[19.] The termination of the armistice. Sen. 52; 30, 1, pp. 195–203, 231–66 (Trist); 307, 346, etc. [52]Trist to Buchanan, no. 15, confid., Sept. 4. Sen. 20; 30, 1, pp. 9, 14. Contestaciones Habidas (1847), 22, 26, 28, 30, 34. Picayune, Oct. 16. Sen. 1; 30, 1, pp. 354, 360. [303]H. L. Scott to Quitman, Aug. 31. National, Nov. 14. Hitchcock, Fifty Years, 291–4. Haynes, Gen. Scott’s Guide. [217]Henshaw to wife, Sept. 13. London Times, Nov. 13. Sen. 34; 34, 3, pp. 21, 37–9. Ho. 40; 30, 1. [291]Pierce to wife, Aug. 23. Lawton, Artill. Officer, 309. [335]Trist to Thornton, confid., Nov. 24 (the Americans kept the armistice faithfully). [335]Memo. in Spanish, Aug. —. Semmes, Service, 415. Sen. 11; 31, 1 (Hardcastle). [80]Relaciones to Olaguíbel, Aug. 31, res.; Sept. 6, 8. [73]Lozano, no. 7, Sept. 16. Negrete, Invasión, iii, app., 448. [92]Tornel to Méx. ayunt., Aug. 30. [187]Thomas to Eddy, Aug. 26. N. Y. Sun, Oct. 5. Sen. 65; 30, 1, p. 67. Ramsey, Other Side, 330, note. And from [76] the following (chiefly showing orders contrary to the armistice). To Alvarez, Aug. 28. Tornel, Aug. 27, very res.; Sept. 3. Bravo, Sept. 5. Acuerdos, Sept. 3, 4. Orders to Tenth Infantry, Aug. 28. To govs. Puebla and four other states, Sept. 6. To govs. México, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Sept. —. To Relaciones, Aug. 27. S. Anna, proclam., Sept. 7.
[20.] The armistice as viewed in the United States. Sen. 52; 30, 1, pp. 138 (Marcy); 231 (Trist, no. 22). Sen. 20; 30, 1, p. 14 (Trist). Apuntes, 278–9. Polk, Diary, Feb. 7, 19; Mar. 16, 1848. London Times, Oct. 29, Ramírez, México, 241. Polk, Message, Dec. 7, 1847 (Richardson, iv, 536). [13]Crampton, no. 42, Oct. 13. Wash. Union, Oct. 4–6. [256]Marcy to Wetmore, Oct. 21. [58]Jones to Polk, May 2. Negrete, Invasión, iii, app., 448. [354]Welles papers. [191]Fairfield to wife, Jan. 10. N. Y. Herald, Dec. 15. Monitor Repub., Dec. 21. Baltimore Sun, Oct. 5. Ho. 69; 30, 1, p. 56 (Buchanan). [335]Buchanan to Trist, Oct. 24–5, 1847.
It has been said with truth that the war was waged on the theory that Texas extended to the Rio Grande, but the United States could have neutralized (and this is the most that was considered by Trist: Sen. 52; 30, 1, p. 258) the region between that river and the Nueces without implying in the least that our claim to it had not been valid. The fact that Santa Anna and Pacheco thought that an extension of the armistice would benefit the Americans (ibid., 260) is a striking, though by no means the only, answer to Polk’s charge that it would have been greatly to our disadvantage (ibid., 259). Ramírez (México, 241) pointed out that inaction was bad for the Mexicans, since they lacked funds to support troops long. Santa Anna could not materially increase his army after Sept. 1, and he subsisted it with extreme difficulty (Sen. 52; 30, 1, pp. 259–60). The armistice in general was regarded by the Mexicans as an American trick. The American Review (Whig) argued that the rejection of the counter-projet (which conceded to us Texas as far as the Nueces and California down to 37 degrees) proved that Polk was fighting, not for peace, but for conquest; but the counter-projet did not recognize the American claim to the Rio Grande line nor to an indemnity for the costs of the war, which Mexico had forced upon us. Any one interested in the equity of the matter should read the reply to the Mexican commissioners drafted by Trist (Sen. 20; 30, 1, p. 14).
