Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1845-01-24

her 10 the United States in 1903. she remained
in our Union up 10 the 10Th of February, etshlseH
hundred and trsaty-one, (whcn the Treaty OF FLO
rida, Of the 22d JULY 1919, was finally rau-
fled ~ which coded her TO Spain. Bul, long before
this, and soon after that Treaty was rst 81 Sheu-
hat is 10 say. on The I'D OF June, lsl9-the out
ragged citizens OF TEXAS met in council, ana 50
lennlv protesting against being ceded to SPAN,
| "REsoLvHp UNDER THE BLESSING or Gop, TO
BE FREE! !" And free they were-and Tree they
remained-and as indtpcndfnt as ffec Neither
Spain. nor Mexico. established, or attempted 10
establish any sort of Government-nor exercised
any dominion over them. There they were, IN.
molested in their homeseads-and passlVeiy
looked on at the raging controversy between
Spain and Mexico, as il rolled on IN It's career OF
rapine and blood And thus stood Texas up 10
1924
4. On the 9th OF August, 1921, The Mexican
General Iturbide, constrained The Spanish Gene
raj, O'Donoan 10 conclude with him the Treaty
OF Cordoya, acknowledging Mexican indePend-
ence. II recites as follows: "NEw SPAIN having
declared herself independent Of the mother coun-
try possessing an army to sustain this declaration,
in favor of which, the provinces have pronounced
themselves, &c, &c, &c.
"Art |. TINS PART OF AMERICA shall be ac-
knowlcdged as a sovereign and independent state,
and henceior'h shall be called the Empire of
/
moment, crossed The Mexican Texan Boundary.
"NEw SPAIN" neither comprised Texas, nor any
part of Texas Shc (Texas,) had taken no part
| in the war nor claimed anSht OF its trnmPhs or
! lis fruits She had been all the while in our own
Union and under our protection, save only lew
! brief months: and it is more Than doubtful II. IN
the hurly-hnrly and confusion OF war, either
! Iturbde or O'Donolan knew when they signed me
Treaty Of Cordova, that both parties had ratlfed
the Treaty ofForida, which made Texas SPANS
Afterwards, on the 18th February, lS22, The
| Spanish Cortes pronounced the Treaty oil Cordo-
va "M,gal od roid."
| ). In 1891 Texas. conformity with Coahuila,
entered into the Federatve Union Of Mexico, as
free and sovereign State, and thus became
qilas party to the Spanish Mexican war bnt
was practically at peace with all ths world. As
Stote, she never raised finger in the war, nor
drilled company, nor marched troop nor drew
a sword, nor fired gun.
6. In 1913, the free Constitution of Mexico
was overhrown by Santa Anna. and a Central
Government established and an attempt was
made 10 coerce Texas into acquiescence there
with and war was waeci against her. Up 10 the
ID of March, $50, she struggled 10 maintain the
Mexican Constitution of 1921, but, finding that
impossible, as the tyrant and nsurper had sub
ducd all the resisting States, she assembled in
Convention on That day, proclaimed her SEPARATE
independence on the Dist of April 1896 She
made that declaration good on the memorable
battlefield of San ]acinlo and has maintained il
inviolaby ever since.
:. Iii December, 1886 (TeXas then being in
dependent. sovereign and iree) Spain entered in
| to Il convention with Mexico, and put final
! close to the struggle, by recognizing her indie
pendence Texas was neither a party 10 that de-
! claraion nor included in il; nor could she have
been rs NJ that time she stood in relation 10 Mex
ico no; only Of potential, but OF actual indepen-
+ tencc.
i II this synopsis contains all the material facts,
! and il does can any thing seem more on;rc ana
! out of place, upon Il Just appreciation Of those
] facts, pc@ that they are known, than To have APP
/ piled 10 Mexico 10 cede us Texas while there
I stood Texas as free and Is sovereign as any Of
The STATES OF The Mexican Conlederacyl the
/ Constitution of that coniederacv, be il remcm-
I heTe,l, was modelled upon our own, and The States
/ composing il, were a sovereign IN their NUM-
/ rpa powers, rs ours are. What >avsl thun,
! Senator Woodbury. Speak out like her noble
sell, for New Hampshire, that game cock oi
! New England; that model OF commonwealth;
| The pride Of the Union; The admiration OF The
i whole South, and whom lis Democracy loves
with It's whole heart; the granite of whose rugged
mountain tops is worth all that is le.l 10 IL, of
Massachusetts, save her ron-parizan JuristS and
| her lion-heared Democracy. Speak out, and lc,
us know what New Hampshire would say, 10
a proposal from EIcToR, 10 the President 10
buy up her and hers for pieces of silver, and an
hex her and her people evcrlnore, 10 Vcs eiS
mare empire of the Canadas Come that hour
when it may, should federalism have tos,cd
single .JadaS kcariM into The cabinet, 10 brook
such an insult, pardon me j! vouchsaie Tor y.
