The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-07-28

land lss for example the following sensible article,
which appears in journal ~ the INTERIOR extracted from
The DAYTON (Ohio) Weekly Enquirer Of Wednesday last
When The rights Texas thus strongly approved BY
journal in the State Of Ohio why should the senators
from Texas fear the result
Txx CONTROVERSY BErwxxs TsxAs Nkw MExloo.--
Almost oil the political questions Of the Day have strong
uosessy IN relation 2 slavery Although me oound hs
Should be decided upon particular merits. has al
ready assumed Of decidedly sectional
The hostile feelings excited. and The most ,imsd
aud thssateninx angaaxs is freely indused in VIZ hear
northern imperousIy asserting that the claim o. Now
The Usioa; while from the South hear rhrsats OF
marches and Of civil war repeated with the most offensive
pcrtnaciry This OF public SENTIMENT encouraged
and INDUCED in fail lead the serious
sequsuce the South should understand upon the one
any line Of conduct they may do1Tmine e pursue BY the
sppsIon Of s',eng baypns. aud naked swofas Willis
they oA submit TO what they seriously regard
union Of equal indie psndsn, sts,ss the COMMON de-
scendsn,s OF ancestry whose joint blood aud ueasure
pies OF squsy and republican liberty, is madness 10
suppose that unconstitutional be usurped by
bring psss what sense OF justice will tail
plish Diminishing them all sectional feeling, let us for
q moment look u Inc merits ut the question.
Texas. when she became independent republic, OF
conr:e had necessarily her specific boundaries Her vest
thence the 4Oh parallel Of north latitude to the
Arkansas river thence down that river 10 certain line
10 its Intersection with another line running south TO the
Sabine and thence with the Sabine the Gulf Of Mexico
Although Mexico Perhaps yielded her express
this boundary. except by the OF Santa Anna in 1885,
yet recognised these limits when recognised the in
dependence Of Texas and when annexed Texas with
her this republic her with the bound
aries which shs had declared and not with those which
Mexico claimed Texas by the act Of annexation merged
her right to maintain those boundaries as against Mexico
In the government OF the United States and against
that claim OF Mexico the just closed
wsged. II. then, the United States were right ia fight
ing Mexico for the boundary OF the Rio Grande in
stead OF thar Of the Nusces, with what propriety
we now claim as agai~st 1tras member OF our own
isderacy what we opposed aKains, Mexico, foreign
proper boundary Of Texas then Santa Fe and
ia Texas, for 1t is OF that 1t IL the Texas
whose Independence recognised, and which
nexsd 70 the United States knew Texas according
M boundary claim, and according 10 that Of Mexico
may be altogether proper tina. boundary. more
definite than thai which has heretofore existed
Taxa. and New Mexico should be established; but that
boundary should be dictated either the people
New Mexico the government OF the United States indie
pendant oil the OF Texas. such OF conduct
upon the part of New Mexico would be tho greatest posi-
be indgnity could be inflicted upon Texas, and il
upon the part of the United Sates would be only
ndigniy TO Texas. but acknowledgment to the world
that the Mexican waged upon falso protcxt for
tho purposes of agsrandizement and conquest.