it confides in the equity of the Government of the United States, as the undersigned had already the honor to state to Mr. Dickins, in his said note of the 28th ultimo. With regard to the allusions which Mr. Dickins seems to have discovered in the said note from the undersigned, as to the conduct observed by General Gaines in these transactions, the undersigned would regret exceedingly if any of them should have given grounds for supposing that he did not fully estimate the character, knowledge, and services of that general. The undersigned is far from denying them, and he only wished to state frankly his opinion that Mr. Gaines has been acting, perhaps without knowing it, under the influence of the friends of Texas, and of the Texians themselves, and that his good faith was constantly beguiled. The undersigned, in advancing this proposition, has not relied merely upon his own judgment, nor on his own observations and information; for, with regard to the occurrences of April and May, he has only repeated the opinions of the Governor of Louisiana upon the subject, as may be seen in the official despatch of General Macomb to the Secretary of War of the 25th of April, inserted in the Globe of the 16th of May; and as to what took place in June and July, the undersigned knows certainly, among other things, that it was General Rusk who informed General Gaines of the supposed movements of the Camanches. The undersigned supposes, also, that the military chief who gave notice to the latter general of the two assassinations on the Navisota cannot but belong to the army of Texas, as it appears that he was in command there. The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to renew to the honorable Mr. Asbury Dickins, acting Secre tary of State of these United States, the assurances of his distinguished consideration. Mr. Gorostiza to Mr. Dickins. PHILADELPHIA, August 10, 1836. The undersigned has the honor to address the honorable Asbury Dickins, acting Secretary of State of the United States, and, acknowledging the receipt of his informal note of the 4th instant, at the same time thanks him for having taken the trouble, at the request of the undersigned, to cause inquiries to be made at the War Department for the purpose of ascertaining the dates of the last despatches from General Gaines, and the places whence they were dated. By the said note, the undersigned is informed that, up to the 4th instant, nothing else had been officially received on the subject, than General Gaines's letter of the 28th of June, written at Camp Sabine, and that consequently it was not then known at Washington officially that any detachment of his troops had crossed the Sabine. As this unfortunate movement may, however, have been since effected, and as fresh despatches may at any mo ment arrive from General Gaines, announcing it, the undersigned solicits and hopes that in such event Mr. Dickins will have the kindness to communicate it to him as soon as possible. Mr. Dickins is no doubt sufficiently aware of the position of the undersigned, not to be offended at this new request, nor to refuse to accede to it. In a matter of so serious a nature, the undersigned cannot give credit to any statements other than those which he receives through the Department now under the charge of Mr. Dickins. The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to repeat to Mr. Dickins, the acting Secretary of State, the assurances of his most distinguished consideration. M. E. DE GOROSTIZA. Mr. Dickins to Mr. Gorostiza. Washington, August 23, 1836. The undersigned, acting Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to inform Mr. Gorostiza, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Mexican republic, in compliance with the request contained in his note of the 10th instant, that it appears from a communication addressed to the undersigned by the Secretary of War, and dated on the 22d instant, that up to that time no communication had been received at the Department force under his command had crossed the Sabine river. from General Gaines, showing that any portion of the The undersigned renews to Mr. Gorostiza the assurances of his most distinguished consideration. His Excellency ASBURY DICKINS. Senor Don MANUEL EDUARDO DE GOROSTIZA. Mr. Dickins to Mr. Gorostiza. Washington, August 16, 1836. The undersigned, acting Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to transmit to Mr. Gorostiza, Mexican republic, a copy of a report from the district atenvoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the torney of Kentucky, on the subject referred to in the newspaper statement, copied into Mr. Gorostiza's note of the 21st ultimo, which report, it is presumed, will be found entirely satisfactory. The undersigned embraces this opportunity to renew to Mr. Gorostiza the assurances of his most distinguished consideration. ASBURY DICKINS. His Excellency Senor Don MANUEL EDUARDO DE GOROSTIZA. SIR: I have received your communication of the 27th ultimo, informing me that the Mexican minister had addressed a complaint to the Department, founded upon a publication made in the New York Courier and Enquirer of the 20th ultimo, copied from the Grand Gulf (Mississippi) Advertiser, announcing the passage by that place of two hundred men, under the command of Colonel Wilson, on their way to Texas, on board a steamboat, "with drum beating and fife playing, and suggesting that