Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-07-11
= Sneck of Civil war.

A Speck Of Civil War. (
Private letters from Washington inform US, says
The Pennsylvania Inquirer. that much excilementI
prevails in relation to Texas and New Mexico.-s
The Hon. A. H. Stevens has addressed letter to-
the National Intelligencer, in which ne says
The first Federal gun thai shall be flied againsl
the people Of Texas, without the authority OF law
will be the signal for the freemen from the Della
ware to the Rio Grande to rally to the rescue
Whatever differences of opinion may exist in theS
public mind touching the proper boundary Of Tex
as nothing can be clearer than that it is not ques-
Ition to be decided by the army BE not deceived,
and deceive not others, "Inter ara legeS silent.
iWben the "Rubcon' is passed, the days Of this:
Republic will be numbered You may considerI
The "pallant State of Texas" too weak for con-
lest with the army OF the United States. But you!
should recollect tina, the of Texas, IN SUCH
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
the Union, with seven millions of people, who,
knowing their rights, dare maintain them,' cannot
4 be easiiy conquered. Sapienti6us Uer6um sat-"
Gen Rusk recently said in the Senate, that a
collision was about to take place. Gen. Houston
also said that Texas would assuredly attempt to
enforce her claims by arms, if no other means were
Texas has ordered out large force of militia and
/ Mr.. Smith, the delegate from New Mexico, ex-
presses the opinion that several thousand men are
now on the route pursued by the memorable Santa
Fe expedition of 1912. All this looks serious, but
we trust that the picture is exaggerated. Texas
could, no doubt, readily conquer Santa Fe, but the
authority of the United States would promptly in
Eterpose. And yet, such an event, according to
! Mr.. Stevens, would rally the whole South
sWashington correspondent Of the New York Com
Tmercial, alludlng to the subject, says
q 1.-THE Mexican war was school Of training for
persons of this class. Ii is reasonable to expect,
as it is expected, that these men will flock to the
standard Of Texas, they did TO the ensign OF the
miserable marauding leaders, whose plratlcal al
tempt upon Cuba has just so disgraceiully failed.
Mr. Stephens theory as to the feelings and cause
ef the Southern States will prove correct if large
snumber of such characters called and accept
ed into the service of Texas, and are recognized
by the authorities and citizens of the States from
I (which they go as any thing more than rowing Dal-
pettys, ready to fight upon any side in any cause
{ which promises them clothing and subsistence.
8 " But whatever may be thought OF the claims OF
Texas or her auxiliares in the proposed contest
against the general Government of the Union, the
people of no part of the confederacy should for
get that New Mexico was never in the possession
8 of Texas that il was conquered by the arms OF
the United States in 1876; that it has been occu-
pied and governed by its officers and soldiers with
zoui interruption from that time that after this
conquest and occupancy, as complete as they
scould have been had the parent government been
{ fannlhilaled, this Government bought it with the
treasure of the nation that soldier or agent OF
STexss was ever seen before the war with the Uni
zted States, by any inhabitant of Texas, but as
3captive and as such but once; and that no effort
swas ever made by Texas to give effect to her pa
8 per claim, as absurd and contemplate as If 1t had
zextended to the Pacific ahd the North Pole, Until
slong after the conquest by the United States, and
until after it was almost forgotten by her own peo-
pie"