LAD #12

We really did want peace with Mexico, and we tried last September to do that. However the mexican goverment refused to listen to these negotions. We will try again to improve relationships with Mexico, where we will figure out the issues of borders of mexico, the rights of such people in the no man's land, and many other issues. Our person was then greeted by the revolutionary party, and where violence could have been used he avoided negotiations so nothing was accomplished. Now the mexican gov was very different. Due to military force present of Mexico, congress then ordered troops into texas. Troops went from Corpus Christi to Del Norte, waiting for an engagement. 16 troops were killed after we were checking up on your camp. This embarked us upon the warpath. Our commerce has been anialahted and we still remember the previous actions that mexico has commited against us. And as war exists, and, notwithstanding all our efforts to avoid it, exists by the act of Mexico herself, we are called upon by every consideration of duty and patriotism to vindicate with decision the honor, the rights, and the interests of our country.