Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1846-12-22
From the Cincinnati Chronicle
The Presidents Message.

ITS ELF CON &c oNS.
Respoc, is often Eel, for an Adyersary.-1t
sentiment attracted 10 some worthy quality
\ The opponent nay be true, brave, able, or M .
unanimous, aud respect attaches to That q;salI,v
even when poll, ica opposition is the strongest
But. II san be drawn forth only by some worth
quality, and Is utterly forfeited. where mea nnos
IS strengthened by no ability, ana weakness
graced by virtue.
In this unhappy p-eIicancnt tho President 0
tho United States has placed hi, public charac,c
before tho Poop'c. They without the powe
to yield him that respect which should be due Il
Tho Chief ruler Of a nation.
Ia his Annual Message, the President has no
only uttered what is not sos Bat furnished in lht
Same document the proof that it !. not 81. The
usleranco Of the frs. dcpiorabIc meanness
md tho publication Of the las; woakncss equally
gent
Thu, we have not stated TIC case too strong
Ie, rs summon 10 evidence BIT! the Message IL
self:
! /. Thc President argues mt the cne,h of two
or throe columns of newspaper 10 provo wha
he asserts roundy. rs 4 fact. tha. the RIO GEAEDI
tho TRUE " EsTERN BoUNDARY OF TIE L NITEI
STATES after TIC admission of Texas. 1t is BY
this position. md tis only that tho President lay
! Il fDunaatiun for his assertion. that Mexico con.
MINATED her long course of outrage aynin-t our
country, BY commencing an OF .nsivo War, and
shedding tho blood of citizens OUR owN
SOIL
1t could be sour own so'' oaly on the ground
That the RIO Granic really, positively, and
| N regard to law and Jurisdiction, ito Western
Boundary Of tho United States.
LIT STATE this position in tho President
own language:
..3v The constitution whc', Texas lepfcI in
March g j6, senatorial nnl representative dis
t-icts were organized. extending West OF the
Nuo:ys. Tho Congress of Trxas. on tho 10Th
of December, 1885, pissed An net TO define tho
republic Of Texas III which they declared the
RIO C,randc from Its mouth 70 lis source, to DO
their boundary. and bv the SAID act thy extend
CT their civil and political ,ri~.!ic!Ion' over the
country up - that bplnIrrt. DIrng penoj
Of ,han nine years winch lltervrnoi be-
tween the adoption of her constitution and her
annexation "a ono of tho States OF our | mon,
Texas asserted and exercised many acts of So
verrignty and Jurisdiction over the territory and
inhabitants West Of Tho Nloccs. $40 org tnizod
and defined tho limits Of counties extending to
The RIO Granda."
This is tho ox,ct claim. Texas has become
ono Of the States Of to Union, AMI the Western
boundary Of Texas has, by tho act of annexation.
become tn, Western boundary of the United
Str,es. The President claims the boundary
which 'i'ox,s crmcd, and that boundary /. tho
Rio GaANDE FROM IT'S MOUTH TO IT'S SOURCE
Now this ttIe Is not good for one part Of the
river cnlv. 1t is good for tho whole none;
and accordingly. the President ciams tina,
.'couI,ics have boon cx!en!ai 10 tho Rio GranIc.
auI ti,at tn: BIO Granda from lis '7IoUTH To ITS
soUuE' is tho true Western boundary of the
United Safes by virtue Of tho at, Of annexation.
without WHICH we shoa;I hu.o no rgis5 thero III
all.
Til, STATE OF Texas. nov. in common len1u-
aue. q sovereign State Of tn \ nert.an Union,
is b,anIol West. according to the declaration Of
The President, bv III: Rio GranIc ro:ii lis source
to its mouth
The Rlo Gtando is a stre1m runnin. nearly
North ana ssoI,h-from lis source IN tho slopes
of the Rocky Mountains. On the Eas. side Of
II lies Santa fo. and mos! Of tho Mexican pro-
vince of New Mexico.
Now let tho reader tufn 10 a Subsequent part
of tho a,n'o Message:
.Bv rapid mpycmcn,s tho province of New
Mexico with Santa Fc Its capital, has been cap
,urcI without h!oodshod. In less than
seven months after Mexico commenced HOSTILE
ties at 4 tne selected bg herself. we have taken
possession rf many OF her principal ports, driven
back ani pursued her invading army, md ac-
Gnred military possession OF the Mexican pro-
ynces cf Now Mcxico. New Leon, Coahuiin.
Tamau!ipas. and The CALIFORNIA;. territory lar
in extent than that embraced in tho original
thirteen States of the Union. inhabited by
siderable population. and much Of It more than
thousand miles from the points at which we had
10 collect our forces and commence move
mauts.'
The Prcsden, here sravey announces thu. he
has CoSQUEEED a part Of our OWN SOIL; wiz;
New Mexico, east of the Rio G'fande) for, observe
that III his prior argument hc ns gravely asserted.
that tho Mcxicans. by advancing this side OF the
Rio Grandc. had shed the blood Of our citizens
upon ''our own SOIL.
His position therefore, III tho worry terms Of the
Message, involves the grosscst inconsistencies.
and the most enormons absurdtics. This alb
ha f,1fI h
IlsnmenI or n NE,s uosror.aIn..r, wilnin what he
has himself declared to be n part of the territory
Of STATE OF THIS UNION! This he declares thus
'.in the provinces of New MEXICO. and of the
CALIFORNIA;, little if any further resistance is ap-
pretended from the inha bitants 10 the tempo
fary governments which havo thus, from the no.
ccssity of the case. and according to the laws Of
war. been cstabiiSlcd.''