The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-03
TO BE CONTINUED
From NEaInmO Tas,

! The following document, with upward OF
one hundred aud fifty signatures of firms
| and individuals, and attested by the COnsuls
of Spain, France, Prussia and Great Britain,
has been issued in hand-bill form at Mata-
moras:
Protest of tie Merchants and Residents Of the |
CitU of Mdtdmoras, MericO, against the |
acts of the Government Of the United Sta ties !
aHdits Representatives,.
/ We the undersigned merchants and resi- !
dents of MatamoTas, Mexico, having been
for over eight months the patient spectators
lof many disgraceful occurrences on this from
tier and having suffered with resignation
all the hardships and losses thereby pro-
duced, and finding our guarantees violated,
and most vital interests every day more en-
danrered by the most serious and arbitrary
outside influence beyo1l the hope of amelio-
ration-consider it our duty as the represen-
tatives of large and commercial interests,
and as friends and supporters OF order, law
and justice, publicly to denounee the acts
of certain United States officials on this
frontier and to protest solemnly against the
United States government and its officers,
by adopting and publishing the following
, resolutions viz:
Ist. That we have frequently read with
disgust in certain American newspapers the
groSsest Misrepresentation of the political
= state OF analS Oh IElS HOHlleI, ODNIOuSAy
made with the evil intent to mislead the
sound Judgment of the American people, and
5 prejudice them against the present de tdctO
Government of Mexico, in favor of JuareZ
! barty, which at present has no more toothold
or basis of operation on this frontier than
: that afforded by the United States military
o and civil authorities on the Texas side of the
n Rio Grande,
u Cd That it is against the morality and dig
G nitv of the people and government of the
c United States; That in Brownsville and
= along the frontier, almost daily, offenses
Is against the professed neutrality of the Uni
J. ted States are committed and suffered under
the eyes of the United States authorities and
al that their repeated assurances in regard to
is their neutrality in Mexican affairs are plainly
contradicted by the encouragement and aid
u they more or less openly and covertly lend tC
Il the Mexican partlsans, whose headquarters
I'd are in Brownsville, in their armed invasions
TO and raids from the territory of the United
III States into Mexico.
of 3D. That the continuance of the armed OPP
It, position to the Imperial government of Mex
IN leo on this northern frontier the insecurit.
Ill of the roads leading to the interior; the In
I; teuuption of all trade; the depreciation AM
i'd destruction of all kind of merchandise, val
e, ues and property; the Preparation of ever,
OF species of crime; the devastation and plllag
III of all the smaller towns, villages and farm
IN in the valley of the Rio Grande, and conse
81 uuent ruin of innumerable people-that a.
M these calamities are the lamentable result
at of that underhand and immoral policy Ell
de acted by some representatives of the Unite
of States Government on this frontier.
1t; 4th That the latest ottense against tn
al, peace and the happiness of the people {
pit Mexico the surprise and pillage of the tow
es; of Bagdad, by United States negro troop
his under command of their regular officer
his during the night of the 4th to the 9Th
yer Januarv-the carrying publicly to the Tex;
'side of the river and the delivery of Thu
de- important town TO the so-called Liberal
'al- who came from the neutral soil of the Tn
MIS- ted States in the track of the United Stat
lie invading forces we can only designate
as an additional proof of the United States a
the thorities on this frontier, if not of their co
} as nivance in an act of vandalism without ps
e OF allel in modern history which, as sham
full disregard of international law and G
e as legation, VIII remain disgrace TO the L
and tional and military honor of the Unit
and States and stain of infamy TO those of I
ms officers implicated in this filibustering c
riot terprise which is not even mitigated
ned due investigation and the condign punis
use ment of the criminals
mis- 5th. That we apprehend that unless t
EAST government of the United States will ia
yerv Immediate and efficient measures to che
the the arbitrary interference OF Its officers
cies Mexican affairs, and prevent these otfen
ON against neutrality. rs before mentloRed
adj well as the armed lnvaslons Oh nnpusle!l
n hands from United States territory II
lgth Mexico, entire ruin and DESTRUCTION VIII /.
= . brought upon the whole population of
lien. frontier, and upon the commercial popJ
s all ton of MatamOros in particular and