Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-09-20

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Louisiana.
Thus are the preiensions of the Executive fo
Texas completely exploded and exposed by til,
geography, the public acts, the constant allegation,
Of Texas ITSELF Nor are these claims less conlound
ed and overset by other remarkable assumptions 0
its own, which the Executive has hitched and hook
ed to them.
II Texas has, over the country to the Rio Grande
any such rights of territory as the Executive put
into action BY marching troops intoit; if the
reignty, the eminent domain is in her, not Mexico
then the righf of Texas implies inevitably an equa
and correlative duty Of the Executive to put it in
action completely, if at all. It is erciusiUc, if i
has any positive present, substantive existence. il
must be enforced entirely, if at all. If, because
Texas has said that all to the Rio Grande is hers,
we are to take possession for her Of parts Of Ia
maulpas and Coahuila, how are we mol TO take pos
session of half Of New Mexico, Both are hers by
precisely the same law, the right; both, then,
are included in the same duty. BY abstaining from
either, do we not falsify both! In abandoning all
the claim TO Santa Fe, Tor New MexicoJ have we
not confessed that thereis claim to Tamaulipas I!
For the claims are inseparably the same.
| But, to come down to the immediate quarter in
which alone the Executive, by this sell-contradic-
tion declares its intention to act-mark how it is
officially announced that nc is to proceed in the re-
gion (Tamaulipas) between the Nueccs andfhe Rio
Bravo. The Executive manifesto, which we yes
terday copied from the Union of The II III, says:
We repeat tive desire peace with Mexico /;
: but it must be honorable, a permanent peace.
If she strikes us, she is gone. If .4risfa dares Ia
carry ont his brdggart Hreafs--ifh he penfares 10
Z cross the Rio Grande acih inforcemeafs 10 any
: little armed post whieh Nerico may now occupy
on The east side ofthe rirer, General Taylor ui1
: attenlptto prereit him; blood mast .Row--,car
: must ensue Those armed posts ace MAY moi
disturb for the present for our GoUernmeni acts
strictly on the defensiUe. But let not .4risfa or
: Paredes or FHasoia, or any Of the Nerican COM
mandersafectt to cross The riUcr, under The prefence
Of reinforcing the post Wiich is IN no danger, but
really for the purpose of occupying a territory
: which the wandering commissioner of Great Bril-
: tain is said to have estimated 1--WE speak of the
mere temporary occupancy at ten millions ofdol-
lars. Still more If he crosses that riuer for The
purpose of striking at oar oo,a military force on
IT'S banks, zoe scGrn Merico of the consequences.
She must then expect immediate resistance and
: open war;"
Again, in its paper of the l3th,-a sort of sequel
or supplementary manifesto winds up as follows:
Let there be no mistake about this matter The
Rio del Norte Is our boundary line. The Rio del
Norte UiH continue TO be our boundary and ne-
Their the arms of the Mexcans, nor the tongues of
her diplomatists, nor the puny pens of the Ma
honal lnteligencer,' will be sufficient to remove
our boundary east of that river. There our bonn
dairy is planted, and the bullets of the Mexicans,
nor the paper shot of their friends in this country
tctH DC d6te TO SHAKE THE DETERMINATION OF OUR
EXECUTIVE upon this question:"
i We call upon the country to mark these last sig
nifcant words; to that this extraordinary step
involving aggressive war the most wanton and
needless even for the purposes of exaton-nay
fit only TO endanger them-is boldly heralded to
the country as THE EXECUTIVE DETERMINATION
a determination NOT TO BE SHAKEN! This is THE
PRESIDENTS will; and they scho dare 10 question,
the right or the sense Of this SOVEREIGN FIAT are
TRAITORS IN foreign pay! What compIi-
ment to our people and our institutions Men, it
appears, cannot be induced in this country, to
stand up for the Laws and the Constitution, unless
purchased TO do so by foreign gold! So says the
Executive organ. Does any body in the press at
tempt, al whatever hazard Of yenal clamor and
oboquy, 10 point public attention 10 fragrant Presi-
DENTAL usurpations That fact brands him fac
cordlng to the Union for Englshman, or To-
reigner of some sort! For this patriotic organ
| seems firmly convinced thai no .4nerican has The
spirit 10 denounce The Erecufice conduct which
we have lately opposed We wish the Admins
tration JOY of an apologist who cannot defend them
without becoming the universal caumnialor Of his
countrymenl But letus proceed TO scrutinize more
infinitely the measure, the means, the proceedings
of the Executive, which are to be pursued under
the behest above recited from the Union.
General Taylor is TO occupy, and he is not 70
occupy, the country beyond the Nueces He is To
leave uadisfur6ed the Mexican posts already there
buff a man, or convoy, or despatch is sent-tu
them, he is to declare war: for that power must
now be confided to his discretion in addition to the
Executive right Of calling forth the militia! The
territory is the United States, if Mexican soldier
/ wades the Rio Bravo but il is moi the United
States as long as Mexican troops merely stay per-
manently IN their o,Cn posts there i Should some
of those stationary troops refuse to allow an Amer
can party TO cut off their communications without
firing on them, thai, we suppose, is no mar: fol
war, i seems, by the Executives high decision
consists only in marching troops into the territory,
and moi in'keeping them regularly there The soil
too, is but the posts and the settlements arc
Mexico's, and must not be disturbed! Meantime
TO fill the country all around them with troops and
establish general blockade about them is not dis
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