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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
MAY 15, 1844.
Read, and ordered to be printed in confidence for the use of the Senate.
To the Senate of the United States:
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, requesting
to be informed "whether a messenger has been sent to Mexico, witih a.
view to obtain her consent to the treaty with Texas, and, if so, to communicate
to the Senate a copy of the despatches of which he is bearer, and a
copy of the instructions given to said messenger, and also to inform the
Senate within what time said messenger is expected to return," I have tosay,
that no messenger has been sent to Mexico, in order to obtain her assent
to the treaty with Texas, it not being regarded by the Executive as in'
any degree requisite to obtain such consent, in order (should the Senate
ratify the treaty) to perfect the title of the United States to the territory
thus acquired-the title to the same being full and perfect without the assent
of any third Power. The Executive has negotiated with Texas as
an independent Power of the world, long since recognised as such by the
United States and other Powers, and as subordinate in all her rights of ftll
sovereignty to no other Power. A messenger has been despatched to oir
minister at Mexico, as bearer of the despatch already communicated to the
Senate, and which is to be found in the letter addressed to Mr. Green, and
forms a part of the documents ordered confidentially to be printed for thi
use of the Senate. That despatch was dictated by a desire to preserve the
peace of the two countries, by denying to Mexico all pretext for asslming
a belligerent attitude to the United States, as she had threatened to do in
the event of the annexation of Texas to the United States, by the despatch
of her Government which was communicated by me to Congress at thi
opening of its present session. The messenger is expected to return before
the 15th of June next, but he may be detained to a later day. The.
recently appointed envoy from the United States to Mexico will be sent so
soon as the final action is had on the question of annexation, at which
time, and not before, can his instructions be understandingly prepared.
JOHN TYLER.
WASHINGTON, May 15, 1844.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
MAY 17, 1844. Read,
referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations,. and ordered to be printed in confidenC6
for the use of the Senate.
To the Senate of the United States:
In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, relating to
a supposed armistice between the liepublics of Mexico and Texas, I transmit
a report from the Secretary of State, and the papers by which it Wt
accompanied.
JOHN TYLEMR
WASHINGTON; May 17, 1844.
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