they will be followed by three hundred more, all from old Kentucky," suggesting therefrom grounds for the belief that the laws for the preservation of the neutrality of the United States have been violated; directing me to inquire into this case and report to the Department the result; and commanding vigilance on my part to endeavor to prevent similar causes of complaint. In answer thereto, allow me to inform you that I was personally acquainted with Colonel Wilson and some of his fellow emigrants, and in conversation with him and some of them, they assured me that their object in Texas was emigration only; that it was a new country, unimproved, lands cheap, and that greater inducements were held out to the emigrant in that than any other country. There was no apparent movement by Colonel Wilson or his associates, within my knowledge, exhibiting them as an armed force, or in a position to authorize the inference of their certain intent to violate the neutral relations of the United States with any foreign Power. Nor did I perceive or did any information come to my knowledge upon which I could justly institute any legal proceeding against them. They organized themselves and left the Mexican Affairs. country as emigrants, and I know of no authority under the laws of the United States which can prevent any man or any body of men from emigrating whither they may choose. At this time I have no knowledge or information of any persons imbodying themselves for Texas, in any character whatever. It may be remarked that much excitement has prevailed with our population in consequence of the massacre of some Kentuckians in the late conflicts in Texas, and publications have been made of a nature designed to cheer the Texians in their conflict for independence; beyond this I know of no movement of men calculated to disturb our neutral relations with Mexico. Should any thing tangible present itself on this subject, U. S. Attorney for the District of Kentucky. To ASBURY DICKINS, Esq., Acting Secretary of State of the United States, Washington. Mr. Gorostiza to Mr. Dickins. MEXICAN LEGATION EXTRAORDINARY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Philadelphia, August 21, 1836. SIR Although it may be presumed that the commander of the Pensacola station will have already taken energetic and efficient measures to protect American commerce against the risks with which it is threatened by the blockade of the port of Matamoras, lately so scandalously proclaimed by the individual who gives himself the title of President of Texas, I still consider it my duty to call the attention of the Department now under your charge, to the illegality and the nature of this unheard-of proceeding, in order that the President of the United States may, at my solicitation, if he should think it, as I do, just, order the vessels of war of this nation to pursue and capture the armed Texians who pretend to maintain this blockade, considering and treating them as pirates. [25th CoNG. 1st SESS. the character of general piracy, and, consequently, that the perpetrators of such acts are and can be no other than hostes humani generis, enemies of the human race. Such is the doctrine of all writers on national law, the universal practice, and the opinion of the celebrated Judge Marshall, as appears in the speech delivered by him in the House of Representatives in the case of Thomas Nash, alias Jonathan Robbins. Be pleased, Mr. acting Secretary of State of these United States, to submit what I have here stated to the knowledge of the President, and to accept the assurances of my distinguished consideration. M. E. DE GOROSTIZA. To the Hon. A DICKINS, Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Gorostiza. Washington, August 31, 1836. The undersigned, Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to inform Mr. Gorostiza, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentlary of the Mexican republic, in answer to his note of the 21st instant, that the President, foreseeing the risks to which the commerce of the United States might be exposed in the Gulf of Mexico, has already given the necessary directions for its protection. In respect to the civil war now carrying on between the Mexican republic and Texas, the United States have adopted, as Mr. Gorostiza is fully aware, the same course of strict neutrality that was pursued by them during the wars of the same character which were carried on between Spain and her American colonies. The measure which Mr. Gorostiza proposes would be altogether inconsistent with that policy. Nevertheless, the undersigned will take a proper opportunity to lay Mr. Gorostiza's note before the President. The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to renew to Mr. Gorostiza the assurances of his most distinguished consideration. His Excellency JOHN FORSYTH. Senor Don MANUEL EDUARDO DE GOROSTIZA, &c. Mr. Gorostiza to Mr. Dickins. PHILADELPHIA, August 26, 1836. The undersigned has learned, with great satisfaction, from the informal note addressed to him on the 23d instant, by the honorable Asbury Dickins, acting Secretary of State of these United States, that the Secretary of War had not received any despatch or notification of the reported passage of the Sabine by General Gaines, as late as the 22d instant, inclusive. The undersigned is the more gratified by receiving this My opinion on the subject is formed on a very simple