New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-12-09
The Message.


In me FIRST paragraph Of Mr. Folks Message We
s,e s5id that there has been no period in our
rss, story when ell the elements o. national pros
psrity haze been 50 folly developed, as at this
time. and that abor in all ITS branches, is re-
ceiving IN ample reward, &c &c Before he gets
through, however he tells US that the Tariff OF
1912, (which has been steadily in force up TO last
week, imposed taxes not for the legitimate pur
2ose Of raising Revenue but 20 afford advantages
70 favo7ed classes at the expense Of large maor
/. ity Ct their fellow citizens Tllose employed in
Agriculture, were compelled to contribute from
the;r substance TO spe'l lie p,efts and orergroaen
.cszlM Of the comparatively few who had invest
ed their capital In Manufactures. &c &c &c. Now,
without here dsputing that the labor on Mr..
Folks Tennessee and Alabama plantations has
been receiving an ample reward, we should like
70 kncz7 how he makes his preliminary four;shes
consistent With the naIrow souied fabrcations by
which, near the close Of his Message. he attempts
to excite jealousy and hostility between Cur Manu-
featuring and other departments ofIndustry2 The
po;ut-biank untruth Of the assertion that the Tariff
Of ls42 fostered Manufactures only as distinguished
from Mechanical and Agricultural labor, can be
=
Isl. every tailor and house carpenter in the land
Abundant and unquestionable statistics have de.
mcn.,rated beyond cayil ,lst while the glass blow
err, for example, has Ind more work and higher
wages under the Tariff Of l9i2, the prices OF Glass
ware have been greatly reduced SO of most Of the
articles and the products of articles protected by
the Tariff Of 40. The facts are ON record and can.
lot be gsinsay ed-shali they be put down by sheer
impudepce and pertinucity oil talsebood Shall ez-
allied station shield the wiiiul caiurnnntor of the
acts aud the motives Of majority of his fellow cit
zers from the rebuke and the ignominy he merits
These questions have been iorcibly answered By
the People in the recent Elections.
Mr. Polk is not content with giving single ex
ample ofthe truth that politicians ofs stamp should
have good memories. Our Government once loUndit
convenient to assert that Louisiana mot Texas ex-
tended to the Rio Grandc. France authorized us
70 make no such claim in ceding as Louisiana, In
lso6 Spanish military force was VIGOROUSLY in pos.
session Of Texas and advanced eastward nearly or
quite 70 the Sabine. Mr.. Jefferson did moi modest
them there, though Gen Wilkinson was sent 10
observe them and see that they did not cross
over into ;he Louisianian territory Six years If
ierSard Texas was the theatre OF senguinary strife
betw cen certain Patriots and the Spanish military
force stationed there but or Government never
medGlsd in the matter So at later period
when Galveston Bay had become Il notorious re
sort OF smuggers, frsebooters und mscrcants gen.
orally, What were about for those sixteen
years, if Texas really belonged to rs Mr. Pinck-
4 ney and Mr. Adams automatically asserted Why
YVES our flag never raised and its authority main
knin cd thera durinu Tho ptar bat,
acquisition of Louisiana in 1903 and our formal and
solemn abandonment of all pretensons to Texas by
the Florida Treaty Of 1891 Does any man seri
ously believe that Were the real owners of tina,
vast end fertile region for sixteen years, with no
counter claimant but feeble, distracted overwhelm
oil Spain Yet never sent platoon OF soldiers or
even C ship of war there mot Il weeks sail from
Now Orleans down to our surrender of our preten.
eions in 1919
But let US see how Mr. Polk putp his foot in it.
Louisiana hs says, extended to tie Rio Grande
therefore Texas has the same extent; and he cites
as authority the act OF the Texan Congress, Dec
lQtb 1885, declaring the Rio Grande from its mouth
10 its soarcs TO be the Western boundary of that
Republic, and triumphsptly sdds, " THIS was the
Texas which by the act Of our Congress OF the Goth
Lee lofS Wdt huiIttSu ~ one VI tue SISIes OF our
Union" Very good Sir hold on TO this will you?
while we turn over few pages and find YOU assert.
ing that BY rapid movements, The Proriace Of Neg
6srsso, with Santa Fe, its capital has been cap
tgre2 without bloodshed,' Coptarsd has it Why
shat was ours long before, and not New Mexico at
al. bat Texas il your former assumption was
well founded Any man who has map OF
North America can that nearly all that
F" New Mexico" including that very SAINTS
re It's capital lies east of the Rio Grande
and within that very State OF Texas as defined by
herself and annexed by our Congress How is it
shss city and vast territory at the same time
es integral portion OF oar State OF Texas and OF
the Mexican province Tor Department. Of New.
Mexico Nay. Sir, how dare you treat portion
OF the State OF Texas as czpt.tye6 territory and
authorize one OF your Military sstraps to sp
point al its Judges, Dissric, Attorneys SC &c. ?
What al astounding usurpst,on was here To
send an armed force into part OF the State OF Tex
a., and hot mOrey drive out the ;arddiag Next.
cans, but actually treat it as captured territory
anu saeleet 1t to the most desponc government,
conceivable Not a word whispered by ANYBODY
about It's relation to Texas-no frey extension
Of Texan authority over is-ao opportunity at.
trded us citizens to vote Tor Texan Members Of our
Congress, though these have just been chosen Is
not she whole web of mingled audscity and fraud
GOVERNS he presext Of extending Texas 10 the
Rio ersnde here exposed by its very con,riyers7
A few words must answer long paragraphs O,
pe:dfossery about that same Western bounds rv os
Texas That the Nueces 'eas ths: Western bonn.
dairy while TeSss formed part OF the Mexican
stase Of coahuila and Texas, no msn has ever bad
the hayaihood TO deny. The facts are too recent
zoo notorious. Texas mot TO inquire how sepsrst
Cd herself from Mexico; Coshuila adhered to the
Mexican nstion. Where now was the boundary
Of Tcxa,7 The Map Of Texas prepared by Stephen
+. Austin one Of her leading insurgents, and pub
Rsaed in 1887, sgrees with common sense in
placinS 1t at the Nueces, where it had previously
bssr. How was it moved westward If at al
Surely not by Tres,y there has been none
Santa .Anns's ssreemens while prisoner wss