Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1847-10-20

wandering population distant and that the te
. young Republic" ''o"' II
"a These letters may be found in the documents
NJ the House of Representatives, No. So ID sess;o
of the 9th Congress. N' ~ ''s'''o
, 3d. 1t appears, from this gentleman's researches
# 'hat The only reason why Texas was no, made /,
embrace california was a mere matter of conyen
; ience, and that she had determined what She WINS
about to take from the four provinces have mon
public. 9'"'s nc
|, have shown you what Mr. Morii,. the accent nj
our Government in Texas, reported to the Depart.
nent at washington, in regard to the question Of
,he boundary OF the new republic. Texas was. at
mat moment In the flush OF eytravauant cxu,,iop
Tor the victory of San Jaciuto which was won onI,
snort time before Mr.. Morfit arrived, and she man
iestiy thought she could assume wba, bound,rv
she pleased. In point of right, her dominion could
ohiy extend over the territory that had revolted.
SIu M'cm nad sustained itself against the force Of
neA'co tnat is to say the territory beonuinr
10 me old State OF Texas. Tamaulipas had not re-
vo''ed, neither had Coahuila, no chihuahua. nor
,'o" MEXICO, nor had any portion of these States
been conquered by Texas in the war The exten
sion oil her boundary therefore, over any part of the
territory belonging TO these States was mere mil
NY. Just as much as if Maryland were to pass an
ACT IN her Legislature extending the limits of this
! ota'e 10 the James river. And if Texas had cbo
sen 10 include California. as Mr.. Norit tells us she
thought OF doing her right that region would NOT
nave been whit less substantial than il was to the
Rio Grandc. "0
We may now come back to the treaty of annex
alton, and we shall be able to understand WHY Mr.
Denton and Mr.. Wright voted against it, The
language OF the st article of that treaty. so far as
relates to the cesson, is rs follows:
" he Republic of Texas, acting in conformity
WIN ,ne wishes OF the people and every department
OF lis Government, cedes to the United States all
ITS territories. TO be held by them in full property
and sovereignty"
Now, when this treaty came into discussion in
the senate, Mr. Benton took leading part, and
maze speech, which was very carefully studied.
ana which may be justly said 10 be DISTINGUISHED
ior It's ability. In that speech he uses the following
language:
I'm poor letter which lately published on the
subject of Texas. and in answer 10 letter from the
members OF the Texan Congress-, copy of which
was published without my knowledge, while the
original mas not yet come to hand in this Door let
Ter took occasion TO discriminate between the old
province OF Texas and the New Republic of'rcxas.
and 10 show that the latter includes cIiat ;cas j,cre,.
any Pat q ieraS, but part OF the present depart
meni and former province of New Mexico, and
parts OF other departments of the Mexican Rcpub
Nc To discriminate between these two rexascs
and TO show to my fellow citizens that took the
trouble to look at the Texas question before dec
ded H. and subjected my mind to the process of con-
sidering what | was about before | spoke wrote
as follows
with respect to Texas. her destiny is fixed.
vi course i, who consider what | am about always
speak oi texas as constituted At the time OF the
treaty OF 1919, and not as constituted by the Re-
pubic OF Texas. comprehending the capital and for
ty towns and villages of New Mexico. now and al
ways as iully under the dominion of the Republic
OF Mexico. as Quebec and all the towns and villa
ges oil canada are under the dominion of Great Bri-
tam 1t is OF this TeXas-the old Spanish Texas
oil which always speak and of her fate of the pre-
sent movement, her destination is to return Ia ner
natural poslion-that of part of the American u
nion.'
Il adhere TO this discrimination between the two
lcAas'S' ana now propose to see which of the two
we are asked by the President of the United States
to incorporate into the American Union"
He then read the first article of the treaty. which
l have quoted above; and. after some further re-
marks to show that The Teas proposed TO be annea-
ed, was that described in the act of the Texan Con
gress, he proceeded TO say
'From all this it results that the treaty before us.
besides the Incorporation Of Texas proper also in
c0rpoIates IN our Union the left bank of the Rio
GTande, IN It's whole extent, from its head spring
near the South Pass in the Rocky Mountains, to
It's mouth In the Gulf of Mexico, four degrees south
OF New Orleans, in latitude 20. 1t is grand and
solitary ricer,' almost without alluents or tributa-
RES. It's source is in the region of eternal snow
lis outlet in the cline of eternal flowers Its di
K
OOU. This Immense river second on cur continent
to the Mississippi only and but little inferior TO it i'm
length. is proposed TO be added in the whole extent
OF lis left bank. to the American Union and that
by virtue of treaty for the remuneration of Tex
as! Now, the real Texas which we acquired by
the treaty of 1903, and flung away by the treaty. OF
1919, never approached the Rio Grande except neal
It's mouth while the whole upper part was settled
by the Spanards, and great part of it in the veal
1854. just one hundred years before La Sale first
saw Texas All this upper part was then formed
into provinces, on both sides of the river, and has
remained under Spanish OF Mexican authority ever
since. These former provinces Of the Mexican
vlceroyalty, no,C departments of the Mexican Re
public, lying on both sides of The Rio Grande from
ats hedd TO its month. propose TO incorpo
rate so far they lie the left bank of the river
into our Union. by virtue Of treaty of rc-annexa
2 ton with Texas"
I Mr.. Benton then went ON to show what provinces
this line includes, their population, their towns, eli
/ ties, SC:
- "Ihese," ne says Gin addition to the Old Tex
as--these parts of four Siates-thcse towns anC
villages-thesc people and territory-these nocks
and hords-this slice Of the Republic of Mexico
t,co ho,tsa'm miles long and some hnnd,rds byodt
all this our President has cut off from its mothe
> empire, and presents to us and declares il is our,
until the Senate rejects it, He calls it Texas
= and the cutting off he calls remuneration Hum
! bOldt calls il New Mexico, Chihuahua Coahuila
e and Nuevo Santandcr. (now Tamaulipas,) and tho
y civilized world may qualify this nc remuneration by
the application of some odous and terrible epithct
In the course of the speech ne goes further, an,
. says: 'thc treaty, in all that relates to the bOnda
S ry of the Rio Grandc, is act cf ,mPaaitcd ont
= rare upon Merjco."
These extracts are made from copy Of Mr.. Ben
toms speech delivered in tho Senate of the Unic
. States ON the 10Th, lS,h and 2Oth Of May. 1874
u as revised by himself and published in the Con
/ orcssiona, Globe