The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-11
the speech of the gentleman from Kentucky, mir GAR

81 do NOT, Mr.: Chairman charge Mr.. Polk with promu-
eating iasehoods in this message butt do say ta
numerous and papabe Measurements of tnct, intentional
or unintentiona have characterized previous
presidential message Nay, more in number and gross,
preceding messages and that this paper that respect,
is entitled 10 but lille credit indeed will not make so
grave charge without snbstantiang 1t by irefragabe
'M Polk in his message informs us The Congress of
Texas the 10Th of December 1885, passed An act TO
define the boundaries OF the republic of Texas in which
hey declared The Rio Grande from its mouth 10 its source,
to be their boundary and by the said act they extended
their civil and political jurisdiction the country up to
The Tssas Which wa % BY the e
ofSl9 embraced all the country now claimed by the State
he ays The republic Of Texas always claimed this river
as her western boundary and in her treaty made win
asaa d IG the UaSed states BY France IN
1908 has been dlcoys claimed extending west to the Rio
important subjects, laid down by President Polk, in
one OF the gavest called upon to pro-
nudge to the world letus examine their truth
The Rio Grande, from its its mouth, is
two thousand miles in length and for that extent, accord
boundary of Texas France never ceed Texas to the United
states France ceded US Louisiana, and had commended
sppi its mouth in the Gulf embraced the Spanish prov
ince of Texas, and extended rescard Of ii to the Rio
Gnnde, and run up and comprehended the country upon
that river high The boundary Of New Mexico The
Spanish province Of Tansul,pas lay along the Gull OF
Nneces, and included Corpus Christi. Coahuila the
next pryinee Of Mexico above which also lay principally
the Nuece and bounded section of this stream above
Tamanpas The province of New Mexico likewise spread
both sides of the Rio Gande, but the larger portion OF
it, territory and population lay of that river France
asserted that Louisiana extended the lower Rio Grande
comprehend the portions of the Spanish provinces of
Tamau pas ard Coahuia, lying between and the Nueces
but she up any claim whatever any paro New
Mexico Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico and all her
principal towns of the Rio Grande and neither
France the United States, holding under her by treaty
dreamed of pretenson them, single foot OF
Mexico On the contrary, both these Powers conceded
that the eastern boundary of New Mexico that
the boundary Of louisiana So far as these
facts are geographical the President of the United States
might have learned them from any old atlas or geography
so far they diplomatic, our own State Department
would have afforded him ample and authentic con-
frnation of them. Partial information those points
our late Charge dAfaircs Texas letter to Mr.. Blu
chanan dated July II, 1885, and which Mr. Polk sent with
says. The boundary of Texas, defined by her statutes
up the Rio Grande from its mouth in the sen to its
New Mexico Above the point on the Rio Grande, where
it New Mexico there has been no occupancy by
Anna 1885, after his captivity and with the authorities
OF Texas geographical division, no diplomas no ma
Their than the river Nueces In 1852 France ceded
Louisiana Spain, and she receded it to France In soo
All the country during the intervening period OF twenty
eight years, being owned and possessed BY Spain she st
adhered and maintained the old and undstnrbed bound
airy between Texas and the then ntendency OF Santander
be the Nueces and that above and to the west q ha
extended only to the eastern line of New Mexico France
never had settlement nor maintained her laws or urls
dction in the valley of the Rio Grande aud the only peo
pie who ever inhabited and the only authority ever opeyea
or known in that country was Spanish Win great ioce
exclusive possession, commended that Louisiana did not
reach the Rio Grande When the United States eeted
Texas to Spain in 1872 it was not the country put mercy
their old. everdispued and er-possessed clam to ~
and that without any 9@sndY and Is without psden pa sy
Is aras which coded to Spain by the orr & 'ssa
of Texas befrecn the Nneces and the RIO Grande the SANTA
Fe country and ALL"
Again: at page ID, says Mr.. DAVIS:
But ask the especial attention of the committee to this
oun in MIR pn1 20 mas
"'rhe Texas which coded to Spain by the Florida
treaty oIsis embraced all the country nov claimed by the
republic of Texas always claimed this river as her
in ap ga he in hsf as se B
the constitution which Texas adopted in March, 1885,
ssaa Snd f on
the 10Th OF December 1886, passed IAN act to define the
the Rio Pa0s from Of to ney be
their boundary and by the said they extended their
purng of over ae mne Years which
INTERVIEWED between the adoption of her constitution and
asserted and many of sovereignty and urs
cton over the territory and inhab'tants west OF the
extending to the Rio Crande She established courts of
Justice, and extended her judicial system over the territory
also postofIices and post roads in it She established
land office and issued numerous grants for land within It's
elected to the Congress Of the republic and such
before the of annexation took place In both the Con-
the terms of annexation to the United States proposed by
our Congress, We're representatives residing west OF me
Nueces who took part in the act Of annexation itself a a
the Texas which, by the of our Congress of the 2sh
Of December 1915 admitted Of the States ofon
Union That the Congress of the United States understood
the State of Texas which they admitted into the Union to
extend beyond the Nuece is apparent from the fact od thai
admission they passed law establish collection dis
ic in the Stale Of Texas by which they created port Of
delivery Corpus Christi situated west Of the Nueces
and being the same point which the Texas custom
under the laws Of that republic had osen .boSS be-
appointed for that port by the President, by and