Review of the Mexican War Embracing the Causes of the War the Responsibility O
Review of the Mexican War Embracing the Causes of the War the Responsibility O
Charles T Porter
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To liave taken such, a step ignorantly, would have been scarcely less culpable tlian to liave taken it for the deliberate purpose of pro- vokinor war. But it was not taken ignorantly. Apart from tlie conclusive presumption to that effect, we liave positive evidence tkat government acted with full knowledge of the rights of Mexico. Major Donelson, our charge d'affairs to Texas, informed this government officially in 1845, that Corpus Christi was the most west- ern point occupied by that state. O...ur mer- chants paid duties to Mexico at Point Isabel. The order to General Taylor for his advance directed that the posts and citizens of Mexico east of the Rio Grande should not be molest- ed. But besides these, there is one remarka- ble fact by which the Avhole cjuestion is put at rest. In October, 1845, only three months previous to the date of the order to General Taylor, Mr. Slidell was instructed by the exec- utive of the United States, to offer to Mexico five millions of dollars for this identical strip of territory east of the Rio Grande.
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