The Arkansas banner., 1846-12-23

they dared insist sa tsiT fShss. Had she una=E q
 seizure of American property and the violation of pei scas liberty ef sixena. to aey aeshiag sf the sn salts 10 ous asg which have occurred ia the ports
 Mss'cc, taksa placs sH ths high ssas, ihsy wout
 themselves 0ng since have constituted ssass of ac tani ger between the two countries In e iohe suI
 efng Msxico so violate her soensa sseass el ub lignt0ns, pluHdef c1ens of their df0psrty m, ipsson hesr persrus. without afEofding them any e dfsss, we have failed to perform one of the ssi an
 highest duties which every government owes to II eltizens; and the consequeaee has been that many them have been reduced fom . siata ufiasncs |, beakTupicy. The proud name sf Amefican cissxel
 which ought protect aI who bear m from insult ans iansy throughout the wotd, has eJrded no saeh pro tseiion 10 our cigizcns in Mexico. We had ampi caase of war against Msxico long before he breaking oat of hostiies. But evca ihea we lssbofs te lsk, redress In oar owa banda, antii Mexico hessslf be cane the ssgressor. by invading our soil in hosns ar rsy, and shedding the bl0ed fl our citizens.
 Such are the grave caRsss of complaint on the per 4 the United States against Nexiep--canses whci existed long before the apasxsioa of Texas e tho
 Sates and yet. animated hy fhe love of peace. and of redress which, under sach ar, the justified resort of finjured nations.
 The snaexatoa cf Texss to the United Siafes con stituted jus, of ofisnee Mexico. The pre- text that it did Is wholly inconsistent and eeon ciiate with the we'll authenticated tacta connected with the revolution by which Texas became iDdepead ent of Mexico. Thatthis may he the more manifest n may he pToper to advert the causes and so the history of the principal events of the, revalaiion.
 Texas constituted portion of the ancient province of Lousisaa ceded the United States by France in the year I603 In the year l6l9 the u States by the Florida treaty. eeded Spain all the, part of Louis. iana within the present limits of Texss; and xico by the revolution which separated her tsom Spain and rendered her an independent nation succeeded to the rights of ihe mother country over this territory. In the year 1894, Mexico established federal constitu- iion. under which the Mexican iepubc vas composed of number of sovereign States conlederated tagsih in federal Uuon similar 10 own. Each of these States had it's owa Executive, legislature and judiciary, and for a except federal purposes was as independent 0f the general government. and that of the other S.aes, as is Pennsylvania Virginia under our constitutions Texas and CoahuiiA uoited and for med one of ibese Mexican States. The State consii. tulien which they adopted, and which approved by the Mexican conederacy, asserted that they were 'free end independent vf the other Mexicsa United Staies aud of every other power and dominion whai soever" sud proclaimed ihe great principle of human
 liberty, that "hk sovereignty of The State resides orig nally end essentially n the general mass of individuals who compose i:." To the government under this constitution as well that under the federal cons tuition. the people of Texas owed allegiance.
 Emigrsnts from Foreign countries, including the U. Ststes were invited by the colonization laws of the Afae and of the Fedhral government settle in Texss
 
 leave their country and become Mexican citizens This invitation was accepted by aiany 0f our citizens a the fall faith that in their new home they would be governed by aws enacted by eprese elected by themselves, and that their lives, liberty and property would be protected by constitutional guarantees sui lar those which exsied in republic they had Under government thus organized, they continued until the year 1895, when military revolution broke ou. in the city of Mexico. which entirely subvered the federal and slate consultations, and placed military dictator al the head of the government.
 These powers had entered into treaties of ami,y |. commerce end navigation wiah her. They had rsees. we'd and accredited her mnisers and diplomatic agents at their respective courts and they had commissioned ministers and diplomatic agents their Pafi to the government of Texas If Mexico, notwithstanding all this and her inability to subdusor reconquer Texas still subornly refused recognize her as an ndspendeni nation she was none the less so on that account. Mexico herself had beeu recognized as an independent nation by the United States, and by other powers, many years before Spain. of which. before her revolution, she had beea colony. would agree recognize her as such and yet Mexico was at that time n the esi,maon of the civilized world, and in fact none of the less independent power, because Spain still claimed her a colony U Spain had tnued, until the present period that Mexico of her colonies n rebellion agans her. this would not make her so, change the tact of her independent exsteBce Texas, at the period 0t her annexation to the Uaiied States, bore the same relation to Mexico that Mexico had borne Spain for many years before Span acknowledged her independence. with this i'm portant difference, that before the annexation of Texas 10 the United States was consummated, Mex ico herself, by formal act of her government, had acknowledged the independence of Texas as a nation. I is true, that n the of recognition, she prescibes q condition which she had power or authority to impose that Teyas should not annex herself any other power but this coad rot deiract in any degree from the recognition which Mexico then made of het independence. Upon this plain statement of facts, Il IA -tt.l. z meneing hosites against tue United States, that Texas is part ofher territory.
 But there are those who, concedine all this to be true assume the ground that the ius western bounda. " of Texas is the Neuces. instead of the Rio Gande and that, therefore, in marching our army 10 the east bank of the latter river. passed the Texas line, and invaded the territory of Mexico. A simple statemen, of facts known exist will eonclusivey refuie such an assumption. Texas, ceded 10 the United States by France in l803 has been always claimed extend ing yves, the Rio Grande. or Rio Bravo. This fact is established by the authority of most eminent statesmen, al period when the question was well if not better understood than al present.
 During Mir. Jeferson's administration. MesWs. Mon. roe and Pinckney, who had been sent . special mission to Madrid, charged, with other things, with the adjustment of boundary between the two countries n note addressed 10 the Spanish Minister of Foreign Aaira under date of the twenty eghih January l6O5 assert that the boundaries of Louisiana, eeded To the Cniied States oy Ffahces efethe tfet fetoao oh the east and the river Bravo on the vest; and they add, .hs. .he facts aaa principles mich iusiy hls conclusion are satisfactory to oar Government as tc convace i, that the United States have aoi better right to the island of New Orleans. under the cession referred to than they have tu the whole district of ,er ri,osy which is above described" Down to the con ciuson of the fioritn treaty in February, lsl9, by which this territory ~as eeded Spain, the United States asserted and maintained their territorial rights 10 this extent.
 In the ,nonh of June. SIS. during Mir. Monroe's administration information having been received ihal
 number offeregn adyeatarers had landed al Calves. ton, with .he avowed purpose ot ansirg settlement in that vicinity, special messenger ~as dispatched by ,Ae government of tue United States, wh nsiruc ,;es from the Secretary o State to wara them to de ss,, should they be ioaad there any other place north of the Rio Brayo and within the etory claim