The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1847-12-31

Mexico did aot she'd the blood ofonr citi-
zens on our own soil.
This whole question. il viii be seen.
resolves itselfinto one Of terrilurial boun-
dary.
Did, al the breaking out Of Ihis war,
the territory between the Nueces and
the Rio Grsnde tDel Nortel belong to
Mexico ar to the United Statesl
Il did not belong 10 ihe United States.
The Republic Of Texas had no tit'e to il.
She had not even respectable claim to it.
She pretended 10 no such title when she
called Convention to form her Consti-
,uliou; for mol member was called to
that Convention from any portion Of the
territory bounding on the Rio Grande.
Nor when. in her Constitution. she ap.
poriIoned the Representation in her Leg
islaIure among the several districts of her
territory, did she enumerale any districts
lying upon the Rio Grande as entitled to
representation the Texan General AS,
sembIy, The wlole country on the Rio
Grande, and indeed The whole country
west Of the Nueees. exceptthe small set
Element ofSan Patrico, was exclusively
in possession ofihe Mexicans, until the
army of the United States marched into
it.driying beforeit the Mexican civil Off
GERS and the peaceful inhabitants. Tex
as having no title to the territory, the an
nexation of Texas to this Union could
confer none upon the United States.
We're peace to be made tomorrow on
the basis Of leaving things az they were
before the war, the territory between the
Nueces and the Rio Grande would still
constitute part oftbe Mexican States of
Tamaulipas, &c. eo
This state Of the fact is none Of our first
discovering, much less of our imagining.
We derive nearly all our informotion on
tho subject from the highest Democratic
authority. When the Treaty with Tex
as, by which she undertook To convey
TO the United States western bounda.
ry to the Rio, Grande. was depending in
the Senate, Mr.. Senator BENroN tligh
authority on the subieci) Indignantly de-
nounced it as an attempted fraud and
outrage.
81 wash my hands, said he, "of all
attempts 10 dismember The MericaR Re
public, By seieiag her domiaions in New
'McEico, CAihuahua, C0ahaila. and Ia.
'maNlipas. The treaty. in all that relates
10 Mebouadary qfthe Rio Graadr. is an
act Of unparalleled outrage on McDjco.
'h1thc seizure Of tioo Thousand miles of
hertcrritory, without word ofexplana.
zion with her, and by viuuo Of treaty
with Texas, to which she is no party"
Mr., BENroN, further declared that the
claim set up by Texas by the Treaty, il
maintained, would cut off "lhe capital
and forty towns aud villages of New
sMexico, now and always as fully under
the dominion of Mexico as Quebec and
'all the towns of Canada arc under the
dominion Of Great Britain"
MIR. b. closed his speech by Offering the
following resolutions;
Resolocd, That the cincorporation ofthe
left bank of the Rio dol Norte into the
American Union, by virtue Of u treaty
with Texas, comprehending, as the said
Incorporation would do, portion oflbe
Mexican departments of New Mexico,
chihuahua, Coahuia and Tamaulipas.
, would he an act ofdirect aggression upon
Mcrico, .fr all the Consequences ofwhicA
Tie United States would stand responsible.
To the same effect, that great Demo.
cratic leader, the Hon. SlLAs WRiGnT,
(whose late death has been so Justly la
mented by men of all parties who was
present during the whole debate upon
the Texas Treaty aud gave his vote a.
gaipsi its ratification, declared to his con-
slituents. in speech delivered at Water
town. as follows:
II felt it my duty to vote against the
ratification of tho treaty for the annoxa.
'tion | believed that the treaty. from
The boundaries that must be implied fran
~, embraced a country 10 which 7'exas
hal no claim, oeer which shohad neeey
asserted jGrisdiction, and which she had
ma right to ccde."
But many years befnre the date flhis
debate, the records of tho United States
had borne testimony 10 the true bounda.
ry Of Texas, In 1886 an Agent was
despatched by the President of the Uni
ted States Gen. JAoKsoN) to examine
and report upon the condition of Texns,
which had then established an indepen.
dent Government; and in his report, da.
lin August Of that year, he reported
that "the political limits Of Texas proper,
'preyiousto the last revolution, were lie
'Naeces Ricer on the wcsi; along the Red I
River on The north the Sabine on the
east; and tho Gulf Of Mexico ON the
south"
Atihe time ofthe consummatio,r of the
act Of the annexation, Mr.. DoNELsoN be.
ing the Charge d'Aaairs of the United
States to that young Republic, commuui.
Gated freely with his Government as to
the position Of things in Texas. From
his leticls we extract The following passa.
ges. showing what was the fact az 10 tho
limits Of the territory actually occupied
by Texas, even at that time.
Corpus Christi is said to be as heal.
thy as Pensacola, convenient place for
supplies. aud the MOST WESTERN POINT
NOW OCCUPIED ny TExAs." Letter TO Sc
cyetayg efiState. .Jaae 80, lS45,
"The occupation Of the country he.
tween the Nueces aud the Rio Grande,
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