The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-08-11
{ NUMBER 46.


lBs, that meaning is only the more ofien'
sive for being insinuated rather than dis.
tiuclly avowed. Mr.. de Bocauegra would
seem 10 represent, that from 1885 TO tho
present time, citizens OF the L. States, If not
I their Government, have been aiding rebels
. ~ Texas IN arms against the lawful author.
/ ity Of Mexico. This is not little extra
ordinary. Mexico may have chosen to
consider, and many still choose to consider
Texas as having been at all times since
1885, and as still continuing, a rebellious
province; but the world has beea obliged
to take very different view Of the matter.
! From the time Of the battle Of San Jacin.
to, in April, 1886, to the present moment,
Texas has exhibited the same external
signs OF national independence as Mexico
herself, and with quite as much stability Of
Government. Practically free and inde-
| pendent, acknowledged rs political sover.
elgnly by the principal Powers Of the world,
90 hostile foot finding rest wIhin her ter.
ritory for SIX or seven years, and Mexico
herself refraining for all that period from
any further attempt 10 re establish her own
authority over that territory, it cannot but
be surprising 10 find Dir. dc Bocanegra
complaining that for that whole period Gill.
gems Of the United States or lis Govern.
ment, have been iavorins tho rebels Of
Texas, and supplying them with vessels,
ammunition, and money; as il the w0r for
tho reduction Of The province Of Texas had
been constantly prosecuted by Mexico, and
her success prevented by these Influences
from abroad.
/ The general facts appertaining 10 The
settlement of Texas, and the revolution in
its Government, Cannot bot be well known
to Mr.. Bocauegra. BY the treaty of tho
;12d Of February, 1919, between tho Uni.
tod States and Spain, the Sabine vas adopt.
ed as the line If boundary between the two
Powers. Up to that period no consdera.
ble colonization had been effected in Texas;
but the territory between tho Sabine and
the Rio Grande being confirmed to Spain
by The treaty, applications we're made TO
that Power for grants of land, and such
grauts, or permissions Of settlement, were
10 fact made BY the Spanish authorities IN
favor Of citizens OF the United States pro.
posing to emigrate TO Texas, in numerous
families, before the declaration Of indepen.
} dencc by Mexico. And these early grants
were confirmed, as is we'll known, by sue.
; cessive acts Of the Mexican Government al.
5 ter It's separation from Spain. In January,
1923, national colonization law was pas
/ sed holding out strong Inducements TO all
J persons who should incline TO undertake tho
} settlement of unculiiva,od lands; and al.
though the Mexican law prohibited for q
time citizens Of foreign countries from set.
tling as colonists in territories Immediately
adjoining such foreign countries, yet even
this restriction was afterwards repealed or
suspended. So that, in fact, Mexico from
the commencement Of her political exist
ence held out the most liberal Inducements
to emgrants into her territories, with foil
knowledge that these inducements were
likely TO act and expecting they would act,
with the greatest effect upon citizens of the
United States; especially Of the Southern
States, whose agricultural pursuits natural
IL rendered the rich lands of Texas, SO well
suited TO their accustomed occupations, OBJ.
ects of desire to them. The early colo
!
Moses and Stephen Austin under those in.
dlcemonts and Invitations, we're persons Of
most respectable character, and their un.
derlaklnc was attended with very seyeve
hardships, occasioned, in no small degree,
by the successive changes in the Govern.
meut Of Mexico. They nevertheless perez.
vered and accomplished settlement. And,
under encouragemenis and alluremeDts thus
held out By Mexico, other emigrauts follow.
ed, and many thousand colonlsts from the
United States and elsewhere had settled in
Texas within ten years from the date of
Mexican independence. Having some rea-
son 10 complain, as they thought, OF the
Government over them, and especially of
the aggressions of the Mexican military
stationed in Texas, they sought relief by APP
plying TO the supreme Government tor the
! separation of Texas from Coahuila and To-
cal Government, for Texas itself. Not hay.
ing succeeded in this object, in The process
of time, in the progress Of events, they saw
fl TO attempt an entire separation from
Mexico, 10 set up Government Of their
own, and to establish political sovereign.
ty. War ensued, and the battle Of San ia.
cln,o fought on the 21st Of April, 1886,
achieved their independence. The war
vas from ,ha, time at an end, and in March
following, the independence Of Texas was
formally acknowledged by the General
Government Of the United States.
Ia the events leading to the actual result
, Of these hostlites, the United States had
no agency and took no part. lis Govern
{ ment had, from the first, abstained from
giving aid or succor TO either party. IL
, knew its neutral obligations and fairly en-
j deavofed to fulfil them oil. acknowledge
ed the Independence of Texas only when
that independence was an apparent and an
, asceriained fact, and its example ID this
, particular has been followed by several OF
) tho most considerable Powers of Europe.
1t has been sometimes stated, as if for
the purpose Of giving more reason TO the