New-York daily tribune., 1844-08-27
THE TR Ilst I,
col Bonron's last speech ON Texas.
Ar. EnnSxIttr

IN, Missouri, in defence of his position on the
r.,.. question, we tx,ract 50 much as relates
mare especially to that subject. Mr.. 5. says:
Dsanion Was primary object of the treaty
=, Intrigue for the Presidency was its secondary
oh;ec, land speculation. and stock j'boing were
.nr,ary objects; and the four objects together
b-ony ht it forward at the time. and in the man
nsy in which it came forward, just forty days
bsf,re The Baltimore Convention, and at the exact
manent 10 mix with the Presidential Election,
and TO make dssension, discord and mischief
bs,wfen the North and the South. Mr.. b. SAID
he meant this fo- The prime movers and ncgo-
,ieto;s of the treaty, and not for those who sup
ported the treaty without participating IN the
news OF It's makers. He had in various speeches
exposed the dsunion scheme, and the intrigue for
the Presidency he had not showa the part which
l,nd speculation and stock j,bbiDg acted in
concociing the treaty, and pressing its ratfics-
ton He had not noticed this part; but it was
ac,n.p,cuous one, and was seen by every body
at Washington City. The city buzzard
roos the Presidential mansion and department
Of State, were huzzard roosts! defiled and pollu-
led by the foul and voracious birds, in the shape
Of land spcculators and stock jobbers, who saw
lhe,r prey IN the treaty, and spared no effort to
secure 1t. Their own work was to support the
treaty. and its irends-to assal It's opponents-io
abuse the Senators who were against ito vIlify
them, and lie upon them in speech and IN writing
--and TO establish committee, still sitting at
Washington, to promote and protect their inter.
est. The treaty assumed ten millions of debt,
and confirmed all the aud claims under the laws
Of Texas The treaty correspondence claimed
two hundred millions of acres of land in Texas,
d., -. Il
and claimed es d fund out Of which the debt as.
sumed wa, TO be paid. Vain and impotent at
tempt at deception. Open and fraudulent attempt
10 sssume bubble debt tor the benefit of stock
i,hhers without any adequate consideration either
loT 14s or the United States.
Texas in all its proper extent-in lis whole
length and breadth from the Sabine to the West
ofthe Nuec5s, and from the Gulf of Mexico to
,be Red river contains bu, l35, 900 square miles,
,oaal 10 "a u,ilons of acres ; and to get the re-
nanGer o the OF the quantity OF 200 millions Of
srr.s they have to count the wild country under
The aominr.n of i.unlauche indians, AID the lct
bank u; n. R,a tir-ndc rom head to mouth, al
olwh,oh IS tuder Mexican m!nlon, and gre,,;
bal, waich has been settled SIId granted above
two buidred Years. Ii Is nonsense to talk 81
Texas possessing vacant land Ii there is any
-
'l,11s Itself has heen se;'ied at San AD,'nio,
Nsccgduches, and other places ub1vc one hu'-
drd yeals, aud has bsen placed under The DO
mlrinn o, three different q ,vernnenls, each Of
which a;s osen gran,ing away It's lands, and that
not ~. ~ acr-, AID 50 tracts, hnr by eesgues
end psrail,s LATITUDE and longitude, ,ano by huu.
drc6s Of thousands ana by mllii Ills o acres at
time. The kpg's Government made grants
,hcre irom l72D to 1922; then ,hc Suites Of Goa
hula and T.xss, united as State. made
grants from l620 to 1895, when the T. II re-
voiuuun broke out; and since that Texas nae
beeh granting hv wholesale AMI retail, having
general land office at the seat of Cove rment, AID
aocai one III every connty,ail cmpole;: III grant
iDg land, and that to the Anglo Saxon race whose
svltty Tor land is Unsuitable. Alter all his, u hot
Vacant hand can there he N Fexa.2 NG an acre
worth having! 50 that the 20 umption of her deht
BY the treaty was graiullous, and without con.
sderauon.
And what debt! created upon scrip and cer.
ti6cates at every imaginable degree OF deprecia-
l,cn, and now held by jobbars, most OF whom
havepurchased at TWO cents. and five cents, and
seven cents iii the dollar, and would have seen
their scrip, where II bore six per cent, woi IT, up
wards OF one hundred cents To Inc dollar, the cay
the treaty was Ratified; and where it bore ten ptr
cent interest, as three millions of It did, would
HAYS been upwards of two hundred cents in the
DOLLAR, On the day OF The ratification oI the treaty.
And all tins TO go to the benefit, not even of
Texas, but of spectators; and that while the
United States refuse, and rlghifuy refuse. TO az
sunes the debt OF ther own States. These scrip
huiders were among The most furious treaty men
1t Nashmgtor, aud cannot bear the idea OF hav.
ing tner scup sealed as the continental bills OF
the American revolution ISSUED under the same
clcunIsiances) were scGied so as to give Them
back their out ley and interest; but they want
them iundcd. as the soldiers certificates were in
Tho year 1871, not tor the benefit of soldiers,
but ior the benefit Of jobbers ana members CT
Congress who, by law. turned two and six pence
into 80 shiilngs III their own pockets, and that
10 the amount Of ruillons of collars. The Yazoo
land speculation, and the soldiers csiticatc specr-
laion, were gtans of mustard TO toe mountain
cod'psren I the Texas land anG scrip speculation
which the REJECTION OF the treaty baked. Under
the bill justice will be done. The scrip will be
scaled, and void grams OF land annuiled.
To show the extent of these land grants, and
u expose the fraudulent statements in tho treaty
Jurisprudence, that only sixty-seven mill ons If
acres had been granted, Mr.. B. produced and
exhibited TO all present d large Pampnie, with n
Giap attached 10 II, Containing The CLAIMS o: Il
single ipciv:duai, and al OF which were asserted
To- be valid under the treaty. They were grants
derived ffom lhc second o. the Governments
winch had granted lands in Texas, 10 wit: the
S,ats f Coahue and lexhs when united as one
State, which was their condition from ie2O, wiz n
the Ncxicsn Revolution broke out, to 1885. when
T-x4eIevui ed The grants were made ,n John
c. Dssies. an Englishman married 10 Il Mexcnp
woman, or 10 Mex.cans aud purchased by him
and sh obtained Tor htlle or no consideration
snme in reward Tor Introducing manufacture
sone on ccnd,non Of settling famliles-sone on
conciton OF introducing cat,I,--dnd snme uncon'
5ucnaly. They are now all transferred 10 cit
iz.n a, the United States, a MIR. John Woodward
OF NeS.Yoit, and anirnnt to far more tran 'h'
Whole aa.ount which ,he treaty correspondence
admlts TO nave been grant. by all the Govern
n,eh,s which ever held Texas.
Mr.. Il. then enumerated tlesc grants, onc
po'nl'c out tieIr position On the inap-ihc qnan'
tues IN ali cases not ascefteInshe nccause they