Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-12-30

"Is it not surprising that one occupying the posi-
ton so exalted that Of the Presidency should far
forget his obligations to truth, to insert ina-
falsehood as that the Mexicans invaded Texas
and shed 'the blood of our citizens our own
soil!" Is there intelligent, candid in the
ton who WILL his conscience, say that the right
full boundary of Texas extended further than the N u-
eces? No pretends that the country between the
Nueces and the Rio Grande belonged to the Province
or State Of Texas previous to its revolt. How did
she acquire it afterwards BY purchase How much
did she pay for it By conquest and possession. Not
foot under the control of Texas. In what
way then did she acquire it Why, MIR. Polk says
she claimed it by act Of Congress previous to her
nexation 10 the United States Suppose, by the same
act she had claimed the whole of Mexico, would
that have made her title to it complete Certainly
not! And yet, II IS upon this miserable pretext that
Mr.. Polk has the audacity to make the declaration
contained in the above extract"
0trThe above infamous paragraph appears in
commentary recently made by the State Journal upon
the Presidents annual message. 1t evinces how en-
trey the Mexican spirit has obtained control its
editors. We oppose to its assertions and denials
facts derived from first rate Wing authority.
The following is extracted from long article in
late New York Courier and Enquirer. (whose princi-
pal editor gave its present to the Federal par
ty,) which was devoted to Mr.. Clay's Lexington
speech:
WHEN size NuleAlCOl uu 50 dSodll US, vi Tue lelt
bank THE Rio Grande, she became the aggressor
and when add 10 this the historical fact, that her
generals had positive orders to invade Texas, and
drive north of the Sabine, and actually pro-
ceedng to execute them-it is indeed a strange nfat
uatiOn; which denominates this war Of aggression
and conquest, and which, in the same breath, pro-
claims our invasion of Canada in 1872 of de-
fence The people do not understand IT. Their in,
stincts do not lead them to such conclusions They
know and feel that Mexico struck the first blow; and
told fbof1
her fresideS, her castles and her AFFAIRS, not zee
they feel that 1t might have been if we had not,
as in 1872 carried defensive into the enemy's
country and large is their benevolence, they pre-
fer that it should be it is, rather than that nee
should now be resisting her intended and proclaimed
invasion of our territory"
We do not feel certain that the editor of the State
Journal appreciate the force of these sentiments
and declarations, though coming, they do, from
one of the most influential papers on its own side.
They rather of too patriotic character to coin
eide with the feelings of our neighbor, who
nothing but wrong in government aud nothing
but right in that of Mexico.
But what will our neigbbor say to the direct and
positive testimony of Mr.. Clay himselfi On the Sd
of Arpil, 1929 in his speech the Spanish treaty,
Mr.. Clay said
"He would, for the present, briefly state that the
man who is most familiar with the transactions of the
Government-who largely participated in the forma-
ton of the constitution, and in all that has been done
under it-who, besides the eminent services that he
has rendered his country, principally contributed to
the acquisition of Louisiana, and who must be sup
posed, from his various opportunities, best to know
Its limts-declared, fifteen years ago, that title
to the Rio del Norte Cor Rio Grande) WELL
founded as it to the island of New Orleans"
More than twenty years ago, after the above avow-
al, Mr. Clay declared, the 18th of April, 1914, in
his4$ter published in the National Intelligencer:
''The United States acquired title to Texas, ex-
tending, | believe, to the rio del Norte by the
treaty of Louisiana. They ceded and relinquished
that title to Spain by the treaty of 1919, by which the
Sabine substituted for the Rio del Norte our
western boundary"
Now if these statements true, and certainly
the Journal will not dare dispute any thing said by
Mr. Cay,-then is the President fully justified in the
grounds taken in his late message If they be false,
then Mr. Clay, well the President, in the chasie
language of the Journal, is guilty of having told
''intanous falsehOod!"