New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-22
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, OCTOBER % 1861.

of the Confederate Government, and will OK
plain the objects Of his mission in detail
What these views are, and what the real OBJ
jects of the Quinteran mission were, We are
left to conjecture from the remaining docu'
ments. What we are certain of is, that one
of these objects at least was to secure the Oc-
cupation of the Mexican State by Rebel troops,
for that is unblushingy asked through Con-
federate Colonel.
No. A is a note from Edward Clark, the in
surgent Governor of Texas, to Vidaurri, saying
that QuiAtero visits him concerning matters
which he will himself explain, and that
whatever representations he may make, vi
daurri may rely upon them with the most
implicit confdence-a very significant IN
timation Of secret overtures. No. 5 is the re-
ply of Yidaurri to Quintero containing Nos. b
and Z, his answers to ToOmbs and Clark. To
ToOmbs he says in the first place, that he has
no power to deal with diplomatic relations, they
being reserved by the laws of Mexico to the
Supreme National Government. But as the
present case is extraordinary, and he feels sure
that the Supreme Government is in favor of
peace generally, in this sense aud for this time,
he constitutes himself its organ to apprise His
Excelency (Toombs) that 30 sound principle
has always been and is observed by the Mexi-
can Government and by its subject authorities
and peoples, in proof of which he refers to bis.
tory. As to the complaint Of armed expedi-
tiOns being projected from Mexico against Tex
as, he says there is no foundation for it, except
in the case of the outlaw, COrtina. He con-
cludes with a short hOmily on the advantages Of
peace. No. is the reply of Yidaurri to
Clark, merely acknowledging the receipt
of his note, and referring him to q copy Of
No. g. which is inclOsed. No. 8 is letter
from John r. Baylor, Colonel of the I'd
Texan Cavalry to yidaurri, in which after
long story about Indian depredations, be winds
up with the modest proposition that on that
portion of the line of the frontier between
Texas and Mexico which is subject to Indian
incursions, the Texan and Mexican troops
shall cooperate against the common enemy a
certain number Of the troops OF either State
being allowed to cross the river in pursuit.
He adds that the e" troops in the service are
- no longer foreign mercenaries, but citizens
" of the State, and men Of such character and
" respectability that your people have nothing
" to fear from them" The Colonel concludes
BY deferring in the most catering terms to
the superior military knowledge of Vidsurri,
and assuring him in the most explicit terms,
that no is guided by no other desire in
making this proposition, than that of punish
ing "our enemies, the Indians, and union
" with the valiant soldiers of Mexico"
The last dispatch is the reply Of yidaurri to
this extraordinary proposition. He politely
declines it, reminding the Colonel that it is a
matter which can only be agreed upon between
the Supreme Governments of the two countries.
Such is the first success Of Secession diplo-
macy. This individual policy, if followed up,
may secure to the Confederacy recognition from
the cotton.sPinners of England, from the slave
trader. of Cuba, from some of the Kings on
the Guinea coast and from half the insurgent
chiefs Of Central America.