The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-11-21


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. q l2 ard II renss per dsrss-ii kan
esly settled, - Presidents Tyler sn0
Houston had sIrsnged IL in rase u annra.
aion, ave millions uould lave paid 4
iA'riy and literally. Nov loses il exaes.
" ne nan 10 ins.si epon he sllslIe Zee
q this debt bring Paid. If the sel,lems 81
oeromrs The AFFAIR &C the Unised Slal-s:
though q remains indeprn.,en,. her
fesnielionary paper will be goed Ger ex.
aeli ) Hhai our eOntinessAl rLonry was
10 ligIn RI. e..
/. lfsnnexaiion does take plaee. tbere
> bal one way of meeii1g lie oues,io,
ef the public debt Of TeKs. IL, her
keep her public domain. settle her avn
land claims, and pay her ,wn debts. lf
Uncle Sam NEEDLES with either. Ilie cd
gentleman viii get egrgionsly rhraled."
Wheihrrwestern Texas. the fdea Of
the Mississippi valley, is n be abandoned
10 tie Indians by this administration As il
was By the lasi, and The Government, 20
ronIinne framing The couniry like rara-
van. stopping here and there az the mos,
profitable invitations. remains 20 Be J. en-.
u was disgraeelul i.midiiy or audseions
caprice, 10 remove the Government from
Austin, and keep Congress begging for
shelter rom TOW n 10 Town, un,lrr preteaee
nf danger from Indians and Meairans, az
ter Lamar had held quiet possession for
three years. ~
Texas preiends TO claim IN the Del
Norle. yet dsrcs NOT for Ihiee-perhaps
.iI years-contene her Congress or Ca
biitl within thousand miles Of that Dor
der: and this al lime when there is no
demonstration Of active war-no actual
preparation for invasion. such inflated
p'eiensions have brnughl rpon Texas The
scorn II every one capable Of reading a
map. and furnished The enemies of annex
alton with akeen weapon againsiil. Well
may they laugh at an "undefned boun-
dary," when they see the Texans claim
three tines the territory they ever occupi-
ed. or even entered except as rapiiyes;
able the executive feels constrained In
keep respectful distance, within so much
narrower limits Of Texas proper. AJeo-
pie that are not safely a. home on the To-
dorado. 10 claim beyond il TO the Del
N, rir!"
"The liver Nueces was the western lire
at Texas proper; the Texans have never
entended their authority 80 Gar. and all
they claim west Of il belonged 10 the
Safes Of chihuahua, Coahuila, and New
Mexico. @ @ #.@# @a @~
"ln the matter Of boundary, Mr.. Jones
will be more apt 10 hear reason, If The
United Siatas and Mexico will talk il to
him, than Burlcson. He would sooner
claim Vera Cruz, than give up the small
lest fields east Of the Del Noric. The
Boundary question is 4 the best one Of in
trinsic difficulty. Ii by some miracle tli-
PlDmaiisis were TO try the novel expert
mint Of honesty, il might not be hard 10
settle. They wo,ild bur hare 10 consent
that Mexico AMI Texas should each keep
her own, and the business would be dis |
posed If at once. A prairie desert six
hundred miles wide, destitute Of nayiga.
bic streams and uselhptimber, as unk nwn
and pro6tless TO the white man as the
Sahara, presents n clear and well defined
bord Of separation, between The Mexico.
Spanish and Anglo American r,ces.
Neither can pass 10 the other side except
by FORE or fraud, yet both claim the ter
rtnry Of the other, though it can show no !!
title by settlement, purchase, conquest. or
possession. Was there ever simpler
case tired in the court Of na,ions!"