The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-12-24


4 add, that facts and principles which iuslif,
\ his conclusion are so satisfactory 10 ou
government as 10 convince il that the Unitet
4 States have not a better right to the islanC
of New Orleans, under the cession referee
TO, than they have 10 the whole district o
4 territory which is above described.n So
) [Down to the conclusion Of the Florid,
treaty, and the cession Of This territory b,
i Spain, the whole Of it was claimed by ou
4 government the Rio Brave. During Mr.
Monroe's administration, adventurers settling
lin Texas were warned by the Secretary 0
State, that, at Galveston, " OF any place
north of the Rio Bravo,r no lawful settle
ment could bo made without authority Of the
United States.
I The Texas which was ceded 10 Spain by
the Florida treaty oflSl9, embraced all the
country now claimed claimed by The State Of
Texas between the Nueces and The Rio
] Grande. The republic Of Texas always
claimed this river as her western boundary.
land in her treaty, made with Sania Anna in
May, 1886, he recognized il as such. BY
The constitution which Texas adopted in
March, 1885, senatorial and representative
districts wore organized extending west of
ibe Nueces. The Congress Of Texas, on
the 9th of December, 1885, passed g IAN
act to define the boundaries Of the republic
OF Texas" in which they declared the Rio
Grai dc from its mouth TO its source TO be
their Boundary, and by the said acl they ex-
tended their " civil and political jurisdiction y
over the country up to that boundary. Dur
ing the period gilmore than nine years which
interyenod between the adoption Of her con-
sitution and her annexation as one Of The
States of our Union, Texas asserted and
exercised many acts of sovereignty and iuris-
diction over the territery and inhabitants
west Of the Nueces. She organized and de-
fined the limits Of counties extending 10 the
Rio Grande. She established courts Of ius-
tice and extended her Judicial system over
the territory. She established custom
house, and collected duties, and also post
offices and post roads, in 1t. She established
a land Office, and issued numerous grants
fur land within It's limits. A Senator and
Representative residing within il were elect
ed to the Congress Of the republic. and serv-
ed as such before The act of annexation took
place. In both the Congress and Conven-.
tion Of Texas which gave their assent TO the
terms of annexation to the United States,
proposed by our Congress, were Representa-
lives residing ives. of the Nueces, which
took part in. the act Of annexation itself.
This was the Texas which, by the act Of
our Congress of the tweniy-nniy December,
1915, was admitted as one OF The states OF
our Union. That the Congress Of the
United States understood the state of'Texas
which they admitted into the Union to ex-
tend beyond the Nueces is apparent from
The fact, that on the thirty-first of Decem-
Der, lS45, only two days after The act of adj
mission, they passed law. g to establish
collection district in the State of 'Texas,n by
which they created port Of deliveryat Cor
pus Christi, situated west Of the Nueces, and
being the same port al which the Texas Gus
tom-house, under the laws of that Republic,
had been located, and directed that sur
veyor to collect the revenue should be ap-
pointedfor tha. port by the President, by and
with the advice and consent Of the Senate
A Surveyor was accordingly nominated and
confirmed by the Senate, and has been eve
since in the performance of his dul;ss. An
these acts of the Republic of Tre-.as. and al
our Congress, preceded TIE orders for he
advance of our army " lie east bank oflhe
R,o Graade. susseau auen,ly, Congress pass.
ed an act establishing, certaia post rouiss,''
extending west Of the Nueces. The country
Yves. OF that river now constitutes part ofl
one of the Congressional Districts ofsl'exas,
and is represented intho House of Repre-
ssntatives. The Senators from that State
we're chosen by legislature in which the
country west Of that river was represented.
In view of all these facts, it is difficult to
conceive upon what ground il can be main
tanned that, in occupying the country west
OF the Nueces with our army, with view
solely 10 its security and defence, we invad-
ed the territory Of Mexico. But il would
have been still more difficult to justify the
whose duty it is TO sac that the
laws be faithfully executed, if in the face
Of all these proceedings, both in the Con-
gfess Of Texas and Of the United States, he
had assumed the responsibility Of yielding
up the territory west Of the Nueces to Mex
co, or Of refusing TO protect and defend thisi
erritory and its inhabitants, including Cor
,ns Christi, as well as The remainder Of
Texas, against the threatened Mexican in-l
'asioa.
\ 1.-THE fierce hostility Of the partizans ofI.
'aredes-%-ihe slbversioh of the government
1.-The elevation Of lhazN Nictator- land iFef
war with \ he'd States for
he re-conquest Of Texas, caused The order
Or Gen. Tavlor,s force to aovance 4, tha