us from so doing to the evident injury of a third party, unless in a case of absolute necessity, when the clanger is imminent, when it cannot be avoided by any other means, and when the injury apprehended is infinitely greater than that which we are about to occasion. Now, can it be said that the violation of the Mexican territory has been produced by a necessity of that nature, accompanied by its three inseparable conditions? The undersigned is as yet aware of nothing which would lead lo such a conclusion. From what the undersigned has observed, the supposed premeditated attack of·the Indians on Lhe frontiers of the United States has existed only in the imaginations of the Texans and of their partisans; in other words, they were purely and entirely the inventions of such persons, originating solely in the malignant desire of injuring Mexico. The truth of this assertion will be rendered sufficiently evident by a mere relation of the circumstances. So long as the colonists of Texas remained in submission to the laws of Mexico, nothing was heard of any desire on the part of those Indians to commit hostilities against the United Stales; this, too, although since 1832 there has not been a Mexican soldier at Nacogdoches, nor anywhere else near the frontier; neither was anything said about Indians during Lhe whole period of the rebellion in Texas, before or after the capture of Bejar by the Texans, until the month of March, when the l\'lexican army, victorious at all points, passed the Brassos river. There was then no doubt that it would soon reach the Sabine; and then, for the first time, it was pretended that fifteen hundred Indians and Mexicans were within a few miles of Nacogdoches, laying waste the country with fire and sword-a gross falsehood, invented solely for the purpose of inducing General Gaines to approach the Sabine with his tToops, as he in fact did. But, after the battle of San Jacinto, the danger to which the Texans had been exposed disappeared, and the Indians also disappeared in consequence. General Gaines, who had a few clays before called for a thousand mounted riflemen to enable him to meet and enemy considered still more formidable, then confessed that the alarm was false, and that those re-enforcements were not needed. A calm ensued, which continued just so long as it was believed in Texas that the Mexican Government would confirm Lhe treaty, which nothing but force could have induced General Santa Anna lo sign; but when, about the end of June, it was known that l\lcxico was
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