Hampshire, tha. She would resist unto blood ami
if I should also assure her, that in such con
juncture the slaunch ana faithful South would
rally TO her side in the strife and triumph with
her or fall with her, mau3rc The jmpuicd apathy
with which she stood By, when stalwan Maine
was dsmembeIed Of lis territory for, il may
have been that she thought il was only THE
MASSACHUSETTS FART or MAISE, that was ''givcn
over 10 her idols
II such might have been the inst complaint of
New Hampshire what less, in justice, might lot
have been Inc complaint OF Texas, but Tor thai
enduring affection Of her people Tor their native
land. who in Tie contemplation Of sharing with
us in Cur glorious Union see preIguIcd there
every blessing which God vouchsaes 10 man
| amid the chcQucrad allotmcns OF humaniiy-and
we ale taught from childhoo, to regard these
parental freedoms with every iilal difference and
indulgence But after all this array Of sure and
established truths, lei us Meier hear mole, while
We live, that stcreoyped lcqusiiion for the "coN-
SENT or MEXICO" Texas! whose own Anglo
! Saxon vaor and home.tausht wisdom has render
ed great, sovereign and lree-why, il is her boast
and her distinction, that while not one drop OF
! Mexican blood courses through her veins nor one
Mexican lootstcp conlamina,es her soil-yei, with
| all her power OF arms and quest Of adventure, she
/ has not added one inch Of Mexican territory 10
| her domains, upon her vast colcrminouS borders.
| There stands Texas, with all her integral idcnti-
| lies of boundary and Tnvaricd dimensions, Jns as
she stood near Two centuries ago, when La Sale
sunk into her alluvons the flagstaff of France,
and unlurlcd her brood cours 10 float in the
bamy zephyrs OF ST. Bernard Bay-and Just rs
she Stood when France coded her 10 Spain. and
when Spain relroceded her 10 France, and when
| France ceded her 10 rs and when We coded her
| back again 10 Spain. Yes. yes; oW OF SPalmS0H
aloac has T.raS bccn constituted, and with SPANS
acquiescence na'irc Amricaas, and mel licti-
ca,S, have migrated thilher 10 her savannas and
with the axe and The plough. share they have
opened her forests 10 The sun, and under The sweat
of their hardy tolls caused her virgin soils 10
TEEN and bloom with plenty. Texas, then, never
having been part Of Mexico nor populated
with any Of her mongrel races Mexico never
! having acquired her b. cessiun nor won her BY
conquest, by what process OF logic is il main-
| tanned that she ever was 4 Mexican colony
Her claims are all preiension al arrogance, all
spurous-nothing more, nothing less, nothing
else. Hence, and most surely, all htrican grants
of The soil of Texas be they what they may in
form or substance, being made withoullille in the
grantor, must be so void in and valueless in all
| legal Judgment as not 10 be worth the parch-
ment they are written on. As Mexican treasure
was never paid for Texas, nor Mexican vaor
waged or profercd, 10 make Texas hers, the
world is at loss TO know what is the nature ex
! tent and validity of her claim TO her. Mexico
wREsTIED WITH SPAIN FOR HER OWN INDEPENDENCE
NOT FOR TIE INDEPENDENCE or Texas ! Not
blast iiom The war-trump OF her Revolutionary
struggle rcsounled over the banks Of the Rio
Grande-not drop Of her baltle-blood dripped
from her Braves upon the Texan soils But had
she lavished away all her treasures for Texas,
or won her at the bayonet-roint in score of
victories, what boots it all, if thereafter in one
desperate bay OF DEATH Texas rushed upon her
outnumbering hosts and with her own sharp
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