Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-04-03
From the Washineton Spsctntor.

From the Washington Spectator.
TExAs-ONcE PART OF THE UNloN.
Buff Texas, whether admitted ORE
jecled, will endanger The Union, it is a
matter for the most deliberate and areful
consideration, what course the people OF
the Unlted States should pursue with res
pect TO il. Satisfied thai information is
all that is needed for correct determine
sion, we will endeayor 10 contribute all
the aid in our power 10 show the rights
and principles involved.
And, in The first place, let it be distinctly
understood and remembered, that Texas,
if admitted into The Union. will be no en-
largement Of tue limits of the U. States.
Texas was component pdrt of the Uni
led States for sixteen wears, consecutively (,
from the treaty with France in 1903, for
the purchase Of Louisiana, 10 the uealy
with Spain in 1919, when it was most fa-
tally and wrongfully surrendered. We
will prove this from the very highest au.
thoriiy.
Louisiana, as we purchased it from
France, extended wesi to the Vic Bravo,
otherwise called the Rio del Norte. La
sale, the great French discoverer of the
source and mouth Of the Mississippi, occu-
pied for France The country west Of the
Colorado. Mr.. Jefferson was so satisfied
Of our right to Texas, that he declared it
as goo1 as our lille 10 New Orleans. The
French commissioner, MIR. Laussat, who
delivered up Louisiana TO the U. States,
announced the Rio del Nor,e as the true
boundary which Frauce had received from
Spain. But our Government was not
satisfied with announcement. The assent
of Spain, then owing Mexico, was sought
aud obtained 10 this boundary. MIR. Mad
ison, The Secretary of State to MIR. Jeffer.
son, in 1904, says that Louisiana s'exten-
ded weslwardly 10 the Rio Bravo, other.
wise called the Rio del Norte," and tha,
'orders were accordingly obtained from
the Spanish authorities for The delivery oil
all posts on the west side of The Mississip-
pi." Mr.. Mouroe, the Then Minister io
London, in 1903, says that he enclosed
documents which ''prove incontestibly
lha, the boundary Of Louisiana is the Rio
Bravo" and, in this opinion, Nj. Pinck.
ney united. AT later period. IN 1916
whilst Secretary of Stale, MIR. Monroe
said "none could question our lille lo
Texas" In his letter, as Secretary oil
State, TO Don Onis, of the 18th of March,
1878, John Quincy Adams says. "the
claim Of France always did extend west.
ward to the Rio Bravo" -"she alway.
claimed the territory which you call Texa:
as being within The limits. and forming a
part of louisiana" After showing GU,
title, Mr.. Adams says, "well might Messrs
Pinckney and Mouroe wrote 10 MIR. Cav:
allos, in 1905, that the claim TO the United
States to the boundary fthe Rio Brave
was as clear as their right to The island o
New Orleans" Again, ir his letter of The
3lst October. 1919, NJ. Adams SAYS oul
title to Texas is established beyond the
power Of controversy" Here, Then, by
the declaration of France, from whom we
purchased Louisiana, and by he unbroken
testimony of all the Presidents and minis.
ters ofthe United S,ales, who acled at all
concerning Texas-Texas was oafs, aud
formed acomponsnt part ofths u. States.
Blu, we will prove this position. nat only
by our Government, and the assent OF
other nations for ;ne sixteen years Texas
remained component par, Of the UEion,
but by The very act by which she was cast
out oflhe Uninn. -,s.s,
ln1sl9, aTealy with Spain was made,
by 1hich The country north Of the Sabine
(,rexas) was surrendered 10 Spain. The
treaty distinctly declares, ms regards
Texas, that we "cede to his Catholic