Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-12-10

and most Of the acts Of any importance. a,
which MIR. de Bocsnegra complains. fov
necessarily from that recognition. n.
speaks OF Texas as still bring an integral |
part Of the territory ofthe Mexican fenvS. |
lic.' but he cannot but understand thai he |
United States do not so regard il. III. |
real complaint Of Mexico, therefore is, IN |
substance, neither more nor less than , /
complain, sgainstth recognition ofTexao |
independence. Ii NAV be thought ra.her |
late 10 repeat that compla nj, and not quite
just to coDfne it TO the United States. Ia
the exemption Of England. France, and
Belgium, unless the United States, hay.
ing been the first TO acknowledge The in.
dependence OF Mexico herself, and to be
blamed for setting an example for the re.
cogniiion Of that Of Texas" And he add.
ed. that .ihe constitution. public treaties,
and the laws oblige the Presiden, 10 re.
gard Texas as an independent State, and
IFS territory as no part Of the territory Of
Mexico Texas had been an indepea.
dent State. with an organized government
defying the power Of Mexico TO overthrow
or reconquer her for more than ten years
before Mexico commenced the present
war against the United States. Texas had
given such evidence 70 The world OF her
ability TO maintain her separate existence
as an independent nation. that she had
been formally recognised as such, no, on
Nv BY the United States, but by several Of
the principal powers of Europe. These
- IL -.t~.a.l srtx troattns IF ,gr.,,,
commerce, and navigation with her. They
had received and accredited her ministers
and other diplomatic agents at their res
pective courts, and they had commission.
ed ministers and diplomatic agents on their
part to the government Of Texas. II Mex.
leo. Notwithstanding all this and her utter
inability TO subdue or reconqner Texas.
and ~siubbornly refused TO recognise her as
an independent nation. she was none the
less so on that account. Mexico herself
had been recognised as an independent
nation BY the United States, and by other
powers, many years before Spain, oil which,
before her revolution, she had been a COL
ony. would agree to recognise her as such;
and vet Mexico was at that tine. 10 the
estimation of the civilized world, and in
fact, none the less an independent power
because Spain still claimed her as a colo.
ny. IfSpain had conlinued-until the pre-.
sent period to assert that Mexico was one
Of her colonies in rebellion sgalnst her,
this would not have made her so, or chang.
ed the fact OF her independent existence.
Texas. at the period Of her annexation 10
the United States, bore the same relation
to Mexico that Mexico had borne 10
Span for many yeas before Spain &C.
knowleded her Independence, with tins
important difference-that, before the an.
NJ xation Of Texas 10 the United States
was consummated, Mexico herself, by a |
formal act OF her government, had &C.
knowledged the independence Of Texas as
a nation. II is true. that in the act Of re.
cogniiion she prescribed a condition which
she had no power or authority TO impose,
that Texas should no, annex herself 10 any
other Power: but this could not de;ract IN
any degree from the recognition which
Mexico then made OF her actual IBdepeH.
dence. Upon this PLAIN siatemenl OF larts,
it is absurd for Mexico to aIlege, as a PIE.
text for commencing hos,i tues against the
United States, that Texas is still a pant I'll
her territory.
But there are those who, conceding all
this to be true, assume the ground tina, he
true western boundary Of Texas is The M.
eces. instead Of the Rio Graude; and tha', /
therefore. in marching our army 10 ib,
east bank OF the latter rIver, VT passed
the Texan line, and invaded the territory /
OF Mexico. a simple statemen, oi facts,
known 10 exist, W Il c~onclu,iv.Iy reiule
such an assumption. Texas, as ceded 10
the United States by France in 1853, ha,
been always claimed as extending wrstlO
the Rio Grande or Rio Bravo. This es
tablished by the authority Of our mes
eminent statesmen al a period when The
question was as well if not better undetI
stood Than it is at present. During Nh
Jefferson's administration. Messrs. Mon'I
roe and Pinckney. who had been sen, on
a special mission to Madrid, charged, a
mong other things. with the adjustment
of the boundary between the two coua
tries, in a note addressed 10 the SpanlsS
Minister of Foreign Affairs, under date O
the twenty-eighth OF January. lcO5 as
sert that the boundaries Of Louisiana a
ceded to the United States by France
'are the river Perdido on the east, and
the river Bravo on the vest" and they
add that 1.-THE facts and principles Which
justify this conclusion are SO sal'siaeiniy
10 our government as 10 convince II thai
the United States have no. a bet er right
TO the island Of New Orleans, under The
c~ession referred to. than they have to the
whole district Of territory which is above
described"
Down to the conclusion Of the Floridi
treaty. IN February. 1919, by which lhn
territory was coded to Spain, the United
States asserted and maintained their terri
torial rights 10 this extent. ln the rnonlA
of June, 1918. during Mr.. Monroe's ac
ministratioE, information having been re-
ceived that a number Of foreign adven
turers had landed al Galveston, with lbs
avowed purpose Of forming a settlement
in that vicinity. a Especial messenger wa
despatched by the government, OF the u
States, with instructions from the secIe
tsry Of State, to warn them TO deslsl
.hn,1I ,ba,, no cound ,h.ra ator any Dla(t