Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1846-10-09
rnE coNsrITUrroN-sr.rE RIGHTS.
Progress of Annexation.

Of the Executive into Of conquest and
annexation And, in tho debates in the two Houses of
Congress remember alusion whatever TO the future
acquisition Of territory either OF designs
sequences. acknowledgement wish TO be distinctly
understood upon this point because already adspOsi
ton manifested lead oil the public mind false
that do complain that Mexico has been invaded,
that her provinces have been conquered This
of the oreseen and inevitable Of the war; should
be long proaceda which, whatever may have been
the extent and character OF the and insults which
had suffered the hands of the Mexican government
with Mr. Calhoun in believing might and ought
10 have been avoided. The conquest and occupation Of
California by Com. Sloat, and Of New Mexico by Gen
kearncy, we are willing 10 eoncedo wisely deter
mined upon and gloriously achieved. We intend to i'm
peach neither the sagaciy Of the Executive in directing
these movements, the galanty OF its officers in
cutting them. They the legitimate and necessary results
OF state OF warJust much the conquest and
eupnt0n Of portion OF the Of Tamaupas by Gen
Taylor Neither do controvert the right, shall
now attempt TO discuss the expedenoy VI Incorporating the
conquered territory into the conquerng State province
or a. coordinate State with equal sovereign rights. All
tins be admitted but then the question recu land
at Is 10 that point alone to which have invited public
Rtenon,) whence did GTS. REARSEY and CON- SLoAr de-
rive the POWER To ANNEX THE CONC UERED ter
ritoy To the United Stos Who conferred upon them the
authority enlarge the of the Republic by pro-
camaton1 II they acted without instructions, the
OF act VIII al once strike mind. Not lees
hngrant they have acted do doubt is the fact
IN conformity instructions assumption Of this pow.
CT by the President OF the u States The competency Of
THE GOVERNMENT OF the United States retain the terri
tory conquered by arms annex it TO the Union
territorial dependency admit the conedera.
cy coordinate State, may be acknowledged. But
have yet to learn that President GoyERNNENT
aad that he may his military commanders remote
from the seat of government with the Dctatora powers
erciscd by Cen Kearney assuming the title of
OF New Mexico, in claiming the people OF that province
citizens Of the United States, promising gov
eminent and in denouncing TRAITORS" il they shall
not adhere TO their 1t the justice the war;
70 its vigorous prosecution that objeci- not that
we invade Mexican provinces and occupy ,hem-nor is
that the commanders Of forces adop, all necessary
measures for keeping in subsection the inhabitants Of
those pro'nces-or that they levy upon them con,rbu-
lions, and require Of them obedience the rules and reg
ulatons they find necessary adopt the pre-
servaton Of order and tranquility. 1t the SOVEREIGN
rowER, claimed and exercised by the President he has
given instructions that effect by his subaerns if he
has given such instructions, annex new territory TO
the UDiOn, aud Mexcans American cit.
by stroke Of the pen, that demu and which we
denounoe. Had Com. Soat and Gen Ksarney pursued
m California and Mexico the which Gen Taylor
adopted in TamauPas there would been no ground
Of complaint would murmur Of dissatisfaction have
been heard. And desire know why Is that diff
ferent lines OF policy have been adopted by comman
ders different OF Mexico that have been occupi
ed by our forrest Why Tam1ulipas annexed to
~ ' ~ ~ " 's'''0e eA1''eu 'oh llS CHI
Lehs oy zen ayoI' mat course wss deemed proper to
be pursued New Mexico and California; We have vet
TO attempt defend the which objections
has been made, assign the for this emaIka-
BILE discrimination.
We glad that public attention is beginning 10
oe Arae'eu oy the extraordinary facts upon which we
have felt II our duty 10 comment The Washington
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PoTant elections can come up TO Gen kearney in his
ly invented and wholesale process Of naturalization who
commencing bv taking IN a town nj time ended nv en-,
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Prom the N. Y. Gazette 4 Times
There be now but very lle doubt among The
best informed Of fellow subjects that James r. Polk
has annexed this portion OF his doninons to the vast re-
Rons Of tho Southwest which erewhie bore the Span s
sway
"The kind and tenderness OF our GREAT KHAN for
the rights Of his subjects in this portion of Polk dom
shown by his most unwilling veto of the Hurbor hill IN,
want OF constitutional authority TO enclose few acres of
fresh water within pieT mon an, Great IsL.s !. - -
Illustrated upon the most generous scale in enclosing whole
regions Of territory with their live inhabitants where ma
constitutional scrupes interfere 10 prevent this ,pnicrr
internal Improvement of our great free countrv
Now oil honor to the gallant officers who have with so
much spirit and vgor carried into effect tIo srrr, I'm
Of the AMERICAN PTJrLE communicated to those Officers
through the Executive organ Of tho American PeoDIo
But that Executiye-i orran-for tbe Preser ~ h;,
Republic is no more than ihnt-wben and ybero did T
learn that il was the will Of the American neopie Il,
nts this nation with MeIco7 Was that viii dcrarcJ a,
the primary meetings Of the People In their wards ar
rishos or townships Was it done in their county
blsgc' tbc,, .bc,fT,, i.s or co,,,os.,a@I $780,, "
commonwealth councils Of each separate sovereignty D.
the congress Of the Nation by the Grand Inquest
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come from b Po .nd a. is ;".t ,ll' nag
one unscrupuous man was granted Inv ne wi IN C,i, y,
80 - , l'", Iuu ''v, 10 lan I'ns can say II