American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1866-01-25
MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES
INTERESTING OFFICIAL PAPEIiS.

MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES
INTERESTING OFFICIAL PAPEIis.
Below will be found an epitome of voluminous
pa pers relative to emigration to Mexico, which
were presented to the Senate Wednesday:
Senior Romero first called the attention Of Mr..
Seward, July 9th, 1864, to an address of Gen. Ma
gruder, a nd Gov. Vidsuris reply, showing an I'M
Outstanding between the traitors in Mexico and the
insurgents in the United States. He timat that
the French Minister to Mexico, Montholon, was
working to that end, and that armed immigration
from the Atlantic States and California was in i'm
mediate contemplation.
Under date of February 6, 1865, he further mott
fed the Secretary of his understanding that a SET
Element had been proposed by Napoleon, by virtue
of which the Mexican States of Tamanlipas, New
Leon, and Coahuila, with parts Of San Luis Potosi'
Zaccatecss. Durango and Chihuahua. and almost
the whole of Sonora and the Peninsula Of Lower
California were to be coded to France, and that TO
make so considerable a portion of Mexican terrific
ry acceptable, the Emperor would plant a military
| colony which would shelter the remainder Of the
country from 6llibusteriug from the United STATES
This arrangement again reminded the secretary
of facts slightly resembling the present, wnen the
Representatives of the French Government In
Mexico protested against the treaty concluded be-
tween Mexico and the United States, which was OF
much less importance than the present, only be-
cause of vague rumors, more or less foundeo' tha'
it had been concluded, and before they had ofhc
notice of its execution.
Mr.. Seward replies under date of February rs,
1865, that the protest has been placed on as testl'
mony to the course of Mr., Romero.
In the month of April, Mr.. Romero communica'
ted to Mr.. Seward the correspondence between the
rebel General Slaughter and the Mexican General
Mejia, relative to the capture of the Mexican steam
er Orristable, as additional proof of the identity OF
political interests which exists between the insur'
gents of the country and the p~artisans Of the French
cause in Mexico.
In a communication dated July 4th, Romero ad'
duces further evidence e. Mexican completely with
the rebels, and states that the commander at the
post Of Bagdelli informed Gen. Slaughter that be
had secret instructions to permit the introduction
of arms and ammunitions of war that might be de-
sired, and that they should pass freely for the Con
federacy.
He also asserts that there was in Monterey an
agent of the Confederacy accredited to the agents
of the French, and that General Mejia had prom
issd General Sla lighter be would do everything in
his favor. He also shows that the Confederate
States were carrying on trade with Mexico ana
other countries throughout the ports of Mexico, and
that It was carried on with the consent OF the
French in Mexico. To all these statements Mr.. ).
promises to give them the attention to which they
are entitled.
On July sth, Mr.. Romero communicates a state
ment and letters relating to the schemes OF mir.
Gwin for organizing a colony in Mexico, and show
ing that Gen. Bazane had authority to let him have
the needed assistance. Among the letters found Is
one from Mr.. Ben. Wood, of New York, in which
he said soule is in the Gwin enterprise, and the
French Emperor will give him all the aid he desires
and that he will go out as Director General IN
| charge of a very peculiar kind of colonization.
Mr.. Seward writes to Minister Bigelow, January
| 18th, inclosing these letters relative to Mexican
| colonization, and requesting him to present them
to Drouyn de l'Huys, and frankly inform him thar
the sympathies of the American people are already
| considerably excited in favor Of the Republic o;
Mexico, and they are disposed to regard with i'm
patience the continued intervention Of France in
that country; and that any favor shown to the pro-
ceedlngs of DR.. Gwinn of the Emperor of Mexico
| BY the Government of France will tend greatly to
increase that impatience.
The President to-day sent to the Senate In com
| pliance with the resolution respecting the occu'
pancy by the French troops of the Republic oil
| Mexico and the establishment Of a Monarchy
| there, inclosisg a report OF the Secretary OF State
and the documents are very voluminous, com;nenc'
ing as far back as March 25th, 1861. and ending
with December Ith, 1865.
The first ia q letter from Mr.. Dayton to Mr.. Sew
ard which communicated the fact that negotiations
Mexico, had been completed on favorable terms,
and that he would soon sail for Mexico.
Mr.. Seward in a letter to Mr.. Bigelow, Sept. 9Th
1865, says The intense popular interest awakened
by civil war during a few years has tended in some
degree to degenerate the solicitude which the saua'
ton of foreign affairs was calculated to create; but
that interest is now rapidly subsiding, and 1t may
be reasonably anticipated that henceforth Congress
and the people will give a large share OF attention
to questions of an extraneous character, and chief
among these, is that Of our relations toward France
with regard to Mexico. Nor does it seem unvise
to take into consideration the fact that the pres
ence Of a military force of two nations for some
time confronting each other across the border, has
q tendency which both regret to produce.
The French Government has hitherto shown IT.
self inattentive TO this inconvenience while this
Government has been desireus TO practice square
prudence.
A dispatch. including letters from the French le'
CATION with reference to Mexican refugees 10 New
York and Washington preparing a movement in fa
yor Of Juarez, the first as far back as July, 1865.