Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-03-17

generous, Christian people of the United State
will give countenance to this egregious,palpa
BILE Misrepresentation of fact,th bold falsifca
e tion of history Shall it be written down il
: your public annals, when the world is looking
t on, and you yourselves know that Mexico, anC
: not Texas, possessed this territory to which
r your armies marched As Mexico had never
been dispossessed by Texan power, neither Tex
as nor your Government had any more claim 10
t it than you now have to California, that other
possession of Mexico over which your ail-gras-
ping avarice has already extended its remorse-
less dominion.
Mr.. President,there is absent to day Sena-
tor from the other size of the house whose pres
ence would afford me, as it always does, but
particularly on this occasion, most singular
qualification. alude to the Senator from Mis-
souri, who sits furthest from me, (Mr. BentOn)
remember, Mr.. President,he arose in this body
! and performed great act of justice to himself
and to his country-of justice to mankind, for
all men are interested in the truths of history
when he declared it to be his purpose, for the
sake of the truth of history, to set right some
gentlemen on the other side of the house in re-
/ spect to the territory of Oregon, which then
threatened to disturb the peace of this Repub-
lie with the kingdom of Great Britain. | wish
it had pleased him to have performed the same
good Offices on this occasion.
| | wish it had been so, if he could have found
it consonant with his duty to his country, that
now, while engaged with an enemy whom we
| have no reason to fear as being ever able to
check our progress or disturb OR internal peace
for the sake of Justice, as then he did for the
sake of Justice and the Interest and peace of
those two countries, England and America, he
| had come forward to settle the truth of history
in respect to the territorial boundary of Texas,
which our President said was the Rio Bravo
the '.Rio del Norte" as it is sometimes called.
| express the wish for no purpose of taunting
the Senator from Missouri, or leading him to
believe that | would draw his name into the
| discussion for any other than the most sacred
purposes which can animate the human bosom
| that of having truth established for l really
believe that is not true which the Senator from
Michigan stated yesterday, that the worst said
| in the Senate is that much might be said on
| both sides | cannot view it in that way
Much may be said ,much talk may be had on both
| sides on any question, but that this is dispu-
table matter, about which man could apply his
mind for an hour and still be in doubt, is to me
an inscrutable mystery.
| [ wish to invoke the authority of the Sena-
tor from Missouri. When about to receive
| Texas into the United States he offered reso-
luton to this effect
''That the incorporation of the left bank of
the Rio del Norte( Rio Grande) into the Amer
lean Union, by virtue of treaty with Texas
comprehending as the said incorporation would
do, Il part of the TeXican depaI tments of New
Mexico, chihuahua, Coahua, and Tamaulipas
WOULD BE AN ACT OF DIRECT AG-
GRESSION ON MEXICO for all the conse-
guences Of which the United S tate would stand
responsible
| beg, Mr.. President, to add to this another
authority, which | am sure will not be contra
dicted by any calling themselves Democrats
In the summer of 1914, Mr.. Silas Wright in
an elaborate address delivered at Watertown n.
York. said:
"There is another subject on which | feel
bound to speak word | allude to the PROPOSE
ton to annex Texas to the territory of this Re-
public. felt it my duty to vote as a Senator,
and did vote against the ratification of the trca-
ty for the annexation. L believed that the
treaty, from the boundaries that must be impl- |
ed from it, if Mexico would not treat with us,
embraced country TO aChich Teas had no
claim, orer ,chich she had neUer asserted juris-
dictioa and irhich she had no right to eede. On
this point should give brief explanation.
"The treaty ceded Texas by name ,,citkout an
effort to describe boundary. The Congress |
of Texas had passed an act decaring,by metes
and bounds, what was Texas, within their pow
er and jurisdiction. II appeared to me, if Mex |
leo should tell US, 'We do not know you've |
have no treaty to make with YOU and we were |
left to take possession by force, We MIST take |
the country as Texas had ceded it to us: and |
in doing that, or forfeiting our o,Ca honor, ace
must do injustice to .Herico. and take iarga |
portion Of .NeU .nerico The people of ,chich |
hare nerer 6een under the jurisdiction Of I'eras
This to me aUds an insuImountabIe barrier.-
couidnot place The country in that position" |
How did your officers consider this question: |
Whilei camp opposite Matamoros, being then
on the left bank of the Rio Grande, be-
tween the latter river and the Nueces, a most
respectable officer writes thus to his friend in |
New York:
SCAMP OPPOSITE MATAMoRos, April 10 1885, |
sour situation here is an extraordinary one.
Right ia the eaenys country, actually occuupy-
ing their corn and cotton fields, The people Of |
the soil leaUing their homes, land we,with small
handfal of men, marching, with colors flying |
and drums bearing, right un der the guns of one |
of their principal cities; and displaying the star
spangled banner, as il in defiance, under their |
very nose, and they with an army twice our
size, at least, sit quietly down, and make not
the least resistance, nor the first effort to drive
the inUaders off. There is no parallel to it.
Sir, did this officer consider himself in Texas
Were they our own Texan citizens, who, in |
the language of the letter, ''did not make the |
first effort 10 driUe The inuaders OFF, fit
had been Texas there, would that Sta consid- |
err invasion, or her people fly from your standard
"I'he people Of the soil tedring their homes p |
Who were those '.peopie Of the soil o. Sir,
they were Mexicans, never conquered by Tex
as, and never subject to her laws; and there
fore, never transferred by annexation to your
dominion; and therefore, lastly, your army, by
order of the President, without the consent or |
advice of Congress, made war on Mexico, by
invading her territory, in April, 1876.
Mr.. President, the Senator from Missouri |
was RIGHT. "The incorporation ofthe left bank !
of the Rio Grande into the American Union
was san act of direct aggression on Mexico"
as his resolution most truthfully alleged. We,
or at least the President, has attemptedto incor-