[21.] Army feeling. [252]Mackall to wife, Feb. 21, 1848. Picayune, Oct. 17. [221]Hill, diary. Hitchcock, Fifty Years, 271, 290. 291Pierce to wife, Aug. 23; Sept. 1. Robertson, Visit, ii, 344. Lawton, Artill. Officer, 309. Diccionario Universal (Mixcoac). Semmes, Service, 414, 427. Calderón, Life, i, 142, 146. N. Y. Sun, Sept. 16. Such scenes were noted with keen appreciation not only by officers but by privates, as diaries and letters attest. Clear afternoons and evenings occur now and then even at the height of the rainy season.
XXVIII. MOLINO DEL REY, CHAPULTEPEC, MEXICO
[1.] Hardcastle’s map (Sen. 1; 30, 1, p. 312) and (as elsewhere) the author’s observations. So. Qtrly. Rev., Oct., 1852. Negrete, Invasión, iv, app., 295–6. Balbontín, Invasión, 126. Grant, Mems., i, 149. [66]J. L. Mason to J. L. Smith, Sept. 25. [66]Stevens to Smith, Sept. 25. Semmes, Service, 436, 440. Apuntes, 290–1. Picayune, Aug. 8. Delta, Oct. 14. Sen. 1; 30, 1, pp. 355 (Scott), 373 (Sumner), 425–6 (Smith). Wise, Gringos (N. Y., 1849), 259. [269]Molina, recolls.
The foundry was decreed in July, 1846 ([76]report on artillery, Nov., 1846; Memoria de ... Guerra, Dec.). The building it occupied had been a powder mill. The principal entrance to El Molino was by an archway near the south end. Sept. 5 Scott heard that bells had been sent to El Molino to be cast into cannon (Sen. 1; 30, 1, p. 355). Santa Anna did in fact call for gifts of bells, etc. to be used for military purposes ([76]Carrera, Sept. 6).
[2.] Sen. 52; 30, 1, pp. 381–2 (S. Anna to Scott, Sept. 6). [76]To Herrera, Sept. 6. [100]Guerra, circular, Sept. 11. Apuntes, 290–2. S. Anna, Mi Historia, 75. Id.., Detall, 23. [76]Acuerdo, Sept. 4. Giménez, Memorias, 266. [76]Alvarez to S. Anna, Sept. 25. Negrete, Invasión, iv, app., 293. Balbontín, Invasión, 125–6. Grant, Mems., i, 151. Mason to Smith: note 1. [76]Alvarez, Sept. 6. Sen. 1; 30, 1, app., 134–5 (Duncan). Roa Bárcena, Recuerdos, 424.
[3.] Ramírez, México, 299. [73]Lozano, nos. 2, 8, res., 1847. [199]Anon. MS. Kenly, Md. Vol., 346. S. Anna, Apelación, 49. Giménez, Memorias, 111. [358]Williams to father, Oct. 1. Exposición dirigida. [179]Diario Esactísimo. Negrete, Invasión, iv, app., 295–6. [100]Alcorta, circular, Sept. 11. 76Tornel, decree, Sept. 7.
[4.] Smith, Co. A, Corps of Engineers. [221]Hill, diary. Hitchcock, Fifty Years, 296. [260]Henshaw, comments on map. [217]Id.to wife, Sept. 13. [65]Scott, gen. orders, Sept. 7. Sen. 1; 30, 1, pp. 354 (Scott), 361 (Worth), 425 (Smith). [178]Davis, diary. Sen. 65; 30, 1, p. 298 (Scott). Mason to Smith: note 1. [66]Foster to Smith, Sept. 8. [66]Beauregard to Smith, Sept. 20. [224]Hitchcock, introd. to intercepted letters. So. Qtrly. Rev., Oct., 1852, 302. Semmes, Service, 431–4.