Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1847-11-18

den, falsiiy, the utter absurdi,y, Of the p1e'ence
,ha, this War grew ou, Of Mexican .SPolia,Iiohs,
or wa. ins,iga'ed BY any ACT Of Mexico what 'a,.
ever
.-Ye, we will recall some testimony with
regard to ,ha, wan,on ac. Of Executive usurPa-
,ion, the march Of our Army to the Rio Grahde,
and the audacious assumption that Texas right
fully extended to that River. 5 -
Saying nothing here OF the conspiracies al
Washington and in Tennessee which organized
and gave success TO The Texas Revolution, we
will commence with 1886, when the battle Of
San Jacin,o had secured The Independence Of
,ha, ex,empore Republic. In August of that
year, Mr.. H. NJ. Mofi,, dispatched by Presi-
dent Jackson 10 Texas as agen, Of the United
States, wrote home TO our Government, that
1.-THE political limits Of Texas proper, pre-
vious TO The las. revolution, were the Nsuees
Riuer on the West; along the Red River on the
North the Sabine on the East; and the Gulf
of Mexico on The South"
[The facts here stated can be proved by all
the Maps, Histories. &c. ha, bear on the sub
ject bu, we choose 10 rely on The official iestl-
mony of our own Governments agent On
the 9th OF Angus, he writes again that
81, was the intention of this Go, ernmen,. [of
Texas,] Immediately after the Battle Of San
Jacinto, to haze claimed from the mouth of the
Rio Grande along that riuer to the 30th degree
of North latitude, and thence due West to the
Pacific |, was found, however, ,ha, this would
not strike a convenient point in California, ,ha.
i, would be Difficult, TO control wandering pop
ulation so distant, and that the territory now
determined upon would be sufficient for young
Republic" TSee House Document No. 35,
Oath Congress. Cd Session.
Thus stood Texas when, l343-4. she was
invited by John Tyler to re-apply for Annexa-
lion, with settlements on the Nueces, bu, MOI d
single hamle, or hu, on any portion Of the ter
ritory watered by the Rio Grande del Norte OF
any Of its tribu,aries-noi shadow Of actual
rule or authority within The valley Of that Rivet
Yet she claimed 10 be bounded by the Rio
Grande, and the Tyler Treaty actually described
he, as bounded By iha, River! Mexico; on the
other hafid, had settlements on both banks o.
,ha, River, more than hundred years old; heI
cusom-house a, ihe mouth stood on the eas
side of The River, and had never been visited
| by Texan authority. either in peaceful or hos
tile guise; and in The upper portion Of the val
lev her settlements, more than TWO centuries
old, extended many miles eastward of the Riv
er, including cities or villages Of 1000, 5000
and 5000 inhabitants, who had never seen
Texan. flag OF constable. The Treaty of An
nexa.on was overwhelmingly rejected by th
Senate. afef speech from Col. Benton ii
which be exposed The utter 0aselessness Of ,h
claim that Texas extended to the Rio Grand
-.--declaring that the cas-, bank Of ha, Rive
never was any part Of Texas---'ha, The CLAIM
set up by Texas, if maintained, would Gu, Of
from The parent country,
the capital and forty towns and villages o
New.Mexico, now and always as fully unde
the dominion of Mexico as Quebec and all III
towns Of Canada are under the dominion 9
Great Britoin"
7 Mr.. Benton closed his speech by of1erin
The following resolution: as e4
j Resolued, Tha, the incorporation Of the lei
bank of the Rio del Norle into the America
Union, by virtue Of treaty with Texas, com
. pretending, as The said Incorporation woul
, do, portion Of The Mexican departments G
New M xico, Chihuahua, CoahuiIa and Tamau
lpas, would be an an aet Of direct aggression
upon Merieo, for all the consequences cf wh'c
the United States could stand responsible.
To the same effect Slas Virgin. who Ii.
tened to the whole debate on the Treaty. OF Ar
nexation in silence, and finally gave his vo'
against ralifying il. explained himself to III
+, constituents in his Speech 8. Wa.erown. Je
: ferson Co. 10 the August succeeding as 10
lows:
Il felt il my duty 10 vote agains. the rs'ii
, cation OF The treaty for tho annexation. b
lieyed tha, tho treaty from tho boundaries hi
mus, be implied from i.-.-embraced a counts
10 which Texas had no claim, over which ST
: had never asserted jurisdiction, and which sf
(. had no righ. TO cede." ." |. appeared 10
Ithen"--.he conlinued-.-" il Mexico should le
US, we don't know you. We have no treaty
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