New-York daily tribune., 1844-08-27

in The wnole-lyrng on the Nueccs, and al; made
To AeXicans from whom Reaics purchased.
These 80 leagues were absolute and uncondi.
tonsl grants III fee simple the hers were en-
p"eSsorio grants or upon ,he condition oF settling
4 number Of fsmliics on each. The families had
not been settled, beng prevented by the Indi,n
wars aud the Texan revolution and the pamphlet
sets out the decision of the Supreme Court OF The
United States in the case OF the Aredondo claim,
and the Clark clam in Florida, to show that in
such Cases uhe performance Of the condition be.
coming impossible by the act of God, of the pub.
tic enemy, or the granter) the condition becomes
discharged, the grant is ebsolu'e, or the party
may have time after the cessation of the obstacle
to fulh the terms.
Under these decisions, and the terms of the
late treaty, all these grants, amounting to seventy
or eighty millions of acres, equal to three or four
such States as Kentucky, are claimed to be We
Id and that claim would go to the same court
which dec ided the Aredondo and the CLARK
claims, for the treaty annulled none. The Fl,rl-
d4 treaty Of 1919 annued the great grants to the
Duke of Alagon, the Count Punon Rostro, and
Don Diego Vargas, and they are not recognized
10y the courts; but it omitted To name the claims
Of Aredondo and CLARK, and these have been con-
tirmed by tho Supreme Court Of the United
States, and 1t is notorious that members of Con
gress became rich upon The shares of these grants.
The grants, Mr.. b. said, collected into the hands
of Beales. stood upon the same footing with that
oi AredOndO. They were not annulled by the
late Texan treaty. None were annulcd by it.
All the grants were confirmed which were good
under the laws of Texas; and the laws of Texas,
so far as the right of property is concerned, are
the laws of Spain and Mexico, and Coahuila
and Texas, under which the right Of property
accrued.
Mr. B. said the Presidents Message comrluni-
eating the Treaty to the Senate, was as untrue in
relation to the granted, and to the vacant lands IN
Texas, as it was in every other particular. In
stead of two hundred millions of acres, there
were only eighty. -four millions of acres in Texas
proper; the rest was the one.half in Tamau'ipas,
Coahua, Chihuahua and New aiexico and had
been granted away centuries ago; and the other
half in the wild country of the Cumanches and
The Sierra O6Scura mountains, and must be
fought Tor and bought from these lnriaus before
it cdn be possessed, and will be then found 10 be
covered by Beae's !orty-hve million acre grant.
| lnsiead OF six,y.seven mi!hoGs Of acfts granted,
every inch ot Gt3ls proper, and all the Indian
country besides, was granted away. los'ead Of
one hundred and thirty millions OF acres OF va
cant land, there was none vacant Tor even the
sterile mountains and barren prairies had been
granted 10 spectators TO cell 10 the Unlted States
and in Europe. and the assumption to pay the
scrip debts OF Texas, in consideration OF The va
cam lands, was naked and fraudulent assump
ion to pay ten millions for nothing and that To
stoc k jnbbe.s who had gwen tw1 c. nts, "nd tive
cent?, and cen!a .he dollar Tor the cali!s.
and whose agents were at " ashington iotestlug
tee C4pltoI, the P,esidcni's h"nsr, and the De-
par ment OF Stale. auG .ing Az that In HER
| mil n,
| Inc Senarofs who dsspscd them and their scrlp.
The treaty was II fraud in not annulling the
great grants, made for considerations not fulfilled,
and for not scaling the oepreciated scrip debt
IL WAS fraud .nesc particulars, but this fraud
c,e ,ted vorucious and ciamorouS interest tor The
reatr MIR. b. said the patriotic paUplc OF Mis-
~ were mistaken in surprising ,h.t every body
", rc iiKs themselves, &c etby laudable motives
| In wanting Texas. because 1t was geographically
connected with the Unied States, and essential
tnlts pni,tc1i commercial and social system:
ta,rs were oIhers Who aned it for very different
| pu-los.s-tnc DlsuniOnists, Tor example, who
wanted la use ii ior separating the Slareholdlng
| Stales-prtsidentia in,rlgucfs, who wantedlt In
make and uunake PRESIDENTIAL Candidaus, ana
l,anu Soecuators and Stock Jobocrs, who wanted
| Il IL enricn themselves.
Throughout his Speech Mr.. B. presented it as
the design nt the Texas treaty not 10 get Texas
| into the Union, bu; 10 get the Southern States
out of II, and Shaved that the whtle Treaty, aud
nj, the corr, spondcnce relating to was studlously
and artiulIy contrlved for that purpose. To pick
n quarrel with Great Britain, and also with the
.Sisveholding States on the subj ect of Slavery,
was the open uudsl luIsed object Of the negotlator
from the beginning to the ending. To array the
SIaveholdug against the Non SIaveholdng hall
OF the Union Was his open and continued effort.
10 present the acquisition of Texas as Southern
sectional, S!aveholdng question, wholly directed
to the extension, perpetua'lon and prcd"minancc
of Slavery, was his t1potss aud avow'd object
And after all this open effort to make the 1ex,s
question II Slave question, the admission Of Ee1tn
states into the Union was To be submitted TO a
House OF Representatives where there ma
,oiity o! iorty.six members from Non Savchoding
States What could all this he for except TO have
Inc Tex States refused admission, and preteXt
furnished the Southern States for secession? Al
this was SO we'll understood in South Carolina,
that the cry Of Terps or DisuniOn was raised
in that quarter not only before the Treaty was
rejected but before ii was mace. Let 1t never
be forgotten, said MIR. T., that d Treaty cannot
! admit new States. The Constitution grants that
power to Congress. The Texas Treaty cid not,
and could not admit Texas us Stale: 1t only
admitted it as Territory. The question Of ad-
mil,ing the STATES would have TO come on ditt T.
ward in Congress; and The non.sdmsson bcu G
previously made sure OF, then the Secession from
The North, and adhesion TO Texas, was 10 become
the riehtlu remedy Texas being in the Union
a, u Territory by the supreme law of the LAND,
Treaty, her non. admission by Congress would
became Il beacon Of that supreme l5w, and IN my,
under lhnse circumstances, were coun'ed upon 10
sccedc who would otherwise ebhor secession.
Mr.. B. SAID he saw the first Signs Of this
scheme ri cisunion during the session of Con-
gross In lS42-43. He saw other Signs of it i'll
the summer of lSi3; and by the end Of the late
s. ssicn OF Congress the signs had become so
thick and clear that he was able 10 dcuounce 1t
on The fipor of ,hc Senate. His reply TO Mr..
McDuffie on Saturday, the sub OF June, was
The Il ST nurlic Recommendation Of this ncv treason