The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-12-17

isv q naRase, tasg Texas slloafll MI an
nex hers, - any OshsF Power; bal this
eaull ~ de.rsrl IN sny degree ll0sa de
Enoogniiiaa ahiea Alsxic0 then made a
hFr acsaal Independence. UPnalhi plain
ssatemehl 0fhrls. Il i ahsurl for MexicO
- al,ess a PReieKt lor commencing ins-
tiliiies against ihe United Stairs, thai Ter
Is Is sill = Pagt II her ieuis0Ty.r
Bot fhrTe ere those Hhn. r0nreiiny nm
Ais - he trls, assume lhe sa1uad that
lie lrae Kasien boundary nf Texas i the
Nueees. insiesl ollie lilo GEanls anu
tssi, tisfFsEoEe. in marching our army a. the
eag Laak % ihe latter river. We passed llie
Trxaa linz. and invaded The territory az
slex;co. 4 simple statement or facts.
kasan 10 exist, vii eonciasisely relsia
such IN assumption. Texas. a ce,.e.l A
lhe United States b; flanss in IsOs. las
been al-lys Claimed as extending west
10 he Rio Grande, or Rio Bravo. This
fael il established By The authority Of DIR
most eminent statesmen Il period when
.he question was rs well Il not better un-
aeTslonA lhsn il j. a. present During
SIR. JeiTersnn's administration, Messrs.
aIonroe and Pinrkney. WHO had been sent
ou a specia! mission 10 MaLIii. charged,
among other things, with the adjustment Of
boundary between Inc two countries. in n
note addressed 10 Ile Spanish Minister Of
Tor in Anal:s. under date Of The lwenly-
eighth IL January. 1865. assert that tie
boundaries of Louisiana, rs cetlcd To the
I'niiel States hy France. "arc the river
Perlld0 on the EAST. and the riser Bravo
on the west" and they add. that " tie
facts AMI principles which justify this
conclusion are So satisfactory 10 our gov
eminent Is In convince II thai the Cnlicd
States have not better right To the Island
at New Orleans. under the ces>iOn referred
tn, il.an they have to the whole district oi
Territory wl,,rh is above described"
Down to tie conclusion al the Florida
treaty. in FEBRUARY. 1919. ny which this
terrii"ry was rcdrd TO Spain. the Emitted
States asserted aud maintained ihcir ter
rllorial rights to this extent. nihe month
OF Jane. 1918. during Mr.. Monroe's adj
mlmlslraiion, information having been re-
rclycd that number Of foreign adven,ur-
ers had landed Al GalVesion. with the ayow-
ed purpose Of forming settlement in that
vicinity. special messenger was despatch
cd hy the government of the niicdStales,
with instructions from the Secretary Uf
State to warn them to ,lesisi, should they
I've found there or any other place north
OF the Rio Bravo, and within the territory
claimed by the United States" lie was
instructed, should they be found in The
country north OF that river, to make known
to them " the surprise with which the
President has seen possession thus taken,
without authority from tho United States.
Of a p!lrc within their territorial limits,
and upon which no lawful settlement can
be made without their SANCTION" lilo
was instructed tn call upon them to "avow
under what national authority they profess
10 act" and to give them due warning
"that the place is within the United States
who will suffer no permanent settlement
To be made there, under any authority
other than their own" As late as the
eighth Of July, 1912, the Secretary of STATE
of the United States, in note addressed
TO Our minister in Mexico, maintains that
bv the Florida treaty OF 1919, the terrific
~ as lar west as the Rio Grande wa:
confirmed 10 Spain. In that note he sta,e'
that, =" bv the treaty of the twcnty.seront
of February, 1919, between the Unitet
States and Spain, the Sabine was adopte'
as the line Of boundary between the TIVE
Powers. Up tn that period, no consider
able colonization had been effected II
Texas hut the territory between the Si
binc and the Rio Graade being roniirmc,
to Spain by the treaty, applications wer
made To that Power for grants ot land, an
such grants, or pcrmissions OF settlement
were in fart made by the Spanish author
irics in favor of citizens Of the Unite
States proposing TO emigralc to Texas /
numerous families, before the dcclaratlo
of independence by Mexico
Tie Texas which vas coded I" Spa'
by The Florida treaty oi 1919 embrace
al the county now cl-imed by the Stat
of Texas between The Nu' ces and he X
G,ande. Tie republic OF Texas Away
claimed hi. rrver as her western eoundi
~, and IN her uea,y made with San
Anns, in May, 1896, he recognized 1t
such. BY the contribution winch lexa
adopted IN Ma'rh, 1896, senatorial a"
representative hrtriCts were organize
exnu}ius w,st,f,he Nueres. The Co
PRESS ol rrxa.. on the nineteenth OF ID
cemeer. 1886, passed ian act to define u
bould.r,e. OF tie republic Of Texas,
VIII ch they declared the RIO Grande fro
us mouth 10 its source to be their bound
nv, and bv the sa,h act they cxlend'
their "ci,iI and political jurisdiction
over the country up 10 thai o"nncsr
During period Of more than nln9 year
wh,ch interviewed be- ween the adopl'"
her constitution aud her 'nnexauon as O
of the S a,es OF our Union, Texas asset