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Daniel Webster and Mexican Relations
wrong throughout the whole world. Similar action was taken
in Maryland. A stronger tone, however, was assumed in Louisi-
ana. There the legislative body adopted and sent to the upper
house of Congress a series of resolutions stating that the United
States should intervene not only to secure the release of Kendall
and Combs and to have the conditions of the surrender of the
whole group fulfilled in so far as they pertained to the citizens
of the United States, but also to see that the property of the
Texans was returned to them. On February 4, 1842, more-
over, five thousand people gathered at the Bank Arcade, a saloon
in New Orleans, in a public meeting which severely condemned
the treatment which the Santa Fe captives had received.18
There were some people in the United States, on the other
hand, who believed, or affected to believe, that the abortive Texas
venture was a scheme hatched in the United States for the pur-
pose of embroiling that country and Mexico in a war which would
result eventually in the annexation of Texas to the United States.
Such an idea was expressed on September 17, 1842, in a speech
delivered to his constituents at Braintree, Massachusetts, by John
Quincy Adams who was reported to have insinuated that Presi-
dent Tyler himself encouraged the expedition for that purpose.14
The small group which subscribed to this opinion very naturally
felt that the government would be unjustified in demanding the
liberation of those of its citizens then imprisoned in Mexico.
Negotiations to that end were begun, however, before the last of
them had reached Mexico City.
Yet, to say the least, the administration at Washington had
a delicate diplomatic problem to handle. Regardless of what
had been the motives of the citizens of the United States who
had accompanied the Santa Fe expedition and of their apparent
innocence with regard to its real purpose, they certainly had
placed themselves in a bad light by being found with an armed
force which had even a remote purpose of causing a revolt in
what was considered by Mexico as one of her provinces. This
Webster realized. Addressing Bailie Peyton, the United States
327th Cong., 2nd Sess., Exec. Doe. 42, pp. 1-2; Laws of Maryland
(Annapolis, 1842), pages unnumbered; 27th Cong., 2nd Sess., Cong.
Globe, March 21, 1842; The Daily Picayune, February 5, March 31, 1842.
"4Niles' Register, October 29, 1842.297
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