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Edgefield Advertiser
Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina
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US Frigate Macedonian returns to Pensacola from Mexico's coast, reporting severe sickness in Vera Cruz with ~40 daily deaths. Officers obtain Mexican government's appeal to other nations against US aid to Texans, dated May 31, 1842, by Secretary Bocanegra, threatening to view continued support as hostility.
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Latest From Mexico. The U. S. Frigate Macedonian has just returned to Pensacola from the coast of Mexico. A letter from one of her officers states it was very sickly in Vera Cruz - about 40 deaths taking place daily.
The officers of the Macedonian while at Vera Cruz, obtained copies of an appeal made to other nations, by the Mexican government, against that of the United States. The Mexican Secretary of State complains bitterly of the aid and succor openly given to the Texans, by the citizens of the United States. In one despatch, dated at the National Capitol in the City of Mexico, on the 31st of May, 1842, Senor Bocanegra, after recapitulating how long and how patiently Mexico had endured injuries and insults from citizens of the United States, sympathizing with Texas, uses this plain language: in the continuation of which, it (the Mexican Government) will consider as a positive act of hostility.
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Vera Cruz, Mexico
Event Date
31st Of May, 1842
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about 40 deaths taking place daily in vera cruz; mexican government will consider continuation of us aid to texans as a positive act of hostility
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US Frigate Macedonian returns from Mexico's coast reporting severe sickness in Vera Cruz. Officers obtain Mexican government's appeal to other nations against US support for Texas independence, with Secretary Bocanegra's despatch from Mexico City on May 31, 1842, decrying endured injuries and threatening to view further aid as hostility.