...foreseeing this we ought to treat them as such from the present day." "The haughtiness of these republicans will not allow them to look upon us as equals but...that their capital will be that of all the Americas." 8 This from the pen of the first Mexican minister officially received at Washington within two weeks...

...inferiors," he informed his foreign office in December 1822. "Their vanity goes so far, in my judgment, as to believe that their capital will be that of all the Americas. They have a profound love for our money, not for us, and they are not able to enter into a treaty of...

...Republicans does not permit them to look upon us as equals but as inferior; their conceit extends itself ... to believe that their capital will be that of all the Americas." At the time of the incident, according to Bancroft, Pio Pico warned, "The North American nation can...