Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-06-03
Ihe prI Norte lle lrue Boundary Of Te1as.


The Del NOrtc The true Boundary Of Texas.
By the organic law Of 1885, the repub-
lie Of Texas fixed her boundary at the Rio
Del Norle, and with this boundary her in.
dependence was recognised by the United
States, and by France, England, and lIo.
land. Alter the battle of San Jaeinio, the
Mexicans retired beyond the Del Norte.
and have never occupied the country be-.
tween that river aud the Neuces. Ii was
organized into county of Texas, run.
ming from the Neuces to the Del Norte, and
has been constantly represented in the
Congress OF Texas, in their convention
and now in the Congress of the United
States. A port of delivery west of the
Neuces was authorized by q law of our
Congress, unanimously passed in Decem.
Der last, and our revenue laws are in full
operation there. The lower Del Norle
was always the boundary of ancient Tex
az, as part of Louisiana, coded TO US by
the treaty Of 1903. Such has been the
opinion of our distinguished statesmen, and
Presidents, ever since 1903. Mr.. Jelfer-
son distinctly announced it in repeated
communications, and especially on the sth
Of July 1904, his fixed opposition to the
"reIinqushment Of any territory whatever
east Of the Rio Bravo"
Mr.. Madison, in his letter of the 3Ist OF
March 1904, says our boundary " extended
westwardIy to the Rio Bravo;" and he de.
cares that the French commissioner deli
yered US possession of Texas with the Del
Norte as its true boundary. On the 9Th
Of November, 1903, JAS Monroe declar.
ed that " incoaieStibly" the boundary of
Louisiana was "the Rio Bravo of the
West; and Mr.. Pinkney unites in the de-
Claration. Mr.. Monroe in his letter Of
18th January, 1916, and June 10, 1916,
says none could dispute " our title to Tex
as" and he adds, that our title TO the
Del Norte was as clear as TO The Island of
New Oreansn In his letter of the 18th
March, 1918, John Quincy Adams proves
our title to Texas, and says swell might
Messrs. Pinkey and Monroe write to Nj. |
Ceyalos, in 1905, that the claim of the
United States to the boundary of the Rio
Bravo was as clear as their right 10 the is.
land of New Orleans" Mr.. Henry CLAY |
in his speech Of 1920. in Congress, quotes
and repeats the same opinion; and in his |
celebrated anti Texas letter of the 9Th |
April 1914, Mr.. Clay says: "Tbe United
States acquired title to Texas, extending
as believe, to the Rio Del Norle by the |
treaty Of louisiana" and the distinguish.
ed Senator from Missouri, Col Benton in |
one of his able letters on this subject re.
published by himself in the Globe of Nav
4, 1914, says;
"The best and most numerous harbours
on the continental coast of Mexico, lie be-
tween the Sabine and the mouth Of the
Rio Del Norte. As naval and CONNER.
claI power, owning the great river, which
carries the commerce of an empire into
the Gulf we had the greatest need for
these harbours. BY the acquisition of
louisiana we obtained them; by the new
boundary established on our southwest
frontier we gave them away. Before the
establishment Of this boundary all the coun-
try to the west of the lower Mississippi,
quite 20 Rio del Nore, was ours"
That Texas was ours by the treaty of
1903, and that its boundary extended to
the Del Norle, is proved by the concur.
rent authority of Jefferson, Madison, Mon.
roe, Adams, Pinkney, Benton, and Clay.
1t was the boundary fixed by Texas in her
organic law of 1896, and beyond which
The Mexcans we're driven. And if Tex
as had no other claim to the country be.
tween the Neuees and Del Norte, that by
conquest and occupation would be complete.
The following was the vote on the final
passage of the War bill in the Senate:
YEAs.-Messrs. Allen, Archer, Ashley,
Achlson, Anterior, Bagby, Barrow, Ben
Ton, Breese, Bright, Cameron, Cass, John
NJ Clayton, Colquitt, Corwin, Critenden,
Dayton, Dickinson, Houston, Jarnagin,
Jenness, Johnson, of Nd, johnson, of La.
Lewis, McDIffie, Mangum, Morehead,
Niles, Pennybacker, Rusk, Sempe, Sc.
Ver, Simmons, Speight, Sturgeon, Tur-
3I.ey, .Upham, Westcoti, Woodbridge, and
YuIe6-4O.
NAYs-Messrs. Thomas Clayton, of
DEL, John Davis, of Mass.
Senators Berrien, Calhoun, and Evans,
0eIng IN their seals, did not vote The
O'ner members, whose names are no: re-
corded above, we're absent.
When MIR. Crittenden's name was call
VI ne sad "aye, except The preamble"
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We should like extremely TO give the
pfoceedlngs in the Senate on the passage i,
q The war bill; but we cannot possibly l
make room in this paper. The on y oppo- c
, !, made to it was by the wings and
az Calhoun, who we're unwilling to ac- e
knowledge that war, in the strict consti- o
plonaI sense, existed, and who wished L
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