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

by several Of ,hs principal powers Of
Europe. These powets had entered
toto treaties OF smiiy, commerce, and
navigation with her. They had teceiv-
d and accredited her ministers snd
other diplomatic agents OF their respec-
i've courts, and they had com n'issiooed
ministers and diplomatic agents 90 then
part 10 the govsrnmeot Of Tvxss. II
Mexico, notwithstanding all this, and
her utter inability TO subdue or RECON-
que Texas, sill slubbornly refused 10
recognize her ss go independent nsIi)n
she YVES none The ltss SO on that sccoun,
Mexico herself bad been recognized as
sn Independent nation by The U States
snd Other powers. many years before
Spain, OF which, before her revolution
she had been 9 colony, would agree 10
recognize her ss sucr; and yel NJ xco
was 81 the line, in he eslinslion OF II e
civil zed world,sud in fact, none the less
en- Independent power because Spain
sill claimed her a colony. IL Spsir
had continued until the present period
10 assert that Mexico was one of her col.
onies 10 rebellion sgsins her, his would
not have made her so, or changed the
fac, Of her independent existerce. Texas
al the period of her annexation 10 the
United States, bore The same rtlation 10
Mexico ihs,Mexeo had borne 10 Spain
for many years before Spain scknowh
edged her indepe ndence. with this i'm,
por,sni difference--lhai. Lefore The an
ne xafon Of Texas 10 the United States
was consumaled, Mexico herself, by
formal act Of her government. had scs
knowIedged the independence of Texas
as nation. Ii is tIue.l that in the sci OF
recognition she has prescribed condi.
tion which she no power or authority
10 impose, that Texas should not annex
herself 10 sny other Power; bu, this
could moi deiraci in any degree from
the recognition which Mexico then
made OF her actual independence. Upon
this plain statement Of facts. il is absurd
for Mexico 10 sllege as tea for COM
e.cng hostiiles against The United
States, that Teas is still par, of her
Territory.
But there are those who, conceediog &
all this 10 be true, assume The ground
that the true western boundary OF Texas
is the Nueces, instead Of The RioGrande
and that, therefore. in marching our sr-l
my 10 the east bank of The latter river,
we passed the TeTsn line, and invsded
The territory Of Mcrco. A simple
statement of facts, Known 10 exisi, will
conclusively relule such an assumption.
Texas, as ceded 10 the United by Frsr ce
in 1903, has been always claimed a.
extending ives, 10 The Rio Grande, OF
Rio Bravo. This fac, is established BY
The authority Of our most eminen, states,
men al period when The question was
as well, if not better understood than
IT is st present. During Mr. Je6ersou's
administration, Messrs. Monroe and
Pincsney, who had been sent on spec
ial mission 10 Madrid, charged, among
other things, with the adjustment OF
boundary between the Two countries, 10
q no'e addressed to The Spanish minister
of Foreign Affairs, under date of the
the 2sth Of January, 1905, assert thai
The bou ndares OF Louisiana, as ceded 10
The U. s. by France, :are the river of
PeTdico on The east and The river Bravo
on the wes,' and they edd, tina, rhe
iacs and principles which Justify this
conclusion are so satisfactory 10 our
government as to convince il that the
United States have no, better rlgh, 10
The island of New Orleans, under the
cession retired 10, than they have 10
Ihe whole district Of territory which is
above described
Down 10 the conclusion of the FIori
da treaty il Febnsry, 1919, by which