Message From the President of the United States, Communicating (In compliance with a resolution of the Senate) Copies of correspondence with the Government of Mexico, in relation to the expulsion of citizens of the United States from Upper California. June 14, 1844.
28th Congress, 1st Session. Senate Doc. 390. Read, and ordered to be printed. Washington DC: United States Senate, 1844.
Wraps. Disbound wraps. 19 pages, [1] page blank. Edge wear to the paper.
Messages from John Tyler, J. C. Calhoun, Tornel, Waddy Thompson, and J. M. De Bocanegra included. Waddy Thompson, a representative from South Carolina, was the minister to Mexico 1842-1844. Thompson states, "Mexico has the unquestionable right to punish or to prevent sedition, but not to use a mere vague and unfounded suspicion as a pretext for oppression; and if any citizen of the United States shall be arrested upon any such charge, it will be done on the responsibility of Mexico make good that charge, or to repair whatever damages may be suffered." California officially became part of the United States in 1848 following the Mexican war. Good. Item #33604
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