Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-09-25

Vu itIt nc may ltu'tHlc Va IL; YitdSto) oH va ll
formal agent Of Texas Just the other States in
the United States have sometimes agents to attend
TO the concerns Of their separate States but moth
ing in the character Of charges or rs representa-
tIycs of foreign States"
o. The AMERICAS REVIEW for Sept. opens
with an article on War with Mexico" Astounding
in just views and striking Illustrations. The wr-
ter denies the right Of the President mot Congress
to send U. S. troops at all into Texas while Annex
alton remains unconsummaed, ard very strongly
sustains his position lie says:
"To send U. s. troops into any part Of Texas,
when Mexico had as yet, made 10 demonstration
for its reconqucst, seemed very much in the nature
Of provocaton or chlllengo TO Mexico, to come
on; but to send them specially to that part of the
territory which is in dispute, and which, even If the
offer Of Mexico to recognize the independence of
Texas had been accepted by the latter, would not,
without negotiation and compromise, have been IN
cluded within its limits, seems the very wantonness
Of bravado.
IF it were insulting to Mexico, it was not less
derogatory to the Congress Of the United States,
which passed the joint resolutions of Annexation !;
for, by those resolutions, the adjustment Of al!
questions of boundary that may arise with other
governments" is reserved expressly for this gov
ernment-which,n this connection, can only mean
the President and Senate-in other ords, the trea-
ty-makng power"
On another point Of great prospective interest he
says;
"The Government has studiousy endeavored to
represent this as involving only our (diiaS the
Texan right 70 the territory IN notwithstanding
out of view entirely the Indian claim to the same
territory. OF course the Indian, though an origi
nal, is an obsolete claim, and nothing could be
more offensive to the eyes of Loco Foco.T eXanism,
than the assertion Of It, We do not propose to as
sert anything other than facts, however unpleasant
| they may chance to be to" the Democracy" The
Texans wrested their territory FIRST foot by foot,
from the coast tribes as they advanced into the
INTERIOR tribe after tribe went down before them in
their westward march, even 10 BcXar or San Anto-
MO. Here Texas politicians were baflled. The
country westward to the mountains was IN the
hands of the Camanches, and this country must be
obtained at whatever risk! convention of the
chiefs was called to meet at San Antonio They
came in good faith, 18th their squaws and children
to meet the Pale faces. What was the result p
Like wild beasts in pen, they were slaughtered,
man, woman and child, with one or two exceptions,
! in the square of Bexar! and the exceptions were
those who lived in spite Of bullets. And these are
the people are to treat amicably with, and who,
to use the language of a late correspondent of the
Union, "are not so very lormidabew 1t is by the
publication of such documents that the administra-
ton are trying to blind the eyes of the people,
This person. who has evidently been on the ground,
endeavors to make it appear that in the event of a
war, these savage tribes to be regarded COM
parativey insignificant. We claim TO know some
thing about that region of the world ourselves, and
we say that no assertion from party claiming per-
sonal knowledge of the facts could be more will
fully false than this. So far from being true, the
Cananches are the most numerous and relentless
of the savage foes with whom we have been com
PEELED to dispute our territory, and in the event Of
their being furnished with arms, must prove alto
gethor the most formidable As yet, they have
few guns among them, and their principal weapons
are the lance and the bow; but they have become
accustomed to fire of every kind particularly
since the Texan Santa Fe eXpediuon) and are Pc
culiarly sagacious and expert in availing them
selves of any improvement in the art of war which
may fall in their way 10 superficial Observers
such as the correspondent of the Union-th up-
pear to be cowardy from the fact that they are wise