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up every avenue which could lead to an honora-
bic settlement between the two natons'-because
" the new Government discarded the national in
erests well as those of Continental Ameri-
ca" and preferred foreign influences the most op-
poste, European ones, fatal to Mexican Liberty
and the Republican System, which the United States
hold it duty to preserve and protect" Thus
duty, honor and dignity itself imposed on us The
necessity of not losing season of which the mo-
narchical party was taking violent advantage; for
not a moment ,oas to be lost, and we acted with
the promptness and decision necessary in case so
urgent;" that is to say, every avenue to peace
being now blocked up" we "precipitated events
to speak plainly, (as indeed in this connexion, the
President did in his last Annual Message to Con-
gress,) ordered Gen. TAYLOR TO advance to Mata-
moros, and so, without loss of time, brought on The
Dar!


Out OF the diplomatic phrases prescribed TO Gen.
ScoTT from Washington, in which the whole para
graph is wrapped up, we have thus drawn, as all
must admit, its real meaning, which is neither more
nor less, in BRIEF than this that MeTico, In Uioia-
ton Of The .Americaa continental system, acas about
TO return 10 a ntonarchicat form Of Government
under a European prince; and that to prevent
it made haste to go to war with her, lest, if we
delayed, she should be able to complete league
with some Of the monarchical powers of Europe,
and be thereby enabled to maintain her national
existence.


Now, we undertake to show that this Admins
tration after-thought, this new governmental theory
of the war, is quite fallacious all preced-
ing systems of Cabinet pretences.


First Of all, this pretence Of necessity imposed
US, by the peril of Mexico's setting up Kingly
Government under Prince to be borrowed from
Europe, is ptiable political anachronism, which
the least examination of dates totally explodes. 1t
only when Mexico saw not which way to turn,
in order to save herself from our advancing and re-
morseless encroachments-when she perceived that
Texas was gone, that our hand was all this side
of the Rio Bravo, and that California was next to
be torn from her--that in her despair, with our
fleets besetting her ports in both and our army
threatening her frontier, she entertained, among
small part of her citizens, and these the most in
oeterate Of the War party, any idea of taking
fuge under stronger form of Government and
European alliance, from destruction by us. 1t was
after the refusal to receive Mr.. SLIDELL as full
Minister that the viruous and patriotic Admins
tration of HERRERA that which rejected him) fell
and it only after the accession of PAREDEs, its
subyerter that small portion of the war party,
headed lit was supposedly by him, turned their last
hopes ofindependence to this scheme of monarchy.
But the plan--if it had even been conceived at the
time when las this latest of the many y-tongued pro-
CARNATIONS distinctly admits) every avenue to an
honorable settlement between the two nations was
blocked up never enlisted any popular support:
Mexico thought herself driven to no such forlorn
remedy would not barter her aspirations to Re-
publican freedom for even her self-preservation !;
and presently, when convinced that such the
project of PAREDEs, overset him, by an almost
universal nsurrection, to re-instate the expelled
SANTA ANNA, made popular again, out of his late
detestation, by his opposition to the monarchical
scheme. This is history not to be disputed for
every body knows it to be the true one. For this,
its last effort at selfexculpaton, the Administration
has drawn upon its imagination, where it should
have consulted its memory dreaded the public's
To find defensible motives for its conduct it has
feigned facts of only subsequent existence; facts
never in their true amount justifying (f they had
even directed) its course, and, worst of ALL facts
which us conduct alone caused instead of their
inducing its conduct. Nothing, we repeat but its
merciless proceedings ever led small party in
Mexico-not lovers of monarchy, but seekers of
salvation from ruin and a detestable conqucst-to
form any such idea and that idea was, among
people republican enough at least never to stomach
the thought of King rejected with indignation by
the country, from one end to the other.


But, suppose this new pretext to be ever so
well founded, what right has this Government
upon any principle of public law or of establish
ed domestic policy, to dictate to any nation what
form of government it shall set up, or what
change it shall or shall not make in that govern
ment! Can any thing be more monstrously repug-
nant to the theory and practice of our own Gov
ernmen or to all the principles of Republicanism
on which both Governments are based /! Our
Constitution, like that of Mexico, is subject to
amendment by the People through prescribed
method. They may, if it pleases them, in their
sovereign power, annul it, and substitute for it ano
ther. But could such an absurdity be conceived of
as that Mexico or any other Power, should come
in and demand of us to take our whole Government
into custody, and hold it in durance by means Of
conquering army, upon any such miserable pre-
tence as is set up in this Proclamation


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