The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-10-08

We submitted to our readers, in our last evenings pa
per, the best authorities, and the detailed arguments,
which we have collected on the boundary of Texas We
lay before them condensed summary of these points,
under another aspect. 1t has been often shown by
from the letters and speeches OF Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams,
and Henry Clay that they repeatedly declared the Rio
GTanle to be the true boundary of Texas, and
title up to that river TO be clear to New Orleans
itself Mr. Clay not only affirmed this in 1920, but
affirmed it in his letter of April 1914. We say further,
in the controversy between Mr.. Adams and Don Onis in
1918, the former insisted that Texas to the Rio Grande
as part of Louisiana-it was delivered to
by the French commissioners in 1884, and received
byus Mr.. Ons, the Spanish minister, claimed it
part OF Spain; but whether Texas French or Span
sh, it admitted on both sides that the Rio Grande
the boundary of Texas far to embrace the whole
region between the Rio Grande and the Nueces. In
1885, Texas when she declared her independence and in
her first well her last constitution, set forth the Rio
Grande to be her boundary. Santa Anna and all his
generals formally acknowledged it by solemn treaty
in 1885 Texas has hal organized counties there or
many years before annexaton she granted and surveyed
lands there's she exercised her military power there
but what is stronger through the courts and Judges at
y
service of process there in civil and criminal cases. and
executed there DEGREES of Great Britain so far as
regards the country west of the Nueces has long since
formally acknowledged the Rio Grande as the boundary
Texas, by calling upon Texas when republic, to con-
firm grants of land titles to individuals for part OF
this very country; thereby admitting the sovereignty OF
Texas the territory and directly regulating that OF
Mexico Such the state of the when final
" annexed Texas in December, 1915 and in that same
month, and long before gave orders to advance
TO the Rio Grande, Congress, by unanimous vote, (the
bill being reported by John Davis, the wing senator from
Massachusetts, passed law exercising jurisdiction ouer
tbs very country, establishing custom house west OF
the Nueces and customhouse district embracing this
very territory between the Nueces and the Rio Grande
10 sum up the case, France, under whom we claimed
always acknowledged the Rio Grande the boundary OF
Texas. Spain, under whom alone Mexico claimed al
ways acknowledged the lower Rio Gande the bound
airy OF Texas Jefferson, Madison, Monroe Adams and
Clay always affirmed the Rio Grande be most clearly
the boundary of Texas Texas claimed always and
exercised military power, granted and surveyed lands
organized counties there served process received votes
and exercised civil and criminal jurisdiction there Great
Britain formally acknowledged the Rio Grande in 1871 as
the boundary OF Texas. Our Congress, by unanimous
vote, also recognised it in December, 1916 and carried
our laws and sent custom house officers there and
yet the Mexican wings would have us now give up TO
Santa Anna all the country west of the Nueces Wo to
the statesman who suggests the disgracefu surrender
Better let him abandon the flag of his country and rally
with some new legion of traitor, and deserters 10 give
our Gallant soldiers in Mexico in the language of Mr.
Corwin, "hospitable graves"