of whom I am speaking have called for aid on the inhabitants of this Union, thus, in my conception, openly casting an imputation upon the high character and good sense of its worthy inhabitants, it would seem but just that they should be made lo know the vainness of such an appeal. This has indeed been done in a most commendable manner by some newspapers: and why has not the Globe done so? On an occasion so interesting. it would appear, either that the accounts of the proceedings in Texas should be omitted, or that a proper explanation of the principal affairs should accompany the notices of them, in order that, al no period, and in no place, a doubt might exist as lo the opinions entertained, with regard to these affairs, by the Executive of the United States, of which the said newspaper is the reputed organ. On the contrary, I have seen (with strong feelings [senlimienlos] I confess) in the columns of that newspaper, accounts of Texas the least favorable lo the interests of Mexico, and, I may even acid, the least conformable with the truth. These accounts, by their repelling [repercusive] effects (as I must term them) have produced, in the minds of many, an impression with regard to the ulterior views [miras] of the Executive of the Unitecl States, unfavorable, and, I have flattered myself, unjust. I leave it to you, sir, lo imagine what impression must have been produced by the paragraph headed "Important," extracted from the New Orleans True American of the 13th instant, in the Globe of yesterday, which I have just received. Here, sir, you have copied into the journal of this Government, which is in friendly relations with mine, an article in which the Supreme Chief of the nation is unjustly branded as a usurper, and in which, moreover, those who uller this insult, declare that they desire his (or its) ruin; and even go so far as to invite volunteers from these United States to go and assist them in sustaining their unreasonable pretensions, offering them in _recompense, lands which they term their own; and at the same moment too in which they propose lo trample under fool the laws of the country which admilled them into its bosom, they raise the cry of "War in defence of our rights, of our oaths, and of our institutions." I will not venture to calculate the extent of the feeling which this paragraph will produce on the Mexican Government, when il sees il thus little less than authorized, from the fact of its being copied in the Government journal of the United States, and
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