Upon an examination of this protocol, when it was received with the
ratified treaty, I did not regard it as material or as in any way
attempting to modify or change the treaty as it had been amended by the
Senate of the United States.
The first explanation which it contains is:
That the American Government, by suppressing the ninth article of the
treaty of Guadalupe and substituting the third article of the treaty of
Louisiana, did not intend to diminish in any way what was agreed upon
by the aforesaid article (ninth) in favor of the inhabitants of the
territories ceded by Mexico. Its understanding is that all of that
agreement is contained in the third article of the treaty of Louisiana.
In consequence, all the privileges and guaranties--civil, political,
and religious--which would have been possessed by the inhabitants of
the ceded territories if the ninth article of the treaty had been
retained will be enjoyed by them without any difference under the
article which has been substituted.
The ninth article of the original treaty stipulated for the
incorporation of the Mexican inhabitants of the ceded territories and
their admission into the Union "as soon as possible, according to the
principles of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all the
rights of citizens of the United States.
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