Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1846-12-24


butbc surprising to find Mr.. dc BocaHcefa
Che Secretary of Foreign Affairs Of Me \
CO. complaining il,a, for the whole per
cd citizens of the United States, or ito 80,
ernmcnt, have been favoring the rebels ,
Texas. and Supplying them with vessels
ammunition, and money, as il the war 70
the reduction Of the province of Texas. ha,
been constantly prosecuted by Mexico
$ and her success prevented by these inAuen,
ces from abroad" In The same despatch
Y tho SEE resary Of State a,lir,hs that ''since
1887 The United States have regarded Tex.
as as an independent sovereignty, as mUcl
as Mexico and that trade and commerce
with citizens of a government at war will
Mexico cannot, on that account, be regard
cd as AN intercourse by which assistance
r and succor are given TO Mexican rebels
I The whole current Of Air, dc Bocanegra $
I remarks runs in the same direction as If the
independence ofTexas had not been ac-
! acknowledgement was acknowledged i'm 1887
against the remonstrance and protest Of
! Mexico and most OF the acts Of any inn
portance, OF which MIR. Bocanegra COM
! plains, How necessarily from that recogni-
| non. He speaks Of Texas as still being
AN integral palt of The territory Of the
| Mexican republic, but he cannot but un-
dcrstand that the United States, do not so
fpga.d il. The real complaint of Mexico,
therefore, is, in substance, neither more nor
less than complaint against the recogn-
! ton of Texan independence. II may be
thought rather late to repeat that complaint,
and not quite just 10 confne it To the u.
States, To The exemption of England France
and Belgium, unless, tic u. States, having
been the first to acknowledge the indie
pendence of.Hexco herself are To he blam-
ed for setting an example Tor the rccogni.
ton of that of Texas" Aud he added, that
.the constitution, public treaties, and the
laws obliye the President to regard Texas
as an independent State, aid lis territory
ls no part of the territory of Mexico."--
Texas had been an independent State, with
an organIzcd government, defying tie pow
er "f Mexico TO overthrow or reconqucrh her
or more than ten years before Mexico
commenced the present war against the
United States. Texas lac, given such evil
dence to the world OF her ability to main
tam her separate cxiscnee as an indcpen-
dent nation, that she had been formally re-
cogniscd as s'ici no, only by the United
States, bur by styeral of lie principal pow.
ers OF Europe. These powers had entered
mt" treaties of amity, commerce, and nav
accredited her ministers and other diplo-
matte agents at their respective courts, aud
they had commissioned ministers and di-
Plomalic agents on their part 10 the gov
ernment of Texas.
II Mexico, Notwithstanding all this, and
her utter inability to subdue or rcconquer
Texas, still stubbornly refused TO recognise
her as an independent nation, she was none
n lnSc al. n
sell had been recognised as an independ-
ent nation Gy the United States, and by
other powers, many years before Spain, OF
which, before her revolution, she had been
colony, would agree to recognise her as
such and YET Mexico was at that time in
The estimation of the citilizcd world, and
in fact, none the ess nj, independent bow
or because Spain till claimed hct rs col:
Ony.
If Spain had continued until the present
period to assert that Mexico was one of
her colonies in rebellion against her, this
would not have made her so, or changed
the fact of her independent cxisieuct-
Texas. AT the period other annexation 10
The United STATES, bore the same relation
TO Mexico that .lIexico had bnrnc TO Spain
for manly years before Spain acknowledged
irrence-laf, before the annexation of
Texas to the United States was consum-
ma ed, Mexico herself, by a formal act of
her g"vernment. had acknowledged the in
dcpcnccncc of Texas as nation Ii is
true that i'll the act of recognition she pre-
scribcd Il condition which she had no pow
er or authority TO impose, that Texas should
not annex herselfto any other Power: but
this could not deiraci in any degree from
actual Independence: Upon this plain
statement facts il is absuid from Mexico
to allege as n pre,ext for commencing hos
liliiles against The United States, that Tex.
rs is still part Of her territory.
But there are those who, conccdinc all
This To be true, assume the ground that tic
western boundary of Texas is HE Nreccs,
instead of the Rio Gtaiite; aid that, ,hers.
fore, in marching DIR army to The east bark
of the latter river, wc passed tie Texai line,
and Invaded the territory Of MEXICO. A
simple statement of facts, known To exist.
viii conciasSclS teiiite such an assump-
ton. Texas, as coded TO the United States
by FRANCE III 1908, has been always claim
ed as extending ives, TO the Rio Grandc. or
or Rio Brato This fact is established by
the authority of oar ihost eminent states
men at period when the question was as
we'll if not Better understood than il is at
present. During MIR. Jeffersnu's adminis-
iralion, Mcssrs. Monroe and Pinckney who
had been sent on spec,a, mission 10 Ma.
drid, charged, among other things ,sith the
adjustment of boundary bet&ecn the two
countries, III a'note addressed TO the Span-
ish Minister of Foreign Affairs. under date
of Tie 28ii, Of January. 1S45 ,sser, ,,,a,
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