reasoning. No blockade can be maintained by any vessels except vessels of war; no vessel can be considered a vessel of war unless it bear a commission to that effect, delivered by some competent authority, and it sail under an ac knowledged flag. In order that an authority be competent to commission a vessel of war, it is indispensable that it be first acknowledged as an independent Power. In order that a flag be acknowledged, it is likewise indispensable that the existence of the nation represented by it should have been previously acknowledged. That Texas is not an independent Power in the eyes of other nations, it is easy to prove, inasmuch as no other nation has treated on equal terms with its self-styled government; and that its flag has not been yet recognised by any nation is also obvious, because the fact of its existence as a nation has not been recognised. How, then, can Texas, without being an inde-information from Mr. Dickins, as, from the contents of a pendent Power, and without having any recognised flag, commission a vessel of war? and if it cannot commission vessels of war, with what vessels can it blockade the port of Matamoras, or any other port in the Mexican territory? Certainly with none. The armed vessels with which it endeavors to blockade that port, not being vessels of war, cannot impede the free navigation of neutrals, much less seize and detain them, without committing acts of piracy. Their very presence in those ports is a crime of that nature, as it is well known, from the declaration of their so-styled President, that they went there with his orders to commit such acts against the commerce of all nations. Now it is evident that the acts attempted or committed at sea, which are generally injurious, acquire, from that circumstance alone, letter published yesterday in the Globe, which he takes the liberty to enclose to Mr. Dickins, there was real cause for apprehending that this movement, so important and disastrous, had been actually effected. On comparing the dates, however, the undersigned now begins to entertain strong hopes that the said letter may be one of the many fabricacations with which the newspapers daily regale their readers. The undersigned repeats to Mr. Dickins the request Hon. A. DICKINS, Many rumors are afloat as regards the Indians intentions. One thing is certain: Bowles, the Cherokee chief, is determined to obey the commands of the Mexicans. He says he is a colonel in the Mexican army, and will obey their orders. Speaking of the United States sending troops across the Sabine, he says that General Gaines dare not cross the Sabine :t hat he, Bowles, knows the treaty as well as General Gaines does. If, however, Bowles falls into the hands of General Gaines, I think he will Jacksonize him a little, at least hang him up to dry. The day previous to my leaving, four companies left Nacogdoches for the Texian army; two of horse from Red river, and two of infantry from Kentucky. Judging from their appearance, I think they intend to play the game out. They were all well armed and equipped. Two gentlemen came in from the army previous to my leaving, bringing the news that the commanding general, Lamar, had sent two companies for Santa Anna, to bring him to head-quarters, as they say, to try him for his life. The general's opinion is that it is to keep him safe. General Houston has written to the commanding general, protesting against this proceeding, and states as a reason, that they had entered into a treaty with Santa Anna; that this treaty has been sent to the city of Mexico; that commissioners have also been sent to the President of the United States, neither of which have as yet been heard from, and that he thinks, in justice to Santa Anna, they ought to wait their decision. The report of Santa Anna being in irons is not true. vote. Previous to these gentlemen leaving, there appeared to be some misunderstanding as to the intentions of the cabinet in appointing Lamar to command, not knowing their views, whether he was to be commander-in-chief or protem. In order to put the question at rest, they took the On counting the votes, there were nineteen hundred for Houston, and three hundred for Lamar. many men from the army while there, friends of Houston, as well as enemies, and they all agree that Houston is the commander, and that no other man could get the command, and the more intelligent say that it was never Burnett's intention that any man should supersede Hous ton. I have seen Dr. The Texian army are at Victoria, on the Warloope. The Mexican army are in the neighborhood of Matamoras, three hundred miles from the Texian army. I spent some time with General Houston; his wound is healing. Erian, his attending physician, speaks of the wound as if it was well, and says that the general is in better health now than he has been for two years before. He is in fine spirits, and informed me that he would start for the army in about three weeks. I stopped at Gaines's camp a few hours. The General informed me he expected volunteers immediately from Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee. Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Gorostiza. Washington, August 31, 1836. The undersigned, Secretary of State of the United States, referring to the notes addressed to the Department by Mr. Gorostiza, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Mexican republic, on the 28th ultimo and 4th instant, relative to the instructions given to General Gaines for the defence of the frontier between the United States and Texas, has now the honor to transmit a copy of a letter from the President of the United States to the Governor of Tennessee, dated on the 6th instant, disapprov ing the requisition of General Gaines for a militia force. It is not doubted that it will be entirely satisfactory to Mr. Gorostiza and to the Mexican Government. The undersigned requests that Mr. Gorostiza will transmit to his Government a copy of of the President's letter, which it is hoped will render unnecessary any other answer to Mr. Gorostiza's two notes above mentioned. The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to renew to Mr. Gorostiza the assurances of his most distinguished consideration. JOHN FORSYTH. His Excellency Señor Don M. E. DE GOROSTIZA. P. S. The receipt of a manuscript copy of the President's letter having been casually prevented, the Secretary of State is under the necessity of transmitting a newspaper copy, which, however, he believes to be entirely correct. The President of the United States to the Governor of Tennessee. HERMITAGE, August 5, 1836. SIR: I have received your letter of the 29th ultimo and the 4th instant, accompanied by the copies of communications which were addressed to you on the 4th of May and 25th of July, by the Secretary of War, and also accompanied by your proclamation of the 20th, founded on the requisition made by General Gaines, bearing date the 28th June last. The documents referred to in the communication to you of the 25th ultimo, from the War Department, have not yet been received. The obligations of our treaty with Mexico, as well as the general principles which govern our intercourse with foreign Powers, require us to maintain a strict neutrality in the contest which now agitates a part of that republic. So long as Mexico fulfils her duties to us as they are dofined by the treaty, and violates none of the rights which are secured by it to our citizens, any act on the part of the Government of the United States which would tend to foster a spirit of resistance to her Government and laws, whatever may be their character or form, when administered within her own limits and jurisdiction, would be unauthorized and highly improper. A scrupulous sense of these obligations has prevented me thus far from doing any thing which can authorize the suspicion that our Government is unmindful of them, and I hope to be equally cautious and circumspect in all my future conduct. It is in reference to these obligations that the requisition of General Gaines in the present instance must be considered, and unless there is a stronger necessity for it, it should not be sanctioned. Should this necessity not be manifest, when it is well known that the disposition to befriend the Texians is a common feeling with the citizens of the United States, it is obvious that that requisition may furnish a reason to Mexico for supposing that the Government of the United States may be induced by inadequate causes to overstep the lines of the neutrality which it professes to maintain. Before I left Washington, General Gaines intimated to the Department of War that some indications of hostilities from the Indians on our Western frontier had been made, Mexican Affairs. and that, if it became necessary, he should make a call for the militia. He had also informed the Department of his ill health, and asked for a furlough to enable him to visit the White Sulphur springs. I directed the Secretary of War to grant him the furlough, and to inform him of the apportionment which had been made of the 10,000 militia under the volunteer act, and if the emergency should arise which would make it necessary to increase the force under his command, that a thousand volunteers in Arkansas, and another in Missouri, raised agreeably to this act, would be enrolled and held ready for the service. This force, aided by the portions of the dragoon regiments that would be stationed in that quarter, and those of the regular army already there, were deemed amply sufficient for the protection of the frontier near the Indians referred to. There are no reasons set forth in the requisition which the general has since made upon you to justify the belief that the force above enumerated will be insufficient, and I cannot, therefore, sanction it at the present time. To sanction that requisition for the reasons which accompany it, would warrant the belief that it was done to aid Texas, and not from a desire to prevent an infringement of our territorial or national rights. I deeply regret that the Tennessee volunteers, whose prowess and patriotism are displayed so promptly on all occasions that threaten the peace or safety of their beloved country, have been called out on this occasion without proper consideration. They can for the present only be mustered into the service and discharged. If there are funds appropriated out of which they can be paid, an order to this effect will be given. The ten thousand volunteers authorized under the late act of Congress, are intended for one year's service, and must be employed to meet all necessary calls for the defence of our frontier borders. Should the occasion arise for a greater number on the western frontier, the call will be made on Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. There is, however, no information