of the treaty by the President of
Mexico no reference is made to it. On the contrary, this ratification,
which was delivered to the commissioners of the United States, and is
now in the State Department, contains a full and explicit recognition of
the amendments of the Senate just as they had been communicated to that
Government by the Secretary of State and been afterwards approved by the
Mexican Congress. It declares that--

Having seen and examined the said treaty and the modifications made by
the Senate of the United States of America, and having given an account
thereof to the General Congress, conformably to the requirement in the
fourteenth paragraph of the one hundred and tenth article of the federal
constitution of these United States, that body has thought proper to
approve of the said treaty, with the modifications thereto, in all their
parts; and in consequence thereof, exerting the power granted to me by
the constitution, I accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty with its
modifications, and promise, in the name of the Mexican Republic, to
fulfill and observe it, and to cause it to be fulfilled and observed.

Upon an examination of this protocol, when it was received with the
ratified treaty, I did not regard it as material or as in any way
attempting to modify or change the treaty as it had been amended by the
Senate of the United States.

The first explanation which it contains is:

That the American Government, by suppressing the ninth article of the
treaty of Guadalupe and substituting the third article of the treaty of
Louisiana, did not intend to diminish in any way what was agreed upon
by the aforesaid article (ninth) in favor of the inhabitants of the
territories ceded by Mexico. Its understanding is that all of that
agreement is contained in the third article of the treaty of Louisiana.
In consequence, all the privileges and guaranties--civil, political,
and religious--which would have been possessed by the inhabitants of
the ceded territories if the ninth article of the treaty had been
retained will be enjoyed by them without any difference under the
article which has been substituted.

The ninth article of the original treaty stipulated for the
incorporation of the Mexican inhabitants of the ceded territories and
their admission into the Union "as soon as possible, according to the
principles of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all