minister Of
nances writes to mo as follows:
MosT EXCELLENT Sir: His excellency tn
president has requested that ! would make tn
present communication to your sxcellency, in or
der that, conformaby to the agreement conlaine,
In the certificate Of one hundred thousand dollar
which has been forwarded to Edmund J. Forstal
IN virtue OF the contract entered into by him will
the government on the 23d instant, in advancin!
the aforesaid sum, that the same would be refund
ed in full to him on the payment of the next in
stament Of the indemnity due from the Unitet
States your excellency will be pleased to give tina
government proper notice of the fact, per origina
duplicate, tripIicate, and quadruplicate; and, il
order that your excellency may give said govern
men the required notice, have the honor o.
TRANSFERRING Them to you, with the renewed ex
] preston of my consideration.
/ God and liberty! LACUNSA.
To his Excellency the Minister Plenipotentiary
efthe Mfricon Republic, in Washington.
Permit me to submit comment:
The above is copy Of Ell official letter this
day addressed to you, as chairman Of the Com
mittee of Ways and Means. That Mr.. dc Ia
Rosa had held the conference with the Sec
rotary Of State referred to in his letter of the
30th OF January, you cannot doubt 1t was his
duty, under his instructions, to do So In his
letter to Mr. Marks he says that he did so, and
there is no conceivable motive why he should
| thus refer Mr.. Marks and the Senate to the
State Department if he knew, as he must have
known, Chad it been true that he had held nc
such conferences with that DEPARTMENT. that the
reply to the call, which he thus invited, would
convict him, at the same time of gross ne
gect OF duty and an inexcusable violation o.
truth You will therefore perceive that the letters
ofthe Mexican minister and of the honorable Sec.
rotary of State, create an issue of veracity be-
tween them, and that thus situated, the Mex can
minister had no alternative but to make written
communication to Mr.. Webster, affirming the
truth of his letter to Mr. Marks. This he has
done; and respectfully submt.that it is alike
due to Mr.. Rosa, to Mr.. Webster, and to the
honor OF both governments, whose representa-
tives they are, that Mr. Webster should furnish
a copy of this letter, with such explanations as
| he can give.
would further respectfully submit that this
| should be done, because the record, as now
made up is greatly to the discredit of Mr.
| Webster and of the United States Let us ex-
anime what that record is.
| Having question of disputed boundary with
a neighborng sister republic, we occupied the
disputed territory with military force, and thus
involved the two countries in war We marched
an army to Mexico, and dictated peace at the
lannon's mouth, by which Mexico was COM
PEELED to relinquish not only the whole of the
territory in dispute, but California and New
Mexico also. AS an indemnity for this addi-
tional cession, we agreed to pay her fifteen mil
lions of dollars! How much below its value
need not estimate
There were two parties in Mexico. AT the
head OF one was Santa Anna, an instrument in
the hands of the rich bankers to whom you,
in your speech Of last session referred, of OPP
pressing his own country and organizing the
public sentiment of Mexico in support of Brit
lsh influence, and in bitter hostility to the United
States. Acting with and among the main pill.
lars OF the opposition TO Santa Anna, were Gen.
eral Arista now the President Of Mexico, and
this very Mr.. de la Rosa--the leading feature OF
their policy was to establish and maintain kind
relations with the United States The latter
was the Secretary of State, through whose in.
liuence and kind offices the treaty of peace wa.
made Alter the peace, he consented to repre-.
sent his government here, supposing that hi
agency IN restoring peace, would secure 70
Mexico that sympathy, courtesy, and good faith
which, under these circumstances, was due {,
her, and him, personally, that respectful con
sideration which his position as the representa-
tive Of Mexico, and his conduct as an enlight
ened patriot, laboring to promote the mutual in
tercsts of Mexico and Of the United States, and
to establish the most friendly relations between
| them, entitled him to receive
| Under the administration of General Taylor
and Mr.. Clayton his expectations were fully real
ized-they did all in their power to cultivate the
good will of Mexico-they did all that they
could to restore that mutual confidence and kind
feeling, which ought to be maintained between
the two republics; and such, venture to assert
was the belief of Mr.. de la Rosa. With equal
! confidence assert, that the conduct and policy
OF Mr. Webster have been PRECISELY the opposite
| that so far from culivatng the good will and
kind feeling of the Mexican minister and thus
concl ating tie Mexican people, and strengthino
the American feeling and the American influence
| in Mexico, his conduct towards the minister and
| towards Mexico has been arrogant, supercilious,
dlctatoral and uukind and calculated to strength
en- and rerpetuate the British supremacy in Mex.
lco, at the expense of the rights and interests OF
the government and people Of the United States
Ihese,l admit, are serious charges against the
Secretary Of State, but sir, they are not lightly
made and address them to you, because you,
as the chairman Of the Committee of WAYS and
Means, was last year induced to mislead the
judgment Of the House by statements, which
am prepared to show Were notcorrect and which
must believe, you could not have made. if YOU
had been correctly and fully informed, as it was
your duty to be, and as you might have been,
had not your personal relations to the agents of
the Barlngs, and your official relations to Mr..
Webster, been such as induced you to lend
theinluence ofyour official position to strengthen
the British influence in Mexico, in violation of
the good faith Of the United States, regardless
of the courtesy which was due to Mexico, md
of the good will and kind feeing'which it was
your duty to promote. 1t is the part of mag
unanimous mind to atone for injuries done, il re-
mains to be seen whether such is the character
stic of yours. That you may more fully un-
derstand to what ! refer, will in my next be
more precise. Respectfully,
DUFF GREEN.
For the Southern Press
To The Hon. THos. II. BAyLy, Chairman, DC.