Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1846-12-23

no part OF Mexico. Texas had heeo a..
'noepehuent State with an organized gov
ernment, deiying the power OF Mexico 10
o'er'hFo" Or re,conquer her, for moro
man ten years before Mexico commenced
comp'a MS against The u. S. Texas had
gwen evidence Of aer ability 10 mainiaiu
hersei' as an independent power, and hay-
ing been recognized as such, not only by
me U. States. but by the principal powers
OF Europe. These powers had entered
'"'o trea'ies OF amtty, commerce. and nlyi-
gauon with her. They had received and
accredited her ministers and diplomatic
agents al their respective courts, and they
had comm ssloned miais,ers and diplomatic
agents on their part 10 the government, OF
Texas.
II Mexlco, Notwithstanding all this, and
nef utter inability 10 subdue or ra>conguer
iexaS, ST II Siubbornly refused 10 recognize
her as an dependent milton, she was mono
me less so on that account. Mexico her.
self had been recogn ed as an independent
hai'"n by The u. States, and by o,her gov
| ernmenis, many years before Spain, of
Which, before hei revolution, she had been
colony, would ag.ee 10 recognize her
as such, and yet Mexico was, at that
time.
Ii Spain had continued urlil he presen,
period 10 assert ,ha, Mexico was one of her
Colonies in rebellion against her, this would
not have made her 81, or changed The fact OF
her independent existence. Texas, a, the
period OF her annexation to the u. States,
bore the same relation TO Mexico, that
Mexico had borne 10 Spain for many
years before Spain acknowledged her IN
dependence, with This important difference
--ihal before the annexation oil Texas 10
me y. States was consummated, Mexico
herself, by formal aci Of Cover nment
had acknowledged the independence of
Texas as nation. 1t is true, iha, in the
act OF ecognltion she prescribed condition
winch she hid no power or authority TO
impose, that Texas should no, annex her.
self 10 any other power: but this could no,
deiraci in any degree from the recognition
which Mex CO then made Of her actual in.
dependence. Upon this plain Statement.
! OF facts il is absuid for Mexico to alege as
pretext Tor commencing hostilites against
the y. States thai Texas is still part Of
her Territory.
But there are those who, conceding all
this 10 he true, assume the ground that the
western boundary of Texas is the Neuces,
instead Of the Rio Grande; but that, there.
fore, in marching oar army to The east
bank OF the latter river, we passed the
Texan line, and invaded the territory Of
Mexico. a simple slaiament of facts
known to exist, will conclusvely relnte
such an assumption. Texas, as coded to
the u States by France in 1903, has al
ways been claimed as extending west to
he Rio Grande or r 0 Bravo. This fact
IS established by the authority Of our most
eminent statesmen at period when The
question WIS as well if not better under
stood than 1t is at present. During Mr..
Jeiterson's administration. Messs. Monroe
and Piuckney, who had been sent on
special mission TO Madrid, charged, among
other things, with The adjustment of boun
dary between the two countries in note
addressed 10 the Spanish Minister Of For
eign Affairs, under date fash Of January
1875, assert that the boundaries of Louisi
ana, as coded TO the u. States by France,
are the river perdido on the east, and the
| river Bfsvo on iae wo5t; and they add hat
the "'acts and principles which justify this
conclus on are so satisfactory TO our gov
eminent as 10 convince il that the United
States have not better RICH, to the island
OF New Orleans, under the session referred
| 10, than :hey have TO the whole dls'rict Of
territory which is above DIT scrIbed."
Down to the conclusion Of the Florida
treaty in February, 1919, by which this
territory was ceded to Spain, The United
States asserted AMI maintained their
territorial tights to tbs extent. In the
month Of June, 1918, during Mr.. Monroe's
adm nistration, information having been
received that number Of foreign adven
turers had landed at Galveston, avowedly
to form a settlement in that vicinity, n
special messenger was dispatched by tho
Government OF HE United States, with in
slruclions from the Secretary OF State TO
warn them TO desist, should they be found
there 'or any other place ror,h of The Rio
Bravo, and with the territory claimed by
the Uniled States lie was instructed
should they be found III the country north
Of that river, 10 make known TO them tho
surprise with which the Pres dent has seen
possession thus taken, without authority
from the United States, Of the territorial
limits, md upon which 10 lawful settle
menl can be m de without their SANCTION
He was inst,uce ed 10 call upon Them 10
"avow under villa, national authority they
profess to act" and TO give Them duo
warning, "that the place is within The U.
S who will suffer no permanent settle
ment 10 be made there, uuJer any author
ty o.her than their own" As laie as The
egh, of July, lsi2, lie Secretary OF State
Of the Uniied States, 10 n noe addressed
TO our m mis- or in Mex leo, main aims that
by The Florida treaty OF 1919, the ternto-
nv as far west as the Rio Grande was con-
frmei TO Spain. In that nole he states
that, .sby the treaty o! the twen'y second
Of February, 1919. between the unI'ed
Sta'es and Spain, the Sabine WIS adoPed
as The line Of boundary between the two
powers. Up 10 that period no cons dera>
bic colonization has been affected IN IeX~
as, bu, the Territory between the Sab no
and the Rio Grando beng confirmed to
Spain By treaty, applications we've made to
thu Power for grants oil llnd, and such
grants, or pe,missions of settlement, wero
in fact made by The Spanish authorizes IN
favor of ci.iz.ns Of he United States pro-