New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-12-09

art independent oil t1e OtGer MEXICAN lHlie-
States and OF every other power and doEin,oc
whatsoever snd proclaimed The sres. principle Of hu
man E5e-y that the sovereignty OF tie Sssc resides
or!-nsiy sad essentially IN tie general uisss OF the IN
Gividesls who compose il To the Government under
;ais Constitution. well that under the teceTs!
Constitution, the people OF Texas owed allegiance
EIniErsu:s from foreign countries including TIE Dea
Scsrss were invited: by the colonization lsSs OF me
Advantageous terms were offered 20 induce them 10
le,re their country SID Become Mexican c'azens'
This invitation vss accepted oy many 81 oE c'ss ID
tie rail faith tas II their new home they woud oe
e-aei 5v laws enacted BY representatives elected py
themselves sad tia; their lives, l5eF;r arc properly
would BE protected By constitutions! guarantees snlA
10 rno<e which existed n the republic they hs1 siI-
Under Government, thus organized they continued IN
ri the vesr 1885 when q military revolution BROKE OH
IL tie cir OF Mexico which entirely suoveriet me sec-
sra and state Constitutions and placed military dc-
tstor a: the hes6 o. the Government
.wee-iu- decree OF Congress subservisrt 10 tie
will of the dictator the several State Constitutions were
abolished and the States themselves mo e
departments OF the Central Government The people oil
Texas were unwilling 20 subcii; 70 Ibis usurpaton ne
sstarce 20 such tyraany became high duty IeNss
was fully a5soved al allegiance 70 TIE Central
Government of Mexico from The moment thst Govern
u;eni had abolished her state CONSTITUTION ahu N *
place substituted arbitrary and despocc Cen'ra GOV
erarlert
such were the principal OF the Texan revoIu.
ton The people OF Texas 81 determined upon re-
sistance snG few 70 arms In the midst OF these M
por,ant snd exciting events. however, they cie
not ouait 20 place their liberties upon secure
and pe-1ianen: foundation. They elected members
70 Convention. who. in the month Of March 1896,
issued formal declaration that their political con
nection with the Mexican ua;oin has forever end
cd and that the people Of Texas 90 now constitute
A FREE SOVEREIGN. and INDEPENDENT RETCBLTc and
are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which
properly belong 10 independent nations. They also
adopted for their government liberal republican Con
stitEtion About the time Santa Anna. then tue
dictator of Mexico invaded Texas with numerous ar
nv for the purpose of subduing her people and entorc
ing obedience TO his arbitrary and despoc government
On the alst OF April 1896. he was met by the Texan cat
zen soldiers and on that daT achieved by them the
memorable victory Jacirto by which they con
ouered their independence. Considering the numbers
engaged on the respective sides history does not record
more brilliant achievement. Santa Anna himself was
among the captive-
In the month May -a6. Santa Anna acknowledged.
ty treaty with the Texan authorities. in the most
solemn form the full entire ard fectndependence
of the Republic OF Texas" Il Is true be was then
prisoner OF war hu. il equally that he had failed
10 rc.conquer Texas and had met with signal defeat
that his authority had not been revoked and that by
virtue OF thi. treaty he obed MS personal release BY
il host.ities suspended and the army which had
invaded Texas under his command returned IN pursu
ance OF dis arrangement unmolested, 70 Mexico.
from tiie DAY that the battle Jacino fought
until present hour. Mexico has never possessed the
power 10 recoudaer Texas IN the language OF the sec
retary of state OF the United states IN dispatch to our
Minister in Mexico under date OF the sth ot July l-i
Mexico may hnv" chosen 10 consider, tid may stl!
