The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1846-12-17

bist anu neg utkcT tHdullitN 10 suoHuN anu
-econquer Texas, still stubborny refused
o recognize her as an independent nation,
The WAS none the less So or that account.
Mexico herself had been recognised as an
nation hy the I. States, and
5v other Powers, many years before Spain,
eli which, before her revolution, she had
been colony, would agree To recognize
her as such, and vet Mexico was at that
time, IL the estimation of the civilized
world. aud % fact, none the less an Inde-
penlen, power because Spain still claimed
her as a colony. Ii SPAN had continued
anil the present period to assert that Mex
leo was one Of her colonies, in rebellion "a
gainst her this would not have made her
SO, or changed the fact OF her independent
existence. Texas, at the period Of her an
nexation 10 the t. States, bore the same
relation 10 Mexico that Mexico had borne
10 Spain for many years before Span &C.
kno~ledged her independence, With this
impor,an; diT.rence-that, before the an
nexatoa of FeNas To the I. States was
consummaled, " eXico herself By formal
act Of her government, had acknowledged
the independence Of Texas as nation. =
II is true, that in the act OF recognition
she prescr ocl a condition, which she had
no power or authority to impose, that Tex.
as should not annex herself to any other
Power but this could not deiract IN any
degree from the recognition which MeNI.
co then made Of her actual independence.
Upon this plain statement Of facts, II IS alb.
surd FOR Mexico 10 aIlege IS preteNt Tor
commencing hostiIlies agalnstthe I States
that Texas is still part OF her territory.
But there are those who, concedn2 all
this 10 be true, assume the ground that The
true western boundary Of Texas Is the
Nueces, instead Of The Rio Grandr; ami
that, therefore, IN marching our army TO
the east bank Of the latter river, we passed
the Texan line, and invaded the territory
OF Mexico. A simple statement Of facts,
known 10 exist, will concusiyely retule
such an assumption. Texas as ceded TO
the U. States by France IN lsJ3, has been
always claimed as extending west 10 the
Rio Grande, or Rio Bravo. Tins fact >
established by tie authority Of our most
eminent statesmen at period when the
question was as well il not better under.
stood than it is at present. DuIng Mr..
Jefferson's administration, Nessrs. Monroe
and Plnckney, who had been sent on a spe.
cal mission TO Mddrli, charged, among o.
Their things, with The adjustment OF boun-
darv between the two countries, IN note
addressed 10 the Spanish Minister Of For.
eisn Affairs, unler date OF The 18th Of Jan.
IsU5, assert that The boundaries 81 Juls-
lana, a ceded to the L. States by France,
"are the river PefJido on the east, ana the
river Biavo on the west; and they add,
thai the facts anu principles VIII ch Jlst,-
fy this conclusion are 50 satisfactory 70 QUIZ
government, as to convince it that the t..
States have no, better right TO The island
of y. Orleans, under the cesslon referred
TO- than they have 10 the whole district Of
territory which is above described
Down to the conclusion Of he Floridl
treaty, 10 Feb. 1919, by which mis- terri.
tory was coded to SPAN, The Uuited States
asserted and maintained their territorial
rights to this event In the morllr Of June,
ISIS, durin. Nc. Nonroe's administration,
information having been received that a
number OF foreign adgenlurers had landed
al Galveston, with the avoNcd purpose Of
forming a settlement 10 that vicinity, sps.
cial messenger was despatched by the %.
yernment Of the [. States, with iaslruc.
tions from the Secretary Of State to warn
them TO desjst, should they be found there
" or any other place north Of the RIO Bra.
vo, and within The territory claimed by the
I. States" lie was instructed, shoulC
they be found in the country north Of tina
river, to make known TO them 4" the sur
prise with which the President has seer
possession thus taken, without authoflt,
from the L. States, Of d place within thei
territorial limits, and upon which no law
fol settlement can be made without lhel
sanction" He was inst -uclCd to call upof
them 10 ayow under what national author
lily they profess to act" and to give then
due warning " that the place IS within The
[. States, who viii suffer no permanea
settlement TO be made there, under any au
thority other than their own" As late a
the sth Of Juiy, l-42, the Secretary o
State Of the L. States, in note addresse
10 our minister in Mexico, maintains that
by the Florida treaty of 1919, the terrific
~ as far west as the Rio Graude was con
frmed 10 Spain. Ia that note he states
that, by the treaty Of the 22i Of Feby
1919, between the L. States and Spain
the Sabine was adopted as the line Of boun
Diary between the two Powers. Up to tia
period no considerable coinn.z1tion la,
been effected in Texas but The terrllor,
between the Sabine aud tie Rio Graude be
ing confirmed 10 Spain by the treaty, ap
phcatons were made 10 th1t Power 70
grants Of land, aud such grants, or per
missions Of settlement, were in fact mad
BY the Spanish authorities IN favor Of cti
zens Of L. States proposing to engrate t
Texas in numerous families, before the DC
caration Of Independence by Mexico"
The Texas which was ceded to Spai
By the Florida treaty Of 1919, embrace
all the country now claimed by the Sal
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