New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-12-05
The presiden.,s Message.


The Presidents Message.
lis National misfortune that the Annual
Message Of the President of the United States
which, uader other auspices, was bnt candid
and statesmanlike exposition of the state oil the
Country, as affected by tee Political events of
the preceding ycar,-has so nearly degeneraied
into more partisan gloss On the acts and de-
signs OF the Executive and his suPporters-a
mere plausible and sinister stump speech, TO
which the whole People are obliged cnce year
to listen, and wherein party leader or TOOL mind
full of his advantage, Improves his hold on the
public ear TO The iarthest possible extent FOR
the last sixteen years this abuse has been grow
ing more and more palpable, and we presume
that the next four years will hardly witness any
abatement Happily, the evil has become 50
rank as to work partial remedy, as few now
regard Presidents Message as any thing more
than an adroit electioneering harangue, to be
Judged and confded in as much as speech Of
any Profit or 10. BoswoIth on political pil.
grmage-no more.
For do but consider how Mr.. Tyler treats his
leading hobby, the Texas Question.
10 the frs. place, he assumes that Mexico has
10 right to tesis: or complain Of our incorpc:At-
ing Texss with our Territory. Let US recall the
facts. and reason the matter;
Texas has BEN uni ormly regarded, fos two
centuries as part OF Mexico. Its very name
proves it originally Spanish province, no.
French, like Louisiana, New-Orleans, Baton
Rouge, sc. &c. You may easily determine
what portions of the Territory between the Mis
sissippi and the Del Norte were originally French
and which Spanish by the names OF places on
any Map. Then the Gulf of Mexico as the
world has for ages termed it-why not rather the
Gulf OF louisiana if Texas were originally
part of louisiana Ii there III existence one an
Gent reliable atlas on which Texas is laid down
as any thing elrc than a portion OF Mexico'
But, pu. these points all nc MIR. Tyler would
have them, and how can We go behind our own
Treaties There Is that of 1919. framed under
the instructions of Southern President and a
unanimous Cabinet, ard ratified by the South in
the Senate, expressly recognising and solemnly
Diary between the United States and Mexico
Again in 1928, cur Treaty with Mexico herselI
expressly acknowledged and moro distinctly
defined this boundary. That Treaty is still i'll
force. How shall we ovade without peifdy its
solemn obigatoas
Why, says MIR. Tyler, on, people were invited
there as settlers [aot true of one.tenth Of thost
who have gone there] and have made themselves
independent OF Mexico. We had no night to
wress it directly from idexico; bu: We mey far,
ly take it at the gift OF these Adventures who
have dospoiled her of it. They have defied her
power nine years we have recognized their indie
psndence; other nations have done likewise; 50
we may now take the province without scrap1e
This seems TO Us very much hike the logic
of receiver of stolen goods-or at best of a
slaye.dealer on the coast of africa. Allow II Its
full force, and it would not justify US in taking
one foot more than the territory over which the
flag OF Texas actually waves-that is. perhaps,
one.tenth OF the whole province 1t gives US no
shadow of CLAIM, 10 tho vast Indian region held
by the Cauanche and other tribes, or TO any
thing Yves, of the San Antonio. Texas can give
us no more than she has acquired.
But let US look little deeper into the matter.
We can more thoroughly test the soundaess OF
Mr.. Tylcr's assumptions by suPposing that 1t
had been our OK tha. was gored BY Mexico's bull.
So let US make parallel case:
Suppose the People OF California or Western
Mexico were active, adventurous ard rowing, and
had lsrgcly settled IN orcgon,-we viii say at
the invitation of our Government. Suppose tnat
they had soon alter thrown eff The authority
of the United States, declared themselves indie
psndent, and all Oregon thsir territory. Sup,
pose that, whenever we undertook 10 reasses; our
authority there, great numbers OF Mesicans had
gone over to the help of their oregonian breth-
rem. and thus our arms had been bafiied,-th
contest not being very popular with us, the dis
lance great, and the contest necessarily most ex-
pensiye. Suppose that, after eight years OF tais
colIision-we steadily asserting the night and the
Mexicans ia Oregon dsfying it-Mex'co should
undertake to annex the whole to her own donl-
aisns by a treaty with the cccapsnts: Would
not Our whole People declare her course pertid',
Gus and graspirg beyond endurance Should