Note 5 — Letter 10.

Mr. Gallatin makes a strange mistake, when he says, that the refusal, was to receiving a resident minister. The refusal was on account of his not being a mere Commissioner on the single subject of Texas! What reasonable objection could there be to a resident minister, after a treaty of peace? And if no such treaty were made, then the minister clothed with those powers would take his departure, as a matter of course. Mr. Gallatin speaks very lightly of a suspension of diplomatic intercourse! I regard this, under the circumstance, as most serious. But there was more than suspension; Mexico declared all negotiations at an end, and war was, therefore, the only alternative.