Des Arc citizen., 1859-12-21
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a foreigner. Vessels of the Unified States have been seized without law, and con- sular officer who protested against such seizure has been fined and imprisoned Cor disrespect to the authorities Military contributions have been levied in violation
 of every principle of right, and the Amer
 ican who resisted the lawless demand has
 had his property forciblv taken away, and
 has been himself banished. From con-
 fiict of authority in different parts of the
 country, tariff duties which have been
 paid in one place have been exacted over again in another place.
 Large numbers of our citizens have been
 arrested and imprisoned without any foIm | of examination or any opportunity for | hearing and even when released have
 only obt ined their liberty after much suf-
 fering and injury and without any hope of redress. The wholesale massacre of 1 Crahbe ant his associates without trial in | Sonora, as we'll as the seizure and murder of four sick Americans who had taken shelter in the house of an American, upon the soil of the United States was commu- nicated to Congress at it's last session.
 Murders of still more atrocious charac-
 ter have been committed in the very
 heart of Mexico, under the autho-
 rity of Miramon's government, du- ring the present year. Some of
 these were only worthy of barbar- ous age, and if they had not been clearly proven, would have seemed impossible in a country which claims to be civilized. Of l thIs description was tine brutal massacre in e April last, bv order of Gen. Marquez. of three s American physicians who were seized in tho |. | hospital at Tacubava while attending upor $ the sick and the dying of both parties, anf without trial as without crime. were hurried 7 | away to speedy execution. Little less shock .a ing was the recent fate of Ormond Chase . who was shot in Tepic on the 7th of August ' by order of the same Mexican General. no ' only without trial but without any coniec T. ture by his friends of the cause of his arrest le He is represented as a young man of goot e character and intelligence. who had mad )1 numerous friends in Tepic bv the courage
 and humanity which he had displayed on SC veral occasions, and his death was as uneS 10 pected as it was shocking to the whole con h | munity. Other Outrages might be enumf rated but these are sufficient to illustrate tn o' U wretched state of lhe country and the unprf 'C- tected condition of persons and property C on our citizens in Mexico.
 as In all these cases our Ministers have bee lls constant and faithfwl in their demands ft ,t. redress, but both they and this Governmen lis which they have successfully represente ri- have been wholly powerless to make the ng demands effective Their testimony in tn on respect, and in reference to the only remet ro which in their judgments, would meet u In- exigency, has been both uniform and CT phatic "Nothing but a manifestation
 the power of the Government of the Unit me me States (wrote our late Minister in lS56,) al ger of it's purpose to punish these wrongs " ap- avail I assure you that the universal Der 'a- here is that there is nothing to be app an hended from the Government of the Unit on States, and that local Mexican officials and commit these outrages upon American e tile zens with absolute impHnity." hope af- President (wrote our present Minister in 1er gust last'l w lee, NIo,;oo .i ,r;+h
 military forces of the United States, at pm, call of the constitutional authorities, in or ouid to protect the citizens and the treaty rig na- of the United States. Unless such po' acts is conferred upon him, neither the one g to the other will be respected in the exist e. phat state of anarchy and disorder and the c