New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-05-21

vote OF the Statea majority sufficient TO rsndert the
Temperance forces invincible, if they will only
stand their ground firmly.
The Mexican Boundary.
The shifts and tricks by wbichWrong seeks to pass
tselffor Right would often be ludicrous If we could
shut oar eyes to their fearful tendencies and conse
quences And in all our experience Of powerful
Knavery impudently adventuring into the arena Of
Logic, this pretence of extending Texas to the Rio
Grande has never been paraileled. That Texas
proper-old Texas-Texas at all times up to l s36-
never extended beyond the Nueces nor above the
Camanche country, no man does or can dispute
Our formally and solemnly abandoned claim that
Louisiana stretched farther is e different affair
altogether and cannot be made to bolster up the
Texan claim. BY every dictate of Reason, Justice
Republicauism Texas extends just SO far as the
revolt against Mexico extended and as The present
desire to be independent of her rule extends. Has
It entered the heart of Impudence itself to pretend
that the inhabitants of the valley ofthe Rio Grande
NO matter on which side of the River, have ever
manifested desire TO be severed from Mexico and
annexed TO the United States Never
But the last quirk Of Inquity to justify ourclaim
to the Rio Grande is surely the Himsiest ever yet re-
sorted to- When we saw it in The Union we let
il pass as one Of those things that sorry knaves
who live on the wellbuttered bread of Govern
rnent Patronage, drawing their hundreds of thous-
ands per anuum from the Golfers Of duped and
plupdered People. are compelled to submit to- That
Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings' is not a new
fact in natural history But we trust there are not
many so hungry as 10 eat such rs this, which we
perceive that even that paragon of Loco Foco nen-
frality, The True Sun, hos greedily swallowed.
1t seems that in ls43 Gen. Adrian VOL was ap.
pointed to the command Of the Mexican Army of
the North operating against Texas, which Army
was on and about the Rio Grande, as it has gene
rally been since the Texan Instruction this being
the most advanced position IN which 1t could rely
on provisions, communications or any thing else
The Nueces affords no sort of basis for Military
operations, and all the People living its waters
could not afford an army of 5000 provisions for
month. Tho country between these two Rivers was
and is almost utterly without Inhabitants save the
Mexicans residing In the immediate vicinity of the
Rio Grande The neutral ground between two
hostile armies or actual frontiers is certain TO be the
resort OF spies and other dubious characters Those
struggling over the unpeopled region aforesaid
would pretty certainly be spies or outlaws. Under
these circumstances, Gen. VOL! issued ali order
commanding all Mexicans East Of the Rio Grande
10 keep within league of that river under penalty
OF death. Exception: were necessarily made in
favor Of certain Mexican villages East OF the River
and no word of this Order applied to or had any
force over the upper region Of the Rio Grande
where there is lin Santa Fey Spanish Mexican
population Of fity to one hundred thousand scat
tered over region stretching one hundred miles
East of the great river. embracing several consd
cradle townp. This region, peopled by Spanish
Nexicsns these two hundred years and over, we
propose to 'rsannex to the United States, and the
prete1t for i, is an order from Gen. VOL, command.
ing the military district 1000 miles below, which
directed the Mexicans within his District while
Offensive Military operations were in progress, not
10 70 beyond short distance East of the Rio
Grande
We can hardly imagine parallel to the cool au-
dacisy of this trick Of the Polk Organ, yet we may
approach Il. When Gen. jackson commanded at
New Orleans, in daily apprehensions Of British at
tack from below, he doubtless gave orders that no
persons should be allowed to pass his lines below
that city les, they should convey information to the
enemy. This order would have afforded just as
much pretext for British claim Of Lower Louis
ana'as Wolls order does for Texan claim to the
10 Grande. So il We were about 10 invade Cana
with IN army Of one hundred thousand men
crossing the Niagara River. the British Governor
General might order oil the people to fall back fifty
miles from tho menaced frontier in order to afford
no sastensnce or intelligence to the enemy Suppose
be did--suppose he even ordered the abandonment,
Of al Upper Canada, would this afford any color of
snpport claim to that Province II we chose to
net up oneI Gen. syashngton's lines around Bos-
son. or North of this city, Philadelphia, will afford
similar calculations Of the extreme audacity Of this
Official attempt to impose the credulity of the g
norant and the simple
I'm very truth, tho Rio del Norte does no, and
never can form an enduring boundary between two
nations. The province Of Santa Fe canno, be di.
vided II We rob Mexico Of one-half we mus, soon
take the other. And 80 lower down There ia
hardly so long river the globe of which the val.
lev is 80 narrow the tributaries scanty and tho
volume Of water consequently SO mcaser. There is
scarcely river Of its length 80 worthless for the
variops purposes of civilized life The whole of its
valley Is worth little bat half of 1t is worse than
thing. Gen. Green, who made its acquaintance
pretty thoroughly in the Mier expedition. long since
assured rs that we could stop at the Rio Grande
If We 30 so far, We mus, SO to the mountains be-
yond. That is truth which glance at the map
win essablish Those who argue so xeaiously for
the boundary Of the Rio Grande aerer meant t&as
it ,koald be the boundary, and do not ROC mean
that Il shall Be. Watch them and see.
AscrRsR srArS coMlse.-The Milwaukee
Courier saws, that a, the recent Election. very
large majority of the people of Wsscoss,S have
declared In favor Of State Government wiscon.
a. .hsresoss viii be represented IN the next Con-