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March 28th 1845. J
- Sir The perusal of your excellent news-
paper has afforded rue abundant gratification.
Jt is just Hie journal that Texas has Jong
needed. Its high moral lone its truthfulness
its richness in au intellectual point of view
-added iw the high position it has taken in the
political affairs of hat infant Republic enti-
tle it pre-eminently to the consideration and
patronage of the people of that and I will
also say of this country who feel uuy interest
iu the prosperity and happiness of a free peo-
ple who have broken the fetters of despotism
iind are just emerging into a new existence.
Texas is no more a suppliant but the door
has been flung wide open and she kindly and
earnestly invited to eutrau equal member of
litis great family of States and partake freely
of those large blessings which flow from such
a union. You will have learned before this
jeaches you with what unauimity the mea-
sure passed the House of Representatives the
immediate organ of the people and that a
large majority of the Senate was favorable to
it although several voted against the joint
resolutions on the ground that it could only
be effected by the treaty-making power. Mil-
lions of hearts have been gladdened by the
action of Congress on this question and the
admission of Texas will be hailed with loudest
acclamations of joy.
Every member of Mr. Polk's cabinet is
and has ever been the warm and consistent
friend of annexation. Some of them have
labored zealously for its accomplishment but
no one more than Mr. Walker Secretary of
the Treasury. His whole heart has been iu
the measure and he never for a moment re-
laxed his exertions until it was consummated.
lAl r. liaminel his colleague iu the House of
Representatives also rendered most essential
service. His efforts were untiring aud con-
ducted with great judgment. 1 might men-
tion a host of other worthies in the Senate
and House who devoted themselves to this
great national measure but they need no no-
lice from my pen ; their names are recorded
on the archives of their country and their
memory will ever be fondly cherished bjr the
suns of freedom.
Mr. Tyler's administration terminated most
gloriouslv; aud he aud his able cabinet advi-
hers are well entitled to the enduring gratitude
of all the friends of annexation. Mr. Cal-
houn brought to the support of the measure
the full strength aud power of his mighty in-
tellect: aud cold aud unfeeling must be that
heart unjust and uncharitable that spirit that
would withhold from him the praise aud honor
which are justly his due. I am sorry to say
that there are some such hearts aud spirits iu
our midst even iu high places; but in the
judgment of the honest millions they .cannot
with all their venom tear a single green leaf
from his well earned laurels.
I cannot speak too warmly or highly of
Messrs. Harris aud Heart of the "Constitu-
tion ;" and Mr. Ritchie of the "Richmond
inquirer." They have from the first moment
been the true and unwavering friends of Tex-
as and have nobly defended her from the slan
derous aspersions of her foes and ably and
successfully advocated the policy of bringing
her into this great Union. Mr. W. D. Wal-
lach of Matagorda Texas has been here
during the winter as the correspondent of the
Richmond Enquirer lie is a true hearted
democrat and has wielded u faithful pen in
support of annexation.
A large proportion of the friends of annex-
ation in this country are in hopes Texas will
accept the terms of the joint resolutions as
they first passed the House so as not to make
it necessary to resort to the treaty-making
power lest a treaty might fail of ratification.
They entertain the opinion that Texas once
admitted as a State will have tio difficulty iu
obtaining her just rights. But this is a ques-
tion for her decision and I doubt notshe will
determine it wisely. Yours truly
R.
light and fictitious works has given a tone and
a bent to my mind which in every respect
partakes of the character of those works; and
their influence is inseparable. A parent
should never permit his child to peruse a work
of fiction as long as he has any regard tor his
mind his morals or his happiness. Novels
iu my opinion an the most fruitful source of
uuhanpiness aud discontent in the world.
Even drunkenness with all its sickness aud
loathsome horrors docs not engender more
pure aud unmitigated misery. 'J 'hey portray
unreal and overwrought images of perfection
and inspire wishes iu our bosoms which can
never he realized. Consequently we are dis-
appointed and uneasy. .They clothe vice and
immorality in the hues of the rain-bow which
strike the youthful imagination with force and
power while the garb of their opposite virtue
is often made plain and unattractive with no-
thing to recommend it but its own innate worth.
