New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-05-15
Whit nud whore is Texa.


A few facts notorious undenable in Texas itself,
will settle the question of right to the presen, col
lision on the Rio Grandc and show that our troops,
md not the Mexicans, the actual and wrongful
invaders Our rulers at Washington have studiously
kept out of sight all data by which public
sentiment could reach fair conclusions and Mt this
moment the European press is treating the boundary
question with more geographical precision than our
home journals
Tho province Of Texas never extended TO the
Rio Grande; never ut any period has she either as
IN independent Republic, or Department Oh Mex
leo, exercised any act of sovereignty beyond the
Nueces. Tamaulipas. of which Matamoros is the
chief city, Coahuila and chihuahua all carry, and
have carried from the date of The Mexican conied
eracy, their Eastern line to the Nueccs Tbs river
has ever been the acknowledged boundary OF those
three States and as completely their line OF separa
ton from Texas as tho Potomac marks the line be-
tween Mary land and Virginia North Of them all
on both sides of tho Rio Grande, lice the immense
State Of Santa F6, with nearly equal TO Lou
isiana. Mississippi and Alabama; and this like the
frs, named three is, and has ever been, an ndepend'
cnt territory, as dis,nc, from Texas California.
The portion of Tamaulipas, Coahuila and chihuahua
lying East of the Rio Grende is almost uninhabited
but Laredo, and their few settlements the margin
Of the river are all strictly Mexican, and have never
been for an hour under Texan rule. What the
Washington Union means by that section of Texas
being formed into County. and represented IN the
Texan Legislature is unintellisibe TO those igno'
rant Of curious political fiction original with thar
body Itis worthy of explanation, Some of the
oof g. p,,r
and other Counties within the limits of the original
Province. were 90 depopuiated by the Mexican in
vasion Of SO that they would nor be entitled 10 Del
egetes AT all if a pro rata census were TO be the
standard Under these circumstances, they were
admitted to Congress on the score of geographical
extent and future Importance and treated in all re
spects as if they were inhabited districts. Treats
coters. and even less, have by this accommodating
spirit, sufhced to elect Member of the Texan Con
gross. Thus the score or two of families forming
trading depot q; the extreme corner Of this County,
(cQuat in extent TO State, sent Representative TO
Congress. The U MON forsets TO state, however
that twenty Mexican towns, also included in this
territory never saw the sg Of Texas excep, In cap
.ivi.y, nor Texan soldier citizen Otherwise than
~ their prisoner II forse.s too. that ;hese fifty
elxty tnOQf9nQ McAlCaus, WIN uANo icSlCSC III WnA
wa call Texas without ever dreaming of the fact srs
still under the Government, of Mexico, are ruled by
her laws and submissive 70 her officers. II these
twenty villages within the bounds of the Union
why has no mail route been established 10 them Z
And why is not our Army dispossessns the officers
Of Mexico from the positive sovereignty of our soil
instead OF threatening a city and blocksding por
which we dc not pretend to claim? five own by
virtue of resolution OF the Texan Congress, all The
territory this side Of the Rio Grande. then Texs,
and Mr. Polk have been renliss as 10 leave sbou,
sixty thopsaud of our fellow citizens unprotected
and perfectly under foreign consroll It. howe ver
something more than paper claim is requisite
se,,lenent. protection, purchase, conquest posses
sion, or the consent OF its people. is essential
clear ,ile then neither Texas nor the United States
has one. Ii Texas, up TO her original boundary
the Noeces-has acquired Alright to seifgoyefruen
by settlement, conquest. possession, or otherwise
she certainly has acquired, beyond that river, NJ
light Whatever.