Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1848-07-26

owned frankly that she cut OIL the heads
Of three Of the mobile guards. On seve-
raj barrie ades, he lads cut of, wearing their
kepis. had been placed as scare-crows.-
Finally, a head, in the mouth Of which
pitch had been matted and match placed,
was put upon PiqMe.
A Diaacale Soarl.
A Washington correspondent of the
Herald thus towns up to the perplexity
in which the Federal Administration is in +.
volved by its concurrence in the impuden,
falsehood that the Rio Grande was through
out its course the righ,ful Western boun-
Diary Of Texas:
tinct territorial dispute remains to be set
tied Ii is this: Does the territory Of Mex
leo east Of the Rio Grande, and including
Santa Fc. and 100000 square miles Of
territory (more or less,) belong to Texas
ed 10 belong to Texas in the resolutions
I Of Annexation; but Texas never conquer
ed it-ncrer occupied an inch Of n-and
neither the authorities of the L. States
nor of Texas exercised, nor pretended
10 CXCTCISC, 8uy OtCI
till conquered and occupied by the United
displaced the Mexican Governor, and the
Mexican flag from the Mexican Govern.
mcnt House at Santa Fc; he superseded by
new code Of laws the Mexican federal
! and municipal statutes. He did not find
Teran in Ner- Mexico; nor did he ap-
pear to be aware that Texas could have
! 81 In. 20 tho .;
| he received the protest Of her Governor
against the Provisional Government which
the General had established in the name
of the United States, a, the fundamental
law of New Mexico. Then it was that
he was informed that he had made mis-
take-that ArmiiO was not q Mexican
Governor-ti,at the yellow people Of San
Ia Fe were Texans, and that New Mexi-
CO was a part Of Texas.
THE fact is, every other claim Of Tex
as to New Mexico is utterly preposterous.
A claim set up to California would be just
as good, apart from the resolutions Of An
exation. The terms of the Annexation
are the only ground which Texas can
present as claim upon New Mex
leo; and this she can only present as a
ground for a demand that the territory
shall be ccdcd to her, not that she possess
es it, No sort Of sophistry-nOthing in
the way of ingenuity-can make the boun-
dairy Of New Mexico the Rio Grande, as
| transferred from Mexico to the United
States. Nothing but a special act can
make the river the eastern line of New
Mexico.
I'm Justice to Texas that act ought to
be passed, notwithstanding the deception
in the business of Annexation. The u.
S. cannot plead the plea Of ignorancein vi
ola,ion Of contract which requires the re.
newal OF the existing title, and deed in
fee simple Of the territory. Texas may
admit the trick. and plead the letter and
the spirit Of the parchment. She may
plead that If she had not conquered the
territory, she would in due season have
dispatched another Santa Fe expedition,
which would have given her valid, tan
gible claim. and which would thus have
superseded the necessity Of the expcdi-
ton Of Gen. Kearney. But II happened
otherwise. The territory was conquered
by the United States and not by Texas.
II is to be paid for by the United States,
as part Of the territories coded under the
late treaty, independently Of the cession
of Texas. New Mexico is therefore
tCITltOTy VI tuC SuItCu NJt6tCSs dIu SssC
question is not does it belong to Texas!
but shall il be given to Texas in virtue Of
the compact Of Annexation!
at will have to be done-the boundary
indicated by the resolutions Of annexa-
ton requires it; and under these resolu-
tons, indeed, the territory 10 the Rio
Grande became a part Of Texas. with the
ratification Of the late treaty with Mexico.
"Admirting. then, that the territory to
the Rio Grande belong to Texas. it would
only be necessary TO extend the line one
mile west from the western bend Of the
river. to include al the territory that is
inhabitable. Westward from the narrow
border Of the Rio Grande to the lofty
mountains which overlook the Pacific, a
distance Of 700 miles. there will be no me-
cessity for any Government save the flag
Of the United States. Within this longi-
tudinal line, including the small remnant
west Of the Bravo, Of New-Mexico and
all that vast region to the Sierra Nevada.
embracing 100000 square miles Of Cali
fornia, there will be no necessity for laws
to protect free labor or slave labor. Why!
Because it is . desert, = wild, blank, howl
ing wilderness Of confused mountains. of
bald rocks and plains OF scorching sand;
. chaos Of volcanic ruins volcanic
waste. not yet cooled down, a region, Is
described by Col. Fremont, ''of fracture,