4 CLAMA TION.
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The Executive is now enabled to declare to the people ofTexas the actual state of their affairs with respect to Mexico, to the end that they may direct and dispose them they shall judge best for the honor and permanent interests oi the Republic.

 During the course of the last winter il reached the knowledge of the Executive, from various of information (unoficai, indeed, but still worthy of attention and credii) that the late and present Gov ernInent of Mexico were disposed to peaceful set

 clement of the difficulties with Texas b, the acknowl edgement of our Independence. upon the understand.

 ing that Texas would maintain her separate exist. ence Ne action, however, could he taken upon the subject, because nothing authentic was known until the month of March as., when the Representatives of France and Great Britain thls Government, jointly and formally renewed the offer of the good offices of those powers with Mexico, for the early and peaceful settlement of this struggle, upon the basis of the acknowledgement of our Independence by that Republic.

 IL would have been the imperative duty of the Ex- ecuive at once to reject these offers, if they had been accompanied by conditions of any kind what pec, and great dsincIinatlon to entangng alliances of any descripton, or with any power. he must de- clare, m n spirit of justice, that condi- lions have ever been proposed by the two Govern mens in question, either of them, as the consid- eraton of their friendly inte' position.

 Malurey considering ihe situation of affairs al

 that tune, the Executive felt that t was incumbent upon him not to reject lhis opportunity of securing

 to the people of this country, untrammelled by con ditons, peaceful, honorable and advantageous set clement of their difficulties with Mexico, if they should see fit to adopt that mode of adjustment.

 Thus influenced, he accepted the good offices of the two powers, which. with those of the United States, had been previously invoked by Texas, and placed in the hands of their Representatives state- ment of conditions preliminary to treaty of peace, winch he declared he should be ready to submit to the people of this country for their decision and ton as soon as they were adopted by the Govern ment of Mexico. But he emphaticaly reminded those functonares for the specsl notice of their that he was no more than the agent of the people; that he could neither direct, control inluece their decision; and that his bounden duty was to carry out their determnation, constitution fly ascertained and expressed, be il what it might Our Representatives al the courts of France and Great Britain, in addition to the task of strengthen ing the friendly dispositions Of those Goverpments, was also especially instructed to press upon their al lenton, that if the people of Texas should determine 10 put an end to the separate existence oi the try, the Executive, 50 far as depended upon his off, pial action, must and would give immediate and full effect 10 their will

 The circumstances which preceded and led to an with Mexico have thus been slatsd,