Litchfield enquirer., 1846-05-28

st seeing the American flag placed on the Rio Crande, portion of the Mexican Terr;torv,n
 Gen. Worth replied. that was a w0tisr Of tastes nOtsCiEtsiGndfng, aheye t sUOuIa re- Il ns0in."- -
 And this was all the satisfaction which Mexico could get either from General Worth or General Taylor. They were there by the "order of their Government" and there they should remain."
 | Perhaps, there are some who will deny that Gen, Taylor did actually encroach upon Mexican territory. On this point we introduce the incontrovertible facts con- tained in the following extracts of letter from the Hon, Luther Severence, M. c. from Maine:
 "The people on that river, who are near 1 ly all Mexicans, never submitted to Texan authority, civil or military. I know it is all included On paper in the western Con- gressional district of Texas, but it is actu- ally represented in the Merica Congress. Our revenue collection laws, too, as the President says in his Message of yesterday, are extended over it. If so there is strange confusion in our laws for we have also in force law allowing drawback of duty on goods imported from Europe or elsewhere, and carried over land, via. St. Louis, to Santa Fe, (which is on a small river emptyipg into this side of the Rio GTande.) This act is a positive acknowl- edgment that Santa Fe is not in the United States-a law, if I mistake not signed by President Polk himself. Moreover, the Santa Fe traders have continued up to this time to pay impost duties to the Mexican Treaaury, for both foreign and American goods thus carried over land and sold in Santa Fe."
 If Y" democratic" authority is called for, we here introduce the testimony of the Hon. Thomas H. Benton, whose word no dem:crat will dare call in question. In his speech in Congress, May, 1s44, in relation to President Tyler's "Texas Treaty." Senator Benton said.
 "These former provinces of the Mexican VicerOyalty, [NeW Mexico, Chihauhau, Goa huila and Tamaulipas,] n0,O departments Of he .Meriean Republic, lying o'a both sides ef the Rio Crande from its head 10 cts mouth, we now propose to incorporate, SO far as they lie on the left bank of the river, into our Union, by virtue of treaty of remuneration with Texas. These. in addition to old Texas; these pdrte of four Sates-these towns and villages -these people and territory these focks and herds--this slice cf the Republic ef .Merico, t,cO M0msasai miles i0ng and some hundred broad-ail this our President has cut off from its mother empire, and presents to us, and de- clares it ours till the Senate rejects it! He calls it Texas and the cutting off he calls re- annexation :! Humbolt calls It New Mexico, Chihauhau, Coahuila, and Nuevo SaHandar, now Tamaalipas, and the civilized world may qualify this remuneration by the annexation of some odious and terrible epithet Demosthe- nes advis d the people of Athens not to take, but to re-take certain city and in that RE laid the virtue which saved the act from the character of spoliation and robbery. Will it be equally potent with us? and will the RE preaxed to the annexation legitimate Me seiz- are of ftco MOusdnd miies of e neighbours don,inion ,cith achOm aDe haue freofses of peace and friendship and commerce? VIII it legit- mate this sieZure, made by virtue of treaty when no Texan .force-whness the disastrous expedition to Mier and Santa Fe-houe been seen near it aOithout being killed, or taken to
 he last mn" %
 "I wash my hands of all attempts to dismember Me .Meriran Republic by seizing her doninions in .Neac Meric0, Chihaula, Coh,aia, and Idnsau'ipas. The treaty, IN ] ALL THAT RELATES TO THE BOUNDARY OF THE RIO GRANDE IS AN ACT OR UNPARAL- LELED OUTRAGE ON MEXICO IT Is THE sEI. ZURE OF TWO THOUSAND MILES OF HER TER R1ToRY. without word of explanation with her and by virtueofa treaty with Texas to which she is no party"