Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-07-18
From the Ohio Statesman.
'fhe LeiE Bank OF the Rio Grands and Mr..
ReHtaD

land lying between tho Nueces andthe
Rio Grade, that it is necessary TO very
frequently correct thpse who seem either
ignorant from malicious purposes, or so
from the want of knowledge. We fiud
in date speech OF Mr.. Kaufman, of
Texas, condensed summary of the mat.
ter. which we give to correct some mems
imaginary troubles:
sit was General Jack sons administla-
sion that acknowledged the independence
OF Texas, with limits that Texas had
prescribed for herself and with the limits
that the United States, by solemn treaty
with Texas, on the 18th OF April, 1873 !,
under the administration of Martin Van
Buren,. acknowledged to extend as fay
north as the AID degree of north latitude!
alude TO the treaty under which,a par,
Of the eastern boundary Of Texas was
actually marked. But ofthis i may per.
hsps III another occasion be compelled
10 speak more at length.
Even Thomas Il. Benton, who was so
frequently quoted by the wings IN 1914,
and has been since then to the present.
day in opposition to the Rio GFande be-
ing the western boundary of Texas said,
in his speech against the treaty of annex.
'siion. ia 1914.
The real Texas which we acquired
by the treaty of 1903 and flung away by
the treaty of 1919, never approached the
Sic Grade ercept near its mouth" &c.
Again:
az draw broad limo of distinction be.
tween the province Of Texas and the
republic Of Texas. The province laid
.netween the Sabine and lower Rio del
Norte. and between the Gulf of Mexico
and Red river. The republic of Texas
stretches TO the whole extent of the left
bank ofthe Rio del Norte OF these two
Texases. | go for the recovery OF the old
one"
hir. Benton further says, that the aetu-
al length Of the Rio del Norte is two
thousand miles. So that upon Mr.. Ben.
tons authority even, the President cannot
be charged with commencing the war;,
tor Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma
are very ''near TIE mouth of the Rio del
Norte, and consequently within the real
Texas, the province Of Texas, the old
Texas. and the Texas that Col. Benton
was in favor of recovering.
Mr.. Benton also said, when writing OF
Fhe Florida treaty OF 1919:
Before the establishment of this boun.
Diary, (ofth Sabine, all the country to
the west of the lower Mississippi, quite
to The Rio del Norte; was ours!'+
Mcar John Quincy Adams on this sub.
Jecs. On the 18th ofMay, 1916; the dan
war was declared against Mexico, he
said:
81 utterly deny that claimed the Rio
del Norte as our boundary in its full ex-
tent. | only claimed it short distance
%p the river, and then diverged to the
northward some distance from the
stream!'
Well, Palo Alto and Resaca de la Pal.
ma are only ''a short distance up the rio.
er," and therefore within what Mr.
Adams claimed to be our boundary, and
consequently, according to his opinion
then expressed. censure cannot Justly he
east upon the President. But what said
MIR. Adams in 1918! He thus expressed
himself:
THE claim of France always did ex-
tend westward to the Rio Bravo. She
always claimed the territory which YOU
call Texas RS being within the limits and
forming part Of louisiana"
He further says:
''The claim of the United States 10 the
boundary OF the Rio Bravo was as clear
as their right to the island of New Or.
leans"
And again:
"Our title TO Texas is established be-
yont the power of further controversy"
Mr.. Clay, in hi. Raleigh letter, written
in lS44, said:
1.-The Uuited States acquired title to
Texas, extending, as believe, TO the Rio
del Norte, by the treaty of Louisiana"
This statement of Mr.. Clay is fully
confirmed by the authority of Messrs.
5etterson, Madison, and Monroe, and in
deed all the distinguished statesman Of
that period.
cit is due to Col. Benton 10 say. that.
IN acco'dAncc with my Interpretation Of
his langaage above referred to, he makes
no charges against the President. He
is friend to the war and of the demo.
cratic party. hare merely copied the
above language 10 prevent hereafter Col.
Benton from being quoted as sanctioning.
ny his Language in 1874, the accusations
against The President.
The SAILOR AND HIS SEVEN sHoTTED
GuN'--An Lrishman, during an engage
flsnt, determined to give the enemy a
good Psppsring at once, secretly put seven
bullets into the cannon, which & was his
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