Finally they create a distempered fancy and
morbid sensibility which renders us totally
unfit for collision with the cold and uncharita-
ble world. The minds of youth should be'im-
pressed tvith something more substantial and
more useful. IJ.
illustrous as it is powerful' which sustaining
nobly the rank which it occupies in the world
respects the laws of comity buena nmisted
between foreign nations and founds its glory
upon the immutable titles of morality and
justice. The Government of the Undersigned
has no occasion to exhibit all the grounds' upon
which it relies for its resistance of this mea-
sure of Annexation as they are nhvions and
known to all and as the feeling excited among
friendly nations and even those which have'
no official relations with Mexico will be pro-
found upon learning of a measure so injurious
and offensive to Mexico and so utterly un
worthy the honor buen nombre of the United
undersigned will take occasion to
For Ike Register.
NOVEL READING ITS EFFECTS.
The reader will indulge me with a few
words upon the effects of novel reading de-
duced from ezpericnie. While other men are
LATER FROM MEXICO.
We received yesterday by the brig Guada-
lete advices two days later from Vera Cruz
whence she sailed on the 4th inst. The first
things which met our eye upon a single glance
at our Mexican files were the letter of Senor
Cuevas to Mr. Shannon and the circular ad-
dressed to the Ministers of Spain France and
Engl ind of which we have heretofore made
mention and of which we now give transla-
tions :
To His Excellency Wilson Shannon En-
voi Extraordinary Sfc. fyc.
National Palace Mexico March 28 1845.
The undersigned Minister of Foreign Re-
lations iu addressing himself for the last lime
to His Excellency Mr. Shannon Minister
Plenipotentiary from the United States desires
to inform him that as both houses of the
United States Congress have sanctioned the
law in relation to the Annexation of Texas to
the territory of the United States aud as the
Minister from Mexico has withdrawn from his
mission at Washington an:l protested against
the act of Congress and the Government of
the United States diplomatic relations between
the two countries cannot be continued.
What can the undersigned add to what has
already been said by his Government upon the
grave offence offered' Mexico by the United
States usurping a portion of Mexican territo-
ry and violating the terms of treaties of
friendship which the Republic of Mexico has
observed on her part as long as her honor and
the desire to avoid a rupture with the United
States have permitted? Nothing more than
to lament that two nations free and republican
contiguous vecinns and worthy of a fraternal
union founded upon mutual interests and a
common and honorable loyalty should have
cut short their friendly relations and by an
act as offensive to Mexico as it is derogatory
to the honor of the American Union.
The undersigned renews to His Excellency
xur. ouuuiiou me protest already directed u-
gainst Annexation ; aud moreover would add
that the Mexican Republic will oppose the
measure with all the decision due to her own
honor and sovereignty and that the Govern-
ment ardently desires that considerations of
loyalty aud justice should yet outweigh with
the citizens of the United States designs for
extending their territory at the expense of a
friendly Republic which iu the midst of its
misfortunes disgracias seeks to preserve an
unspotted name and thereby the rank to which
its destinies call it.
The undersigned has the honor to offer to
His Excellency Mr. Shannon his personal
respect and to assure him of his very distin-
guished consideration.
LUIS G. CUEVAS.
States.
But the
observe to His Excellency' Senor that
the American Government having beeu the
first to acknowledge the independence of the
Republic of Mexico showing itself a zealous
partiziin of liberty has been the oulv one
iwhich has endeavored to usurp a portion of her
territory. lie would also add that as it ap-
pears from recent declarations the designs of
the United States have been as old as the
friendship which it was scut' lit to confirm
first by a treaty of amity and by another for
the adjustment of boundaries which has now
beeu completely violated. In aiding Texas
to sever herself from the Republic the United
States were wanting in good faith; but iu aid-
ing to incorporate Texas with the American
Confederation aud declaring that this has
been her policy for twenty years she has pur-
sued a course which has no parallel iu the his-
tory of civilized nations.
