every department and every part, land and water, officers and privates,
regulars and volunteers, doing all that men could do, and hundreds of
things which it had ever before been thought men could not do--after all
this, this same President gives a long message, without showing us that
as to the end he himself has even an imaginary conception. As I have
before said, he knows not where he is. He is a bewildered, confounded,
and miserably perplexed man. God grant he may be able to show there is
not something about his conscience more painful than his mental
perplexity.

The following is a copy of the so-called "treaty" referred to in
the speech:

"Articles of Agreement entered into between his Excellency
David G. Burnet, President of the Republic of Texas, of the one
part, and his Excellency General Santa Anna, President-General-in-Chief
of the Mexican army, of the other part:

"Article I. General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna agrees that
he will not take up arms, nor will he exercise his influence to
cause them to be taken up, against the people of Texas during the
present war of independence.

"Article II. All hostilities between the Mexican and Texan
troops will cease immediately, both by land and water.

"Article III. The Mexican troops will evacuate the territory
of Texas, passing to the other side of the Rio Grande Del Norte.

"Article IV. The Mexican army, in its retreat, shall not