The Arkansas banner., 1846-12-23

Ria Gsas4s being eoaGfmsd ,s Spain by shs treaty
 applications asfs msds e ,bsi power fer asanss ~
 taad and sush grants, of pefmiusious of ssfemen O.
 were n fact made bY the Spansh uathusities i avas M
 el'isens oi iAs unsd SaAtss proposing smgrais
 Texss jn asneeous isHes before the declafstiDn oI indepeadenes by Mexico"
 The Texus which was eeded ts Spain by the Flefi- da treaty of 1873. embraced sil the county now
 elaimsd hy the Staie of Texas, between the Nencss aBd the kis Gfande. The republic cf Texas always
 claimed this fives her hoaAay, and in het F ifea'y made with Ssnsa Anaa in Msy lS36 he tseoe- Hised II Ba sach. By the Constitution which Texss
 adop'ed in March, s36. senatorial and representative
 cistreIs were cfBaazed. ndne of he Neaees The Congress nf 1exas, on the 1gsh Uf Deeea,ber
 l0J6, passed An act 10 deRe the sepuble of Tsxasg
 in which they declared the Rio Gnude from i,s mouth
 to iis source. be their boundary, end hy the eau set
 lhey extended heir civil aud pslliiesl jurisdiction" "
 over "A eooa.ry pp .o that bssadasy. During pe. f;ssS Of Inofe than ans year, whGk iatervenea be-
 tween the adoption af her eoastiiansn ard her nnnes
 aiinn as ens .d the Siaes af Uaaa Texas sassIte
 aud exeseised many p sovereignty and jusissis
 sves the iefFIssy end inhahiianis of the Ness She oseahsxed and dehafd the limits of csugsses es tending to the Rio Gfande. She estabbshed courts
 of iasice and extended her jsdeia sys,em over the territory. She established cassoa,. house. and col
 lected duies snd also post uees and post rsads in She es.sbi.sasd land office. sHd iessed granis tas land within it's limits. Sean,oS and Representative residing in 1t, elected ths Con-
 gFess of the Repahc, and served as such before the l actos annexation took place.
 ln both the Congress and Convention sf Texas which gave their ascent the terms of annexation Co
 the U. States, prsposed by Congress- were repre- sentatves residing of the Naeces. who took parl n the act oi annexation iisef This wss the Texas which, by the act of Congress vf the iwea,y ninth oi December, 1895. was admitted of ihs Satvs ot oaf Uaion.That the Congress at ihe United State understood the Siaie of Texas which they admitted into the Uaion extend beyond the Narces IS appa rcn. from hc fac,. that he thirty 6rs of
 .e4s. only two days afief the of admission they passed law 'lo establish collection distrie, n the State ot Texas." by which lbey created pon of de. livery of Corpus Christi, situated of the Nusces and being the point which the Texas custom. house. under the laws d that republic. had bec0 loca. ted. and directed hsfa surveyor collect the revenue should be appointed fJr that port by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. surveyor Seseccordingly nominated ad confirmed by the Senate, and has been since h Ihe performance o his duties. All these acts of the republic ol Texas and oi our Congress, preceded the orders for the ad vance ot our army 10 the cast bank 0t the Rio GEande Subsequently Congress passed an "es,Abllshing certain post roues," extending west 0f he Nueces. The country west ot that river Constitutes q pat of one of the Congressional disfsics af Texas and is represented in lhe Hvuse ol Represen tayes The Senators from that State weEe chosen by a egis aiare in which the country est of lhs river resenied-In view oi sll these faefs difficult o conceive upon what ground it can be main lhst
 in occupying the eounry west Of the Nueces with our | we invaded the territory of Mexico. Boin would have been still more difficult justify the Executive whose duty ii that the laws be faithfully execu
 ted, fl in the face of all these procsedngs both of the Congress vf Texas and of the U. States, he had as sumed ihe responsibility of yiclcng up the terrry wes, of the Nueces Mexico, of refa,ing 10 pro-
 eet and defend this territory and it's inhabitants inelu ding Corpus Christi we'll The rensind.r of Texas agsins, the threatened Mexican invasion.
 Dat Mexico hcTseH hus placed the which I she has waged upon the grounds that cur army occu- pied Inc intermediate territory between the Nueces and
 the Rio Grande. Her refuted preieniions that Texas moi in fact Independent Staic, but a Tebeous province, was obstiBately persevered in, and her avowed purpose in commencing war with the United States re-e0nquer Texas; and 10 Mtxi- authority the whole territory. Ihe Nue- only, but the Sabine. h view oi the proclaimed menances of Mexico to this effect, deemed my du- Y, as measure of preeaution and defence order army to occupy position on our frontier military posi- from which troops could best resist and repel any attempted invasion which Mexico nigh, make.
 Our army had occupied position at Carpas Christi west of the Nueces early August 1885, without complaint from any quarter Had lhe Naeces been re. garded the true western boundary or Texas fla, boundary had been passed by army many mouths before il advanced 10 the eastern bank of the Rio Gmnde. z /
 In my annual message of December las,, I informed Congress that upon invitation of both inc Congress and Convention of Texas, had decned it rroper to order a strong squadron to the of Mexico to eoneen- irate efficient military force the Western frontier of Texas, protect and defend the nhabstans against the menaneed invasion of Mexico. h bat message informed Congress that the moment the terms oi an- nexation offered by the Uniled States accepted by Texas, the latter became far part of try to make Il our duty to a"rd such protection and deeacei and tor that pose our squadron had been ordered 10 the Gulf, and army to take posiIon between lhe Nueces and the Del Nor,e ar Rio Gronds, and, "to rcpel any invasion of the Texan territory which nigh, be attempted by the Mexican foices'"
 It proper 10 lessen this orier, because soon af ter the President of Texas in April Isl5 had issued his proclamation converting the Congress of that public for the purpose of submitting to thai body the terms of annexation proposed 10 the United States, the Mexican government made serious threats of Bva ding the Trxan territory These threat became more
 imposing il became apparent, in the progress of the question: that the people of Texas would de- eide in favor of accepting the terms of xa,ien, and, finally they had assumed such formidable char ter, induced both the Congress and Convention of Texas to request that military force should be sent by the United States into her territory for the purpose of defending her against the threatened invasion would have been violation of good faith towards the people of Texas to have refused 10 afford the aid which they desred against threatened invasion. to which they had been exposed hy their free deter to annex themselves 10 our Union. in compliance with the overture made to them by the oiut resolution of our Congress.
 Accordingly, a portion of the army was ordered to advance into Texas Corpus Christi the position selected by Gen Taylor. He encamPed al thai place in August iss5, ard the army remained in that posi- | tion until the lItb March, lSa6, when il was moved westward and on the 2sth of that month reached the east bank of the Rio Grande opposite to Matamoras This movement made in pursuance of orders from the War Department. issued on the l3th jannary, iS46 Before these orders issued, the despaebes of our minister in Mexico transmitting the decision | of the Council of Government of Mexico. advising
 that he should not be received and also the despatch of consul residing in the city of Mexico-the for mer bearing date the 7h and the latter the 18th December, IS i5 copi of both of which ae-ompani
 ed my message to Congress of the nth May last l were received al the Department of State These