Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1847-04-13
as THE RIO GRANDE THE BOUNDARY .

The above question appears in a late number
Of the Jeffersonian, accompanying report made
by the committee of Foreign Affairs Of the
House of Representatives of the late Congress
The editor of the Jeffersonian, speaking Of the
report saws: THE following is the report Of the
committee OF Foreign Affairs of the late House .
of Representatives. We ask for it perusai. 1t
seems to us i, will satisfy any reasonable man
The objec: Of the report was TO sustain the pre-
tended title of Texas to the country between /
the Nueces and Rio Grande, and TO DO this IT ,
makes bold and reckless assertions without pro-
ducing any evidence. The report says "No part +
of the ground between the Nueces ana the
Grande was Mexican soil" In order to de-
ternne how much credit is due to this assertion,
and others equally bold and reckless, with which
the report abounds it is necessary to look at the
characte OF lis author The report was written
and presented TO the House by Charles j. Inger-
soil of Penn. Chairman Of the Committee OF
Foreign Affairs This same Charles j. Inge rsoli
was chairman of the same committee IN the 2oth
Congress On the first day of May 1871, Mr.
Inccrsoll, as chairman of that committee, pub
lshed a state nent which he had prepared as
report from the committee on the subject of the
annexation of Texas. We give below some
quotations from that report, to show what were
Mr.. IngersoI's opinions at that time, of the bonn
Diary between Texas and Mexico. He says:
mature has settled the question OF boundary
Admirable initary mountains, rivers ana des-
crts, uuinhaJtable and almost ifnpaSSiDic wastes
separate the United States from Mexico; the
same which have fortified Texas from her as
saulls. Beginning at the Bay of Nueces on the
Gulf Of Mexico, and foil lowing the river OF that
name north till it reaches the mountains OF Ana
4 wilderness spreads south
Brazos Rio Grande> by which the magnificent
/ and stupe ndous TRANSPORTATION of North Amer
lea terminates the rich valley OF the Mississippi.
/ The Sabine the Brazos, the Colorado, with all
their tributaries flowing into the Gulf OF Mexico,
are natural parts of the United States The
| Bravo, (Rio Grande) watering the Mexican soil
from Santa Fe to the Gulf, with the InestInlabie
salines the coast south of the Nueces are as
naturally Mexican dominion. BY any other al
!otment both countries are Displaced
In the same report Mr.. Ingersoll says:
| 1.-The Republic of Texas, disposessing Mexico
! of all pretension to the country between the
Sabine and the Nueces, and protfering IFS resto-
ration to the nited States seems 10 be q pfovl-
Dental dispensaton for the harmony and tran
guilty of all three.
1t will be seen from these extracts, that Mr..
Ingersoll in that report, assumed the ground
! broadly, that Texas extended only west TO the
Nueces, and that country between that river and
the Rio Grande belonged to Mexico. At the
conclusion of his report was appended the fol-
lowing resolution, which he desired the House OF
Representatives. to adopt.
..Resolyed that the annexation Of the Repub-
| lie of Texas, as far the river Nueces to these
United States-of which they were once part
with promise of political incorporation. Will De
natural and beneficial for both
} This same Charles ]. Ingersoll made speech
in the House of Representatives. in Feb. 1919
in favor of the annexation of Texas In tina
speech in speaking of the boundary between
Texas and Mexico. he said;
.sThe stupe ndous desert between the Nuece
\ and Bravo (Rio Grande) rivers are the natnra
boundary between the Anglo Saxon and tn
Mauritanian races. There ends the valley o
the W est There Mexico begins. w lille peac
is che rished, that boundary will be sacred. No
till the spirit of conquest RACES VIII the PeoPi
: on either side modest mix with each other
These were the opinions of Mr. lngersol 4
4 1874 and 1915 in regard to the boundary betwee
= Texas and Mexico. At the time these opinion
;, were published, no war with Mexico EXISTED
and Mr. Iugersol had motive or inducemer
i to state falsehood or persert the truth I'll
;. then believed that the Nueces river was the ives
u tern boundary of Texas, and that the countr
81 between that river and the Rio Grande beionge
p TO Mexico Now he presents a report whic
and which asserts that Texas extended TO tn
re Rio Grande, and this report the Jetfersona
o. furnishes as evidence of our title to the III
Graude whichswill satisfy any reasonable man,
&. 1t "will satisfy any reasonable man TN
ne Charles j. Ingersoli is wholly destitute OF trui
and honesty.
The motive which induced Mr.. Ingersoll
:" make hi. last report, stamping with falseho'
: his previous declarations, is easily understood
- Those declarations were cited as evidence again
the Administration. TWAS desired by Mr. 20
p that they should be repudiated by their authe
nd and accordingly the report published in the ia
- fsrsouian was prepared by Mr. Ingersoll for +
n. purpose But it is not 10 be supposed that Al
eta man would thus prove himself a liar and be gu
gle tv of so base an act of self stulihcation wiho
iea some reward. Mr.. Ingersolt was promised
reward, and if he has not received if. it was
..d the fauI, OF the President. whom he attempt
out to sustain Shortly after his last report v
made, the Pres't nominated him 20 the Senate
. Minister TO France, with an outfit Of nine thc
oo, sand dollars. and salary of nine thousand mo
H.. ~. S.n,.e although it contained major