ceeded to Mexico to arrange the terms. After considerable trouble, involving temporary suspension of negotiations, a treaty was framed on December 14, 1843, whereby Yucatan recognized the government and constitution of the republic, with representation in congress, but was allowed to administer its own affairs, retain its officials and actual military force, exempt from furnishing any contingent of men, save for the fleet,[1] manage its finances, and dispose of the revenue, forming its own tariffs.[2] And so the costly efforts of Mexico were in vain; for Yucatan achieved all she had really aimed at, chiefly with the aid of her climate and Mexican military blunders. Santa Anna sought in the following year to encroach on the tariff clause of the treaty, and remonstrances proving vain, the province again resolved to ignore the supreme government; but the latter becoming involved with the United States, it had to yield and confirm the treaty.[3]
- ↑ The Mexicans keeping a force only at the naval arsenal of Cármen and in case of foreign war. The president has the prerogative in episcopal patronage, and in selecting the superior financial officer from the trio nominated by Yucatan.
- ↑ So that foreign goods sent from Yucatan to Mexico had to be subjected to the tariffs of the republic. Trade between the two was subject to the respective tariffs. Favors to any department to be shared by Yucatan, unless purely local. This treaty was signed at Mexico by Tornel, minister of war, and commissioners Pinelo, Rejon, and Castillo. Text in Yuc., Tratado, 1845, 1-8; Baqueiro, Ensayo Yuc., iii. 64. The latter provides, indeed, the most acceptable account of the campaign, followed in the main by Ancona, Hist. Yuc., iii. 383 et seq., and others. The version in Barbacheno, Mem. Camp., 59-67, touches mainly Campeche. The original decrees, reports, etc., thereon are given in Yuc., Expos., 1, etc.; Yuc., Manif. Gob. Provis., 1-76; Vallejo, Col. Doc. Mex., MS., ii. pt 454; Buenrostro, Hist. Prim. Cong., pts lii.-v. 153-255; Méx., Mem. Guerra, 1841, 4, 11-30; Id., Mem. Rel., 46-9; Diario Gob., Mar. 19, Nov. 9, Dec. 21, 1842; Jan. 1, Mar. 16, 31, Apr. 20, 1843, etc.; Duende, Apr. 11, 1843, etc.; Dublan and Lozano, Leg. Mex., iv. 406, 505-7, 675-8. Account of damage caused by the invasion is commented upon in Yuc., Mem., 1846, Apr. 26. Cármen Island presidio is described in Soc. Mex. Geog., Bolet., iii. 455-69. The Mexican version of the war is given in Bustamante, Diario, MS., xliii. 291-2; xliv. 109, xlv. 119, 213, 277; xlvi. 37, 211-13, 231, 235; Id., Apuntes, Hist. Santa Anna, 80, 155-97, 230-5, etc. He rebukes Santa Anna for having sacrificed nearly two million pesos and 4,000 men. The tone is softer in Rivera, Hist. Jalapa, iii. 487-600, passim. In Niles' Reg., 1xiv. passim, and adjoining volumes, the Texan share in the naval combat at Campeche is given prominence. Richthofen, Rep. Mex., 326-33, comments on the complex tariffs which arise. See also Suarez, Informe, 8-9, 18, 108-9; Pap. Var., xlix. pt 17, lxxxvi. pt 3, cxciii. pt 8.
- ↑ Yuc., Expos. Gob.; Pap. Var., xlix. pt 16; Yuc., Mem., 1845, p. iii.-iv.,
