The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-05-30
From the Baltimore Patriot.
H TEXAS TREATY.

me Oloue Vi last evening CoutdinS oHA
columns of the speech deliveredby Mr.. Ben
ton in the Executive Session of the Senate
on the Texas Treaty. MIR. Benton had, it
seems, on the l3thinst. submitted three reso-
~lutions, and his speech was intended to en-
force their passage by the Senate. These
resolutions are in these words
"Resolped, That the ratification Of the
treaty for the annexation of Texas to the u.
S. would be an adoption of the Texan war
with Mexicoby the United States, and would
devolve It's conduct and conclusion upon the
said United States.
"Resolred, That the treaty-making power
does not extend to the power ofmaking wal,
and that the President and Senate have no
right to make war, either by declaration or
adoption.
"ResoIred, That the country dismember-
ed from the United States by the treaty of
1919 with Spain, comprehending Texas and
large territory between the Red river and the
Arkansas, and being geographically appur-
tenant to tho United States and essential to
their political, commercial and social system
ought to be reunited to the American Union
as soon as it can be done with the consent
of a majority of the people of the United
States and of Texas, and when Mexico shall
either consent to the same, or acknowledge
the independence ofTexas, or cease to pros
ecute the war against her (the armistice hav-
inc expired) on a scale commensurate to the
conquest of the country"
MIR. Benton in the opening part of his
speech enters into an elaborate examination
of the boundaries Of Texas as now constitut-
ed, and the province of Texas as it existed
in 1919. when it was claimed as a part of
the louisiana purchase. He establishes con-
clusively,-what Mr.. Kennedy in his letter
published in the Patriot, first called attel-
ton to,-that the country proposed by the
Tyler treaty to be admitted into the Union,
is perhaps five times as large as the Texas
which was in view when the treaty oflSl9 was
made. The pretence, then, as Mr.. Benton
contends, that this Tyler treaty proposes no
!; more than a "re-anneration Of IerGs," is a
fraud in words. 1t is no pronunciation "forit
is not pretended by those who use that word.
that the province of Texas in 1919 extend
ed farther than the boundaries included be-
tween the Sabine and the Rio del Norte, and
the Gulf of Mexico and the Red river
whilst the boundaries of what is called the
Republic of Texas, as defined in this Tyler
} treaty, includes the whole extent of the Rio
/. del Norte,-some Two thousand mile long and
some hundreds broad,-and embraces one hall
of the department of New Mexico with its Capt.
tai?
The Tyler trSuty then proposes to seize
two thousand miles of a neighbors dominion
with whom we have traeties of peace and
friendship ami CO. imerce-a territory where
no Texan force has ever pene;rated-as j:
proved by the disastrous expedition to MieI
and Santa Fe-without being killed or takeI
the last man!
The researches of Mr.. Benton throw in
deed a flood of light on this subject. Hav
3 ing shown by the map of "The Republic o.
Texas which Mr.. Tyler submitted to thu
y Senate, that it claims a boundary "Beginnins
at the mouth ofthe Rio Grande, thence NJ
e lhe principal stream of said river to it
source; thence due north to the AID degre'
IT of moth latitude; thence along the boundar,
line, as defined in the treaty between thu
if United States and Spain, to the beginning,
n Mr.. Benton goes on to prove, that thi
: boundary includes towns and villages an,
es custom-houses, all now in the peaceful pos
session of Mexico. He says:
First: Tkereis the department, formerl
the province o fNew Mexico, lying on bot
sides ofthe river from its head spring to Eea
the Paso del Norte--that is TO say, half wa
down the river. This department is studC
ed with towns and villages-is populated
well cultivated-and covered with flock
and herds. On its left bank, (for | onl
speak ofthat we propose 10 re-anned,) il
first, the frontier village Taos, 5000 soul
and where the custom-house is kept at whic
the Missouri caravans enter their goods
Then comes Santa Fe, the capital, 400
souls-then Albuquerque, 5000 souls-the
some scores of other towns and villages
more or less populated and surrounded
focks and fields. Then come the depar
ments of chihuahua, Cohuila, and Tamaul
pas, without settlements on the left bank
the river, but occupying the right bank, an
commanding the left. All this-being par
of four Mexican Experimentation und'
Mexican governors and governments
permanently reannexed to this Union,
this treaty is ratified, and is actually rea
nexed from the moment of the signature
the treaty, according TO the Presidents Ia
message, to remain SO until the ACOUSTIC
is rejected by rejecting the treaty:
The fact, to which Mr.. Benton here ca
attention, that Mr.. Tyler declares in his me
sage TO the Senate, that Texas is actually
the Union, and will remain so until t
treaty is rejected! is one IF the most ext
ordinary assumptions ever made. Real
our acting President would seem to be mo