Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress at the commencement of the Second Session of the Twenty-Eighth Congress. December 3, 1844. Page: 86 of 129
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No. 17.
Mfr. Bocanegra to Mr. Greezn.
[TRANSLATION.]
[No. 4.]
NATIONAL PALACE, EXICO, JlyEX Jl 8, 1844.
The undersigned, Minister of Foreign Relations and Government, had
the honor to receive the communication, dated the 4th instant, from the
charg6 d'affaires of the United States of Amlerica, and its contents oblige
him not to leave it unanswered.
If Mr. Green has flattered himself that the discussion would have been
terminated on his part, the undersigned has exposed clearly and decisively,.
in his preceding notes, that although he was desirous to conclude it, yet he
could do no less than continue it, in order to sustain thle dignity and integrity
of the Republic which the American legation lias attacked, presenting
the affair at one time on the grounds that the policy of its Government,
in order to mnaitlaiii slavery in the United States, obliged it to signi
the treaty of annexation; then denying the rights and dominion of Mexico
over that department; then asserting that the United States are fully
authorized to treat with Texas. This variable course, which has been
given by Mr. Green to the principal question, (namely, as regards the treaty
above mentioned,) has forced the ministry to take into consideration each
of these points, and to answer on each, in order to place in a clear light
the justice of the cause of Mexico, throughl the replies given to the arguments
adduced by the legation.
In the last note, of the 4th instant, to which the undersigned is now replying,
the charge d'affaires appears in the character of a defender, and as if
he were a representative of the independence proclaimed by the colonists
and adventirers who came into Texas. This remarkable circumstance,
against which the undersignled has express orders to protest, as he does protest,
(rechlzar,) as also against the errors in which the charge d'afdaires will
permit me to tell him he has fallen, again force the unldersigned to rectify
the statements of facts which are cited, in order to overthrow the rights attempted
to be deduced from them, as they have been leading him from position
to position, ever since the charge d'affaires began this correspondence.
Mr. Green asserts that the natives of the United States were united
by the laws of Spain and Mexico; that they left their country, and established
themselves in Texas, not with the object of usurpation, it assumes that Mexico invited colonists to those territories, whilst
it is proved, by authentic and well-known documents, that the colony
solicited and founded by Austin had a contrary origin; and Mexico, in
the annals of her independence, has it set forth in a historical and invariable
manner.
An act so generous, so hospitable, so worthy of gratitude, and from
which the nation has received no benefit, cannot be cited in the terms
employed with regard to it by Mr. Green; and much less, considering
that a small number of families has never been allowed to place itself,
above the general mass of the nation. Is there any system of legislation
which gives a fraction the superiority over thie whole ?
Mr. Green says that the colonists went to Texas under the federal
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