The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-12-19

10 The country north Of that river, ia
make kUown TO them 'he surprise with
which the President has seen possession
ihus taken, without sulhori,y from the
United States, offs place within their
ietrilorIsl Limits, snd upon which no
lawful settlement can be made wiilrou,
their ssnciion.' He was instructed 10
call upon them 10 'svow under whot ne.
lionsl suIhorlIy they profess TO scf, and
10 give them due wsroing that the
place is within the United States, who
will suffer no permanent settlement 10
be made there, under any authority
other than their own As late as the
slh of IDLY Of 1912, The Secretary oi
$ ate OF lhe Unlled States, in a mole sd-
dressed TO our minister in NJ e CO, main.
tsirs that, by the Florida trea'y OF ISIS
the Ieiri,ory as far west as the Rio
Grsnde was conf. med 10 Spain. In
II OF note he states thai, 'by The treaty
OF Febusty, 1919, between the United
Safes aud Span. the S,bine was adopt.
ed ss the line OF boundary between The
TWO Powers. Up TO that period, nc
considerable colinz,lion had been efiec-
ted in T, gas; but The territory between
The S,bne and the Rio Grsnde being
confirmed TO Spain by the treaty. sppli.
cations were made 10 that Power for
grants Of land, and such grants, or per
missions o. stUlements, were 10 fact
made by the Spanish authorities in ia
vor Of cihzens Of the United Stafes pro
posing 10 emigrate TO Texas in nume-
rous families, before The declaration oi
independence by NJ rico.
The TtrIs which was ceded II Spain
by The Florida treaty Of 1919, embrac.
ed all The country now claimed by The
State Of Teas between the Nueces and
The Rio Grande. The republic ofTe1.
as always claimed This river as her ives
tern boundary and in her treaty made
with Santa Anna in May, 1856, he re-
cognlzed il as such BY The consttu
,ion which Ter,s adopted in NJ arch,
1886, senatorial and representative dis
'ricfs were oganizeJ ertending west oI
The Nueces' The Congress OF TEXAS,
IN Tie 10 Of December, 1886, pssse d
An act TO d,fine the boundaries oI
he republic of Terls,' in which
hey declared The Rio G snde from
ts mouth TO is source to be theiI
boundary, and by The said act they &C,
'ended Their evil and poIitcsl juiis
liction' over the country up TO tbsl
boundary.
During period OF more lhsn nine years.
which lntervened between The adoption OF
Iet constitution and her annexation as one
IF the States of our Union Texas asserted
and exercised many acts Of sovereignty and
jurisdiction over the territory and inhsbi.
ANTS west Of the Nueces. She organized
and dehned4he limits Of counties extending
10 the Rio Grande. She established courts
IF justice and extended her Judicial system
over The territory. She established a Gus.
Iom house, and collected duties. and also
post Offices and pos, roads, in il. She es-
land Office, and issued numerous
grants for land, within lis limits. A Sena-
or and Representative residing in il were
elected TO the Congress Of the republic, and
served as such before HE ACT Of annexation
took place. Ia both the Congress and Con-
venuon VI Texas. which pave their assen,
10 The terms Of annexation 10 The Usi,ed
States, proposed by our Congress, were rep.
resentaiives residing wesl Of the Nueces.
who took part in the act of annexation it,
self. This was The Texas which, by the
act Of ourCongress of the 2slh of December
i645, was admitted as one of the States o.
our Uni1n. That the Congress of The U,
States understood the State of Texas whirh
they admitted into the Union 10 extend be-
yond the Nueces is spparen, from the fact.
'hal on the 3lst of December, ls45, only
two days after the act of admission, they
passed a law 40 establish a collpclion dts