Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1846-06-23
MISCELLANEOUS.
rho boundary Of Texas.

-, IN b., the United States that the Texas
..d to the Rio Grande and that all this side of
"" 5 n the United States by virtue Of the act an
-. Re vas to the Union has caused very great eibar-
-, 10 even those who were decided to sustain that
-, The fact that the town OF Santa Re, and other
STEFAN settlements, were on the North side OF iat r.
= ,d not be reconcilcd with that claim This fact,
!, he c;tv of Santa Fe, which Texas never claimed,
49,. Texas force never was, and where Inc MEXICAN
hr,ies never censed to rule, and where they do no"
o., aud that to claim all the territory this side of the
~: c,a,de was % claim Santa Fe-lit5 been repeated
~ o;,ed ont as difficulty, which the administration has
- 90 far as we have seen, attempted TO solve, By
any statement of the There was another difficulty
. H., wov and that was that the United States Govern
,, had by its own action, through its constitutional
cans declared Santa Fc even after the annex
s,ion of Texas, foreign country, as much SO Us any o
=, portion of Mexico Canada And this declaration
was made by passing act allowing drawback on goo~7
Unmarried from Santa c INTO the Uncd states and thence
exported into another foreign counry-beih9 me same
rulc as applies TO importations from Canada
We have looked the Washington unon from iiihe
10 time in the hope finding there some explanation oil
h matter PM lie official organ has boon silent, anI
90. are left in doubt wle ther Santa Re was INTENDED to
ls included in our claim sail Texas" not In tho
mean lne the Treasury Department continued to allow
drawbacks, and hostilities have commenced with
Mcxicoan expedition has been org,nized,by authority OF
the President, proceed New Mexico, it was an
nounced almost officially try TO induce the people OF
Santa Fe and the adjacent country 10 remain nrura-
that is take part with the central government a.
c,u.t the Uned states Yet, still the presumption
NAMED that Santa re foreign territory TO and
The difficulty of reconciling this with our claim to the
Rio trand as the boundary between tho United States
and Mexico, continued unsolved
Tie Administration at Washington has, however,
found way to solve it, We find the solution IN the ) CIV
York Evening Post, as follows:
'Tng SANTA FE TR,pE.-rhe orders for refaniing the
duties on goods xportcd to Santa fe as PROVIDED ny ne
transit law have been countcrmanGed by the treasury
Department at W ashlngton
The Journal Of Commerce says this was done for the
sake Of consistency.
We'll there is a GOODNESS about this proceeding that
borders on tho ridiculous. We make out right tc
santa re-inecd, have admitted that IT did not be-
long to us--tlla fact is notorious and unquesonnhio
,hat it never was part OF Texas and is in
batcd by citizens Mexico who know nothing yet
of war with country and do not dream that they arc
an town out of Mexcoyct in the face of all these cir
cumstanccs contradicng claim, demonstrating that
it is without foundation, the Secretary of the Treasury
issues an lie in the United States, an~
bcncefo no duties are levied goods from that
country and no wbacls allowed for those which have
been brought from there aud exported hence again!
To be sure tlore Il law Of Congress, passed and APP
proyed since Texas was ere annexed, which require.
that duties should be levied and drawbacks allowed OF
goods from Santa Te Bat this the day when law
is TO have force against the efforts enlarge the ''are
OF freodom." We have set up a claim which require
that Santa Fe should be the United States. The fac
Santa Fc the United StTtrs proves that on
claim is OF "a good We admit this, and we cure IN
defect by claiming Santa fe! Who says THIS IS not
great country 2-Bdltimore Patriot.