New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-17
4 Diniculf snarI.

A Washington correspondent of the Herald
thus owns up to the perPlexity in which the
Federal Administration is involved by its concur
renee in the impudent ialsehood that the Rio
Grande was throughout its course the rightiul
Western boundary OF Texas
With regard TO New Mexico a distinct territorial
dispute remains To be settled IL Is this Does the ter
rtory OF Mexico OF the Rio Grande and including
santa Fe, aud 100000 square miles OF territory more
less) belong TO Texas Texas clsims lit
admitted belong Texas in the resolutions OF
Annexation but Texas never conquered it-Her0 Oc-
csD,d inch Of snd neither the authorities OF the
United States nor Of Texas exercised. pretended 10
exercise, any actusl jurisdiction H. til conquered
aud occupied by the United states forces under Gen
kearney lie displaced the Mexican Governor, and
the Mexican flag from the Mexican Government House
al Santa Re he superseded by new code OF laws the
Mexican federal and municipal statutes. N, did not
6ad TcraA ~ Vac MsTico nor did he appear 10 be
aware that Texas could have the shadow oil claim 10
the territory tai he received the protest oil her Cover
nor against the Provisional Government which the
General had established in the name OF the United
States a. the fundamental law Of New-McXicO. Then
il was that he informed that he had made mis-
iakc-thai Armiio not Mexican Govcrnor-tiat
the yellow people OF Santa re were Texans, and That
New Mexico part of Texas.
The f.vt IT, every other claim OF Texas to New
Mexico Is utterly preposterous. claim set up 70 Cali
ornia would be Just good apart from the resolutions
of Annexation. The terms of the Annexation are the
only ground which Texas can present claim upon
New Mexico and TINS she only present AS ground
for demand that the territory shall be ccded 70 her
not that she possesses H. No sort OF sophlstrynoth
iur in the of ln-cnuyCAn make the boundary OF
New Mexico the Rio Grande. a. transferred from Mex
leo 10 the United States Nothing but special act
make the river the eastern line OF New Mexico.
IN Justice Texas that set ought 70 be passed not
withstsndinc the deception in the business OF Anncxs
ton The United States cannot plead the plea OF sno
IN violation OF contract The CONT tct requires
the renewal OF the existing title. and deed IN lee sim
pie OF the territory. Texas may admit the trick and
plead to the letter snd the spirit OF the parchment she
may plead that ii she had not conquered the territory
she would IN due have dispatched another santa
ia expedition which would have given her valid tan
sblc claim and which would thus have superseded the
necessity OF the expedition of Gen hcsrney. Bat Il
happened otherwise. The territory was conquered by
the United States and not by Texas Is 20 be paid for
by tue United states part otthe territories ceded IN
der the iste treaty Independently of the cesson Of
Texas New Mexico is therefore a territory Of the
United states and the question is does il belong
Texas but shall be gwen 10 Texas In virtue Of the
compact of Annexation
Il will have 10 be- done the boundary indicated by
the resolutions OF annexation requires IL and suSer
these resolutions, indeed. the territory the Rio
Grsnde became part of Texas with the ratification of
the late treaty with Mexico.
Admitting then that the territory to the Rio trande
belongs 10 Texas u would only be necessary extend
the line one mile west from the western bank of the
river to include all the territory that inhsbiahe
Westward from the border Of the Rio Grande
20 the lofty mountains which overlook the fsclca dis
lance OF uO miles. there VIII o@ no necessity Tor any
Government save the lag OF the United States. With
in this longitudinal line including the small remnant
west Of the Bravo of New Mexico and al that vast
| gion 10 the Sierra Nevada embracing 4OOOOJ square
miles VI California, there viii be necessity Tor laws
20 protect free labor or slave labor Whyi Because
IL is desert wild blank. howlng wilderness OF con-
fused mountains OF bald rocks and plains OF scorching
sand chaos OF volcanic ruins volcanic waste not
yet cooled down; region. described by Col. Ere
mont OF fracture. Of violence and Of Gre"
Let the People not forget TIA. tbs outrage
oas.y s6sard claim Of the Rio 6rasde as the