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TIE WAR IN TEXAS.
a shock he must, finally, have experienced, frojn the
unbounded joy which he perceived with astonishment
in great and.small, in the magnates and legislators,
when the result of the battle of San Jacinto was
known in Washington: let all this thed, we repeat,
be added to what was already alarming for the ilexican
Envoy, in the contents of the Memorandum, and
it will be easy to conceive what were the impres
mions which he was successively receiving during the
first period of the correspondence now published; and
how tley afterwards contributed to produce his conviction
tbr having acted in the manner that he has;
even though the diplomatists of the United States
may have skilfully endeavored at the last hour, to
change the ground in which until then the contention
had been waged, by removing to another which, ifnot
less offensive to the dignity, rights and interests ot
Mexico, is at least more plausible, especially in the
eyes of the American public.
A part of this correspondence has already been
printed by order of the Senate of the United States,
and consequently no inconvenience whatever is felt,
neither is any apprehension eintertained of failing in
diplomatic delicacy by concluding the publication of
what was written subsequently; the more so as it all
turns9 upon a negotiation already terminated, and
which, therefore, has already entered into the dominion
of history. For a contrary reason, we have abstained
from giving to the press, many notes relating
to'other Texan affairs, even though they would undoubtedly
have contributqd to throw much light upon
the subject of the passage of the Sabine. We hope
that the government ot Mexico will order, at the proper
time, the publication of all these documents, if it
should ever prove useful to it to have it known,
what has been till now to Mexico, the so much proclaimed
neutrality oJ the United btates in the war
which a friendly and neighbouring power has had to
sustain against the ungrateful foreigners whom she had
admitted into oae of her mostferile provmnc:s. And
these foreigners are all North Americans, as have
been all who have aided them with their persons,
money, writings, advice, and hatred towards Mexico
!! .*
The following extract from a "Manifesto"
of the Mexican Congress, issued on the 29th
of July, 1836, will show what were the views
and feelings of their Statesmen, at that time,
in regard to the colonists in Texas, and their
insurgent allies, as well as the government of
the United States. It will also exhibit the determination
of that body, to maintain the honor
and the integrity of the Mexican Republic, at
all hazards. A combination of adverse circumstances,
alone, prevented them from speedily
effecting the suppression of the instirrection.
It is evident that they then placed a confidence
in the justice of those in authority, here, which
subsequent events have proven to be entirely
without foundation.
" MEXICANS: This name alone embraces all
that the Congress of your Representatives has
to say to you to-day. This name signified
primitively a great, barbarous, and superstitious
nation, as all have been in their infancy, whose
fate it was to be coveted, at the distance of
two thousand leagues, by Etiropean avarice
and ambition sought, found, and at length
subjugated, its primitive owners remaining
strangers in their own land, which was to be
divided amongst its new lords, for whom, besides,
they were obliged to cultivate it. It
became afterwards a rich colony, extolled by
its possessors; little known, but too much en.
vied, by the iations to whom it did not belong,
and peopled by a mixed race, in which already
was seen confounded and thrown together, the
conquered and the conquerors.
Next came the epoch of the virility of the
nation; nature raised its irresistible voice, and
felt the violence with which her designs were
eluded by wishing to unite extremes that had
been separated by the immense ocean, and
awoke in the then colonists, the sentiment of
the dignity of man, the charm of liberty, and
the desire to be really masters of their own
homes. They entered on the glorious contest;
they sustained it heroically for eleven years, at
the end of which, justice crowned its brows.
They created themselves a home, and. they
became their own masters. Since that time
the name, Mexicans, has signified a nation,
sovereign and independent, that rules its own
destiny, and occupies,among all the nations of
the globe, the distinguished rank which merits
its natural advantages and the efforts which it
has made to obtain it.
This sign of our eternal glory, is, that whlich
is on the eve of being lost, and that which ungrateful
and perverse persons wish to exclude
for ever, substituting in its stead that of abjection
and of inexplicable ignominy.
Yes, countrymen, such is the tendency of
the contest in which perversity and the blackest
ingratitude has engulphed you. There is
no medium: for you triumph and your name
will continue to signify freb men, lords of their
land and of themselves, or that which to-day
is a respected nation, will become a degraded
branch grafted on a foreign trunk, in which
Texas, and let the volunteers of Florida on their return
embark in the steamboats, and come to protect these unfortunate
inhabitants, quite
the eontrary, there is scarcely a respectable merchant, or
independent gentlemen, or a real officer in the army or
navy, or eonductor of a periodical entertaining self-r, spect,
or ant functionary tho cannot be remnoved, er in tine any
Amercan of the school of Waskhiitsn or Madison, who
does not belong to this number. But, what can so small a
tractionido ainst the torrent of a mass necessarily ignorant,
who is al powertul, and suffers itself to be blindly
led by the way lhat suits their immoral and greedy flatterers,
de-void of all principle, and eonsequently without
any barrier to check them. Nothing, unfortunately. or
Mtexce, and unfortunately likewise for the United States.
The Mexican Envoy, bowever, w.ll never forget the
testimonials cf sincere interest which he has observed in
all those citizels, for the cause which he was charged to
defend, particularly in excellent and enlightened Philadelphia,
in Boston, Baltimore, and even in New York,
notwithstandmng this last city was the heal quarters of the
speculators in'Texan lands. Healso improves this opportunity
to thank the Editors of the Nation-l Intellgencer,
the Atla, ,the N. York American,