" J. P. Henderson, " Brig.-Gen. of the Texan Army."
" Three hundred Men for Texas. General Dunlap of Tennessee is about to proceed to Texas with the above number of men. Every man is co7n2'>let€ly armed, the corps having been originally raised for the Florida War."
'^This morning more than 200 men, commanded by Colonel Wilson, and on their way to Texas, passed this place in the Tuskina, with drums beating and fifes playing. They will be followed by 300 men more, all from old Kentucky." _ In vain did the Mexican Minister, from time to time, call the attention of the Government to these violations of neutralit3^ Notwithsfanding the solemn and repeated assurances given by the Secretary of State, not a serious eflfort was made to arrest the tide of war which was rolling from the United States upon the Mexican territory. No proclamation was issued, warning our citizens of their duties and responsibilities ; no instructions were given, as in former instances, to military officers, to arrest the vio- lators of our neutrality. Jefferson had succeeded in bringing a man, lately one of the highest functionaries in the country, to trial, for secretly planning an invasion of the Spanish dominions. Jackson, one of the most ener- getic Presidents that ever occupied the executive chair, never enforced the penalties of the law on one individual of the many thousands who openly perpetrated the crime which Burr had only designed.
When commanding in the southern department. General Jackson thought proper to put to death two foreigners, named Arbuthnot and Ambiister, accused of aiding the Indians in their hostilities, and thus expressed himself in his order for their execution :—" It is an established prin- ciple of the law of nations, that any individual, of any nation, making war against the citizens of another nation, tkey being at peace, forfeits his allegiance, and becomes an outlaw and a pirate."