The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1844-08-30

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and where II bore ten per cent. interest, as
three millions Of it did, would have been
worth upwards Of two hundred cents ia The
dollar on the day Of the ratification of the
treaty. And all This 10 90 to the benefit,
not even Of Texas, but OF SPECTATORS; and
that while the United States refuse, and
ughluliy refuse, 10 assume the debts of
their own States. These scrip.holders
we're among the most furious treaty men
at Washington, and cannot bear the idea
ot having their scrip scaled as The cont.
mental bills Of the American Revolution lis.
sued under the same circumstances were
scaled, so as TO give them back their out.
lay and interest; but they want them fund.
ed, as the soldiers certificates were in the
year 1871, not for the bcneti Of soldiers,
but for the benefit of Jobbers and members
Of Congress, who, by law, turned two and
stXpenco INTO thirty shillIngs in their own
pockets, aud that 10 the amc nj Of millions
Of dollars. The Yazoo land speculation,
aud the soldiers certificate speculation,
were grans Of mustard 10 the mountain
compared to The Texas land aud scrip spc-
cnlation which the rejection Of the treaty
baked. Under the bill justice will be
done. The scrip viii be scaled, aud void
giants Of land annulled.
To show the extent of these land grants,
aud to expose the fraudulent statements in
The treaty correspondence, that only sixlv.
seven millions of acres had been granted.
Mr. Is produced aud exhibited 10 all pre-.
sent large pamphlet with map attached
70 II, containing the claims Of single in
dlyldunl, and all Of which were asserted 10
be vaIld under the usaty. They were
grants derived from the second of the
Governments which had granted a1Jsnd
leSas, to- wit the States or - ,,.a.
Texas when united ss - STATE wh'ci, was
can reyoTIIj16n- W., ~, 1920, when me Next
~. oIohe -. "a 1895, when
exas revoIted. The grants were mndo
= 4 hr. John Charles Bcnes. an EpaL.L--
NeNcans, and purchased by him aud all
Tor lille or no consideration
some in reward for introducing manuac-
lures some on condition OF settling faml-
ties-some on condition OF introducing cat
iie--and some uncondIlonaly. They are
now all transferred TO n citizen Of the L.
States, a Mr.. John Woodward, OF New
York, and amount TO far more than the
whole quantity which the treaty cores
pondcnce admits 10 have been granted by
all tic Governments which ever held
Texas.
Mr.. b. then enumerated these grants
and pointed on. their position on the map,
the quantities in all cases not nscertalna-
bic because they extended from rivers to
rivers, from mountains to mountains, and
from parallels to parallels of latitude and
longitude. The first was grant Of forty
five millions Of acres, being fraction less
than the States Of Kentucky and Ohio unit.
ed, extending from north latitude 81 dc.
grees to 81 degrees and 20 minutes, and
from longitude l02 degrees west from
Greenwich to the Sierra OBSCURE noun
talns, aud covering the upper waters OF
the Colorado, the Red river, and the Ar
kansas. Another covered three degrees
rlatiIude-from2S to 30 degrees-buund-
ed west on longitude 100 degrees west
from Greenwich, and extending east to
the Colorado, on which II bound fifteen
leagues. \ third extended from the Nue..
ces to the Rio Grande, aud covered two
degrees Of latitude, from y TO 20. A
fourth clam consisted Of a set Of grants,
nine in number, each for eleven leagues,
making nnety.ninc leagues IN the whole,
. lying on The Nncccs, and all made to Mex
leans, from whom Bealcs purchased'-
( These ninetv-niue leagues we're absolute
and unconditional grants, in foe simple :;
. the others were emEreSSGrio grants, or up
on the condition Of settling number Of
families on each. The families had not
been settled, being prevented by the In.
/ dian wars and the TcSian revolution aud
the pamphlet sets out the decision Of the
Supreme Couit of ,he L. States in the
case of ho Aredondo claim, and the Clark
claim in Florida, to show thai IN such ca
ses Uhe performance of the condition be-
coming impossible by the act of God, OF
the public enemy, or the gran,or) the con
dition becomes discharged, the grant Is
absolute, or the party may have time after
the cessation of the obstacle to fulfill 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, arc claimed to be valid; and
that claim woald 60 to the same court
which decided the Aredondo and the Clara
cluins, for the treaty annu'ied none. Ihe