The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-02-19

ne answered II. Now IL must be remembered mat up
70 hs me there had not been the least lntimailoh 10
Mexico that anybody except Garay had any interest In
the contract Tor making the inteoceanlc communication
ihey had been notified OF the transfer OF the colonization
grant and probably good reasons were suggested why
they should favor that assignment because they wanted
foreigners 10 come in and settle But up 10 this moment
lhey had never received any ntma,on that body but
Garay was Interested in the other grant and when they
dd aear II, they notified Manning x Macintosh that
they ad not recognise them ransierees oil GaTay M
asmuco as the two years granted by the decree oil is4o
had expired and that they considered the privilege clam
ed as having likewise become extinct.
10 view OF all these facts, wish the Senate TO look
at he position OF the President OF the United States Of the
late Secretary OF State and OF minister to Mexico.
he complaint has out to the world hat, induced
oy the tempting offers OF Mexico, American citizens
have gone and invested their money, their MEANS in
this grant relying upon the good faith of Mexico and
that Mexico having refused keep her faith this gov
enment is called upon to go even 10 the extreme resort
OF war; to vlndicaie the outraged rights Of those Amer
can citizens who have been thus pied upon by Mex
leo. Why, sir this was a Mexican grant TO a Mexican
citizen. 10 be performed Mexican soil, and the time
and time again for which the extension bad been sought
and granted bad expired and nothing had been done.
Then it sold to Manning & Macintosh, to induce
the English government TO come in and they could
not be affected 1t transferred TO English subjects in
order to Try to get England to bully Mexico into what
her of justice would dictate TO her. do not
know, and have not the facts that can state TO the
Senate, sufficient TO warrant me in saying that an appca
ton made TO the British authorities To induce them
to take up this claim of Manning Macintosh. have
not such evidence will authorize to lay il before
the Senate, but have enough to satisfy my mind
that their inleposition asked, and that the British
officials refused to touch it with their fingers
What then Six months after this-slx months after
the contract had expired and had been annulled, we
mad After as The Mexico had no na
everybody, that the grant had expired by It's own mta
ton and by a neglect to comply with its conditions, after
an aemp, had been made to enlist the powerful support
of the British government in behalf Of the claim
signed to Manning & Mackintosb British subjects, and
il stood in their hands, Macintosh sending day after
day. notes TO the Mexican government and his own gov
appearing to back him up what then do we
find Why, the 18th of July, ls49, six months after
this, Mr.. Macintosh informed the government OF Mexi
co that he was going 10 inform his partners residing oul
OF the republic, oil what had taken place regard 10
his enterprise, the headquarters OF which, by common
consent oil all parties nteresed had been definvey es-
abshed in the United States; The company being repre-
sented by Senior Don Pedro Auada Hagous who for the
future would deal with the government OF the republic,
since be- Macintosh had ceased 10 represent The inter
ests OF said company. That is the first time, the 5h OF
july 1sa9 that Mr.. Hargouss appears IN this mat
ter The grant had before that time expired by It's own
limitation in ls4s II had been annued by the Mexican
Congress, and resumed by the Mexican government.
Macintosh, the English assignee, had been notified OF
this Garay had been notified OF 1T the thing was as
dead death could make It, Then, in order TO revive II,
fpossbe assigned 10 citizens OF the United States,
and the government of the United States called upon
go and vndcae the rights of It's citizens who had
been induced upon the tempting offers OF Mexico, to in
vest their capital in the enterprise
What those oteTss Why, sir, the Mexican gov
ernmen said every citizen of the United States. Be-
fore you be interested in this contract, before you
can go this line settler, you must renounce
your nationaiyyou must give up the idea OF appealing
TO your own government--you must come here upon
Mexican soil, and take Mexican contract, and be con-
tent with Mexican laws. and such judgment and adlu
dication of your rights Mexican tribunals give
YOU" These the tempting offers that were held out.
That was the plighied faith OF Mexico upon which the
citizens of the United States went there and invested
their means IN this contract.
Now know very well that there is attempt made
by the Committee Foreign Relations, and by The Sec
retary of State to show that Notwithstanding the grant
had expired by it's own limitation notw outstanding The
objections TO The authority OF Santa Anna and OF Car
nzo, and OF Saas, TO make the DEGREES; notwlhstand
ng that the two years prescribed by Saas IN his decree
OF November O. l5i6 bad also expired, there yet
enough by which il be made 10 appear ths,
Mexico has acknowledged the grant subsequently.
will hrst take the given By the Committee on
Foreign Relations. The committee say:
"The committee will proceed show that the Mer-
government has, subsequently to this decree OF No
1876 recognised in the most unequyocal inanner
the binding validity OF this grant, and admitted It's obsa
"In isie-l7 the assignment of the grant Manning "
Macklnosh was duly notified the government OF Mex.
CO. and on their plant President Herrera issued orders
governors 0i Oxaca and Vera Cruz 70 prevent the
cutting OF mahogany on the lands granted by any oiher
than the EDgsh company"
That is one reason and the answer 10 that must have
suggested itself TO everybody who has listened to
The assignment spoken OF here, made in iS47 TO Man
ming * Mackinosh, not assignment Of the right
to make a communication between the two oceans, but
II was an assignment OF the mere right to coonize the
country Ii related to colonization entirely. That
an object which the Mexican government was anxious
to have effected TO have the country settled and there
fore il confirmed that assignment II is an abundant
swer 10 that further to say that Manning Macintosh
so understood IL Gafay so understood II and every
body so understood because in September, lS4S Cafay
executed another conveyance 10 them by which he gave
them IN addition TO the right OF colonization the right OF
making this way across The isthuHs OF Iehuantepec.
The committee 90 on TO give their second reason
"In Isf7 whilst the treaty OF peace under negots.
IN United
States by instruction from his government, proposed
large money consideration Mexico for right OF way
across the ishmus OF Tehuantepeo and enswe red
that Mexico could hls subject because she
had several years before, made OF her
citizens who had transferred his right by suho rzaton OF
the Mexican government, 10 English subjects, OF whose
rights Mexico could not dispose"
Whatever these negotiations may have meant-wheber
they mean, 10 have little diplomacy there-whether they
meant to represent the matter little stronger than II was
no-netbng Is clearer than that they could not have
had in their heads hearts the nea that Garay had
signed TO any English subjects the right OF making this
iniefoceanc because the contract under
which Manning g. Macintosh claimed lha, right was
not executed until eighteen months afterwards.
That contract executed in September ls4s and these
negotiations going the early part OF 1si7 II
therefore perfectly plain that the negotiations could not
have referred TO a grant to make that way across the
isthmus, because II not assigned 10 Manning X
Macintosh for more Uan year afterwards. What,
then, did the commissioners They meant the night
OF colonization because that the only contract which
had been made But the committee on and give their
third reason TO show that Mexico acknowledged this
grant, and that reason is in these words;
"Aer the assignment Of the grant the present Aeri.
holders, the minister Of the United States In Mexico
was instructed by his appze that Of Mexico
OF the desire of this company their work by
thorough survey Of the ishmus; and the minister was
iuriher instructed 10 make Tor treaty securing 70
the enterprise the Joint OF the governments