Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1848-04-14

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fellows, ambitious to serve the stated Dfor
generals, captains. cepturians DC. toseth-
er with hundreds Of Governors, Pretors,
Questors & LictoFs to establish and pre- !
serve civil authority. and keep The peace
all under good salaries and,edsiotous
living. "2i',
Now then, a swarm Of petty tyrants
encompass the land, and government
patronage is unbounded, and there is no
mystery about the consequences which
followed. 49, 20 -4-st -
But hero is more testimony to sustain
the position that our title to this territory
was not clear and unquestionable." -
President Jackson, in the first year of his
Administration, laid before his Cabinet
proposed boundary between the United
States and Mexico, which designated the
west bank Of the Rio Neuces as the prop.
er boundary of the United States on the
south west. In this opinion John Quin.
cy Adams conceded, if mistake not. |
am off the track however, in making any
reference Of this kind; for though it is
yet good authority with some, it finds no
favor with Absorptionism> Jackson and
Adams are numbered among the venera-
BILE men who were, and we have intheir
stead, Cass, Polk, big Drunk" and
Benton; though the latter scars at a gid.
dy altitude above the three former. He
stands on an eminence as much 1lofiier
than that on which they stand, as is the
Eagles flight above that of common
buzzard. So let US look ct Beaton's
views. Here is the boundary proposed
by him in his bill, introduced in, the Sem
ate, for the annexation of Texas at
least he proposed it as the basis Of. a boun-
dairy: ~-,e W :
"Leaving the Rio Grande and all its
waters and valley to the Mexicans, and
the Mississippi valley and all its. waters
to the United States, it proposes to follow
II the mountains heights from near the
South Pass in the Rocky Mountains, call
Il ed Fremonfs Pass. in the map of the To
pographica! bureau, along the Sierra Oh.
scura Ozark mountain) until it subsidies
into plain as it approaches the Cuff of
Mexico, and reaching the Gulf BY lii6e in
the desert prairie to the west of the Rio
Nueces (walnut river.) This is the boun.
dairy between the United States and Mex
leo pointed out by the finger of nature,
agreed upon by eminent Statesmen, as
proper for Mexico as for ourselves, and
written down in the book of fate, and the
law of nature, as the true and permanent
boundary between the two first powers
OF the New World. Soon or late that
boundary ,ciU be established. or
The Rio Grande del Norte is Mex.
lean river by position and possession, and
to Merico may it .forerey belong. The
Mississippi and all its waters are ours,and
to US the dismembered parts must return.
The country east of the Neuces land in
GLIDING it) from position, Geographical
affinltles, soil, products, and natural de-
pendences, Is appertenant to the valley of
the Mississippi, and must and will 60
where congruity and homogenality at
tract it. No wise man, in an age of COM
MERGE, wants great river beyond its ma
tural trontier) for natural boundary
and droll sort of boundary the Rio
Grande would be too; fori it is the. most
crooked river in creation i, is a boundary
fruitful of expense, and of every species
of collision and COLLISION. A mountain
and a desert place is far better; and these
IRE hare bet,reen us and Merico; and 1t
,c0uld be just as nncise for us to project a
segment or q salient angle, Of our frontier
across this plain and mountain into the
natural limits of Merico, as IL ,rould be in
her to make the same projection of a seq.
ment. or angle Of herself, across the same
plain and mountain tnto IT national do
n1iniOn. -as4sNs
And this is the territory, which BY
"position and posession'' belongs to Mex
leo, into which Mr. President Polk orders
the U. S. forces without any communi-
cation to, or any direction from the PEG.
pies Representatives, then in session, and
after hostilities had commenced, cooly
declared that the territory of the United
| States had been invaded, and blood shed
on our soil by the act of Mexico And
in his las, Message, to establish tho fact
and make it certain, he repeats the,ass
ton thirteen times! No wonder his BIZ
ographer thought one who had so great
relish for mathematics would make cap
ital President Indeed, our Young Man
must have been astonished at his own
power of figures and it is not at all
- N 90 narha ne thai ha should 'Hnn,a To