The undersiuned says that his Government could not admit 0 • the pos.5ibility of the execution of the measure in quest10n; for, at the period indicated, many of the disagreeable consequences of the battle of San Jacinto had already been experienced in Mexico, and, moreover, in addition to its unalterable conviction of the obvious justice of its claims in this case, the Government of the undersiuned confided too far in the nobleness of character which distin!!l~shes the American Government, to believe that it would, 0 by a movement of the troops of General Gaines, render still more embarras.5ing the position in which a neighboring and friendly nation had been momentarily placed by the results of that day of casual misfortune. The undersigned, for the same reasons, flattered himself ,,~th the same idea, and he was more and more confirmed in it, as he learned that General Gaines had undeceived himself respecting the reports of an invasion by Indians, by which some partisans of the Texans had, ,~thout doubt, endeavored to beguile his good faith, as he saw that the General had informed the Governors of the four Stales by letter, that he had no longer any need of the corps of volunteers which he had requested from them; and finally, as he saw him remaining quietly at his encampment in the Sabine, during the whole period of the retreat of the Mexican army to the Rio del Norte. To this effect the undersigned was constantly informing his Government, as the events were occur- ring, and he took the greater pleasure in doing so, as he saw in each of them a confirmation of the hopes held out to him by Mr. Forsyth, in his letter of the 10th of May last, where he says "that perhaps there would be no necessity for the said advance of General Gaines." Unforhmately, however, General Gaines now appears to have returned to a different opinion, according to his official despatch of the 28th of June, extracted and published in the Globe of the 25th instant, in which he announces his intended invasion of the Mexican territory, under the pretext that he has been informed of the murder of two white men by some Caddo Indians, sixty or seventy miles beyond the known limits of the United States; as if General Gaines had been commissioned to chastise all the exces.5es committed (if they have been committed) by Indians against the whites in territories which are not North American. The undersigned will, however, abstain for the present
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