The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-08-21
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uAR. M THE EXECUTIVE.


n Texns kas become, IN our oplnion.
insrilsbls bag that 70 Transcend with |
our Iorcrs - actual hmiis-ls pass BE-
yond 10 population and possessions into
q rsTiaa q oaly Mexiraa inhabiianis-s
rrfion within which Texas has not >
senlemenl. AMI which embraces q least
fofy-6ss thousand Mexican souls, oser
whoa Texas neser has exsrrised an IN
sianfs jurisdiction. i making nothing bui
aEolun AIRY offensive war. unlusiihed bY
any preience of that necessity which eould
sl0ne warrant the temporary employment
Of the public arms By The President. with
oat The SANCTION Of IN set OF Congress,
(lhe wa making power.) Ina word. be-
tween thai whirh he might do, and that
which The Administrator paper of the 7lh
Instant coHfesses that he is doing. the DIFF
ference Is = enormous As il IL evident.
Though. ss We have said, II Is Of choice
that The Annexalionisls have left him.
and Of choice thai he stands. in predl-
esmenl involving The resor. 10 an Exeeu-
cutive act which is eminenily repugnant
70 The Constitution Of this Government,
Tor Of any popular Goyernmeni)-yet il
is monsirols, wanion, and dangerous in
the extreme that he should exceed even
the necessity thus produced, and plunge
forward into measure not only beyond
all contemplation Of any political expecta-
ton, but beyond any powers which the
force Of a sudden contingency might ex-
euse his assuming.
In the official reply Of the Union 10 our
article OF the day before yesterday on this
subject, the . accomplished men whom
its editors hare found in this City, the
considerable accession Of talent which the
Administration has brought with it, the
tined and distinguished members Of the
Democratic party who have accepted Of
fee under IL" may have afforded a pari
Of the expected equivalent for The places
they hold, but not very convincing token
Of their inpartiality between the Execu-
tive assumptions and The Laws or Con-
stisntion. They defend al large The ex-
ercise Of power by the President which
we condemned; and they deliberately
contend that the real limits OF Texas ex-
tend west 10 the Rio del Note! They thus
admit, in general and in particular, what
we charged-thai the Executive is acting
IS we supposed.
Now, mark the consequence The on
~ ground upon which this proceeding can
place itself is, that Texas has assumed,
by Law, as hers. all the country within the
Rio del None, including Santa Fe and
other Mexican possessions, within which
q Texas man can hardly be said ever to
have set his foot except as a prisoner.
Certainly. the writer's for . the Union"
advert 10 some alleged "a admission" BY Us
(ihe United States) that these were the
limits of Texas. But need we say that il
is too futile TO merit any attention, thus to
say that our admission, If ever made,
would give Texas any right over what zoe
have nothing TO do whit Meantime,
where is the admission! Not in any act,
law, or authority Of the United States,
certainly. II so, let il be produced. OF
course, we know being somewhat famil-
lar with Texas argumenis) what the I'm
ion" means. The admission" consists of
an annexation map, or Of the headlong as
sertions in Texas speeches in Congress
things ridiculous from the first, and go
thoroughly and mercilessly exposed in one
Of Mr.. Benton's speeches as TO have been
thenceforth dropped entirely by all who
desired TO preserve for the annexation
scheme any semblance Of sence or decen-
cy.
II, hen, the President can take armed
possession of every thing within these idly
claimed but false because never exercised)
limits Of Texas, he is, for the same rea-
sons as make il his duty to def.nd with
our arms Texas proper. bound TO drive ev-
cry Mexican beyond the Rio del Norte,
or TO reduce him under the jurisdiction of
Texas. And thus, if he can invade the
eoastwise region as far as the Rio del
Norte, he is legally bound to invade and
take Santa Fe and its dependent countries.
These are The inevitable consequences oil
the pleadings Of "the distinguished men,
bers Of the Democratic party" who oc-
caslonally take turn at the ''organ."
In favor Of all this, nothing legal and
nothing that necessity could legalize, ex.
lists; while directly against it rise many
things Of solemn authority.
Everybody knows that precisely the
contrary Of these high-handed Executive
proceedings was in the contemplation OF
Congress and Of the Public, on the final
passage Of the Annexation Resolutions, a
part Of which directly provided for peace
fully settling with Mexico the disputed
limits OF Texas. Is the President to make
war on Mexico for these territories--to
make them by conquest legally part of
Texas-and then to give away 10 those
from whom he was wrested them thai
which will then be the soil of State. not
that of the Government!
As empty as all its other allegations in
favor of these unlimited stretches of Ex-
ecutive discretion, in the Unions answer
TO our objection, when it urges that the
President could not resort for authority to