The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-12-24

Il (Conciuded.)
\ The annexation Of Texas 10 The Unite,
i States constituted no jus. cause Of offene,
Ito Mexico. The prstext that it did SO !,
\ wholly inconsistent, and irreeoncilable with
we'll authenticated facts connected with The
i resolution by which Texas became indepsnd
ent of Mexico. That this may bs the more
manifest, i may be proper to advert to The
causes and TO tho history Of the principa
events Of that revolution.
Texas constituted portion Of the ancion
province Of Louisiana, ceded 10 The Unitet
States by France in the year 1903. In The
year 1919, the United Sla,es by the Florida
Treaty, ceded TO Spain all that part Of Louisi
i ana within the present limits Of Toxas; and
Mexico, by the revelation which separated
her from Spain, and rendered her an inde.
pendent nation, succeeded tothe rights oi
the mother country oyer,his territory. In
Elhe year 1924, Mexico established fedora
constitution, under which the Mexican re-
1pnblic was composed Of number Of soyer.
eIgn States, coniederated together in fed
eral Union similar 10 our own.
| Each of these States, bad its own Exccu.
tive, legislature and judiciary, and for all ex-
cept federal purposes, was as independent q
the general government, and that Of the
other Staes, as is Pennsylvania or Viroinia
under our constitution. Texas and Coshui-
la united and formed one Of these Mexican
States. The State constitution which they
adopted, and which was approved by the
Mexican confederacy, asserted that they
were "fice and independent Of the other
Mexican United States, and Of every other
power and dominion whatsoever;n aud pro-
claimed the great principle Of human liberty,
that "the sovereignty of the State resides
originally and essentially in the general
mass of individuals who compose it." To
the government Of this constitution, as we'll
as TO that under the federal constitution, the
people Of Tcxas owed allegiance
\ { The President recapitulates The induce
menis held out TO our. citizens by Mexico
to settloin Texas--ihe subsequent subver-
sion Of libeny,in 1885 by Santa Anna and
The. abolition ofthe federal and State Consii-
tutions, which caused, the revolution of Tex
as, consummated on tho 2Ist April, by the
memorable victory Of San Jaclnto, when the
dictator himsai was made capige-the hea-
~ made with szn'a Anna n which hs recog-
nized Texan iadepondance, andby which his
army returned ,iamolesled 10 Texas.l
Frou4he DAY that the battle Of San ]a-
cinto was fought until Tho present hour.
Meaico has never possessed The power to re-
conquer Texas IN the language Of the
Secretary Of State ~ the United States, in
despatch to our minister in Mexico. under
dltc of the eighth ofJuly, 1912, !" Mexico
may have chosen to consider, and NAV still
choose 10 consider Texas as having been al
all times since 1895, and as still continuing,
a rebellious province, but the world has been
obliged 10 take a very different view Of the
matter. From the time Of the battle of San
Jacin'o, in April, 1885, TO the present mo-
ment, Texas has.exhbited the same externalI
signs of national independence as Mexico
as herself, md with quite as much stability
of government. g
Practically free and Independent, acknow-
lodged as a political sovereignty by the
principal Powers OF the world, no hesiile 1
loot finding rest within her territory for six
or seven years, and Mexico herself lefraining
for all that period from any further attempt
to-re-establsb her own authority over that
territory, it cannot but be surprising 10 find
Mr.. de Bocanegra (the Secretary of Foregn
Affairs Of Mex!co) complaining that for that
whole period citizens of the Uuiled States,
or lis government, have been fayorng the
rebels Of Texas, and supplying them with
vessels, ammunition, and noney,as if the
war for the reduction Of the province of
Texas had been constantly prosecuted by
Mexico, and her success pre- yentedby these
influences from abroad"
The Secretary quoted urges the impro- !,
priety Of Mexico making the acts done k;y the
United States in consequence ef me recorni-
lion Of the independence sii Texas, a matter
Of complaint, wha.,e exempting Belgium,
England, and france, which had also recog-
qlzsd her Independence, made treaties and
exchanged diplomatic agents with her.
The President states thai as Texas had for
ten years maintained her independence in
defiance Of Mexico, and her independence
having been acknowledged BY that power,
with a condition which she had not the pow
sr to impose, il is absurd for Mexico to al
ege, as a cause of war, that Texas is still
,art Of her territory] "a.
Texas, as ceded, 10 the United States by
France in 1908, has been always claimed as
extending west to the Rio Grande, or Rio
Bravo. This fact is established by the atl-
horiiy Of our most eminent statesmen at a