The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-01-07
The Projected Treaty with M. x,co.

Il We perceive that some of our city cotempo
rares affect to treat our exclusive informa-
ton Of the project Of treaty with Mexico as
humbug or hoax. They deny that any such
document has been received by the Department
of State They will discover their error in
course of time. We have neither been hoaxed
nor deceived, and have no reason to doubt the
truth of the statement furnished us by our cor
respondent at Washington. 1t is very true
that no treaty has yet been finally and definite
ly executed, for the very simple reason that
the sanction of the United States Senate aud
the Interchange OF ratifcations by the two
contracting powers, are indispensable formali-
ties to its completion. But of the receipt by
the State Department of project of q treaty
agreed upon by the Mexican authorities and
Mr. Gadsden, we have not the smallest doubt.
We did not require the confirmation of our
report, which appears in the Washington cor
respondence of yesterdays Journal of Com
merce. to settle our conviction on the point
The doubters are of two classes those who
prefer impugning the accuracy of statement
to copying it from rival, and those who, like
the Journal Of Commerce, are so ignorant and
careless as to publish in one column q cor
roboratiou ola story, and in another fippant
denial of its truth.
As was stated by our correspondent, the
leading features Of the project submitted by
Mr. Gadsden. are First, the settlement of
such boundary as will enable us to protect
Mexico from incursions from the In
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for railroad to the Pacific; Third, the abroga-
ton Of the eleventh section Of the treaty ofGua-
dalupe IIidalgo; Fourth, the ratification by
Santa Anna Of the Tehuantepec grant; and fifth
the cession to the United States of all the Mex
lean territory north of the projected Pacific
railroad, SO as to include Sonora and Lower
California--the consideration given by the
United States for these various concessions
being sum OF fifty millions of dollars to be
paid to Mexico.
Now, the closer these provisions are examin-
ed, the more likely do they seem to be such as
Santa Anna would propose or accept. From
bis earliest DEBUT in political life he has steadi-
ly pursued one grand principle of the Machia-
velian policy: his acts have always been in
direct contradiction to has words and writings.
He has done that which he said he would not
do, and has never, on any occasion of moment,
performed any promise or fulfilled any threat
This has been from the first his ruling princi-
pie. He learned it in his youth and when his
mind reached maturity il received IL as con-
genial doctrine. Applying this key to his po-
Icy since his return to Mexico We find that all
his fervent aspirations after nationality, all his
proteststons that he would preserve Mexico in
her integrity, all his outcry against the United
States and our aggrandizing spirit, may very
possibly have been, and, indeed, probably were
mere cloaks to hide his real designs from the
people. Certain it is that. judging Santa Anna
by his past career, If he had intended to grant
US right OF way across Tehuantepec and his
northern provinces, he would have adopted no
other tone than that Of his published speeches
md manitestocs. On the cthcr hand. il Il din
cult TO conceive q treaty which could be