Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-12-12

reesablish authority
territory, cannot but be surprising 10 find Mr. de Bocanegra
1.-THE Secretary Of Foreign Affairs Of Mexico) 'companing
that for that whole period citizens OF the United States is
Government have been avorng the rebels Of Texas sup
plying them with vessels, ammunition, and money, as II the
war for the reduction Of the province Texas had been
sany prosecuted by Mckee, and her prevented by
these influences from Abroad In the despatch the Sc
creary of State arms that snce 1887 the United States
have regarded Texas independent sovereignty, much
Mexico and that trade and commerce with citizens Of
Government at with Mexico cannot that account be
regarded intercourse by which assistance and
given to Mexican rebels The whole current Of Mr. de Boz
canegras remarks In the direction the indie
pendence fTexas had not been acknowledged has
acknowedgedt acknowledged in 1887 against the
monsrance and protest Of Mexico and OF the
any importance, of which Mr. de Bocanegra complains flow
necessarily from that recognition. He speaks of Texas still
being integral part Of the territory Of the Mexican Repuh
c but he cannot but understand that the United States do
regard it. The real complaint Of Mexico, therefore,
Is, in substance, neither less than complaint
against the recognition Of Texan independence II may be
thought rather late to repeat that complaint quite Just
con6ae the United States, the exemption Of Eng
land, France, and Belgium unless the United Ssa4 having
been the FIRST to acknowledge the independence of Mexico her
self to re blamed for setting example for the recogn
ton Of that of Texas" And he added that the consu-
on public treaties, and the laws obge the President to
gard Texas Independent State, and its territory
part Of the territory of Mexico"
Texas had been Independent State, with an organized
government defyng the power of Mexico overthrow
conquer her for than ten years before Mexico
ed the present against the United States Texas had
given such evidence the world Of her ability maintain
separate existence independent naon that she had
been formally recognised SUCH not only by the United
States, but by several of the principal Powers Of Europe
These Powers had entered into treaties Of amy, commerce.
and navigation with her. They had received and accredited
her Ministers and other diplomatic agents at their respective
courts, and they had commissioned Ministers and diplomatic
agents their part the Government of Texas II Mexico
Notwithstanding all this and her utter inability to subdue
econquer Texas, still subbony refused recognise her
Ia less 90 on ac-
count Mexico herself had been recognised ndepcn-
dent nation by the United States and by other Powers many
years before Spa Of which, before her revolution she had
been colony would agree recognise her and yet
Mexico that time in the estimation Of the civilized
world and in fact the less independent Power be-
cause Spain still claimed her colony. II Spain had
nued until the present period to that Mexico
oil her colonies in rebellion against her. this would have
her changed the fact Of her independent existence
Texas the period of her annexation to the United States
bore the relation Mexico that Mexico had borne Spain
for many years before Spain acknowledged her ndepe
dence with this important difference that before the
ton Of Texas the United States consummated, Mexico
herself by formal act OF her Government had acknowledged
the independence of Texas nation II is true that in the
act Of recognition she prescribed condition which had
power authority to impose, that Texas should
herself other Power but this could not detract
degree from the recognition which Mexico then made Of her
actual independence Upon this plain statement of facts is
absurd for Mexico to aege petex for commencing hos
tties against the United States that Texas still part
her territory.
But there are those who conceding all this to be true
the ground that the boundary Of Texas
1.-The Nueces nstead of the Rio Gande and that therefore,
in marching army the east bank of the latter ver
passed the Texan line, and invaded the territory of Mexico
simple statement of facts known to exist will conclusive
ly refue such assumption Texas, coded to the Unit
cd ias by France in 1909 has been always claimed
tending tofhe Rio Grandc, Rio Bravo, This fac,
established by the authority of most eminent statesmen
period when the question well If not better under
stood than il is at present During Mr. Jeersons admins
Who had been ar
special mission TO Madrid charged, among other things,
with the adjustment boundary between the countries
note addressed to the Spanish Minister Of Foreign AZ
fairs under date of the 18th OF January, 1885, assert that
the boundaries Of Louisiana, oeded the United States by
France, ae the river Perddo the east and the river
Bravo e west and they add that the facts and pr
cpes which justify this conclusion satisfactory 70
Government TO convince il that the United States have not
better right the island of New Orleans, under the
sion referred than they have the whole district Of terri
tory which is above described"
Down the conclusion Of the Florida treaty. February
1872 by which this territory ceded Spaip the United
States asserted and maintained their territorial rights this
In the month Of june 1918, during Mr.. Monroes
Administrations information having been received that
Der foreign adventurers had landed at Galveston with the
avowed purpose of forming settlement IN that vicinity
special messenger dispatched bv the Government of the
United States with instructions from the Secretary of State
to them TO des should they be found there or any
other place north of the Rio Bravo, and within the territory
claimed by the United States" He instructed, should
they be found in the country north Of that river make
known to them the surprise with which the President has
possession thus taken, without authority from the Uni
ted States, of place within their territorial limits, and upon
which lawful settlement be made without their
ton He instructed TO call upon them to
der what national authority they profess act and to give
them due warning that the place within the United States
who will suffer permanent settlement to be made there,
under any authority other than their own. As late the
eighth Of July ls42 the Secretary of State Of the United
States in note addressed Minister in Mexico, main
tans that by the Florida treaty Of sl9 the territory far
west the Rio Grandc confirmed TO Spain. In that
he states that "by the treaty Of the twenty OF
February lsl9 between the United States and Spain, the
Sabine was adopted the line Of boundary between the
Powers Up to that period, considerable colonization bad
been effected in Texas but the territory between the Sabine
and the Rio Grande being confirmed to Spain by the treaty,
applications made that Power for grants Of land and
grants permssons Of settlement in fact made
by the Spanish authorities favor of citizens Of the United
States proposing emigrate 10 Texas in families,
before the declaration Of independence by Mexico"
The Texas which coded Spain by the Florida treaty
Of 1879 embraced all the country claimed by the State
OF Texas the Nueces and the Rio Grande The Re-
public Of Texas always claimed this as her boun
dary and in her treaty made with Santa Annan May 1885,
he recognised such. BY the constitution which Texas
adopted in March, 1886, senatorial and representative dis
trcts organized extending west of the Nueces The
Congress OF Texas the nineteenth Of December 1886,
passed An act to define the boundaries Of the Republic Of
Texas in which they declared the Rio Gande, from its
mouth its source I've their bounaryi and by the said
act they extended their civl and political jurisdiction over
the country up that boundary During period Of
than nine years. which interviewed between the adoption of
her constitution and her annexation Of the States Of
Union Texas asserted and exercised many acts of sover
eighty and jurisdiction the territory and inhabitants west Of
the Nueces She organized and defined the limits Of
ties extending the Rio rande She established Of
Justice and extended her judicial system over the territory