Daily American telegraph., 1852-01-14


of the Mexican government to cultivate the
friendship and goodwill of the government OF
the United States. There can be no doubt that
if Gen. Taylor had lived, or if our relations with
Mexico had since been conducted In the same
spirit, the Tehuantepec treaty would long ere
this have been perfected and that communica-
ton now open to American commerce. But, un-
fortunately, the conduct Of the department OF
State toward Mexico has since been arrogant,
dictatorial, supercilious, and insulting; and the
result has been that Mexico has refused to
menace and intimidation, what she stood ready
generously to grant to kind and courteous ne
gotaton.
Your memorialsts refer to the report of the
committee of the Tehuantepec Company, pub
lished in the fall of 1860, from which the fol-
lowing is an extract:
g No nation, however treacherous or fathless,
could question the acts of it's own government,
thus repeatedly recognised by it's executive
organs for long series of years. There is not
the slightest reason for suspecting that the Mex
lean government could entertain such an idea
and it is not doubted that il our justifable re-
lance on the honor and good faith of that gov
eminent should prove misplaced, the rights
acquired by us when acting with such reliance
rights in which the entire nation is Interested
would be upheld and maintained by the strong
arm of our own government. No American can
doubt what would be the course adopted by this
country in such contingency; and the commit
tee feel satisfied in placing before you, as well
established fact, that the rights which they have
secured for your use and benefit are placed on
valid and secure basis.
1.-THE committee are the more confident in so
reporting, because they are in possession of un-
doubted information that the same view of your
rights is entertained by the Department of State
at Washington and by our whole Congressional
delegation in both branches. In repeated inter
views held at Washington between the grantee,
the delegation, and the Secretary of State the
views now advanced by your committee in rela-
ton to the security with which the work might
be prosecuted, and the certainty Of protection by
our government to the persons and property of
its citizens engaged in the prosecution of this
enterprise, were asserted by ALL particularly by
the great statesman now having in charge our
foreign relations and was considered by all as
not even an open or debatable point"
Your memorialists submit that it is not true
(as asserted in the report just quoted) that the
validity of Garay's grant had been " repeatedly
recognised by the executive organs of the gov
eminent of Mexico for long series of years"
So far from that the Executive of Mexico, refer
ring to the Mexican Congress to decide on the
original uaIidity of the grant, had in the prece-
ding year, publicly declared that it had been for
feited by the non-fulflment of it's conditions
ly consented to the treaty proposed by General
Taylor, the object of which was to legalize and
confirm the said grant as soon as it had been
transferred to American citizens. And in the
extract above quoted, there is an explicit ac-
acknowledgement that there was not then the
slightest reason for suspecting that the Mexican
government could entertain the idea y of refus-
ing to recognise the said grant in the hands of
American citizens. Why, then, did the Tehuan-
tepec Company's committee thus Extensively init
mate that the Mexican government might prove
g treacherous and faithless?" And why did they
thus threaten that their alleged rights under Ga
rays grant would be "upheld and maintained by |
the strong arm Of the American government? ?"
Your memorialsts also refer to publication
in the I" National Intelligencer," dated Office of
the Tehuantepec Surrey, Washington, 24h July,
1851" in which the Mexican government is
threatened with a forcibte maintenance by the
said Tehuantepec Company of their alleged
rights under the transfer from the said Garay;
to the announcement made in the New Orleans
papers during the past summer by Mr.. II. Fall
lon, Secretary of the said Tehuantepec Company,
that Mr. Benjamin, its president, had been as
sured by the Secretary of State that their said
alleged rights would be made ga national affair.""
to the protests made and published in the New
Orleans papers by the Tehuantepec Company, in
consequence of the refusal of the Mexican Con-
sui at New Orleans to grant clearances to their
vessels for ports on the isthmus, which were not
ports of entry, now open to foreign commerce;
and to the proclamation which the Mexican gov
eminent found it necessary to publish in the
principal ports Of the United States, as follows:
"VIcE-CoNsuLATE or THE REPUBLIC OF MEX
Ico, IN NEW YoRK.-The undersigned, Vice
Consul Of the Republic Of Mexico by order of
his government, makes known to all whom it
may concern that the said government will not
permit any person whatsoever representing Don
Jose Garay, acting in virtue of his extinguished
privilege, TO undertake the work of opening
way of communication between the two seas by
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; and all persons who
in future may attempt il will be considered rs
breakers of the laws of Mexico, and punished
conformably to the circumstances, seriousness,
and extent Of the offence He also makes known
that neither Minattlan nor Ventosas, nor any
other point ofthe isthmus, is port of entry for
foreign vessels, notwithstanding this fact has al
ways been notorious; and that those which go
there win be subject to the penalties that the
Mexican laws impose and to the penalties to
which they will thereby have given cause.
"The legal state of the above expressed mat
tiers is only, meantime, that the Congress Of Mex
leo disposes the manner in which the said COM
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