The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-15

ana repeated by the President la his SPECIAL nnes
sage 10 tne nouse OF Representatives, on the 9th
OF July, ls4s, IN which il is declared ihat thu
military government was established IN Nens
Mexico under the laws of nations end az whr
to preserve order and protect the ris,hts ~ Az,
inhabitants, and will cease on the conclusion N !.
treaty OF peace with Mexico. Nothing, therefore
can be more certain than that this tep,porayB GOV
eminent, resulting from necessity, can never IN.
lluriousiy affect the right which the President
believes to be justly asserted by Texas 10 the
whole territory on this side Of the RIO Grandr
whenever the Mexican claim 10 ID, shall have BEEN
extlnguished by treaty"
and lastly, the claim of Texas was recognized
by the House Of Representatives OF the present
congress, In refusing 10 allow the delegate from
the territory of New Mexico to take a seat In thai
body.
In truth il may be asserted that her claim b,a
never been openly and formally questioned by the
Government, by the President, or by either House
of Congress.
Then why is this military government. esiab-
lished IN New Mexico during the war and rom
necessity, and which was declared to be tempo
rary in its character, still maintained bv a.. an,
thorlty of the President of the United States, In
| opposition TO the authority of Texas: Two years
nave elapsed since the necessity which called that
government INTO existence, has ceased; and no
steps nave been taken, no order given for iis re-
moYal Why these recommendations To the peo-
pie OF New Mexico to organize themselves into a
territory IN opposition to the rights of Texas
by what authority does the Military Governor,
Col. Monroe, exercise civil jurisdiction within
the limits OF Texas, and issue his proclamation
calling upon the people of portion of her terri
tory, to send delegates to convention TO form u
State constitution without her consent;
BY what authority it is asked, does the Pres-
dent maintain military government in the limits
OF this State in time of peacei There is no au-
thorty whatever for tit is AN outrage upon the
rights of Texas. That every State is sovereign
within her own limits, that she possesses the ex-
elusive power OF local Legislation and local gov
vernment free from the control of the Federal
| Government is proposition not to be denied.
| 1t was the duty Of the President upon the ter
mination of the war with Mexico to have abol-
lshed the temporary military government estab-
llshed IN New Mexico during the war. Instead
OF maintaining that military government after the
close of the war, the army should have been con
fined to its appropriate service or if at all COM
manded to act, il should have been in support of
the authority and jurisdiction of the State and not
in opposition to it, .....
| ... RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas, the military government, established
in New Mexico, during the existence of the war
between the United States and Mexico continues
to exist under and by the authority of the Presi-
dent of the United States; and whereas the Off
GERS of the United States army and other agents
! of the government of the United States, in New
New Mexico acting under the authority or by
the permission of the President are using inhti-
ences, and extending aid to the people of that por-
ton of Texas, in insurrectionary proceedings in
| opposition to the legitimate authority and rights
Of the State of Texas, by opposing the lawful
agents and authority of the State, by refusing to
recognize her laws and authority and to sub nit to
her jurisdiction, by attempting to deach that
portion of country from the State, and form the
same into separate State or territory--there-
| fore,
l. Resolved, That the late Republic of Texas
was free, sovereign and independent State; that
sovereignty and independence was formerly deca-
red by her representatives in council, confirmed
and maintained by her army in the field, and sol
emily recognized and acknowledged by the Gov
eminent of the United States, dis well as by others
of the most enlightened and powerful nations of
Europe: that by her annexation to the United
States with the consent of her people, she did not
| III any manner surrender or impair her sovereignty
and Independence, but was admitted into the Union
upon an equal footing with the other States there
of, retaining exclusive Legislative jurisdiction with
in her own limits, which cannot be infringed or
violated by the Congress or Government of the
United States.
g Resolved, That at the time of the annexation
of Texas into the American Union, her bounda-
rles were defined and established by law, as fol-
lows: beginning at the mouth Of the Sabine
river and running west along the Gulf of Mexico
three leagues from land, to the mouth of the Rio
Grande; thence up the principal stream of said
river to its source thence due north to the forty
second degree of north latitude thence along the
boundary line defined in the treaty between the
United and Spain, to the beginning" The limits
OF Texas having been so defined and established by
her political authorizes in the exercise of sove-
reign power, no State or government possessed
any right authority to question those bounda-
res, except so far as the same mil ht come in con-
tllct with the limits of such State or Government.
3. Resoircd, That by the resolutions under
which Texas was annexed to the United States,
,l. Al r
limits and geographical delineation that no pow
er or authority was conferred upon the United
States to change altar the boun daries of Texas
so fixed and defined, except upon 90 the adjust
ment of all questions of boundary that may arise
with other governments ;" that upon the treaty OF
peace between the United States and Mexico,
/" all questions of boundary that had arisen or
could g arise with other governments" which
could possibly affect the prescribed limits of
Texas ceased, to exist, and the United States cea-
sed to possess any authority power over the
limits ofTexas as fixed by her laws, or to declare
that any portion of the territory included within
her defined limits is not properly included" there
in, or did not "ightuliy belong TO The Republic Of
TeraS.''
A. Resolred That the State of Texas possesses
the full and complete power Of sovereignty to the
extent Of her limits, and that no power exists in
the Government of the United States to interfere
with the exercise of government within those
limits.
5. Resolved, That any attempt on the part of
Congress or Government OF the United States, to
form or erect new State within the jurisdiction
of the State Of Texas without the consent of her
Legislature, is violation of the Constitution Of
the United States and of the resolutions of annex
alton, respectively adopted by the Congress of the
United States and the late Republic of Texas.
g. RESOLVED, That the government of the Uni
ted States has constitutional right or authority
to establish or maintain in time of peace within
the limits of any Of the States of this Union
government of the people of such State, but that
the same belongs appropriately and exclusively to
the State. -.
T. Resolved, That the employment of the army
OF the United States or any portion thereof, in
tablishlng or maintaining any government within
the limits of any Of the States of this Union, in
opposition to the government of such State, is
service foreign to the objects for which the army
was organized and exists
g. RESOLVED, That we regard the act of the gov
eminent of the United States, in establishing and
mn nd adj IL