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within the limits of the conlederscy wnen ,ne con
stitution was framed The gontioa'sp 'S'u ,ns' '','
Limits Of the eonfsdorsey we're MOI " .t' -
As far as his IN. Ys) reading "sn', "e mo ga, na
been only two Instances where osoio' S,.b d.
of this Government had made treaties ~ ~h''u use
territory and the people Of this government "eIo
csded away 10 a foreign country and 'nose 49,.
retarie, had come from the State when INC Se"uo
man 10 part represented. Where ue huis " vs.
country were drawn In, aud our people Soi. ua
ierred TO a ioreigr power, II had pee" u"o''
pices OF those distinguished gentlemen from p'a'a
shrsets the State which the gentleman Representa-
Thy, sir, said Mr.. Y, are their heaI's % s"s",
their vie US OF liberty mario" and eonuse''ui va
they held that il could not go beyond the eo'i'.
the territory We owned when inc oou'u'ueo" - :.
framed Or rather, did Il not rise IRON .ha o'u
ersi leaven which was still existing, and "hioh naa
been received into another party subseuns al 70.
present day, with the mere change OF name mus
belong to that old spirit which would impair inc "e.
dom OF The great mass, and narrow down INC "n''''
Of liberty. =
q 1.-THE constitutional point was settled that We
could admit new States into the Union, then tho
ooly question 90 consider was what s It's bearing on
the national honor | respect tic gentlemen VINO
urge this objection (said Mr.. " The honor oil 'hr
nation Is the brightest jewel u possesses.
character abroad and il should be siieklrd lof snd
commended for stTenuously a. he VINO io'7o ho"''
himself would contend for IN his o" n case
There might be doubts upon thai poih'' pu'
there could not be as 70 the view he took OF the SUD
j,ct By the treaty Of 1919 II We had any rign's VA
feIes, We eeded them to Spain. The uovernmen'
Of Spain, however, did not perfect ITS uiir oi ih0
da,ey AFTER the people OF Texas refusing allegiance
TO Spain had risen in arms against her and said that
they could be coded away as beasts OF tHe nsia
TEXAS therefore demonstrating, resisted SPAN taa
log possession Of her and In that state OF resistance
continued I'LL ls24-~hen, In eooneI'on WIN o'hsI
Teyolted provinces, she iormed The eoniedeiaoy .,
1924 under the title The United Mexican States
The rights of the people Of Texas, uoder the treaty
of 1903, Mr.. Y. commended, could not be eomPfo'
u,sed without their own consent they had not con
senled that treaty guaranteed thai they should be Ad
mitted into the U Dion 10 enjoy all the Tghts anu
privileges OF he people Of the un'oni We could MOI
ceIe her away, nor could Spain take possession OF
her. la that view Of the case she entered the Con
iederaey of 1924 an unfetereJ power that eoniede.
Iaey threw her back her original sovereignty anu
she how soyefegn
Even If the title by which the people Of Texas had
been conveyed by US to Spain had been good, SPAN
had not gwen IL binding force by taking possession
thereof; but, on the contrary, she had conhrmes
their independence by its recognition 10 1886. 10
the formation Of that conederscy, she had agreed 10
articles similar 10 those OF consttutoni accord
ing To of them, the coniederacy never TO De
dissolved. But 10 1884 the history OF Mexico and
Texas told them that military usurper did dissolve
them that he drove the representatives Of the united
Mexican States from their hall by that he e.
tablIshed a central military despotism. What had
these abused Texans then done No sooner had the
coniederscy been violently dissolved by the act Of
Santa Anna, than they made a provisional govern
ment uniurled the constitution Of 1924 on their ban
Der, and endeavored 10 re-estabsh the government
which she had originally established hey acted
IN mild and conservative spirit and their conduct
IN this matter Mr.. Y. referred 10 as containing
conclusive refuaton of The charges of disorganlza-
ton and anarchy that had beeh made against her
Texas having invited the citizens OF Mexico 10 the
defence Of the constitution OF ls24 and finding that
they would not rally, did-whatl She took light by
our example She, composed IN great part OF The
citizens Of this Country whose fathers fought for the
principles of T6, went 10 the defence OF liberty
They bad here learned that every nation had the
right to dissolve the hands which bound them when
they became subvsrsiye Of their liberty.
Thrown back on her original sovereignty, whence
sprung the right Of MexIcol II was TO be found
in the law OF nations for she had perfected her
title, either by arms or diplomatic policy. Texas,
then, was sovereign and independent and, as in
dependent State, had right TO treat with For
eight years she had gone exercising the rights Of
sovereignty, and governing herself enlightened
nation, sending ministers TO the civilized nations Of
the world and forming treaties OF amIty and COM
merce with them, and performing the Highest
act of soyeregnty-that OF making a treaty Of boun-
dairy with this nation. Texas was sovereign, and
free to make alliance with u.s. unless this govern
ment was esiopped from doing so by treaty be.
tween US and Mexico, preventing US from entering in
| 10 an alliance with a nation at war with us. Mr.. Y
went to argue that no such prohibition existed
and conended that there had been no actual war be-
tween Mexico and Texas since the battle Of San Ja
cinto The few predatory incursions Of Mexicans
into Texas since that time could not be called war
they rather the acts of bands of robbers which
under the laws Of nations would have rghtlully SUBJ
Jeced them, If caught, to The punishment of death
| instead of beCg able to wage against Texas
Mexico was unable TO maintain tranquility within
her borders Torn by internal dlssensions, she
was scarcely able to maintain her name as an inde
Pend' Mt natlon and this very morning he had recev
ed the intelligence that Santa Anna had been depos
ed and banished from the. Mexican territory. There
was nothing, then, but paper war: and was great
nation like this TO abandon an important system of
national policy which ii had been pursuing for TWEEN
ty years for mere paper war; paper was
no more binding than paper blockade, which nei-
ther the laws OF nations nor common required
any nation to respect
II, then, the constitution and national honor did
not forbid the exation of Texas what else was to
forbid it, We have been pursuing this object for
hive and twenty years, and through the agency of
some OF our most distinguished statesmen. The We.
nerable gentleman from Massachusetts, when re-
presenting this Union in the presidential chair him.
self pursued this object. Mr.. Clay himself pursued
ii General Jackson pursued it and if there wa,
anything 10 relieve the administration of 1895 and
1877 from the odium cast upon it, 1t was the ardor
with which II had pursued the project Of xa,ion.
John Tyler, following in the footsteps Of his usri
Gus predecessors, pursued it and yet, for this act
some OF the most distinguished men of this House
had cast stigma upon him. calling him the acciden-
tai President, and charging him with having devised
the scheme Of annexation for his own ambitious
views. The gentleman from Massachusetts mr.
winthrop had done himself injustice in calling John
Tyler the accidental President.
Ask him If he voted for John Tyler, and he would
say that he did and by that act helped TO place him
IN position to succeed to the presidential chair in
the event OF the death of General Harrison. Did
the gentleman call the death of General Harrison an
accident? No; the dispensations of Divine Provi.
denco were not accidents and was mpious /. cali
them So The gentleman in voting for John Tyler,
knew that he would succeed to the presidency in