object of the authority given to General Gaines for a temporary occupation of a position beyond the boundary actually possessed by the United States, and the assurances promptly offered at the same time that such occupation, if made, should cease with the exigency which rendered it necessary, have failed to reconcile the Mexican Government to such contingency. The fact referred to by Mr. Gorostiza, of General Gaines having, on better information, or under a favorable change of circumstances, revoked the call which he had first made upon the Governors of the neighboring States for militia, affords evidence that he properly interprets the President's directions, and justifies the belief that he will not advance beyond the necessity of the occasion. If General Gaines has now repeated his call, and entertains the intention of advancing to Nacogdoches, unless he shall receh·e satisfactory assurances that the Indians on our border had no hand in the recent murders on the Navisota, it is due to candor to General Gaines to attribute these acts to a conviction of their necessity; and the undersigned is persuaded that Mr. Goro:;tiza will be satisfied, on reflection, that it is more reasonable to a.5cribe them to such a motive, than to charge upon General Gaines any oi the mere pretexts hinted at in Mr. Gorostiza's note. The undersigned hopes that General Gaines may find it unnecessary to make the contemplated advance; but, should it Ix otherwise, he trusts that, when all the circumstances connc>ctn.i with it shall be fully examined, it will be viewed in its true light. a:: a measure of necessity, entirely friendly in its charnl'lt'r. and consistent with the rights of all parties; and he sincerdy lrnpt·.:: th~tt it will be followed by none of the consequent·es whkh :\\r. Gorostiza seems to apprehend. The undersianed avails himself of the occasion tn '-,ffr·r t' 0 Mr. Gorostiza the assurances of his most di::tin~ti~l('d consideration.
His Excellency Senor Don Manuel Eduardo de Gorosli~a, '-'h.
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