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sAruRpAY NIGHT, SEPT. 10, ls4
aWHAT is TExAsn


"WHAT is TExAsp
The "Natonal Intelligencer'' ofthis morning makes
another feeble and desperate effort to crcumscrbe the
limit, and dimensions OF Texas Since it could not
deprive us of all of it, by defeating annexation, 1t
now attempts to deprive us of as much as 1t can
strike of by means of foreign appliances 1t
confines us TO the Nueces, and cuts US of from
the borders Of the Rio Grande; and this geo.
graphical limitation II tests upon an extract from
sKennedy's Texas" the work Of an Engllshman--
an English consul, we believe, at Gavcsonj and
he kennedy rests the opinion upon one-slded
and partial report made by the Mexican Almone,
and upon the mistake Of Mrs. Holly, in her work
on Texas. "Bu,," says MIR. Kennedy, "ihese
vague authorities are obsolete, with regard to
the limits of Texas, which, no longer politically
united to Mexico, has claimed for itself new, more
ample, and more natural boundaries, in the characA
ter of an independent republic" Thus, then, ac-
cording to its own authority, these limits are
row obsolete, and Texas claims 'more ample and
more natural boundaries"
We may examine this subject when we have
more leisure and more room to spare But we must
gencer, after having been driven from the field Of
controversy, should have returned to it with
such vague materials it has here pro-
duced. 10 it the part of an American to
take the Mexican side against the rights of
The United statesH-lo stimulate the Mexicnns 10
persevering efforts, even at the hazard Of shedding
the blood of both people, and by provoking the pride
of Mexico induce her 10 declare war; II may plume
itself upon this ant-American course, by "standing
again upon foreign ground" But even the lib
eral wings will Scout ito nteihperahce, and de-
nounce its course. 1t is not too uncharitable to
say, that if Mexico should be encouraged to invade
the territory, and to draw the sword upon the Uni
ted States, we may partially lay the responsibility
at the door Of a leading Wing journal, which is
studiously read in Mexico, and takes her part
against the interests of its own country. For
the present we offset the puny authorities it arrays
against the United States, by the following extract
from the "Pttsburg Daily Morning Post" Of Thurs
day, which came among our exchange papers along
with this mornings number Of the "Natiohsl Intel.
ligeiicer.'
"Tii. WrsrlRs BspSbsnr 81 itx.s-The editor Of the
Gares AFTER weeks reelection has hsticed oGr article of
Friday The United States claim the western boundary
Texas understood that government DelOTe
measure Of annexation was acted upon by either country
The laws OF Texas have been enforced over the country
between the Mueces and the Rio del Nore since the dec
world tis indeed surprising thet re Gazette should at
this late day attempt 70 lstepstt the views S General
United States, directed Mr. Ven Buren, his Secretary Of
State to open negotiation with the Mexican government
for purchase of much OF the province of Texas as
hereafter described Mr. Van Buren, under the directions
Of Cen Jackson says; The territory Of which eession Is
Teras which lies east of line beginning at the Gull OF
Mexico in the centre Of the desert or Grand Prairie uheh
lies Of The Rio Nuects Here we find that General
Jackson distinctly asserts that the province Of Texas
tended Of the Nuece we have also the authority Of
dairy Of Texas Oh 18th March, 1896 MI clay address
cd letter minister instructng him, possible to
procure the eession Of Texas to the United States He
is$s msd, q g1 nc ns "a shall ihat
river to the Rio Pheso' Texas has always claimed the
Rio del Norte her boundary and are by the
terms OF annexation resolutions bound claim and
by Texas. The proper authorities OF Texas have, ever
since the formation Of that government exercised ursic
ton territory west Of the Nueces and too late
now to claim for Mexico territory lying between the
and the Rio Grande del Nore sometimes called the
.The boundary of Texas, claimed by her repub
lie short act of Congress approved by Pres
psSe Of Yea, Il Congress assembled That after
hi HI. pspSe @ d Sth a 70
following boundaries TO w Beginning at the mouth of
leo three leagues rom land p ia mouth eJe Rio Grand
thence mp principal Of said rirer 10 its source
"1hus il will be that early 1885, the Rio
Grande del Norte was, by act of the Texan Congress-
fixed as the western boundary Of that republic"
Let there be no mistake about this matter. The
Rio del Norte is our boundary line. The Rio del
Norte ,ciu continue to be our boundary; and neither
the arms Of the Mexicans, nor the tongues of her
dipomatiss, nor the puny pens of the "National In
tesencer,n will be sufficient to remove our bound
airy east of that river. There our boundary is
planted, and the bullets of the Mexicans, nor the
papet shot of their friends in this country, will be
able 10 shake tile determination of our Executive
upon this Question: