Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1847-03-18

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Was there ever more barcTaced attempt
at deception? If these demonstrations
at Corpus Christi give Texas any title 10
all that valley, certainly Mexico will be
a hundred fold stronger. She has more
shan ten post Offices to on! one-finy
courts, elections and magistrates to our
one-ten representatives to our one
Why is not her title ten times stronger
than ours!
The message insists that the RIO Grand
from its source, is The true western boun~
Diary Of Texas Is the President aware
what dilemma his reasoning puts my
honorable friend from Texas, Mr.. Pills.
bury. He would put sixty thousand
Mexican constituents into his Congress
| Ional district And would I'D Use the
asiule eatcchiscr from Tennessee, (Mr
Barclay Martin,) instead Of asking as he
did, my Wing friend from Maine, Mr.,
Severance, whether he was a Representa-
tive of Mexcans or Texans on this floor!
Ask him if he is not tbs Representative
| OF BraZos, Dolores, Loredo, Taos and San
ia Te And sir, have been astonshed
at the silence of my friend from Texas,
while sixty thousand of his constituents
have been slandercd on this hoor-hed
up as 'lreacheTous, perf'dious enemies Of
their country, worthy Of being conquer
ed by an armed force, sworn into new
allegiance, and new tribunals placed ov-
er them. And yet, amid all this obioquy,
the dumb Representative opens not his
mouth in the defence of his constituents.
A Laugh.
But, Mr.. Chairman, will DO justice to
the member from Texas, between whom
an! myself there has been good under-
standing He is not the Representative
Of Observation-Disclosures never votc, for him
he would nave hazarled his head to
have attempted stump speech in all
that valley. No friend of his would have
dared 10 have opened II ballot box for
him. 1t is the President and not the gems
lleman himself, that places him in this
singular prcdicament. But the message
itself becomes suicidal before it Closes
1t incautiously admits these places wero
in Mexico and not in Texas. Speaking
if the achievement Of our arms during the
past year, he slys-' We have acquired
military possession OF the Mexican Prov
vinccs, New Mexico, New Leon, Coahu-
lila, Taumalipas.' Strange acquisition. if
we owned them before. Again he says,
The province (mrrk the cxpression)
the prorince Of New Mexico, with Santa
FL its capital, has been captured without
bloodshed.' All Santa Fe, then thirty
miles this side the Rio GraDdc, is the cap.
ital OF Mexican province, instead of
city of Texas or the United States -
Strange capturing, indeed, TO capture
inhabitants over to new allegiance, putt
ting them under new chicftain. Mr..
Chairman,I am. sick in pursuing this at
gumcnt. Truth sir, is always consistent
WIFI 'tsvif -~A:io "ilninv national or pcr>
sonal, j. hard 70 doyetail into smooth
work.
Well then, as to title by conquest or oc-
, cupation, is not the proofal on one side :!
| Can Texas show one scrap of legitimate
: evidence by either Did she not attempt
in 1889 and 1912 the unfortunate expiGi-
tiops Of Mier and Santa Fc Expeditions
which Mr.. Benton called disastrous =
Wero not these for the very purpose Of
conqucring this territory which Texas
had never occupied! And was not every
man in the two expeditions cut off, either
killed Or taken prisoners Where then
the .itle by conquest Mexico is still
left in her three hundred years undistur-
bed occupation.
The President, aware that his title by
conquest or occupation might prove vul-
neroble, makes an attempt 10 strengthen il
by treaty This is his last resort for
tt!c. | will examine that in moment
and then leave him.
He says that, in May, 1885, Santa An
ma. by treaty in tho most solemn form,
(mark the expression) recognized the in
dependence of Texas, with the Rio Grand
for it, boundary From that solemn
treaty Mr. Polk argues our title. Oh
what II sloop Of dignity! VIVA, a drsfs
on the credulty nj the people! Why did
he no. give the attending facts that all
could judge Of that mos! solemn treaty!
, They are thesc-Sauta Anna, in 1885, en-
gagged the Texans in battle, was d 'fea-
, ted, put 10 flight, chased up tree, or tan>
: gled in the deep grass was made prisoner
= loaded with chains - trembling and
coward like, &c sues for nIrrcy, begs for
: his lie amid the Infatuated soidery,
makes preliminary agreement or trea-
w. ccuiug TO Texas all east of Tho Rio