to justify the apprehension of hostilities to any serious extent from the western Indians. Should a necessity arise, the brigade from East Tennessee will be ordered to the western frontier as soon as their service can be dispensed with where they are now employed. I would barely add further, that the authority given you by the order of the 4th of May, having been satisfied, by yielding to the requisition of General Gaines, a new authority from the Department of War was necessary to authorize you to comply with that of the 28th of June. [25th CoNG. 1st SESS. for a regiment of mounted gunmen for the service of the United States. Copies of the despatches received from General Gaines have been transmitted to the President of the United States, who will issue such orders upon them as he may think circumstances require. Meantime I have the honor to inform you that, in order to prevent any inconvenience or delay in the event of the confirmation of General Gaines's requisition by the President, a disbursing officer will be ordered to proceed to the State of Tennessee with the necessary funds. Very respectfully, your most obedient servant, C. A. HARRIS, Acting Secretary of War. His Excellency NEWTON CANNON, Governor of Tennessee. Mr. Gorostiza to Mr. Forsyth. Even PHILADELPHIA, September 3, 1836. The undersigned was so immediately convinced of the importance of the document to which the Secretary of State refers in his note of the 31st of August, that he had already, on the 19th of that month, transmitted a copy of it to his Government. By this means, its contents will soon be known in Mexico, and the Government of the undersigned may then be enabled to estimate fully the purity of the international doctrine there laid down by the President of the United States, and the justice with which he applies this doctrine in the present emergency! without this [exposition of international doctrine,] the mere fact of the President's having disapproved the requisition of General Gaines would of itself suffice, in the opinion of the undersigned, to cause its announcement to be received with peculiar satisfaction in Mexico, as the assembling of so many American troops on the very frontiers of Texas, although it would be perfectly legal as long as confined to the known limits of the United States, could not but in time occasion disquiet and alarm with regard to the possible consequences. Of the latter, none would have been more probable than their organization of a system of progressive desertion in favor of the Texians, and by no means of their agents. Who can deny the possibility of such a case, if he for a moment consider the excitement of the period, and the opportunity afforded by localities? But, although the spirit and the words of the President's letter to the Governor of Tennessee be praiseworthy, and may be attended with beneficial effects with regard to the future maintenance of a position neutrality on the part of the United States during the disturbances in Texas, yet the undersigned regrets exceedingly that he must dissent from the opinion expressed by Should Mexico insult our national flag, invade our Mr. Forsyth at the end of his said note of the 31st ultimo. territory, or interrupt our citizens in the lawful pursuits For, in order that the Department of State should not conwhich are guarantied to them by the treaty, then the Gov-sider it necessary to answer the notes of the undersigned, ernment will promptly repel the insult, and take speedy reparation for the injury. But it does not seem that offences of this character have been committed by Mexico, or were believed to have been by General Gaines. I an, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ANDREW JACKSON. The Government of the United States having adopted, in regard to Mexico and Texas, the same rule of neutrality which had been observed in all similar cases before, it was not to have been expected that General Gaines should have based his requisition for additional military force on reasons plainly inconsistent with the obligations of that rule. strict dated the 28th of July and the 4th of August, there must fully satisfied, and will in fact acknowledge that there is no need of Mr. Forsyth's again occupying himself with those notes. The undersigned avails himself of this opportunity to renew to the honorable Mr. John Forsyth, Secretary of State of these United States, the assurances of his distinguished consideration. M. E. DE GOROSTIZA. Mr. Gorostiza to Mr. Forsyth. PHILADELPHIA, September 9, 1336. The undersigned, from what he reads in various newspapers, has cause to fear that General Dunlap is engaged in enlisting a considerable number of volunteers in Tennessee, who are to march to Texas under his orders. The Vicksburg Register goes so far as to state that their number already amounts to three thousand, and that they are all armed, having been previously intended for the war in Florida. It is likewise added that they are on the eve of departure for that destination. Although the undersigned believes that this scandalous proceeding, if certain, will have attracted the attention of the attorney of that district, he nevertheless thinks proper to denounce it to the honorable John Forsyth, Secretary of State of these United States, in order that it may be verified, opposed, and chastised according to the laws. The undersigned has no doubt that Mr. Forsyth will act with the