The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-07-19


quenees. Thus we the lntelligeneer day IN and
the borrowed capital it can get II matters not how
agrant the misrepresentation, 30 that serves The
purpose Of those in whose employ the intellisenoer
is--it is published, and sent out 10 The world as
truth.
Thus it copies from the Raleigh Register the TO-
lowing;
THE TEXAS DEBT.
In the Texas treaty, about which Democrats
have run mad ii is provided that the United States
shall pay oil her debts, estimated at ten millions OF
dollars Take notice, II Is not provided that the
United States shall pay no more than &lOOOuOO0
is that the United States shall pay all the debts and
II the estimate of 900 900 should be little wrong,
say by fifty hundred millions, why it is small
maiter-the high contracting parties were only lit
tie mistaken their figures, which do some times lie
VIII, great men are greatly Interested
The Florida war, with only few miserable Sc
mnoIes, uned, uncothed, without any friendly
Power, to aid them, held our some seven years, and
cost us upwards of S40,000,O0O Texas has been
at war eight years with Mexico, and good part OF
the time with the Camanches and other Indian
tribes-do you suppose II has not cost her i've or
ten times much money the Semnoles have
cost u.s. her debt may exceed $40 900 900, but
If We scale il down, we did our old Continental
and Proc moneys $500 for Sl-then, perhaps, her
debt at that rate will not exceed $4,000 900, as es
timaed. But this would be repudiation and must not
be thought Of But Why take ! IBIS dsbs 81 sqa
ister here to make his Treaty. rather TO conclude
it, for II had been under consideration for months be-
fore. Their books show, or ought to show to dol
lar what they owe. Why did that Minister come
here without bringing the precise amounts Because
il more convenient to estimate. Suppose we are
cheated in this matter, 10 whom and of whom shall
complaint They will then be part of our own
family, and we can have no redress.
They estimate their Public Lands at many mil
lions of acres but to swell that estimate, according
to Mr.. Benton, and he is good authority with the
Democracy, they put IN ii a tract 1000 miles long
and 100 WIDE, now an integral part OF Mexico, ma
king two hundred thousand square miles, or l26 mil
lions Of acres: to which they have no more pretence
Of title than to the island Of Great Britain.
Yet, with all this fraud as to the Public Lands
and all this danger and nnce rtanty to the true
amount Of the Texian debt aside from any other
objections we find Polk and HoKE and every plddling
Democratic politician in the country run mad after
Texas
FRIENDS OF THE UNION! Let us show these
mad annexatonisls that we greatly prefer " the
Union without Texas" to Texas without the
Union. "-Raleigh Register.
The editors of the Inteigsncer cannot plead ig-
norance; they printed the treaty and knew what its
provisions were, and they knew that the charge
which they thus copied and to which they gave
tended circulation, was untrue. The words of the
treaty are;
ART. V. The United States assume and agree to
pay the public debt and liabilities Of Texas, how
ever created for which the faith credit Of her
Government may be bound at the time of the ex-
change of the notifications of this treaty; which
debts and Liabilities estimated not to exceed, in
the whole ten millions of dollars, to be ascertaned
and paid in the manner hereinafter stated.
The payment of the sum of three hundred and hi-
ty thousand dollars shall be made at the Treasury of
the United States within ninety days after the ex-
change of the ratifcations Of this treaty, as follows
Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars TO Frederick
Dawson, Of Baltimore, or his executors, on the de-
livery oil that amount OF ten per cent bonds oil Tex
as; one hundred thousand dollars, il so much be re-
CURED, In the redemption Of the exchequer bills
which may be IN circulation at the time OF the ex-
change OF the ratification Of this treaty. For the
payment Of the remainder Of the debts and liabilities
OF Texas, which, together with the amount already
public lands herein ceded and the nett revenue from
TIE same, are hereby pledged.
In case the amount of the debts and liabilities allow
ed, with the sums aforesaid to be paid TO Frederick
Dawson, and which may be paid in the redemption
ofthe exchequer bills, shall exceed the aid Of
ten millions of dollars the said Secretary, before
issuing new certificate or stock, as the case may
be, shall make in each case such proportionabe aud
fateaole reoucton on us amount as TO reduce the
aggregate to the said sum Of ten millions Of dollars
and be shall have power to make all needful rules
and regulations necessary TO carry into effect the
powers hereby vested in him.
We ask the public to pause for moment on these
facts, and to inquire what are the inducements that
can tempt respectable press to circulate so gross
an untru,h on so important issue, and also TO
fleet on the consequences of placing party in power
who are compelled to adop, such means to obtain il.
Can any one believe that practsed the InteIligen-
Ger is in the tricks Of its trade il would have adopt,
ed so vile expedent il not for the necessity
of disappearing the treaty