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Rio Crande; that She had only few people stretching q
short distance up the bank OF the Nueoes rom th
gulf and amounting 10 ne-hundedh part OF he WEEK
Known nny thing but Mexican rule challenge the
the areais research and reading produce any pasag
Of s1aal mg and % MANY aistinet Misrepresentation
Certain am, it has nothing bke pnf'he IN at respec'
among all preceding presidential messages and for the
,hentley Of American State papers, and the character
our country hope Il never WI have. 90 not intend
tion although most OF the facts which l have adluced in
his REPUTATION sent by him in the documents accopa
uyng his message Congress But 10 absove him iron
tat greyous offence stu leaves him convicted OF an aoun
grossness Of Ignorance about matters on which he
ought have the fullest and most accurate information
which proves him totally incompetent to discharge the du
of his high place But in the folly stupidity and ms
OF his the country has much strong
and more depoable evidences oil the truth OF this popo
siton."
One more quotation and | shall be done. He says
s'There are modes of uerlng untruth hrst by
msstang the fact secondly by stating the truth in such
form as to produce false impression. Let us see H. m
this point he is not justly chargeabe in one or both
modes" | shall apply such test, and make no such
allegation against the gentleman from Kentucky. His
party zeal has caused in him most remarkable misdp
prehensron amounting almost TO halluclnaiion IN gen
lean of his intelligence and cando HIS errors are IN
expcable Some are so palpabe on the iace OF ms ;
printed speech, that all may see them Neither VIII !
the term misrepresentation towards hm' VINO uses II
so Literally to the President suppose HIM incapable Oh
it, The pleasant relations which exist between U.S. apar
from the rules OF courtesy, forbid 1t; and casting no
censue matter OF taste, admit hata new ana mum
gentleman Of such varied and profound learning and such
long and important political Notwithstanding as prom
nent leader OF his party IN tins hall ana the
good and great and wise IN polite. whch ne
might feel Justly called down from him upon the
President OF the United States !!
And as to his challenge to "Me of the greatest
research and reading produce any passage OF equal
length from any language ancient or modern having so
much and so many distinct Misrepresentation, pre-
sumo it is meant to be confined to that particular man
Ian, aI x,hpnx ha m
to common and illlterate people, would venture 10 say
that there "misaPprehsnsonS IN the contra
dieting passage than IN the passage h can
ments before me- for nearly every word, but can
not sustain the gentlemans doubtless accidental dlsor
ton of it, or his contradiction One very remarkable
and striking feature these two passages, rs this The
President Throughout combining himself strictly to the
country between the Nueces and the R,o Grande, the
territory question The one the invasion OF which is
said to have caused the He nowhere goes beyond
that, except in quoting Texas law, which extended
over that portion, and more and he could not qu3te
immediate position which he was then defending, is
very striking and remarkable that the gentleman
from Kentucky whilst quoting to. contradict this
lend lend guarded language which only applies as
far north as the source OF the short nyer
Nueces, to the head Of the long. river the Rio
an gnoamus, to look upon the map would see that one
river this side the mountains and was not longer ON
the map than mans forefnger; whilst the other came
more than long hands span Upon looking on the
Margin he would find rising SO deg north ati-
tude and the other beyond IS de or measured on our
Atlantic coast, a little north of ST. Augustine to the
neghborhood of Baltimore Whatever he most learn
ed men might think it must astonish ordinary man
to find when the President says we coded to SPAN me
country between the 'Nueces and the Rio Grande MT
D. says Ieras on the Rio GTande from ITS mouth TO ITS
source" Mr.. Polk says Santa Anna recognised 'Maf
pnr M p e el,ts Of E
meanng Rio s Grande5 Mr. Polk says Texa. exercised
'.along that entire line,' (ihe Rio Grande Mr.; Polk
says Texas (meaning west of the Nuece "defned coun-
ties far as the Rio Grande"-Mr D. says, ION tals
in those limits Nueces and Def Nore) Texas established
post offices, granted lands &c. and in the Congress and
convention were representatives who resided west OF
the NuecesMr d. expands this to cher people cluster
ing along the entire margin Of the RIG Grdnde and the
members of Congress and the convention resided IN the
country 'upon the Rio Grande;" Mr. Polk says that
acts of Congress mentioned make apparent that Con-
gress considered the Teas admitted extending rest o.
The Nueces" To Mr. Daviss vision this becomes "TeXas
up to the entire flow of that long river he Rio Grande
II "the man. to whom Mr. DAVIS aludes should ever
accept the challenge, think he would find little diff
Guilty finding the passage required But let us examine
the authority and see which is sustained on the main
Texas never did extend to the Rio Del Norte hat up
1886 geographical dyision no d'pomaf,sf no nation,
no man not epen Texas herself had erer set e posi-
ton that she extended to the RIO Grdndc any further
arest than the Nueoes"
Ishall not go over the beaten ground to prove that
every French and American dip omats and statesman did
claim this identical country only by the name OF Loul-
siana quite up the Rio Grande And that the question
was not whether it to the Rio Grande, but whether
the French settlements gave any claim at all to what s
now, and then lin Spanish parlance} Ieras AT that
day. as now between us and Mexico, the question was
not how far Texas extended west, but whether we had
right to Texas as whole by the OF Louisiana,
or Spain by the name of Texas. And Mr. DAVIS can no
where find the Nueces mentioned still less imagined
line between the Nueces and Rio Grande We claimed
not deny that claims would reach the Del
Norte if the settlements under which the CLAIM was
made had given any claim the body OF the present
State of Texas, but denied that La Sales settlement or
any other claim whatever gave US any rights w VI
Sabine she contended she making cesson and ex-
tending Louisiana further west than had previously
existed So far then as Texas claimed in the con-
troversy by the name of louisiana defy Mr. DAVIS or
.he most learned man." to find word in the long Dip
west had any other boundary than the Rio Bravo del
Norte Every French statesman, diplomatls and writer
claimed to that line. Every American did the same.
jefferson, Madison, Pinckney, Livingston, Monroe,
Adams--all hold one language. The French comms-
sioner, Laussatthe same who refused specially 20 ae
line OF which Mr.. Madison took possession from SPAN
against act of Congressthe same Laussat actually
delivered possession the Del Norte, above the points
in question Mr.. Madison says, January 81, 1904, to
Ar Livingston: "Wh respect to the western extent OF
Louisiana, Mr. Laussat held language more sahsfac-
tory He considered the Rio Bravo Del Norte as far
the 3oh decree of north latitude, as its true boundary
that side 90 Foreign Relations, SID The coun-
try claimed as a whole by France and ourselves.
The claim denied a whole by Spain Neither the gen.
where lind any division at the Nueces the imaginary
line set ND i'm this House between the Nueces and Rio