utmost promptitude in an affair which is of such magnitude, and which, if prosecuted to the end proposed, will be so entirely at variance with the principles of neutrality adopted by the Government of the United States. The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to renew to the honorable John Forsyth, Secretary of State of these United States, the assurances of his most distinguished consideration. M. E. DE GOROSTIZA. To the Hon. JoHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State. Mr. Forsyth to Mr. Gorostiza. Washington, September 16, 1836. The undersigned, Secretary of State of the United States, has had the honor to receive the note of Mr. Gorostiza, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the Mexican republic, dated the 9th instant, relative to a large body of armed volunteers enlisting in Tennessee under the command of General Dunlap, who, as Mr. Gorostiza learn from the newspapers, are about to march to Texas. The attention of the district attorney for Tennessee has already been specially directed to the execution of the laws for preserving the neutral relations of the United States; and no sufficient ground is perceived, in the newspaper reports referred to by Mr. Gorostiza, for further instructions on the subject. The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to transmit a copy of a letter just received from the agent of the district attorney of Mississippi, who was instructed to inquire into the proceedings brought to the notice of the Department by Mr. Gorostiza, also upon newspaper information, in his note of the 21st of July last. By this letter, and that of the district attorney of Kentucky on the same subject, transmitted to Mr. Gorostiza on the 16th ultimo, it will be perceived that the United States officers are vigilant in the discharge of their duty, and that newspaper reports are not, in themselves, safe grounds for official interference. The undersigned has the honor to renew to Mr. Gorostiza the assurances of his high consideration. JOHN FORSYTH. His Ex. Senor Don M. E. DE GOROSTIZA, &c. Mr. Addison to Mr. Forsyth. NATCHEZ, August 20, 1836. SIR: By the last mail I received a communication, addressed by Asbury Dickins, Esq., acting Secretary, to R. M. Gaines, Esq., United States district attorney for this district, informing him that the Mexican minister had made a complaint to the Department of State on the subject of an armament equipped for Texas, as reported in the Grand Gulf Advertiser. Being connected in the practice of the law with Mr. Gaines, and requested by him to attend to all communications directed to him in his absence, it becomes my duty to inform you that Mr. Gaines, on account of ill health, was compelled to leave home about the 20th of June last, having committed the duties of his office to my care in his absence. In reply to the communication of Mr. Dickins, I have to state that no information of such an armament as described has been received by me, either before or since the departure of Mr. Gaines, and further, that no information of any other armament fitted out for Texas, of a character to justify proceedings under the laws for the preservation of the neutrality of the United States, has been received, except perhaps in the case of Felix Houston, Esq., in which Mr. Gaines, after using great exertions to procure a warrant, failed to do so. If any evidence can be procured in either of these cases, it will be presented to the grand jury at the next sitting of the United States district court. Vigilance also will be used to prevent any future infraction of our neutrality in this dis trict. I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant, R. M. GAINES, U. S. D. A. To the Hon. JOHN FORSYTH, Mr. Gorostiza to Mr. Forsyth. LEGATION EXTRAORDINARY OF MEXICO IN THE Philadelphia, Sept. 10, 1836. After reading the letter from Nacogdoches, dated the 4th of August, which appeared in the National Intelligencer of yesterday, I have but little doubt that the Mexican territory has been already unfortunately violated by the United States troops, especially as the contents of that letter only confirm the statement to the same effect made in others, which have been received in Philadelphia, and which, as I learn, were written at Nacogdoches on the 16th and the 20th of July. That published in the Globe of the 25th ultimo, and which I sent to the Department of State with my note of the 26th, was, if I mistake not, dated the 23d [July.] It appears therefore that the first troops which invaded and occupied Nacogdoches were three or four companies of dragoons, who were previously in Arkansas, and had no need of passing the Sabine in order to reach that place, and that they were afterwards reinforced by some companies of infantry which had formed part of the force at General Gaines's encampment. If this be certain, and if the War Department has not received despatches from that general on the subject, there must necessarily have been a miscarriage of its correspondence. However that may be, you, Mr. Secretary of State, must know that I have now more cause than ever to be anxious for a reply to my notes of the 28th of July and the 4th of August. The resolution of the President will, in my opinion, determine the character of the relations which are to exist immediately thenceforward between the two countries; and should that resolution be, contrary to all my expecta |