The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-01-12
Special Message frebn the
President.
Information on the Mexican
Question. II. ,l.,i5, i,T
The Steps Taken by Mazinllan to
Secure Reoognitions
Important Diplomatic Correspond.
ence with France.

To the House Of Reprr5sntatiuss' II "a
In compliance with the resolution OF
the House of Representatives., OF the
18th ult. requesting information III re-
gard to steps taken by the so-called Em-
peror of Mexico, or bya European pow
er, to obtain from the United States a
recognition OF the so-called Empire of
Mexico, and what action has been taken
in the premises by the Government of
the United States, transmit a report
from the acting Secretary of State, and
the papers by which it was accompanied.
(Slgned.[ ANDREW JOHNSON
WASHINGTON, Janusry5, 1867
The first of these pap els is a commu'
nication from Arrero to Mr.. Corwin, dat.
ed March 2, 1865, in which he expresses
desire to see Mr.. Seward eXtra-official.
| ly and to ascertain whether the recogni.
ton of our Consul can be obtained be-
cause of embarrassmepts which exists in
consequence of their naturalization
while in Mexico The exercise of their
| functions has been centinuedIw without en-
barrassment to the American Consuls,
and stating that that Government
which was that of Don Benit6 Juarez-
does not exist in de .facto or de .iare
A memorandum by Mr. Seward notes
that the Marquis de Montholol, on the
| 18th of July, called at the Department of
State, saying that special agent had ar
rived from Mexico bearing letter from
Macmillan to the President of the Uni
ted States, with papers making certain
explanations relative to transactions on
the Rio Grande, upon which the United
| States Government had made represen-
tations to the Imperial Government Of
France. The Secretary, on the 18th. at
ter a conference with the President, re-
turned the letter te Montholon, saying
| the United States was in friendly COM
munication with the Republican Gov
ernment of Mexico, and the President de-
| clined to receive the letter or to hold in
tercourse with the agent who brought it,
On August |, Minister Romero inform
ed Acting Secretary Hunter that San
Luis Arrero, assumed to act as a Com
mercal Agent in New York without an
exequatur or other recognition by the
United States Government, and asks
whether the Government recognized the
right of Macmillan TO make such ap.
pointment, or whether, as he believes in
the case, this Government only sees in
the Republic Of Mexico war between it
and France, without recognizing Maxi
milan even as a Government de facto.-
The charge he intimates may seem to
show that the Government oftbe United
States recognizes French Intervention in
Mexico
Mr. Seward replies on August 9Th,
that no law of the United States prevents
person from advertising himself as
consul; but his government, in all its
official correspondence, has recognized
no other government in Mexico except
that of Juarez, and assures him that such
commercial agent can perform no con-
sular act relating to the affairs of his
ceuntrymen in the United States. To
prohibit him from attestiDg invoices
and manifests, says the Secretary, would
be tantamount to an interdiction of trade
between the United States and those
Mexican ports which are not in posses
sion of the Republican government of
that country. The consuls of the Unit
ed States in Mexico who have their exc
quaturfrom that government, only them
selves can discharge duties as CONNER
cial agents in ports which are not under
the control of that government, in all
respects like those which the person Ar.
rero, in the same way, and to the same
extent, claims to do in New York.
In respect to said ports, Senior Romero,
on the 18th, complains that no positive
answer is given to his inquiries, and no.
tifies Mr. Seward that lie has submitted
the correspondence to his government,
and will wait for instructions, of which
communication Mr.. Seward makes for
NAL acknowledgment, November 9TH,
without further explanation.
On November 9Th the Secretary of
State addresses Minister Bigelow, and
represents that the presence aud opera
tiops of a French army in Mexico, and
its maintenance of authority there, is a
cause Of serious concern t. the United
States Nevertheless, the objection of
the United States is still broader, AID
includes the authority itself which the
French army is thus maintaining, That
authority is in direct antagonism TO the
policy of this government, and the prin'
ciples upon which it is founded Every
days experience of its operation only
adds some new confirmation of the jus
tice of the views which this government
expressed at the time the attempt to iu-
stitute that authority first became
known
I. The United States have hitherto Erac-
ticed the utmost fTankness on the sub
ject They still regard the attempt 10
establish permanently a foreign and In,
perial Government in Mexico as disal-
iowabie, for the reasons they could not
now agree tosa compromise. They are
not prepared 10 recognize or pledge
themselves hereafter to recognize, any
political institutions in Mexico which are
in opposition TO the Republican Gov.
ernment with which We have so long and
so constantly maintained relations of
unity and friendship
He says, in closing. thati il Is hardly
necessary to say that we should not be
dwelling so earnestly upon this branch
of political relations if ii had not been
our conviction that those relations at
the present moment supercede those Of
commerce IN the consideration of the
American people,
Mr. Bigelow, under date of November
80, reports reading dispatch of Mr.
Stewards 10 Mr. DTouyn de l'Huys, who
thanked him, though he was obliged TO
say he derived neither pleasure nor sat.
isfaction from It's contents
Mr. Seward, December Is, SAYS il is the
Presidents purpose that France should
| 4 -.s,oacf IN llv informed 1,,,op t,-o Y,oiDrs