choose TO consider Texas having oeen at all times
since So and still continuing, rebeious province
but toe world has been obliged TO take very different
view of the matter From the time OF the battle OF
San Jacinto in pri 1896 TO the present moment Texas
has exhibited the external signs OF national nde-
pcndencc Mexico herself and with quite as much sta
b!ty OF Government Practically tree and independent
acknowledged as political Sovereignty By the principal
Powers of the world. hostile foot finding rest within
her territory for six years and Mexico herself
retranins for all that period from any farther attempt 10
reesAblsh her authority over that territory. It
cannot but BE- surprising lind Mr. de Bocancgra cine
Secretary OF Foreign Affairs OF McXic0) complaining
that for that whole period citizens OF the United States
or its Government have been iavOrng the rebels OF
Texas and supplying them with vessels, ammunition,
and money the for the reduction OF the pro-
vince Texas had been constantly prosecuted by Mex
leo and her prevented ny these influences rom
abroad In the same dispatch the Secretary OF stlsc
sifrns that since eighteen hundred and thirty seven
th, United States have regarded Texas an ndepend
ant Sovereignty as much McSico and that trade and
commerce with citizens OF Government at war win
Mexico cannot on that account be regarded a. an IN
tcrcourse By which assistance and succor are given to
Mexican rebels The whole current OF Mr. de Bocsnc-
Cra's remarks in the same direction, as the nCc
psrdence OF Texas had rot been acknowledged II has
been acknowledged was acknowledged against
the and protest OF Mexico and most OF
the acts. OF any Importance, OF winch Mr de horAiesth
complains how necessarily from that recognition He
speaks OF Texas still being integral part OF the
territory OF the Mexican republic; but he cannot but
unders,snG that the United States do regard IT,
The real complaint OF Mexico therefore, is in substance
neither less than complaint against the re-
cogsition of Texan independence. II may be thought
rather late repeat that complaint and not quite just
10 conGue il 70 the United States 10 the exemption cl
England France and Belgium unless the nited states
having been the first to acknowledge the independence
OF Mexico herself to be blamed Tor setting an eN
ample for the recognition oil that OF Texas. Ana
he added, that the Constitution, Public Treaties
and the Laws obgc the President to regard Texas
independent state and It's territory no part OF
the territory OF Mexico Texas had been independ
ent state with an organized Government defying the
power OF Mexico 20 overthrow or rcconquer her
for more han years before Mexico commenced the
present against the United states Texas had given
such evidence 10 the world her ability maintain her
separate existence independent nation, that sie had
been formally recognized such not only by the United
states but by several the principal Powers OF Europe
These Powers had entered into treaties OF smity com
and navigation with her They mad received and
accredited her ministers and other diplomatic agents nj
their respective courts and they had commissioned min
ster- and diplomatic agents their part 20 the Govern
ment OF Texas liMeXico Notwithstanding all this and
her inability subdue rcconquer Texas. still
stubborny refused torecOgnze her adependentna
non, she the less that account Mexico her
self had been recognized MISREPRESENTATION by the
United states and BY other Powers many years before
Spain OF which, before her revolution. she had been
colony, would agree recognize her as such
and yet Mexico was at that time in the estimation
OF the civilized world, and in fact the less in
dependent Power because spain still claimed her
colony II Spain had continued until the present period
assert that Mexico OF her colonies in rebel.
hon against her. this would have made hcg ~ or
changed the fact OF her independent existence. Texas
al the period OF her annexation to the United states bore
the relation 70 Mexico that Mexico hid borne 20
spain for many years before spain acknowledged her
independence. with this important diftrencehat be-
fore the annexation OF Texas the United states
consummated, Mexico herself. by formal act Of her
Government had acknowledged the Independence of
Texas a nation. Tit true, that in the OF recogn
tion she prescribed condition which she mad power
authority to impose, that Texas should annex
herself any other Power but this could not dersct
any degree from the ognition which Mexico then
made OF her actual independence Upon this plain
ent OF facts il absurd for Mexico alege pre-.
for commencing hosties against the United States
that Texas is stll part OF her territory.
But there those who concedng all this be- true.
the ground that the western boundary OF
Texas Is the Nueces instead OF the Rio Grsnda; and
that, therefore, in marching army 10 the bank
of the latter river, passed the Texan line, and in
yaded the territory oil Mexico 4 simple statement OF
facts known exist VIII conc!usively refue such
assumption. Texas, coded 10 the United states by
France in l-03 mas been always claimed extending
west 10 the Rio Grands or Rio Bravo. This fact is e.
taolished By the authority OF most eminent states
men period VIXEN the question vel II not
better understood than i present During Mr. JET
ferson's administration Messrs Monroe and Pinckney
who mad been sent special mission 70 Madrid.
charged among other things, with the adjustment OF
BOUNDARY between the two countries addressed