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

terocity and lawlessness of the purposes avowed by
the government paper or the levty and hippancy,
almost equally condemnabe, in which they are am
nounccd. But, true patriots, who would feel as
wound any stain upon the escutcheon of our ,coun-
4 try, we must not be content with merely depre-
eating the rash counsels by which the Executive
is now goaded, il appears, to desperate resolves,
but, so long the privilege Of speech and Of the
press is left to us, must persist in our endeayors,
by appeals to facts and reason, to diss,ade our
rulers from the execution of those resolves in the
execution Of which purpose we proceed Hiefy to
show, in addition to what we have argued geogra-
phically and historically, that not only does the
rghtful boundary of Texas not extend 10 the Rio
Grande, but that this matter has not been otherwise
understood by our own Government at any time until
now, hat,under color Of amisapprehension, real or
pretended, Of geographical fact it is proclaimed 10
the world by the Executive organ that il the authors
ties OF Mexico dare to send a man across river
which runs through four of the ndispnable pro-
vinces of Mexico, !" blood must flow -
As long ago in the first year of the adminisra-
ton OF President JACKSON when he made the attempt
to obtain from Mexico, by purchase, the possession
of Texas, il is matter Of record that he knew and
western
dairy Of Texas, and only by way of safe boundary.
desired to have the line extended far west the
middle of the desert between the Nueces and the
Rio del Norte, or Rio Grande. His proposition for
the acquisition of Texas included no part of Ne,c
| lNe1ico, chihuahua, Coahttiia, or Iamauiipas,
large portions of all of which lie on this side (east
of the Rio Grande, and did form part of Texas
proper.
Again: AT the moment of submitting TO the
Senate the " Treaty of Annexation" despatch
was forwarded by SPECIAL Messenger to the Re-
preventative Of the United States in Mexico, from
which the following extracts plainly show the
knowledge OF the Executive that the Republic Of
Texas had no title whatever to the territory extra
neous of the ancient limits of that province and that
the territory claimed to be part Of Texas belonged
to Mexico, and must be negotiated for with her
'You enjoined by the President" says Mr. Secretary
CALHOUN in his despatch, o the Mexican Govern
ment that is his desire 10 settle all questions beoecn The
t,cocounfics wieh may gro Of isfrcay, or any other
cause, on HE most liberal and satisfactory terms, INCLUDING
THAT BOUNDARY and with that the Minister who
has been recently appointed will be shortly with adequate
powers.
you win finally assure the Government Of Mexico that
if circumstances had permitted it, act concurrence with
that OF Mexico in taking the step ha with all its re-
spcct for Mexico and anxious desire that the
should continue on friendly terms, could make what
believed might involve the safety Of the Union itself depend on
contingency Of obtaining the previous consent Of Mexico
But while II could not with aue regard the safety of the
Union do that has taken every precauion to make The
terms Of treaty as little Objectionable Mexico possible
and, a.ong Others, has h pousDAnr Texas uiih
Io,le fem,
SHOULD BE MIGHT QUESTION, to be fairly and
fully discussed and settled according to the rights Of EACH and
the mutual interest and security of the countless
In the debate in the Senate Mr.. BENToN, as we
have lately shown, distinctly proclaimed the raudu-
lent character of the treaty, by which, under color
of annexing Texas an independent Government
to the United States, the Executive was undertak-
ing to "annex" certain provinces and territories of
Mexico, with which Texas had no connexion Of
any sort, and against which Texas had very recent
ly made war and reprisals as being the enemy's
territory and populations
| We may here again cite additional testimony by
the Missouri Senator the probably best authority
on this subject of any in the United States, il
not Of any man living, no one having studied the
subject more laboriously intensely than he for a
period Of more than thirty years. In speech de-
flivered by him at great Mass Meeting Of the
Democracy Of his State, at Boonvie, on the 18th
July, 1884, when his reelection to the Senate was
question before the people he said
TEXAS in ALL IT'S PROPER ExTENT--i,a Us tvholc
length and breadth, from the Sabine 10 The ,oesf
+ Of the Nucces, and from the Gulf Of Mexico to the
f. Red riverconains but one hundred and thirty-fyc
thousand square miles, equal to eightyfour million
sol acres and to get the remainder Of the quantity Of
L two hundred millions Of acres, they have to count
: the wild country under the dominion Of Cumanche
Indians and the left bank of the Rio Grande from
head 70 mouth--ALL WHICH IS UNDER MEXICAN
DomISIoN and great part Of which has been settled
and granted above two hundred years"
The fact must be familiar to all our readers that,
after the rejection Of the proposed Treaty Of An
nexaton, the late Administration again instructed
the Minister Of the United States to attempt to bay
from Mexico her right, thus admitted, to The terri
tory which formed no part OF Texas proper, but
upon which the present Administration, without any
authority or warrant is marching the troops Of the
United States, and which the government paper is
threatening to deluge with blood should the Gov
eminent Of Mexico presume TO exercise any rights
Of sovereignty over il. Every reader viii remem-
Der the ndipcfe with which our Minister, Mr..
SHANNON referred TO this instruction, in the follow
ing passage Of his Letter to the Mexican Minister
of Foreign Relations, on the 9th Of November last,
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