The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1846-12-25

ing Tor all lhat pcElpd from any Further at. 4
tempt to re>establish her own authority Owe,
the territory, il cannot but be surprising q
find Mr.. de BocanegTa, the Secretary oil
Foreign Affairs Of Mexico, 'complainino thai
for that whole period citizens OF the United
States, or its Government, have been favor.
ing the rebels Of Texas, and supplying them
with vessels, ammunition, and money. - Al
It the war for the reduction Of Texas had
becn constantly prosecuted BY Mexico and
her success prevented by these influences
from abroad. Ia the same desrateh lie
Secretary OF State afirms that "since 1887
the United States have regarded Texas as an
independent sovereignty ,as much as Mexico:
and that trade and commerce with citizens
OF Government at war with Mexico. can
not on that account, be regarded as an inter.
course by which assistance and succor are
/ given to Mexican rebels.m The whole enr.
rent Of Mr.. 3ocanegIa's remarks runs in the
same direction as il the independence Of
Texas had not been acknowledged. Il had
been acknowledged; il was acknowledged
In 1887 against the remonstrancc and pros
test Of Mexico; and most of the acts of any
Importance, Of which Mr.. Bocanegra com,
4 plains, dow necessarily from that rccOgui.
ton.
! He speaks Of Texas As still being ''an ia.
lregal part Of the territory Of the Mctican
republic" but he cannot but understand
that the United States do not 50 regard it.
The real complaint Of Mexico, therefore, is,
10 substance, neither more nor less than
complaint against the recognition Of Texas
Independence. 1t may be thought rather
late 10 repeat that complaint, and not quite
just to cOnfine il TO the United States to the
exemption Of England, France, and Belgium,
, unless the United States having been the
. first 10 acknowledge the independence of
: Mexico herself. are to be blamed for setting
an example for the recognition Of that Of
Texas" And he added, that "the constitu.
D ton, public treaties, and the laws obliVe the
T. President to regard Texas as an independ.
ent State, and its territory 40 70 part OF the
/. territory Of Mexico" Texas had been an
Q independent State, with an organized gov,
e eminent, deGyiug the power of Mexico 10
= overthrow or reconquer her for more than
e ten Yeas before Mexico commenced the
g present war against the United States. Texas
: had given such evidence to the world of her
\ ability to maintain her separate existence
e as an independent nation, that she bad been
s formally recognised as SUCH not only by the
y United States, but by several OF the prnci,
pal powers Of Europe.
I. Those powers had entered into treaties Of
II amity, commerce, and navigation with her
d They had received and accredited her min
l. listers and diplomatic agents at their rsspec
h tive courts, and they had commissioners
@ ministers, and diplomatic agents on theil
" part to the Government OF Texas. II Mex
leo, notwithstanding all this, and her utter
inability to subdue or recOnquer Texas, still
stubboInly refused to recognize her % an
! independent nation, she was none the less
so on that account. Mexico herself had
been recognised as an independent natior
|. 10y the Uniled States, and by other powers
+ many years before Spain, Of which, befoTC
. her revolution, she had been a cOlony,WOulC
agree to recognize her as such; and yet Mex
, leo was at that time, in the estimation Of th'
- civilized world, and, in fact, none thu les
= an independent power because Spain still
,. claimed her as a colony. II Spain had con
linued until the present period to assert tina
% Mexico was one Of her colonies in rebellion
=, against her, this would not have made he
!, so, or changed the fact Of her Independent
n, existence. Texas, al the period of her an
q, nexation to the United States, bore the Iamt
;. relation to Mexico that Mexico had born,
II TO Spain for many years before Spain &C
M knowledged her independence, with th
- important difTeIence-that before the annex
10 alton Of Texns to the United States wa
a, consummOted, Mexico herself, by forma
n act Of her Government, had acknowledged
r. the Independence Of Texas as a nation.
- is true, that in the act Of recognition sh'
n Ipre sciibed a condition which she had NJ
,r power or authority TO impose, that Texa
!. should not annex herself TO any other Pow
:. er; but this could not detract in any degree
d from the recognition which Mexico ther
5r made of her actual independence. Upor
! this plain statement Of facts, it is absurd 70
;. Mexico to allsgo, as pretext for commenc
as ing hostliIies against the United States, tina
N Texas is still part Of her territory.
i. But there are those who, connecting al
~ this TO be true, assume the ground that thu
+ true western boundary Of Texas is the Nue.
re ces, Instead os the Rio Grande; and that
ut therefore, in marching our amy TO the cas-
q bank of the latter river, we passed the Texa
line, and invaded the territory Of Mexlco
Ia A single statement Of facts, known to exist
IN will conclusively refute such an assumption
lie Texas, as coded TO the United States b
10 France in 1903, has been claimed Away
N As attending west to the Rio Grande, or Ri
lie Bravo. This fact is established by the au
a tboriiy Of our most eminent statesmen at
n period when the question was as we'll if no
IL better understood than at present.
l. During Mr.. JefTersons administration
b Mepsrs. Monroe and Pinckney, who ha
=. been sent on a special mission % MadriC
n. charged, among other things, with the cd
iustment Of boundary between the tw
\, countries, in a note addressed TO the SPANS
co Minister Of Foreign Affairs, under date {
er the 2sth Of January, 1908, assert that tn