The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-08

ulrcctcu letter 10 Mr. foinsett, our minister Ut
Ico, instructing him to endeavor to procure from
Mexico a transfer to us of Texas to the Del Nore.
In this letter Mr. Clay says, the President wishes
you TO effect that object MIR. Clay adds: The
line of the Sabine approaches our great western mart
nearer than could be wished Perhaps the Mexi-
can government may not be unwilling to establish
that of the Rio Brasos de Dios, or the Rio Colo
RADIO, or the Snow Mountains, or the Rio del Norte.
in lieu of it, Mr.. Clay urges ALSO the import
ance of having entirely within our limits the Red
river and Arkansas, and their respective tributary
streams
'On the 18th of March, 1927, Mr.. CLAY again
renewed the effort to procure the cession ofTexas
In MS letter OF instruction. of that date our min
lser at Mexico he says: The President has thought
lhe present might be an suspicious period for urging
negotiation at Mexico, to settle the boundary OF
the two republics IF we could obtain such
boundary as we desire, the government of the Uni
ted States might be disposed TO pay reasonable
pecunlary compensation. The boundary we prefer
Is that which, beginning at the mouth of the Rio
del Norte in the sea- shall ascend that river to the
mouth of the Rio Puerco; thence ascending this
river to its source and from its source, by line due
north, TO strike the Arkansas; thence following the
southern bank Of the Arkansas to its source, in lat
ltude ago north and thence, by that parallel of lat
itude, TO the South sea- And he adds, the treaty
may provide for the incorporation of the inhabit-
ants into the Union
"Mr Van Buren,, in his letter, as Secretary of
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1929, says: 1T is the wish of the President that you
should, without delay, open negotiation with the
Mexican government for the purchase of so much
of the province of Texas is hereinafter described.
He is induced, by deep conviction of the real
csssiiy of the proposed acquisition, not only as a
guard for our western frontier, and the protection of
NeO Orleans, but also to secure forever to the inhab
itants of the valley Of the Mississippi the undis-
puted and undsturbed possession of the navigation
of that river The territory, of which cession
is desired by the United States is all that part of
the province of Texas which lies east of a line be-
ginning at the Gulf Of Mexico, in the centre of the
desert, grand prairie which lies west of the Rio
Nueces.' And MIR. Van Buren, adds, the treaty
may provide for the incorporation of the inhabi-
ants into the Union And he then enters into a
long and powerful argument of his own, in favor of
the reacquisition of Texas
"On the Goth of March, 1893, General Jackson,
through Mr.. Livingston as Secretary of State re-
news to our minister at Mexico the former 'instruc-
tons on the subject of the proposed cession.' On
the Cd of July, 1885, General Jackson, through Mr.
Forsyth as Secretary of State, the instruc-
tons to obtain the cession of Texas and expresses
IAN anxious desire TO the very desirable al
teration in our boundary with Mexico On the 9th
of August 1885, General Jackson through Mr.
Forsyth as Secretary of State, directs our minister
at Mexico to endeavor 10 procure for us, from that
government the following boundary: Beginning at the
Gulf of Mexico, proceeding along the eastern bank
of the Rio Bravo del Norte to the 9th parallel of
latitude, and thence along that parallel to ne Pacific
This noble and glorious proposition of Gen. Jack
son would have secured to us, not only the whole of
Texas, but also the largest and most valuable por-
ton of Upper California; together with the bay and
harbor of San Francisco--the best on the western
coast of America, and equal to any in the world
1t, then, II was deemed, as it is clearly proved, most
desirable to obtain the remuneration Of Texas down
to period as late as August, 1885, is it less i'm
portant at this period
ave find tha nd of Mooors dap,s
| and Clay in 1925 and 1927, and that of jackson
and Van Buren,, in 1929, and subsequently in 1893
and 1885, making strenuous efforts to procure the
annexation ofTexas by purchase from Mexico
at the expense Of millions Of dollars. Let us OBJ
also the dates of these eors that of the first by
Messrs. Adams and Clay, in March, 1895, was with
In three years only after the recognition Of the indie
pendcnce of Mexico by this country, and prior to
its full recognition by other powers and it was withz
in less than five years subsequent to the final ratf-
cation of the treaty by which surrendered Tex
as not to Mexico, but to- Spain. Now, as Spain
had not then recognised the independence of Mexi-
co, and the still waging between those ma.
,ona, the only title which Mexico had to Texas
was by successful revolution, and is precisely the
same title, and depending on the same principles
as that now possessed by Texas. The same re-
marks apply to the subsequent efforts of Messrs
Adams and Clay in 1897, and of Jackson and Van
Buren, in 1929, to acquire Texas by purchase from
Mexico .
From Mr. Walkers speech in the Senate of the United
States, May, 1874.
"But even if the boundary had not been left an
open question, but the Del Norte had been specified
it is the rightful boundary of Texas and, therefore,
would constitute no valid objection to The treaty.
In 1886, Texas defined her boundary as follows
beginning mouth of the Sabine river and running
west along the gulf of Mexico, three leagues from land
the mouth Of the Rio Grande then up principal
ond degree OF north atude thence along the boundary
line defined in the treaty between the United and
Spain to the beginning; and that the President be- and
hereby authorized required to open negotiation with
the government of the United States Of America
in his opinion the public interests require it, to ascertain
and define the boundary line agreed upon the said
treaty.
"Such was the boundary of Texas, as described
in her organic law, when my motion to recognise
the independence of Texas was adopted" =
"Such is the boundary at present given to the
valley Of the West; such the mminen, dangers to
which it is subjected of Indian massacre; such the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the great valley, and Of many
of the nobes streams and tributaries of the Msss-
sppi such the surrender of so many hundred miles
of our coast, with many bays and harbors; such
the hazard to which New Orleans is subjected, and
the outlet of all our commerce to the gulf Such s
our present boundary; and il can be exchanged for
one that will give perfect security that will place
our own people and our own settlements in OF
the Indian tribes, and that will cut them off from
foreign influence; that will restore to the uninter
and Of all their tributaries; that will place at the
north, upon point to command the pass of Oregon,
and, on the south, to secure New Orleans, and rem
der certain the command of the Gulf of Mexico. In
pursuing our ancient and rightfu boundary, before
we surrendered Texas, along the Del Norte, we
are brought, by western curve Of that great river,
to point within four hundred miles Of the Pacific
ocean, and where the waters of the Del Norte al
most commingle with those that flow into the West
ern ocean. Up to this point the Del Norte, it is
navgabe for steamboats,; and from that point to the
Pacific is good route for caravans, and where, it
is believed, the Pacific may be united with the Del
Norte and the Gulf by railroad, not longer than
that which now unites Buffalo and Boston; and,
where, even now, without such road, we could
command the trade of all the northern States Of
Mexico, and of'a very large portion of the western
coast of America o
81 have proved that the Del Norte was the right.
fui boundary of Texas, and that the French settle
ment under which we claim, preceded by thirty
years that Of Spain on this side of the Del Norte
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