Mexico to avcid differences which for -the
most part had no foundation iu justice as a-
gainst her has submitted to serious com-
promises; she has overlooked provocations
and injuries and has preserved her loyalty
with such fidelity as to give her more right
if the right she possesses can be increased to
speak out and protest as the undersigned now
does against the Annexation ol Texas to the
United States and against jail its conse-
quences. The Mexican Republic will em-
ploy in opposition to this measure her pow-
er and her resources and trusting in the jus-
tice of her cause does not fear to give assu-
rance that whatever may be the result she
will preserve the honor which at any cost she
ough: to defend in the very grave matter un-
der consideration. t
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With this view the undersigned renuests his
Excellency Senor to give this protest
its proper direction and at the same time to
accept the assurauccs of his most distinguised
consideration.
LUIS G. CUEVAS.
This circular was communicated to" their
Excellencies the Ministers Plenipotentiary of
England France and Spain.
Apart from the above letter and circular
which we have deemed of sufiieiept interest to
give them entire our files contain little that has
not been before known here.
The Siglo uive. no credence to the rumors
of another revolution which have obtained
currency iu Mexico as well as in this country.
These reports it attributes to the orders of Go-
vernment despatching certain military chief-
tains to the different Departments.
We Have seen nothing new respecting Santa
Anna.
It does not nppenr from the tenor of the offi-
cial communications what will be the nature
of the resistance Mexico will make to Annexa-
tion. Senor Cuevas' letters are in a grandil-
nquent vein but propose nothing definite.
Picayune.
no proposal for the restoration" of friendly
relations between the two countries Would v
be entertained unless the-project of annex-
ation was formally renounced by the Uni- -ted
States. Civilian.
By an arrival from Corpuar Christi we
are in possession of the following notes
from the report of Capt. Bell of-the recent
skirmish with a party of Indians in that-
vicinity. On the 21st tilt the companies of Maj.
Hays and Capt. Bell left the ranehe to
seek the Indians reported to be in the neighs
bourhood Hays with his command iol
lowed a trail discovered the day before but
lost it taking its direction oh the 25thr
beyond the Agua Dulce a fresh trail way-
discovered leading from the Nueces son tit
to the Malamoras road Hays and Bell
with a small party followed it for about
four hours when three Indians were dis
covered about a mile distant supposed to
be spies from the main body. Orders
were sent to the rear for the main body of
Texians to move up briskly while the first
party advanced to reconnoitre in a short
time the Indians about fifteen in number
were discovered in a small islet of timber
and were hailed and their tribe demanded
no reply being given a gun was fired (witli
out orders) by one of the party but without
effect which was returned by the Indians
who commenced a retreat covering them-
selves with an incessant discharge of arrows-
In the pursuit Capt. Bell and Mr.
Walker (formerly of Galveston) were
wounded. The pursuit lasted for about
five miles six Indians were killed and the
remaining with one exception wounded
most of the horses and camp equippage
were taken. Maj. Hays identified several
articles as belonging to persons recently
killed near Bexar which seems to confirm
the opinion that the Indians were a portion
of the Comanche party under the Chief
Santa Anna. The number of Texians
actually engaged was but seven the main
body not getting up in time. Civilian.
The hull of a new steam boat built at
Cincinnati on the Trinity by Mr Wm.
Clark for JMessef s Sterrett & Tichenor
arrived here on Thursday and reflects
great credit upon the architect. It is 140
leet on deck 26 feet beam and appears to
great advantage both for strength and mo
del. When completed the boat is expected
to carry SOD bales of cotton on ""three feet
nine inches water and to be capable of car-
rying IdOO or 1500 it full freighted. Mr
Clark was long engaged in the business of
boat building in the. United States and
has shown by the maimer in which he has
executed this piece of work that he has
lost nothing of his qualifications. The
parties for whom it has been executed ex-
press the most complete satisfaction and
state that in cost material and workman-
ship they have done much better to patro-
nize home industry than they could have
done by procuring a boat to be built in the
Un ite(l States.-
We hope to see many similar products
of the industry and enterprise of our coun-
trymen. Civilian.
