New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-05
The Texas Manifesto.

greater par. Of New-Mexico, and ask for 1t
the most careful scrutiny. No document Of
equal moment has appeared for months
past. We ask attention especially to the
following points:
/. There is manifested no purpose nor
willingness on the part Of Texas to submit
her claim to the Santa F6 country to any
tribunal, adjudication nor arbitration what
ever. On the contrary, we are told that her
right to the disputed territory L" is consid-
cred Perfectly herself. Yet Texas we'll
knows that it is considered no right at all,
but an impudent and baseless assumption,
by at least the great party triumphant
throughout the Country in the last Presi-
Dental Election, including the President
and Vice President so chosen. Not to 90
beyond the record, this party always openly
and decisively secuted the claim of Texas to
New-Mexico as did the great majority of
the third or special Free Soil party in the
contest Of '48-as did and do thousands of
the only party which ever seemed to regard
her claim with complacency-to wit, the
party which supported Gen. Cass, and to
which Texas has strongly attached herself
There can be no question Of the fact that
large majority of the People are against the
claim Of Texas, while those who family
countenance it do so under the double pres
sure of a party and sectional interest.
2. Texas kneso that the claim to 'the
Santa Fe country was seriously questioned
in the other States, and came into the Union
with tina. knowledge, expressly asserting to
this stipulation of the Annexing Resolu-
tons:
"ssid State to be formed subject to the adjust
ment By thts y ederal Government of all questions
Of boundary which may arise with other Govern
ments."
The reference here is distinctly, unequivo-
caDy to her claim to the Boundary of the
Rio Grande, which she had never been able
to enforce, which Mexico had utterly scout
ed, and which the United States refused to
be committed TO. Our Government, as a
condition Of Annex ing, claimed the right to
settle her disputed Boundary, and Texas
fully conceded it. Had not MIR. Polk push
ed forward Gen. Taylor to the Rio Grande,
bringing on war, the right of the Federal
Government to negotiate Treaty with Mex
leo fixing the Boundary at the Nueces or the
Medina, and the 32d or even the 30th paral-
lei of North latitude, would have been I'M
questionable. But we rushed into an I'M
just War upon Mexico in support of her
claim to the lOicer Rio Grande as her boun-
Diary, and won that territory for her by the
sword; and now Texas assumes that in do
ing SO We deprived ourselves of the right in
disputably conceded to us by her of settling
her boundary Northward of her actual pos
sessions! The arms of the Union conquer
cd New'MexicO, which hers had never been
able to do; and because we conquered it she
holds that we cannot decide that she shall
not have it, although, if it still belonged to
Mexico, we indisputably might do so!
3. Texas expressly admits in this mani
festo that the People Of New Mexico, who
are some Seventy to One Hundred Thou
sand, reject and abhor her rule. She does
not claim that even a party, a faction,
fragment, Of that People wish to have her
Jurisdiction extended over them. 1t is the
settled determination (says Gov. Belly of |
the people mot part, nor a majority,
merely, but the whole People to form a
State Government in utter disregard of |
our rightful boundary With the inIabi-
t0nfs Of Santa If,' (says the GOvernor) Il
consider the Issue clearly and distinctly
made There is no shadow of pretense
that the New-Mexicans are oyerswed So.
duced or persuaded by the Federal Govern
ment into resistance to the sovereignty of |
Texas. No. the complaint distinctly is that
that Government does not directly aid nor
openly permit Texas to subjugate the New !
Mexicans to her dominion by the power or
he terror of her arms.
4. Texas, through her Governor, pleads
her tolls and sacrifices in the cause of In
dependence. But she never toiled nor sac.
ifced for New-Mexico, unless in sending
mt single volunteer expedition, which the
promptly used up. New
dexico was conquered by the arms Of the
United States there was not even a SQUAD
on Of Texans engaged in the conquest.
md if Texas rates so high her efforts for
Independence, why should she seek to crush
70 cherished independence of the New
exiean,f She cannot hate any Foreign
IN thav hate hera