The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-30
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Southern Emigration TO Mexico.

Southern Emigration 10 Mexico.
There has Just been issued from the
Government printing office the message
Of the PRECEDENT Of the United States,
communicating to the Senate informa
ton in regard 70 plans to induce emf
grafton Of dissatisfied citizens of the
| United States into Mexico, and espe-
eially in regard TO the plans of Dr. VIM.
n GWin and n F. Maury. A brief no.
tice of the document has heretofore been
published, and it may now be added,
as matter Of interest, that on the 9th
of February last Senor Romero address
ed letter TO Secretary Seward, pro-
testing in the most explicit and formal
manner against the cession which the
Ex-Archduke of Austria, Ferdinand
Macmillan, has made, or Is about TO
make, to the French Government of
various States of the Mexican Repub-
/ lie. In February last, Senior Romero
| called the attention of Secretary Sew
ard 10 the printed documents which
accompanied his note, and which, he
says, show not only the cordial under
standing which existed, to the injury
Of the United States, between the insur-
gents against the government in Texas
and the French who are waging war
against the government of Mexico in
Mstamoras; but also the measures taken
in concert, between the French and
their agents on the one part, and the
insurgents Of Texan on the other. to
resist the power Of the national gov
ternInens Of Mexico, seat wizh s. vie0 ,f
recovering the post of MatamOras
from the possession Of the French.
Among the papers submitted by Mr..
Romero is q letter from him to BRO
yique A. Mejia, who says before leaving
Mexico he was shown the original letter
from Napoleon to Marshal Bazaine, re-
commending DR.. Gwin's plan as sub
mitted TO him, and directing the Mar
shal TO furnish the troops demanded by
Gwin. The object he says, is to colo
ME Sonora and other frontier States
with veteran Confederates as barrier
to any aggression of the United States;
ard to then create a power always hos
tile, and, with the assistance of the
French, sufficiently formidable to resist
all attempts against Macmillan.
Secretary Seward, on July Is, 1865,
thanked SenOr Romero for communi-
eating the important information, and
informed him that the subject would
receive the prompt consideration Of this
Go1ernment, and that the proper meas
ure would be adopted in reference to
them. The Secretary accordingly wrote
to Minister Bigelow, inclosing a copy
Of three intercepted letters, two from
William n. Gwin and one from his son,
showing that DR.. GWin and his family
are dislOyal, and that they are engaged
n obtaining grants Of universal lands
n the states of that republic adjoining
ihe United States, and that DR.. Twin is
% be the chief directing agent in work
ing these mines; that large accession
of capitalists and emigrants in those
States, from the rebels against the
United States, is expected that they
assure the said Macmillan and the En-
peror Of France that their contemplated
proceedings tend TO promote Maxi
miliins success that they regard their
enterprise as injurious to the United
States, and that they claim to have the
patronage Of the Emperor Of the French,
with assurances Of military aid
NJ. Seward adds have TO request
thatyou will submit copy of this in
tercepted correspondence to NJ. Drouyn
de Ihuys You will frankly inform
him that the sympathies Of the Ameri-
can people are already considerably ex-
cited in favor Of the Republic Of Mex.
leo, and that they are disposed TO re-
gardwith impatience the continued in
tervention OF France in that country
that any favor shown to the proceed
iugi Of Dr.. Gwyn by the titular Empe-
ror Of Mexico or the Imperial Govern
meat of France with reference to those
agents, will tend greatly to increase the
popular impotence, because 1t will be
eaTded, perhaps justly, as imparting
dangers 70 or ct least, as q menace
against the United States.
N Drouyn de Lhuys, in August last,
replied 20 Minister Dayton, saying
AS for France, she has on several occa.
si0ns and with entire frankness, stated
her Tesolution 10 observe in al the in
tsrnsl questions which may agitate OF
divide the CniOn, an impartial and
srupulous neutrality. We have moth
ing toofier as a pledge Of our inten-
tons but our word, but we deem the
word Of France a guarantee which viii
sttisfy any friendly Power, IS we our
solves are satisfied with the word pledC.
ed to Us by the Federal government to
remfin strictly neutral with regard 70
sfairs in Mexico.
fI In November last Senor Romero adj
dressed a letter TO Secretary Seward
transmitting to him q copy IN English
OF the sO-called FIVE DEGREES Of the Ex.
Afchdukeof Austria, in which he name )
NJ F. Maury, declared enemy Of the
United States. an honorary cOnsulator
OF the State and Imperial Commissioner
Of Colonization and J. B Msgrudtr ?
also q declared enemy Of this govern
ment, O. chief Of the colonization Land
z Ofce Maury hiss been suthori ed 10
establish cgencies in the States of Vir-
Einia, North and South Carolina, Texas,
II Mssouri, and California, and the Cities
. of Mobile and New Orleans. which
: plainly shows they only think to get
: men from the South, and precisely from
these States where there are maloou.
tents against the government Il is a
p vey signiGcsnt fact that not one single
}, agency Il established in the Northern
Sistes which were faithful 70 the Union
Of this government during the late
|. ciNl war.
Secretary Seward, Dec. q, informs
SeIor Romero that the documents have
ben duly considered By this goysrH-