The hull of the new steamer which ar-
rived on Thursday from Cincinnati brought
down five hundred bales of cotton and a
flat belonging to Mr Holms of Magnolia
which arrived at the same time brought
one hundred and thirv-four bales. Chi.
The generaloircular is as follow?:
The undersigned Minister of Foreign Re-
lations has the honor to transmit to his Excel-
lency the Minister of the following circular
being impelled to employ this means of trans-
mitting to his your Government iu this note
ihe solemn and formal protest of the Mexican
Republic suggested by au act which wound
ing to the last degree the rights and honor of
gifted with minds clear and lucid and with
thoughts that flow free mid limpetuous as the Mexico is equally destructive to the universal
principles ot justice to the respect due free
mountain current mine is a chaotic mass
composed of a thousand incongruous ingre-
dients without order or arrangementand.my
thoughts run wild unconnected aud uncon-
trollable. But the fault is almost exclusively
?ny oiciu Passionately fond of reading from
the time 1 was capable of connecting sentences
1 was unfortunately permitted to prescribe my
own course and naturally chose the one
which most nearly coincided with my youth-
ful feelings thus demonstrating clearly the
indiscretion parents are often guilty of in al-
lowing their children to judge for themselves.
An injudicious course of reading has ren
dered me.almost unfit for any useful or pro
and intelligent nations and the good faith
which civilization has fixed as the basis of in-
ternational intercourse iuternacionai political.
His Excellency. .Senor will understand
that the undersigned has reference to the law
passed by the Congress of the United States
and sanctioned by the Executive for the An-
nexation of the Department of Texas to the
American Union.
To present iu all its deformity thi3 act of
the Congress and Government of the United
States the alarming consequences of its con
duct towards the Mexican Republic would be
a useless labor inasmuch as this note is ad-
Mexico. The news from the capital is
up to the 22nd March and irom Vera Cruz
to tlie last.
The two branches of Congress acting as
a grand Jury have found a true bill
against Santa Anna though we have not
been able to discover the precise character
of the charges. He has put in his defence
in writing which is both very long and
very bold. The general impression is that
he is secure in life and limb and not with-
out hope of release and a restoration to
power by a new revolution. El 'Siglio
XIX says that if he was not perfectly free
from any apprehension regarding his per-
sonal security he would renew the dis-
gusting and cowardly conduct he practi
sed when captured at fcau Jacinto.
The request which he had made to the
Chambers to be permitted to resign the
Presidency and leave- the country had
been rejected.
On the 21st March the final passage of
the annexation resolutions by the United
States Congress having been learned the
subject was formerly introduced into the
Chamber of Deputies with resolutions de-
claring the treaty of 1831 at an end; re-
auirinsr the ports of Mexico to be closed
ncrnius't till -vessels of the United Slates. Specie still continues to leave Xer
prohibiting the introduction of the manu- York; S7o000 were recently sniped from
Among the results "having their origin iff)
the councils of General Jackson "and Hous-
ton" was it agreed upon that one should be
the elevation of Houston to the Presidency
of the United Stales? Gen. Jacksou's pow-
er to makePrcsidents has been demonstrated
and very signally. He has made sdmeout
of less available materials than the hero of
San Jacinto.
Inasmuch however as one lays himself
liable to imputations of being uuder British
influence if nut actually bought with British
gold by expressing any doubts of the speedy
completion of the annexation enterprise we
shall not venture to gainsav the assurances
held out in the' paragraph quoted from. the
Globe. We are quiet willing to take it-for
granted that Texas is determined to establish
her independence by losing it immediately ?
that she is aware her sovereignty can be secu-
red only by parting with it ; and that Sam
Houston would lie unwise to forego Gen.
Jnckson's promise of the Presidency of the?
United States if he has got it for ativfttheV '?-'
assurance of greatness under thd smuBdZ J
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