signed. The Mexican Secretary remarked that, by the existing treaty, citizens of either country were entitled to bring their grievances before the tribunals of the other, and hence it was unnecessary for their respective governments to interfere to procure that justice for them which the courts of law were ready to afford f- and that complaints against * The 14tli Art. of the treaty between the United States and Mexico guaranteed protection to the persons and property of the citizens of each, " leaving open and free to them the tribunals of justice for their judicial recourse, on the same terms which are visual and customary with the natives or citizens of the country in which they may be." Mr. Forsj'th availed himself of this article of the treaty in his reply (.January 29th, 183C), to a demand from the Mexican Government for the punishment of the Captain of an American armed ship, for an alleged outrage committed by him on a Mexican vessel. The Secretary remarked, ''That the courts of the United States are. freely open, to all persons in their jurisdiction, who may consider themselves
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