The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-11-03

of the Louisiana territory ceded TO the United
States by the Treaty Of Paris under Napoleon )
and hat the People of the United States are
inalienable, Bot we viii extract a portion Of
the article from the Telegraph:
| awe eudesyorcd says the editor Of the Tele-
graph 10 call the attention of the American editors
TO this subject than six years ago while pup
fishing the Telegraph al Columbia and we were mol
then aware, that the opinion we advanced then, that
the people Of the United States were inalienabe 10
any foreign power had been sustained by MIR Clay
The Constitution Of the United States guarantees TO
every citizen the privilege OF freeman and ny no
construction Of that instrument the Senate ana
President claim the right TO cede away American cit-
liens 10 become the subjects OF foreign king Tex
is unquestionably portion OF the old territory Oh
Louisiana, ceded by France to the United States IN
the treaty concluded on the 30th April, 1913 Even
the Spanish Minister, DE Onls, admitted the claim oil
the United States to this territory, and declared mat
he had for three years contended for what he knew to
be the property Of the United States Mr. Jefferson
in letter addressed to MIR Bowdoin in 1906 writes
thus: We are attached To the retaining the bay oil
St Bernard Tor Matagorda or 81 Louis, as named by
La Sae) because it was the first establishment oil
The unfortunate La Sale was the cradle of Louisi
ana, and more nconestably covered and conveyed to
US by France under that name, than any other spot IN
the country"
Mr. Monroe in a letter. addressed TO Mr.. Onis in
1916, writes thus
"With respect to the western boundary Of Louisi-
ana, have to remark, that the Government has ne
yer doubted since the treaty of 1909 that il extend
ed TO the Rio Bravo satisfied am, il the claims Of
The two nations were submitted TO impartial trbu-
nal, who observing the principles applicable TO the
case and tracing facts to discovery and settlement
on either side, that such would be its decision The
discovery of the Msslss ppi low down as the Ar
kansas in 1873, and to its mouth in 1850, and the
establishment of settlement that river, and on the
bay of St Bernard, the western side OF the Colo
RADIO, in 1855, under the authority of France, when
the nearest settlement Of Spain was IN the province
of Panuco are facts which place the claim of the
United States ground not to be shaken. II IS
known that nothing occurred afterwards on the part
Of France TO weaken this claim. The difference
which afterwards took place between France and
Spain respecting Spanish ehcroachments there, ana
the war which ensued, to which they contributed,
tend to confirm it," State Papers, vol. A. p. $50, part
For Rel.
ain the old maps of Louisiana published in 1921,
and in the map Of Millish, the western boundary of
Louisiana is defined as follows 1t commences at
the mouth Of the Rio Grande, extends along the west
bank of that stream to the Rio Puerco; thence along
that river TO the cham of mountains which forms the
dividing ridge between that river and the Colorado
thence along that ridge 10 beyond Santa Fe, where 1t
bends towards the Rio Grande, the latitude 36
degrees porlh thence along the Rio Grande to its
source This map was laid down according TO the
observations communicated to the English Royal So
ciety, and the French Royal Academy of Sciences,
and furnishes evidences Of the western limits Of Lou
lisana Of the highest authority. The portion Of New
Mexico, including Santa Fe and the settlements be-
tween that town and The Rio Puerco, were probably
excluded, because Spain had prior right TO this
ton by occupation citizen of Zacatecas having
formed settlement there early 1896, by the
authority of the Vice Roy of Mexico. Several nou
Irshng towns probably formed near Santa Fe,
when La Sale first landed at Matagorda: but as no
settlements had been formed by the Spaniards south
Df the Rio Puerco and west of the RIO Grande, the
French claimed it by right of the discovery OF "a
Sale and the settlement formed by him at MatagoT-
Ida As France never rellnqushed her claim until
NE finally cedcd the country to the United States in
1903, the Government of the United States just,
y entitled to the territory, claimed in the original
limits of Louisiana"
From the most authentic sources we have
assurances tina, the People Of Texas earnestly
d'sire the annexation of their country TO the
Upi;ed States-and that they are opposed to the
deJgns of Great Britain in regard to Adolf
not, &c.
} That the subject is OF the greatest importance
TO ne United States, no one denies; and he or
! they who may contribute most in the accom-
plishmenl of an object so advantage Gus to the
Union, md so anxiously desired by the Texans
will reeve the plaud,s of the country-both
present AID future.