New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-04-11
Rc-AnneyntlOn.'

'Rc-AnneyntiOn.'
Our latest advces from Texas give reason TO ap
prehend that the anxiety OF the Texans 10 lind
shelter under the cannon Of the Union will triumph
over whatever they possess oil National character
or PRIDE and that, after spirited but not protraced
struggle formal consent to the terms proilered by
our Government will be given. On the next Con
gress them will depend the ratification or rejection
of the whole project In view OF this fact, every
nerve should be strained henccforh to the close Of
the Congressional Elections TO secure the return at
Members who will either reject the whole project
or insist on the postponement Of its consumnation
until some anlcabIe arrangement with Mexico
shall have been effected with some adjustment of
the Slavery question not absolutely humilatng TO
the Free States and dlsgraceu TO the American
name. We who know and feel the inquity OF this
whole Texas conspiracy, from the first emigration
OF the Tennessee consprators down to this moment,
will be uniaithtul TO God and Man if we falter in
our opposition TO the last moment when opposition
can hopefully be made.
We propose, therefore, TO adducc farther test-
mony Of the utter futility and knavery Of the pre-
tence that the acquisition of Texas by this country
would be only Remuneration. We have
already preferred mountains of conclusive evidence
on this head, but the following demonstration that
our Government neuer understood that 7,r0s tcqS
ineiuded III The purchase Of Louisiana, has not ap
spcared IN our columns. We extract ii from the
!. Speech of Hon. LUTHER SEVERANCE Of Name in
the House on the Texas Ioint Resolutions Will
the Albany argus and 1adds obIige us by consider
ing It's positions mir. Severance says:
Ii 10 said we are only re-anneXing territory
which acquired undcr the Louisiana purchase
and I'm IN Sonin IN nd thnt
had orght TO surrender American citizens against
their remonstrances, toa European dcspo,; and the
gentleman from Illinois, Mr.. DouGLAss0 contends
that though lost right the territory by the
treaty Of lsl9 yet the inhabitants of Texas having
achieved their independence. have now right to
claim admission INTO the Union under the guaran.
ties Ut The treaty OF 1903, and we are bound IN hon
or and good faith to admit them.
Let us see If we did surrender American citizens
in 1919 Were the laws OF the United States ever
extended over Texas or any part of ii, Never.
Did the United States ever sell or grant a foot OF
land in Texas! Not one. Was there man 10
Texas in 1919 who ever pretended to own an inch
Of land there by any other title than from the SPAN
ish Crowni Dir. S. never heard OF one. Moses
Austin was the first citizen OF the United States
who received Il grant OF land IN Texas. On hu'
death IL was renewed 10 his son. Stephen F. Austin,
who went there with some colonsts IN 1919 Aus.
Tin received his grant from Ferdinand VII. and
swore allegiance 10 the crown OF spain, and also
pledged himself and his ooonists 10 support the
Catholic religion. He aud his colostsls cXpatrla-
ted themselves as citizens OF the United States.
What claim could these men have on our Govern
ment they had voluntarily transferred themselves
TO foreign despot" THIS eloquent defamation
against selling Americas citizens was all borrowed
thunder, which hau been used IN the State OF
Maine against alternating the French Acadlans or
the Madawaska and the Upper 81 Johns
And now let us see what reason there is for as
Stunning that Texas was understood 10 be ours be
fore 1919. That II was not considered part ot
louisiana al the time OF the acquisition appears
A.
an act 10 take possession in 1885, without defining
limits. The mex; act is March 30. 1901, erecting
Louisiana into two territories The hrs, section is
IN these words;
BE enacted nc. That all that portion OF country eeded
by France the United STATES under the name OF Louis
lana. which lies south VI the Mississippi Territory and OF
and west line to commence the Mississippi river
the asa degree OF north latitude, aud TO extend west 10
as ssai boREddfy n csssIoN shall constitute Ter
rtory OF the United States under the of the Terrific
~ OF Orleans; the Government whereof shall be organized
and administered ss follows &C.
IN the 18th section is the following;
he yc,ilae of the province OF Louisiana cedc1 10 the
Uniod States shall be called the District louisiana the
whereof shall be organized and administered
as follows, sc.
The &C, Of February %, ISL. "to enable the
people OF The Territory Of Orleans 10 torn ii STATE
Constitution, and the act of April 5, lSl2, admit
tins the Territory Of Orleans into the Ualon as
the State OF LOUISIANA, make the case clear. In
both these acts OF ISL and lSl2thc boundaries are
Sabine and run northward to The ,hlrty-hrd degree
OF North latitude, and on that parallel to the AiisSIs
siPP; and both acts repeatedly speak of the terri
tory included us . .he sad TERRITORY Of Oyl,unS"
which territory is described in the act OF 1904 as
including all of the territory OF the Louisiana ces.
sion, lying south of the parallel OF SSo OF North
latitude, which parallel line Is run TO The Hes;sr
boundary Of SAID ce$SiOH. Nothing can be more
clear than that, IN 1904, ISL, and IN lSlS, Con-
gress did not regard Texas 10 be included in SAID
cession OF France 10 the United States, and did
not regard II as any part OF Louisiana. Mr. Jeiler
son approved of the net OF 1904 and Mr. Madison
those OF ism aud 1872 And really there is very
little reason why Texas should have been - re-
garded The SnaBIar3s, under Ponce de Leon
and Others, had occupied Florida. and explored and
claimed ,hc whole intervening coas, IN the Gull be-
tween Cape Florida and Vera Cruz, one hundred
and seventy years before Id Sale discovered the
mouths OF the Mississippi. In all that nme they
had Siiled past the numerous moatls OF that great
River Rislakiug them for mere bayouS, Jus; as The
English and Spanish navgators sailed pas. the
mouth OF the Columbia River wlthou, seeing 1t,
leaving the discovery for Capt. Cray. q Boston
Yankee. La Sale found the mouth OF the Mis-
sissippi by following the stream downward from
the Ohio and the Lakes. He returned 10 Canada,
and thence 10 France, where he was provided with
foar vessels with which, in 1851, he entered the
Gull OF Mexico IN search OF the MISSISSIPPI oQi
he wenttco tar West, and so; into bay, which
he called the Bay OF 81. Bernard, near the mouth
Of the Colorado: Here he was attacked by the
Span,ards as an intruder; they captured two OF his
vessels, third was los, BY shipwreck, and the
fourth escapsd back 10 France. La Sale was LET;
for, for their defence. He was subsequently as
saSsinased by one OF his own men, his fort was de-
streyed by The SPaniards. and mere remnant OF
the party found their way TO the Mississippi River,
BY which they returned to Canada /, - nv virt,s
of this accidental disaster Of La Sale that Texas Is
claimed as part Of Louisiana Ii IS very much
like the conquest OF Santc Fe by the Texans in |
lsl1g The FfeEch held Louisiana until 100, wbsn
il was ceded 10 Snain; but ii does not appear that