this? I unhesitatingly answer, Yes. All she would require would be a subsidy, as we used to grant to other nations in the war with Napoleon. To those who doubt my authority upon this head, I recommend a careful perusal of the ever-memorable speech in the congress of the United States, made by the Venerable John Quincy Adams, on the 25th of May, 1836. On the subject of war with Mexico, then threatened, to favour the rebellious Texans, he emphatically remarked-"Your war, gentlemen, must be a war of castes-the Anglo-Texan-American fighting against the Morisco-Hispano-MexicanAmerican-a war between the northern and southern halves of North America, from Pasmaquoddy to Panama. Are you prepared for this war?

"I ask you, what will your cause be in such a war-aggression, conquest, and the re-establishment of slavery where it was before abolished? In this war, the flags of liberty will be those of Mexico, and ours, I blush to say so, the flags of slavery!"

The orator went on to show, that in spite of the affair of San Jacinto, which was a mere surprise, Mexico had a larger number of veteran troops, and was better prepared for war than the United States, so that, if she should throw herself upon the southern states in chase of the rebels of Texas, she might pursue them to the very heart of the Union, placing the government in a position, the difficulty of which they might estimate from that they had experienced with only some five or six hundred Seminole

Indians in Florida. He very clearly proved that a Mexican war would be a negro and Indian war, and that most likely they would find Great Britain take up the cause of Mexico, which would be that of justice and of freedom.

The invasion of the United States by Mexico, by every law of nations would have been fully justified by the example of General Jackson in Florida, the then recent invasion of Mexican territory by the United States' army under General Gaines, and the open recruiting in New Orleans and the southern states of soldiers to fight in Texas, and to be paid by large slices of that Mexican territory. It is a feature distinctive of the diplomacy of the United States to understand the laws of nations in one sense as they affect themselves, and in quite a different as they affect their neighbours. Hence arose the loud outcry respecting the outrage to their territory in the affair of the Caroline, though nothing compared to that committed by themselves upon the sovereignty of Spain in Florida, and of Mexico in Texas; and hence will arise the necessity of the nations of the world putting down the NorthAmerican republic entirely, unless they consent to be guided by the same rules which they apply to others, and to exercise that repressive authority over their frontier population that will permit their neighbours to live in peace and safety.

I would recommend my Lord Palmerston to read an exceedingly well-written and able pamphlet by

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the Mexican general, Don Jose Maria Tornel, formerly secretary-of-war, entitled Texas, and the United States of America in their relations with the Mexican republic, as showing the perfidious policy, and worse than Punic faith of the United States to Mexico, and the true origin of the base and ungrateful rebellion of the Texans. No one who will read that pamphlet, and carefully consider its contents with relation to the facts stated, will fail to deplore the recognition of Texas as a great calamity-to consider the conduct of General Jackson, and his administration in that affair, as a blot in the history of the United States, and to concur with Señor Tornel, who condenses his opinion of the political creed of the North-American republic in these emphatic words, "their desire is their right, and their own convenience is their justice." If this hold true of the North Americans, which I believe it does, it holds doubly true of those citizens of the United States who have usurped Texas, and there assumed to themselves a local habitation and a name, at the expense of the owners of the soil, and of the British creditors of Mexico, and to the scandal of all the good and just amongst mankind.

Under these feelings, sincerely and disinterestedly entertained, I addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen the letter which will be found at the end of the Appendix.

N. D. MAILLARD.

December 4, 1841.

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