nalives and foreigners, the prompt conclusion of lhis affair became every day more urgent." Can lhcre be a more explicit confession than lhis of Mr. Bu Lier's, respecting the possession by Mexico of the part which he considered to belong to lhe citizens of the United States, and of his conviction that the only means of legally terminating the state of things of which he complained was by carrying the treaty into full effect? That the measure in question would not only affect the rights of Mexico, as an independent nation, but also injure its interests, it is most easy to prove. The presence of a body of neutral lroops in the very theatre of the war cannot fail to embarrass the operations of the Mexican army, to favor the Texans indirectly, and to create a constant risk of collision. The further General Gaines advances, the more restricted will be the circle within which the belligcrants can move, and the grealer will be the necessity for approaching the cordon formed by the troops of the United Stales. And in a country so vast and unpeopled as Texas, how impossible will it be to determine well the line of such a cordon by a chain of military posts linked together. Who can then prevent the Texans, if they find themselves pursued at any time by Mexican detachments, from taking refuge behind the troops of the United States, by passing a line which is unguarded? How can the Mexicans know where they are to stop, so as not to violate the said line? And what will the troops of the United States do with the Texans who thus, in a manner, place themselves under their protection, or with the Mexicans, who, impelled by the ardor of the fight, should pursue in order to take them? The undersigned shudders al the idea of the evils which the slightest incident may occasion in either of these cases to two countries which have so many motives for esteeming each other, and whose relations are now so frank--and not so amicable! If the undersigned cannot now admit (as he has shown, and for reasons which he has given) the supposition that General Gaines may take a position on a territory possessed by Mexico, unlil the dividing line between the two countries be marked out according to the terms of the 3d article of the treaty of limits, how can he admit the supposition with which Mr. Forsyth's communication ends?
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