The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-12-17
From Hills Now Hampshire Patriot
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From Hills New Hampshire Patriot
ApoiogiEins for tho Mexican country.
The Nashua Gazette having said that 'the federalss
were very wothly employed in calculating the dollars
and cents il is costing TO defend the country against an
aUading enemy" his little neghbor of the federal Tele
graph flies into towering passion hereat pronounces the
Gazette editor liar, and hus AT his unfortunate head
nearly half column OF "chps and pordge," from which
we quote the following as sample;
SD stuc that the administration setnp the preence hat
we owned the soil TO the Rio Grands but Il false
one. 1t was claimed by Mckee, and her claim was sub
santuted by mass of corobonting testimony. At the
very best was disputed territory and the first hostile foot
planted there A,poieaa foot And yet the editor
talks of defending the connty against iarang enemy"
"The pretence that we owned the soil to the Rio
Grande was false one," was III Did not TeXas-heT
people being tanpled upon and deprived of their rights
BY Mexican trants-hght for and obtain her indepen
dence as nation, equally with the United States Let
your own candidate Tor the next presidency Daniel Web
ster answer this question While Secretary OF State,
1872 he said in his reply to Bocanegn that from the time
Of the battle q San Jdento, Apra, 1896, 10 The present
tonq Independence as Merfoo herself and nth quite
mua aabHay q goreTnmentj Prdet'edHyJrse and inds
pendent acknowledged as P0ltioI Sovereignty BY he
principal pourers Of The pord hostile foot finding rest
Dhn her territory for Sr years, and Herieo
herself retroning for all that period from any further at
tempt 10 re-edbh her ocn authority ouer that country"
Here we have the independence OF Texas acknowledged
by Daniel Webster IN 1872 however much disposed he
and his federal supporters may be to deny il now, while
apologzing for Mexico. 1t was also, By treaty,
knowledged by England, France and the United States
Very WELL so far. And now what was the southern
boundary of Texas In 1903 was purchased by the
United States together with Louisiana, from France
In lsls It was coded to Spain when acquired Florida
That the RIO Grdnde was the southern boundary was
believed by Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Henry Clay,
and J. Q. Adams. In 1918, Mr.. Adams Secretary Of
State-whie corresponding with Don Onis (the Spanish
MINISTRY relative TO the acquisition of Florida and the
Texas cession-declared that 'he claim OF France ION
Texasl always did extend to the Rio Bravo" or Grande
or Del Norte; and again that the territory of Texas
always claimed by France las being within the bounds
of louisiana" &c, Again, Mr.. Clay asserted in his
Raleigh letter, in s4I that 1.-The United States acquired
title to Texas extending to the Rio del Nore, by the
treaty of Louisiana"
So much for American authority. Now for Mexican
acknowledgment At the battle OF San Jacinto, the
Texans took Santa Anna, then President and supreme
dictator OF Mexico prisoner He is said to have begged
his life his knees The Texans released him upon his
offering to recognise the independence of Texas, and
signing treaty to that effect which acknowledged the
RIO Grande as the boundary between the two nations.
This treaty also confirmed by Filisola another
Mexican general and, in consequence the Texan Gener
al Rusk permitted Flsola TO retire with his army be-
You'd the Rio Grande. In 1874, Gen. VOL, another
Mexican commander, issued his proclamation from Mer,
commanding the MeNcans on this side of the Rio Grande
to retire to the right Tor lower bank and denouncng
every individual who should be found this side OF
that rver ga favorer and accomplice of the usur-
Texansl of that part of the national territory and
Now, all this mass of proof that the Rio Grande pas
tie boundary tchen e first aeqred 1eras by he Pur-
chase Of Louisiana in 1903, and That ras considered The
boundary BY the Merioas themselves, up to the time Ter
as BY her olrn consent freely gtuen, became ANNEXED 70
the United States, would seem to be enough to satisfy
any reasonable man of any party But not with the
little Mexican editor of the Nashua Telegraph. Ii
would seem to be sufficient in his eyes, why we
should give up the country between the Nueces and Rio
Grande that at was claimed by Mexico and her claim
was substantated BY mass OF corroborang testimony
The public, however is not informed what this mass OF
corroboratng testimony" s Perhaps is nothing better
than the p diri of federal orators and writers
the United States, who have taken sides with the Mexi
cans from the outset, and upon whom may Justly be
charged the whole responsibility of the present war; since
there is not the slightest to believe that the Mex
lean army would have invaded Texas and attacked
General Taylor at Pao Alto, had not been for induce
nents and sympathy held out here in the United States
by the factions federal opponents TO government
Again the Mexican ''caim" which our little waspish
neIghbor attempts to defend was not confined to the
country between the Rio Grande and the Nueces Their
claim extended to the Sabine e wesern bound Of Louis
fana) and comprised the WHOLE of IerdS, as can be
proved by official Mexican documents. In this view of
the case and far the assuming pretensons of the
Mexican authorities concerned, the United States
were much nvaders after army had crossed the
Sabine after it had arrived the banks of the Rio
Grande ..
Wouldn't it be well for the Telegraph, and its fed
eral contemporaries, while they defending the Mexi-
"caim not to stop at throwing away one-third OF
Texas, but go the whole hog" and give the whole of il
to Santa Anna and his satellites w.
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Important from Paris.
CHARLES GAUTIER has the honor to inform the citi-
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