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ed Mexico. Why IS this II the right bank of tbs
Rio Gronde is q part Of Teras? What is there
astounding 's.upe ndous' III statement that
our troops were moved from part of Texas TO
another before Mr.. Sliieli reached Mexico Does
Texas never dii righifully extend TO the Rio
Grande, and tina, the american soit' on which
Mr.. Polk announced that A me rican blood he'd
b en- she'd, really part OF Mexico
Eut hear the Union again
Cen. Tayor's good sense says Mr.. Clay.
prompted him to believe that ne ought TO remain
q: Corpus Christi Gen. Tayor's good
plaInptr.i him tn write to the War Department
ot the iih Of October. l-!5, adrising, if we
meant 10 claim to the Rio Bravo TO make for
ward movement to the Rio Grande. more than
three mouths before the order for that mcyeme at
was Issued
How etch-diy a bad cause involves its advo-
Gates, Gen. Taylor so advised ''if we meant TO
claim to the Rio Bravo" dI he What sort of
CHIN must il be, whe rcof our own comman-
der could speak in such terms' Must it not be
hard sort OF ..clan." TO 60 TO war upon
Bat Gen. Taylor said SO, and the Union
msstates him IN order 10 assail Mr.. Clay. W hat
GEN Taylor did say was this
1T is with great Difference that | make
dliN Su80t-StittI> Oh topiNo "tIiNil ~
come matter OF delicate negotiation; but
If orr Government. in setting The bonn
dary Of Teas, makes the line Of the Rio
Grande AN ULTIMATUM. cannot doubt
that the settlement will be or atty iacilira-
ted and fastened by our taking possession
at once of one or two suitable points on
or quite near that river. do
10, feel at liberty, under my instructions.
10
Grandc without authority from the War
Department
An uituratum.'' co you hear We had claim
ed TO the Rio Grande ia 1919. aud possibly at an
earlier day, but began TO march any
troops ,htier. We claimed Oregon up to 81 ?
40 and another large slice Northeast of the
present boundary of Maine. Claiming is an ca
sy matter, and there is no absolute need of being
modest about it, but to insist certain boun-
Diary at all hazards--to make it an ultimatum-is
very different affair. So Gen. Taylor. stand
ing at Corpus Christi, the most Western settle
ment of Texas, and looking across TO the Rio
Grande, a hundred miles away, with not sign
or shadow Of Texan possession or authority in
The whole distance, while Mexican settlements.
cultivation. laws, tr ops and custom houses, in
tervened, very sensibly said, If you really mean
| anything by this talk about the Rio Grande as
| the boundnrv-If it is not mere talk, and you
actually int nd to hare that River your bou ndary,
and stand the consequences, you might as well
establish some show of possession to give color
! 10 your ciaim.-Who can doubt it? Mexico must
have laughed at the claim of the Z 10 Grande as
: boundary without this. Her ne gociators would
say 70 ours-"Wky, sirs, you can't be serious in
"ths claim! There are our people cuitivatin 2
"ther farms east of the Rio Grandr, as their faith
GERS did a century ago. There are our troops.
"our civil au thority, custom house-what can
"you mean2' There Just way to give
color of right to the Rio Grande-and tina,
way was taken. But is not The Union in good
case when. on the strength of it's misstatemen
of Gen. Tayor's dispatch, it accuses Mr.. Clay
of laundering in his authorities and his facts