showMhat the frontiers of the United States were menaced by Mexican Indians—not an argument advanced to prove the necessity of our army advancing into Texas in self-defence, and the whole pre- text is stamped with the brand of impudent falsehood, by the confession made to the Govei-nor of Tennessee by the President in the letter we have quoted.
Two days after this insult to Mexico, her Minister demanded his passports.* This was a great point gained by the administration. Diplomatic intercourse with Mex- ico was so far interrupted ; and the rupture, if properly managed, might result in war, and ^consequently in annexation. While in the very act of inflicting the grossest outrages upon Mexico, and amid professions of neutrahty as ardent as they were false, the administration thought it r.e Ex. Doc, 2d Sess., 21tli Cong. Vol I.
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expedient to raise a note of Availing for the injuries com- mitted by Mexico upon American citizens, accompanied