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The Carvajal Disturbances
of the United States a person arrested for a crime must be ac-
quitted unless witnesses are forthcoming.8
Carvajal was released in May but remained practically inactive
during the rest of 1853 and 1854; he was probably involved in
some intrigues looking forward to a participation in the liberat-
ing expedition to Cuba proposed in 1854 by John A. Quitman of
Mississippi, and in movements opposing Santa Anna, led by Don
Juan Alvarez, Juan B. Ceballos, Ignacio Comonfort, and others."
In December, 1854, Juan N. Almonte, Mexican minister to the
United States, communicated the information to Marcy that he
believed Carvajal was contemplating another invasion of Mexico.
He, therefore, deplored the acquittal of the "pirate" Carvajal by
the authorities at Brownsville.o
Marcy in reply to Almonte's note of December 12 assumed a
rather firm tone in hinting that the trouble on the border might
be a result of a lack of exertion on the part of Mexico for its own
protection. The United States had tried to remain friendly;
therefore for that reason the United States
. has not pressed, with inconsiderate, nor even with justifiable
urgency, any one of the many instances of which its citizens loudly
complain, of illegal exactions, of abnegation of justice, of robbery
and murder, and of the abstraction and violation of mails, and corre-
spondence, with the connivance and consent, if not indeed, by the
hands of the officials of that Republic.31
In the summer of 1855 there was again apprehension among
the Mexican authorities, lest Carvajal should make another in-
vasion. The Mexican consul at Brownsville informed his gov-
ernment that, not far from that city, Carvajal was assembling
troops with which to make a new incursion. But the invasion
8ssConkling to Alamin, May 5, 1853, in ibid., 570; Conkling to Marcy, May 5,
1853, in ibid., 571.
soMcLeod to Quitman, April 30, 1854, and May 31, 1854; Wheat to Quitman,
October 13, 1854, and October 29, 1854; Ford to Quitman, June 5, 1854, and
December 17, 1854 (MSS., John A. Quitman Papers, Mississippi Department of
Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi; microfilm copy, Archives Collection,
University of Texas Library).
90Almonte to Marcy, December i, 1854, in Manning (ed.), Diplomatic Cor-
respondence, IX, 735-
olMarcy to Almonte, January 8, 1855, in ibid., 176.229
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