New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-02-05
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY $
Notes ON Tsx..

CaacinnaIi, Out which We think has No, hsc,
much, Mt all, known on this side Of The All.
gsaniss. This narrative, Considered N I.,e-s,,
point OF view, ii full of faults OF str,e and oic,;oo
out mani'esiiy the work Of an honest. truthful man
WHO travelled very thoroughly over Texas. and
WINES according 70 the dictates OF unwarped
judgment. We propose 10 CLEAN some leading
tacts which not universally, even If generally,
known; but with which we may as well become
familiar If Texas-as seems extremely probable
II 10 be thrus, into our Union within the next
four years. Necessity, they say, makes strange
bedfelows;' Political chicancry and selfish in
sg;gus nsy do the same: but there is no reason
Why bedfelows, present or prospective, should
not become acquainted when they may.
And FIRST, word on the territorial extent Of
Tsxss, and the beautiful compromise which has
just been made in Congress respecting Slavery.
All South of 36a degrees North latitude is 70 be
alaye-holding if it wil-that is, if slsvehodcss
choose to settle upon it, while Freedom il 10 have
an North of that parallel But On Col. StG s
KaY Of Teas, Published in l34O, before any
possible motive for Misrepresentation existed.
sAere is not g foot of that Country North Of the
asia degree Of latitude! This is the truth, be-
yond all cavl. The province of Texas never did
e1tsnd to the Rio del Nsrte, and thence NOrther.
w to its source. Its Southern and Western
boundary was the Nueces fifty miles east of the
Rio del Norte, to It's source III The PIedra finta
Mountains, leaving the whole region drained by
tho Rio del Norte aud i,s Eastern tributary the
PRsrco In the ndsputably Mexican PROVINCES oi
Tanaulipas, Coahuia, chihuahua, and Santa
F6. Claiming the Rio del NoIte as the natural
boundary of Texas is in effect splitting fou' an
asniahly Mexican States, which NO Texan ever
ansefed except as spy or u prisoner making
Ma.smogas and Mier frontier towns, and throw
ing Santa Fe-a Mexican City of one hundred
and fifty years. standing-into Texas There is
10 principle of right or public law known among
ynsn by which this important portion OF the Mex
ican Republic can be seriously claimed as part OF
Texas. Whenever u treaty Is made between
Mexico and Texas (or whoever POSSESSES Texas
that region must be conceded 10 her. Even were
phe compelled by defeats her fears to surrender
them, we could not Republicans accept them
with any decency. On what principle should
ws compel the Spanish Mexican Catholics vi
Santa Fe to obey our laws and conform 10 our
institutions The preience, then, that therc is
some portion Of Texas from which Slavery is cx
rluded by the Joint Resolution which has passed
the House, is most impudeut and wholesale
iniquity.
Let US stop bore to rodemolish the eyer.recur.
mig swindle, which 10 completeness vi exposure
ukD.L al. ~
and that her acquisition by Us would he Il
Remuneration. On what is this claim based
Purely and necessarily the assumption That
what we call Texas was originally portion oil
Louisiana and not Of Mexico But hoW par,
of Louisiana? The mouth of the Mississippi,
vas discovered by the French ADVENTURE La
Sane, in 1852, over hundred and fifty Yeas
after both Mexico AND florida. on each side. had
been discovered aud possessed by Span. The
,srzeer portion Of the River had been visited and
descended as far as the mouth of the Arkansas
in lST9. by Marquette and Joliet, also French
xDen.) La Sale reached the Mississippi from
Canada, passing up the St. Lawrence and LAKES
md down the Illinois. France thence claimed the
Araginn Of the mississippi, ond sent out La Sale
So found colony uponit. He missed the mouth
LOT the River, sailed by, and landed somewhere
;ns what il now called Texas, IN what he named
eAes Bay Of St. Louis, which is supposed to be
Ma4aSyosda Bay. Having lost one vessel IN get
ting inso the Bay, La Sale landed, built fort,
ana wses left here by his colleague Bcaujcu.
fWsGh whom he had constantly dlfitred,) who re
tarasa5 to France, leaving La Sale only tho
tHelia.h small vessel. Three months before,
Rsapiesi had written letter Qa,ely printed) OBJ
iscsinsg to La Sales rashness and haughtness,
saying, aEor ean l comprehend how
sAuinld dream of settling country surrounded by
SpSnssrdsand Indians with company of worh-
zaszS un& women instead Of soldiers" This be
wssss with reference 10 the mouth Of the Mssis-
syPis which they were then in rearch of, with no
sha0sht Of pushing four hundred miles farther
toussd Meaico. The Belle was soon after los,
mAtSsmpsing 10 reach the mississippi, La Sale
NA&usSsf VIVA assassinated by some Of his own
man, fareh 90, 1857, while making second
aitensm 10 reach the Missssppi overland; sever
nj ffia faithful followers were killed with him
half his people fell speedy victims to The Inalig-
nity of the climate, and the small remnant OF
the company were captured By Spanish eApedi-
ton, five hundred strong, which was despatched
from New Mexico Santa Fe,) Tor tins purpose,
Cd thar frs, news Of a French landing IN Texas.
The few prisoners made by this expedition were,
attss bang sent to Span, returned To Moi'co'
and there made to labor Ia the mines. where they
wsre las. heard of. France never reclaimed them
nor demonstrated against tier treatment. though
they ought to have been released as clGarly The
victims of q mistake oil La Sales. who never
intended To land West of he Mississippi, and
Who endeavored, els soon as he discovered his
mistake, to get back to that River as speedily as
r,,ssibie. But in fact the real purpose Of his ca
psdi,;on was regarded by Spain ns an intrusion
IA hss territory, for such she considered the
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