The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1847-12-31

existed outside OF the paper bulletins is-
saed from the ministerial palace Of Mexi
co, had consisted 10 invasions of Mexican
territory by Texas, and not Of Texan soil
| by Mexican forces.
| If Il am iD possession of an estate won
by my labor and enterprise, and yon liv
| ing my neighbor, il attn disposed to unite
my fortunes and attach my interests to
yours, would you be intimidated or pres
vented from alliance by the tn reats Of one,
who. by Ills profigacy and Encouragement
had fairly lost what once was his, but
whose whole title now consisted only in
the arrogance of bis pretensions and the
perlinacity of his claims9 And if persis
ting in our purpose and consnmmating our
union, he should proceed to pu, his threats
into execution, with which ought TO lie
the odium Of the hostile collision.
am not going here to argue the suf-
6ciency of the causes ia which the Texan
revolution found its or!gin-not because
do not believe them to have been sufi
cient. but because l have no need. go
no farther back than the fact of her In>
dependence, as all with which our gov.
ernmeut had TO do. Those who argue
against the Justice Of the war in which
their independence had its birth or the
validity OF their title to the domain which
r they conquered as Its dwelling place, may
{ run back with their analogi4s to The first
settlement Of the continent, aud arraigD
before this new court of the aboriginal in
> habitants New England the descend ants
: as the INSCRIPTIONS buccaneers of the AL
n legaanies, and every man who has the
+. blood of Boone in his,viens, as a Kentucky
0 desperate and marauder.
, But although the annexa tion Of Texas
0 aud The attending circumstances, are re-
. ferrel to BY many as the only causes in
9 which the present war found It's origin
= yet they were not the only ones, nor, in
r deed, those of most weight in making it a
y war of invasion on our part, after it had
s been commenced by the act of Mexico.
e say by the act of Mexico, which is the
Of case, notwithstanding the President has
e been charged with exceeding his powers
by commencing it himself.
If After the act ofannexation, Texas hav
a ing become part of the United States
as and the boundary between her and Mexi
CO being OF course unsettled, it becam,
Ar the first wish of our government to have
is this matter settled. There was tract oi
,e country lying between the Nueces ant
10 the Rio Grande about the title to which
N a dispute arose. Although this territory
It was well understood to have been within
sr the original limits Of Texas while State
!? in the Mexican confederacy, that her Sc T.
IN tlement and grants had extended over it,
e. and that her revolutionary arms had pen
e. etrated far beyond into the State of Sam
10 aulipas, YET still. as Mexico claimed it
our government, with a disposition te
to avoid rupture and secure pernanen
as settlement, agreed 10 leave the arrange
to ment of il to Joint commissioners appoln
D. led on the partof both governments. How
r. did Mexico receive this pacific prcposi,
es ton! She refused to listen TO it, and as
to insul tiDgly as arrogantly replied that she
n her claim, and Immediately proceeded tc
,y occupy aud hold it by military force.--
'e Under this state of fittings, then, claiming
he an believing this 20 be our territory
| WA 1u in
i, tight, in respect TO our own honor, than
10 move against her to expelI force witt
II force! Here was the first provocatiop
coming from Mexico; still the war had not
nc commenced. The first act in lie tragica
g drama was the capture Of Capsa ain Thorn.
We toms command by the Mexican forces
as Thus it was not only they gave the first
of provocation, but that struck the first blow
.! drew the first blood in the war that has
r. follow ed, war from the merited venge
" ance of which our mistaken leuiency, in
re opposition to Justice, had so long shielded
q them.
le The war, as ] before remarked, being
i thus commenced by her own act, we had
Is other scores TO settle with Mexico, than
in the South Western boundary. We now
u remembered, what we had SO often for
Is gotten and overlook ed on &C count of her
,e I'M ecilhy, the thousand cases Of wrong
J. aud injustice done our citizens within her
IS borders. We remembered that while we
10 we're the 6rstlo acknowledge her inde>
/. peDdence aud make place for her in the
id family of nations we had been the first
, and most frequent TO be insulled by her
,e arrogance. and wronged by her duplicity.
!. We remembered that whilst her citizens
!. enjoy ed among us all the privileges of our
d own, o0r passports were not worth Among
= | Ihem lie naner they were " riiienO We