The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-01-30

eminent in conducting the affairs OF this great people,
cannot concur in the p.opriey OF derelicon Of those
Territories, OF abandonment OF them-leaving them,
without government, to all those scenes OF disorder
fusion, and anarchy, which, regret to say with respect
will arise / is the duty, the solemn-l was going. to
add almost the sacred duty OF Congress to egsae for
that government, il they can and, at all events to at
tempt to lgslae for hem and to give them the benefit
| Of law, order, aud security.
The next resolutions, sir, are the Sd and 4h, which,
having immediate connexion with each other, should
| be read and considered together
3D. Resolved That the boundary othe State
ought be fixed in the Rio del Nore, commencing
ns o N New aaa sns viz ha s1
eastey and 80 continuing in the same direction 70 the ine
sas 81 Ss s on
| east or west of that river
that the United States win provide for the payment Of all
that portion OF the legitimate and bona de public debt Of
sales ana which the duties on foreign imports were
pledged b the said State 70 s creditors not exceeding the
after the said annexation, but having thenceiorwad be-
also The said State SHALL by some solemn and authentic
Of her Legislatures OF Convention relinqush the
| Mexico
Mr., President, do not mean now--I do not know
that shall at any time, for it is very complex subject
what the true limits Of Texas. My own opinionis-l
must say, without intending, as have remarked to go
into any argument upon the subject-that Texas has
Mexico. And yet, sir, am free to admit that. looking
at the grounds which her representatives assumefrs,
their law OF 1885, then the treaty made with Santa
Anna, then what tTanspred between Mr. Tris and the
Mexican negotiaiors, when the treaty OF peace was
negotiated; then the fact that the United States have
qaired all the country which Texas claimed TO constitute
portion OF her terrorylookng at all these facts, but
without attaching to them together or separately the same
degree OF force which gentlemen do VINO think that
Texas has right 70 New Mexico, 90 not think they
constitute demonstrate the existence OF agood title
but there is plausiblty there Well sir, what do pro-
pose Without entering into any inquiry whether the
Nueces is not the boundary OF Texas whether the
Rio Bravo or the Del Norte is or is not the boundary OF
Texas simply by the resolutions fix the western bound
ayof Texas upon the Rio del NoIte running from the
mouth OF the Sabine to tne mouth OF the RIO del N0ts
that it shall follow up the Rio Bravo or del Nore 10
where strikes the southern line OF New Mexico, AMI
hen vergng with tnat line. shall follow II 10 that drec
ton, until reaches the line fixed BY the Uned States
by the treaty Of Spain in 1919 Texas thus gets vast
country, with cultivated people, sufficiently large to
form two three additional States-a country with
winch, Think the highest ambition OF her greatest men
ought TO be satisfied as State and as member oil TINS
Union.
But sir the second of these resolutions makes propo
siton 10 her, upon which desire say few words
II proposes that the government OF the United States will
provide tor the payment OF all that potion oil the debt OF
Texas for which pledged BY Iexasa pledge which
she had then authority to maKe-the duties receivable
upon her imports from foreign countries. How much 1t
will amount 10, have not yet been able to ascertain
yet been attained That is not very essential at this time,
because 10 the principle and not the amount winch Is
most worthy OF consideration Now, r the ground upon
which place this liability upon the part of the United
States pay the specified poon Of the debt is
new to- me but one whScn-f have, again and again.
and upon or two public occasions announced to be an
opinion entertained by and think It founded upon
principles of truth and eternal justice. Texas being an
independent power, recognised such by all the great
powers OF the eartn invites loans to be made to her,
order enable her the existing between
her and Mexico She tells those whom she invites to
make these loans, that, II they make them, the duties
upon foreign imports shall be sacrsdy pledged ior tne
The money is received; and the money is expended IN
the establishment Of her liberty and her Independence
But. after all this she annexes herself to the United
States, who thenceforward acquire right to the ident
cal pledge which she had made TO the public creditors TO
satisfy the allowance OF money which they had advanced
to her. The United States become the owners OF this
pledge, the recipients of all the duties payable in
all the ports OF Texas Now, sir, | do say, that in
my humble judgment, il there be honor, or JUSTICE or
truth among men, we do to the creditors who thus
advanced their money upon that pledge the reimburse
ment Of it, at all events, to the extent that the pledged
fund would have reimbursed il, If il had never been
in relation to thar pledge and to the allowance made in
virtue and upon the faith OF il, there were three PARTIES
mean after the annexahon-the United States, Texas,
and the creditor of Texas who had advanced his money
upon the faith Of this solemn pledge made by her, Though
Texas and the United States might do what they thought
proper, in justice they could do nothing to deprive that
creditor OF the pledge upon the faith Of which he had
advanced the money. SIR, il may be true that Is i'm
possible now to ascertain how much would have been
received from that source from he STATE Of Texas had
to there and TO inquire at the port oil Galveston
and ascertain what the amounts she receives
from her imports, and thence to estimate what she would
have received because by coming into the Union, all
her supplies received through the coasting trade
instead OF being received, they woud have been, from
the then foreign country OF the United States and other
foreign countries, and paying duties Considering the
extent OF her territories her increasing popuatonand
il is likely increaethe probability is that in some lew
years. there may have been amount received in the
ports of Texas--she remaining independent-which
would have gone TO the extinction OF the debt contracted
upon the faith OF the pledge TO which have referred
But, sir, il is not merely IN the discharge OF what
consider TO be valid and legitimate obligation resting
upon the United States discharge and pay the specified
debit upon that condition alone that this payment
is proposed be made II is also upon the further con-
dition that Texas shall renqush to the United States
Now, sir although. believe, she has not valid title
TO aay portion OF New Mexico she has claim, and for
the sake of general quiet and harnony-that condition
which ought TO be much the object OF the legislature
IL is OF private individuals in their transactions IN pr
vate life--we may do now what an individual in prl
vate circumstances would do, give something for the
REIMBURSEMENT of claim, though may deem II not
well founded for the sake of peace II is therefore pro-
posed in this fourth resolution, that shall pay the
amount of the debt which have described contracted
by Texas prior TO the annexation in consideration Of our
reception OF the duties applicable TO the extinction OF that
debt that Texas shall aso in consideration OF the sum
thus advanced, relinquish any claim which she has to
any portion. OF New Mexico
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