New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-31

quarrel OF texas Win McAiCo va "c'e' NN''
and that we plunged into it in opposition to the
Statesmanship and Moral Sense Of the Country
The land YOU have wrested from Mexico may be
fair and fertile, but you have cursed twith Human
Slavery, and we have acquired it at an enormous
cost OF treasure, blood and crime IL Will be time to
brsg Of our booty when we have got safe oil with IT,
Gen. Houston proceeds TO tell the old story of
Mexican expressions, &c being the cause Of the
Texan Revolution. which has been refuted by
reams Of evidence. The simple, undenisbie fact
that Slavery was established and maintained IN
Texas while nominally governed by Mexico, IN de-
fance Of the fundamental law Of that Republic and
Of the general sentiment OF her People, would oil
itself establish the truth that the Texans did very
much as they pleased until they saw tit to revolt
And, though Gen. II. takes occasion in this speech
70 deny that Gen. Jackson instgsted him TO go to
Texas and getup this revolt against Mexico he can
not deny that his purpose 10 revolutionize Texas
was ayowed by him and known 10 several before ne
ever set foot on Texan soil, and before the acts OF
Mexico which formed the pretext Of the Texan re-
volt. had any existence. He passed through Lit
tie Rock, Arkansas, on bis route from Washington
to settle in Texas (l534 81 and the jackson paper
there published. in announcing the fact Significant
ly added I'VE shall doubtless hear OF his raising
his flag there shortly" So we did.
We ought not perhaps, to be surprised that
Gen. H should argue that Texas rightfuly extends
to the Rio Grade because the Mexicsns, after the
defea. OF San Jacnto, retired across thstr On
the same principle il they had retreated to the CITY
of Mexico. all this side would have been Texas
Nav, he says they actually did retreat 10 Monterey
which of course proves that Texas tbenceforwsrd
extended so far and that the Mexlcans 'nraded
Texas. and so the United States by occupying Ma
ramoras Gen II who well knows that Santa Anna,
while prisoner. vas in constant peril aud dread
Of sssassination ought ~ be above talking OF tnat
hunted frightened prisoners agreeing TO the Rio
Grapde a. the boundary He had then no more
authority 10 bind Mexico than Houston himself had
aod toe La. o. Nations expressly declares that
prisoner OF wsr though an absolute monarch can
not bind his country Santa Anna ut that time
would have agreed to any thing to save his life
Houston proceeds
No question ever % 10 the Nueces being Is
boundary pending the nesot atoms Tor Annexation pr II
.cny since tots began that this question hos been
raised by 10 enemies
Who does not know this to be false What Loco.
Foco so stoid that his ave not sched At wing
citations Of Col. Bcntons Speech in lsi9l 10 the
Senate against Tyler's Annexation Treaty exp ess'
~ on the ground OF the inquity, the strocity the
stupendous impudence, OF this claim OF the Mo
Grande as the boundary Of Texas Can itbe neces
sary that we quote once more for Senator Houston
the following testimony Of his friend Senator bentoni
Resolu,d That the ncoiporston Of the left bank OF
the RIO Norie into the American Union by virtue OF
Tresty with Tsxas-c0mprshsndng as "a, sad ncorpoTa-
ton mould do tart of the Msrcaa 6epa,nent,o Of Ger
Wercs, chi i1haa. Ccahuila and TamrHlpa'-would be
an act of AGGRESSION oS VI Xcoi Jor az tae con-
i Ss% q '''''' ne 0"''' ''4''' ''"' '
Equally positive WIS The testimony Of SItas
WRIGHT on the same subject aud TO the same FL
feet in his Skaneateles Speech of the same year
two wears before the War broke out, and before
the Wings began 10 talk about the boundary. The
niquity of annexing Texas at all fixed our regard
and we scarcely thought it possible then that our
Government would insist on annexing many thou
sands Of square miles and of Mexican people who
had never seen a Texan fag or officer Who does
Gen. Houston deceive by such barefaced ssser
tons
His next argument runs thus Texas declared
the Rio Grande to be her boundary several ma
tons acknowledged her independence they theTe
6v Acknowledged and settled the boand0ry as clam
ed BIZ her : According to this logic, the people OF
Santa Fe, who never saw q Texsn except as
prisoner, were transferred from the country ana
government to which they had always adhered
by the mere paper formulas of governments thou
sands of miles away-governmenss which never
had pretence or shadow of authority over them
and which most of them never heard Of Is this
republicanism Does not every body 6no~ That
in acknowledging the claims OF people 70 lnue'
pendence, no government either does or pretends
to express any opinion as TO its rightiui boundaries
or any question on which it may be ct issue with
the government from which 1t revo!ted The re-
cogntion refers simply 10 the fact OF lndepend
ence-has nothing to do with rights or causes Let
Cuba establish her independence and we acknowl
edge it; and her passing an act claiming to be
master Of all the other Spanish West Indies would
not prevent nor be IN any manner affected by the
recognition And ye; Hous,on's pretence that
Christendom endorsed the claim OF Texas to ex
tend to the Rio Grande by simply acknowledging
her independence is said 10 have been received In
Tammaay with Great applause"
Gen Houston proceeds TO assert that the Texans
actually dspossessed Mexico of all her territory
east of the Rio Grsnde. saying
Mexico never occupied this country after our indie
p-ndeucs declared add asserted We possessed and
occupied the country snd would permit the establish
OF any Mexican settlement In the country we oeeu-
pied"
He well knows these to be fragrant fslsehoods.
| He knows that the Mexican custom house at the
mouth Of the Rio Grsnde. was on the east bank,
and was never, save possibly for day or two,
out of Mexican possession Till Gen. Taylor took
il ia ls46; he knows that there were Mexican
| settlements and long established cultivation at
intervals all along the East bank of that River,
aud not one Texan village or clearing from one
end OF !, to the other, he knows that the Msxi'
can cities of Santa Fe Albuquerque AND Taos,
al some distance east OF the Rio Grande' had
never even seen any sort Of display OF Texan
authority down to ls46 and yet the man stands up
ia Tsmmsny Hall and deliberately lies and de
ceives for an hour, cheered on by men who know
he is uteriug alsehood yet base enough To hope Il
reap a party advantage from It. TIE oesier and
II. .f oh 9TH.