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people we are identified with by commerce, language & blood, I
always have & hope I always shall cherish the feeling, that no
temporary cause, or trivial disagreement should drive the two
nations to war, & do not believe that any man would regret more
than I should to see a War between them but the British Nation
have been so much in the habit of offering insult upon insult to
the United States in such rapid succession that we forget old
injuries to Complain of such that are more recent, their per-
tinacity in persisting in their right to search all our vessels
sailing in the African seas, their refusing to make any atone-
ment in the affair of the Caroline,43 & recently refusing to sur-
render the negroes who were guilty of murder in the Creole44 it
does seem to me are indignities if unatoned for two humiliating
for the United States to submit to; Nations like individuals
would act wisely to follow Old Polonious advice to Laertes
"beware of intering into quarrel, but being in, bear it that the
opposer may beware of thee" If War or the degration [degra-
dation] & disgrace of my Country is to be the alternative, then
let War come with all its horrors & calamities, as to Mexico it
does seem to me that we have for years had cause of War with
that Government they have so long refused to pay or make any
indemnity for spoilations & depredations upon the property of
the Citizens of the United States; & recently having imprisoned
the United States Consul at Santa fee"45 & having refused to
surrender Kendle4" who had a passport with other citizens from
the United States, who are loaded with irons, and compeled to per-
form the most menial and degrading services and above all having
barbarously and inhumanly shot McAlister a citizen of the state
of Tenasee with two citizens from Texas because they were
43The Caroline, a steamer owned by a citizen of Buffalo, New York, was
seized, fired and set adrift by Canadian and British forces on December
29, 1837, while it was on the American side of the St. Lawrence River.
The Caroline had been used to transport men and munitions from the
United States to the Canadian rebels. George P. Garrison, Westward
Expansion, in A. B. Hart, American Nation : A History. New York and
London (Harper & Brothers), 1906. XVII, 67-84.
44The Creole, a vessel, was transporting negro slaves from Norfolk,
Virginia, to New Orleans, when the negroes revolted, seized control of
the vessel 'and landed at Nassau in the Bahamas where the British
authorities released the negroes. Edward Channing, A History of the
United States. New York (The Macmillan Co.), 1921. V, 534-41.
45Manuel Alvarez was the United States Consul at Santa F6 at this
time. On September 16, 1841, his house was attacked by a group of
Mexicans led by Governor Armijo's nephew. W. C. Binkley, "New Mexico
and the Last Stage of the Texan Santa F6 Expedition," Southwestern
Historical Quarterly, XXII, 260-71.
a"George Wilkins Kendall, editor of the New Orleans Picayune, partici-
pated in the Texan Santa F6 Expedition and in a two volume work,
Narrative of the Texan Santa F Expedition, left a very vivid account
of his experiences.370
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