Mexican-American War

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Provisional president of the United States of Mexico, Don Manuel de la Peña y Peña said during the signing of the treaty:
" The one that wants to qualify of dishonourable Guadalupe's Treaty for the extension of the yielded territory, will never solve how one will be able to finish an unfortunate war... The territories that have been yielded by the Treaty do not get lost for the sum of fifteenmillion weight, but for recovering our ports, for the definitive cessation of all kinds of males, of any kind of horrors, for consoling to family multitude. Too much we feel already the social disorganization, the insecurity of the populations and ways, the paralyzation of all the branches of public wealth and the general misery ".

Don Manuel de la Peña and Rock negotiated as the secretary ofRelations and to sign as president with the American government Guadalupe Hidalgo's Agreement, for which, Mexico yielded 2,400,000 Km2 of his territory. It achieved the peninsula of Fall saved California with his union for land with Sonorous and to preserve the sovereignty of Tehuantepec's Isthmus, as well as the liberation of the claims of individuals previous to the war, while The United States wasbinding to defend the border of the Indian incursions and to respect the rights of property of Mexican individuals in the hasty lands. Regardless, it was necessary to fix the limits between both countries with base in the rivers Gila and Big.
The Mexican government received an indemnification of 15,000,000 of weight which it is said that it did not submit it completes. Guadalupe Hidalgo'sAgreement already has been ratified and exchanged on both parts in the last days. The peace is as well as remains established between both nations.
We publicize the document with the introduction of the agreement which we transcribe later:

Manuel de la Peña y Peña

Provisional president of the United States of Mexico

All that the presentes will see know:

That in Guadalupe Hidalgo's cityconcluded and signed on February two of the present year, an Agreement of peace, friendship, limits and definitive arrangement between the United States of Mexico and the United States of America by means of plenipotentiaries of both authorized Governments owed and respectively for this effect, which Agreement and his additional article are in the form and following tenor.
This one is the firstpage of Guadalupe Hidalgo's Agreement signed in Guadalupe Hidalgo's Villa near the Mexico City, after the signature, a High Mass was celebrated in Guadalupe's Basilica.
THE SUPREME POWER HAVE BEEN MOVED TO QUERÉTARO's CITY.
It touched to his end the war with The United States and the government of Mexico wants to coordinate an honourable peace with his enemy. For this effect the supreme power havebeen moved to Querétaro and in the great lounge of the Academy of Fine arts the agreement of peace was discussed by the North Americans, which was signed by the secretary of Relations Luís of the Rose and by the representatives of the power agresora, Natam Clifford and Ambrose H. Servier. The provisional president Manuel de la Peña and Rock authorized it in his residence located in the house Núm.2 of 3 ª. Street of San Antonio (avenue Nobleman).
As soon as there had taken Bib, Valladolid (Yucatan), Izamal and other 200 peoples, the aborigens, supervised by Jose Venancio Pec, they assaulted Bacalar, giving death to the majority of his inhabitants. Only there could be saved those who in the darkness fled towards the British Honduras, establishing itself in the population of Corozal and inhis vicinities, where still they remain a descendants' great core from Mexicans.
The government of Santiago Méndez, harassed by the insurrection that it seems not to be able to control, has offered the sovereignty yucateca in exchange for military aid, to the governor of the island of Cuba, to the admiral of Jamaica, to the secretaries of Spain and England, but nobody has attended to his...
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