The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-07-11

Of the game of brag:
HoUsE OF REPRESENTATIVES,, July 8, 1880
GENTLEMEN In your paper Of this morning
notice the s~isS-~iax sditorisl:
-.- ~se~ss>x r- ~. ~ e>s~ea >acfS rs founda
ton, Of some kind or other, for the statement il
the following extract from the Washington cor
respondence of the New York Journal Of Com
MERGE fit be all really true, the gallant Stat
Of Texas is about to march an army into the Ter
ritories of the United States, and against an arm
ed station Of the United States within them an,
we are 70 hspe neRs Of Ii in less than six week
from de tiuel Let rs hope, however, that tn
worthy correspondent of the Journal is premature
ly alarmed for the safety of Santa Fe and the de
tachment Of the army whose duty it will be t.
defend it,
"CorrespOndence OF the Journal Of Commerce.
WASHINGTON, Saturday, June %, 1850.
"There win be some startling intelligence from
Texas in less than six weeks from this time
Texas will send an adequate force at once, as j:
supposed to effect her objects-probably 500
men. There are at Santa Fe about two hundred
Texan camp followers, who take an interest in
favor of the Texans The troops Of the United
States, under Col Monroe, number about five or
six hundred, TO which six hundred are about to be
added. The Texans in this city are of the opin-
ion that Texss, supported as she is by the sympa-
thies of the whole South, will arrest the United
States military officers, aud bring them to trial
for obstructing the operation OF her laws. Should
the adjustment bill be defeated there is no doubt
vaA .uxss rIn sosoi o~1Ner M r9icS saIh II me
United States interfere the Southern States will
give her sll the aid she needs
From this il seems that you hold it to be the
" dutyD of the army of the United States now
Ia - Iofan vii ~,
of law, the military occupation Of that portion Of
New Mexico lying this side Of the Rio Grande
against any attempt Of Texas to maintain her
claim by extending her jurisdiction over it.
Your right to entertain such an opinion il is
not my object to question. But wish to say to
you lest you may be mistaken in the opinions of
Others that the first Fde7oi gun that shall be fred
against the people of Texas, without the author
ity Of law will be the signal for the freemen from
the Delaware to the Rio Grande to rally to the
rescue Whatever differences of opinion may
exist in the public mind, touching the proper
boundary of Texas nothing can be clearer than
that it is not question to be decided by the army
Be not deceived, and deceive not others. " Inter
IN ma leges saewp When the 6 Rubiconn is pass.
ed, the days Of this Republic will be numbered.
Y gu may consider the gallant State of Texas
too weak for contest with the army Of the United
States But you should recollect that the cause
of Texas, ID such q conflict, will be the cause of
the entire South. And, whether you consider
Santa Fe in danger or not, you may yet live to
see that fifteen States Of this Union, with seven
millions Of people who, knowing their rights,
dare maintAi them, cannot be easily conquered !!
q Sap,entiIss uerJum sat-"
Yours, most respectfully,
- ALEXANDER III. SrsrHENs.
We do bot believe the rumor that Texas is
about to uArch 2 500 men into New Mexico. II
was probahA got an in Washington, to order.
We do aA Relieve that should Texas send any
troops into New Mexico, there would be serious
collision with the United States authorities.
We do not believe that, should collision ensue
the freemen u the South, from the Delaware t.
the Rio Grsnde, would take up arms to max
common cause with Texas
We do believe that Mr.. Stephens is under tn
impression that the best way to force the non
Shareholders u the country into submission to tn
demands Of Slavery, is to bully them. No maj
with proper respect for himself and his country
men, and real regard for the Union Of tn
States, would make use Of the absurd, infamma
tory and insulting language in which the fore
going letter 10 written.
We are sick at these miserable attempts to in
stitute Reign of Terror-to bring the Fedora
Government into subsection to the power of Fac
ton. No man who would use the threatenips
language of Sir. Stephens can be real frienc
Of the Union. He must understand that his in
suting, defiant tone is calculated to arouse tn,
spirit Of resentment, to infame the pride of tn,
North, to embitter sectional feelings already suff
GENTLY rsncorous
Texas knows that her claim to New Mexico
was always denied by the People of the North
and one Of the great parties Of the South-thai
she has never been in actual possession of that
country--that II Is now occupied, as it has been
since the war with Mexico, by the United States-
that her claim may be safely adjudicated before
the Supreme Court the tribunal to which other
States have submitted questions of disputed
this is the only peaceful and Just
State may enforce, at the point of the bayonet,
her claim TO q disputed territory, another State
may do the same 30 that there would no longer
exist any guaranty for the continuance Of the
Federal Union. In the face Of these considers.
tons, she proposes, If We may credit the rumor
above, to invade New Mexico, and raise her par
ricidal hand against the United States, which,
four years ago, admitted her into their fellow
ship, and since then have wasted millions Of money
and thousands Of the lives Of their best citizens,
in war necessarily resulting from that act. In
return for all that the Union has done and suf.
fered In ksr ksesk, che would couznit high trea.
son against it. The United States contemplate
no aggression upon her rights-no invasion Of
her territory--so violence Of any kind towards
her; but she threatens war against the United
States, and Mr. Representative Stephens seconds
the menace. "Whatever differences Of opinion, y
he says, may exist in the public mind touching
the proper boundary Of Texas, nothing can be
clearer than that ii is not question to be decided
by the ormyn He means the army of the United
States forgetting that it is just as clear, that i,
is not question to be decided by the army Of
Tsras
Suppose Texas send an armed force there, what
wiz IL wv Ano AeVPio nave assemoicu IN IOu-
vention, prepared the form of State Constitu-
ton, and their application for admission as a
State is on its way to Congress That act can
not be undone. No armed force from Texas can
compel the People to revoke their application
Nor can IL oust the United States from possession
Of the territory, or compel their troops to recog
mise and submit to, the jurisdiction Of Texas
The first gun will not be fred by Federal troops
but il there be violence at all, by the invading
force Of Texas Then the Rubicon win indeed
have been passed and the days, not " Of the Re-
public bat Of Treason, will be numbered
BLowlSe Up.--"The South will sustain the
Missouri Compromise Line Anything short Of
hat will, in our opinion, blow up the Confed-
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