The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-06-18

49, lsi3 by the Congress of Texas, contains the follow
ing sections:
.'sEo l6 BE ii furthv enacted, That the companies
raised by the provisions OF this shall be stationed
the following places viz Two companies the
of the Psesdio road OF the Leona companie
at the White House, the Nueces river; company
Tumbnson's bock house and the remaining company iC
be posted in the the discretion OF the commanding
officer
''SEc II. Be further enacted, That martial aw shall be
declared and enforced from the Rio rio and Nneces rivers
to the Rio Gande, for and during the time hos lties may
exist between the republic of Texas and Mexico"
The following joint resolution is here inserted to show
that all the laws above quoted in regard the rio Gande
are not mere paper declarations, but that in addition TO
lawful spos captured from the enemy, money ac-
tuay paid out OF the Impoverished treasury of Texas to
the rangers to support and enforce said laws This proof
however, was unnecessary, as | have ady above
quoted the authority of General Adrian Vol, who was
IN military command at Matamoros, and feared to meet
the gallant rangers of the Rio Gande and who can
didly admitted what the truth required "that the Tex
ans were the tsTpes orcbe possessors of that part
Of the national territory on the left bank of the Rio
Grande."
AS further historical fact that the Texans were the
forcbe possessors OF the territory east of the Rio Gande
will merely refer to the famous Mer expedition. Mer is
in Mexico, the Dest side of the Rio Grande The
Texas volunteers in 1912 could not get a fight until
they crossed the Rio Grande and went to Mer II
they could have done so, they would not have crossed
the river. But to the resolution
JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief Of Captain John c.
Hays and the company under his command.
Bs rtsotred6 the Senate and House Of Representatives
of six thousand four hundred and fifty dollars be. and The
hereby, appropriated for the payment of Captain
the liabilities have been created for the support of said
company che employed IN the protection of the southeastern
frontier during the year one thousand eight hundred and
ssEc Be Further re,olped That the treasurer of the
republic be- and he hereby authorized pay the
sand four hundred and fifty dollars, Appropriated by this
resolutions to Captain John Hays who hereby author
lied to receive the same and render his account of dis
"sEo Be farther resolUed That this RESOLUTION Shall
take effect from and after its passage
Approved December ~, 1913"
On the ed of January, 1914, another act was passed
entitled "An act authorizing John G.. HAYS to raise
company OF mounted gunner, to act rangers an the
western and southwestern fronter in which the
following section;
'Src. g. BE it farther enacted, That the said company
shall range on the western and frontier from
the county of Bexar TO the Of Regio and ~esward
the public interest may require"
On the LIST of February ls45 act was passed by the
Texan Congress- requiring the OF lands the
counties Of Refugo and San Patrcio to cause their lines
to be designated and Marked" whether the titles issued
ahuila and Texas"'said lines to be designated by the
county surveyor OF the county in which the land was
situated and certified pats thereof to be returned to the
general land Office (of Texas which pats were to be
delineaed on the map OF the county in which they ie
and from the time of such return and deneaon to be
garded as the only true boundaries of said land
On the day and year last above mentioned, the fol-
lowing section OF an act was passed:
SKc. Be further enacted, That Henry L. Kinney be-
and he is hereby authorized to raise and organize
company OF forty armed men, with one captain and one
Corpus Christi aud its vi nifty" '+
Corpus Christi, then the county site of San Patrico, is
west of the Nueces; and it was from the Indians that
this protection wa. desired
have thus shown the solemn acts of the republic Of
Texas, from the origin of the government down to an
nexaon, and an impartial community will judge wheh
er the claim Of Texas to the Rio Grande ioas an after
thought charged conceived since annexation, for
lister purposes or whether she has not uniformly claim
ed it, and exercised acts OF ownership over it.
will now quote, from standard geographical works,
extracts which prove concuslvely that the Rio
(frandk Rio del NOrte the RlO Bravo. different
for the river( was the western boundary of
the province of Texas that it is the boundary of the
will dispute:
Texas is bounded southeast by the gulf of Mexico
and southwest by the Rio del Norte Morse's Geograph
Texas province Of Mexico bounded southwest by the
Rio Grande del Nore."-Brooks's Universal Gazetteer,
Texas claimed by Spain as part Of the internal prov
Texas province of Mexico in the former prouimcios in
bounded southwest 1y the Rio G'ande del Noe
"Texas, province of Mexico, in the former internal prov
nces is bounded southwest by the Rio Grande -Daven
ports Gazetteer, edition 1882
These the descriptions of impartial geographers of
the boundaries OF the old province of Texas.
attention and that of the committee to the language of
Andrew jackson, on the subject OF the boundary of
Texas. His words full of wisdom, and will outweigh
all the defamation of interested partsans. In his letter
to Aaron V. Brown, General Jackson says:
"Remember, also, that if Texas be annexed to the Uni
ted States boundary would be the Rio Grande
which is itself fofcation, account of its extensive
barren and unnhabitabe plains.'
1t was General Jacksons administration that acknowl-
edged the independence of Texas, with the limits that
Texas had prescribed for herself and with the limits that
the United States, by solemn treaty with Texas on the
25th April, 1893, under the administration of Martin Van
Buren, acknowledged to extend far north as the 42d
degree of north latitude allude to the treaty under
which part of the eastern boundary of Texas
tually marked. But of this | may perhaps another
occasion be compelled to speak more at length
Even Thomas II. Benton, who frequently
quoted by the wings in ls44 and has been since then to
present day in opposition to the Rio Grande being the
western boundary OF Texas, said, in his speech against
the treaty of annexation, in 1874:
'The real Texas which we acquired by the treaty of
1903, and flung away by the treaty sof 1870 APP
preached the Rio Grande erccpt near its mouth" Nc.
Again:
' draw broad line of distinction between the prov.
of Texas and the republic of Texas The province
laid between the Sabine and the ocer Rio del Norfe
between the CALF of Mexico and Red river The republic
the Rio del Nore. OF these Texases go for the
covery of the old one'
Mr. Benton further says, that the actual length of the
Rio del Norte is two thousand miles So that upon Mr.
Benons authority even the President cannot be charged
with commencing the war for Palo Alto and Resaca de
la Palma very nca the mouth of the Rio del Nore"
and consequently within the real Texas the province OF
Texas the old Texas and the Texas that Colonel Benton
was in favor of recovering
Mr.. Benton also said, when writing of the Florida
treaty of 1919:
Before the establishment of this boundary, (of the Sa
bne) all the country the of the Mississippi