Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-10-12
TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO.

TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO.
The following Letter from distinguished sava,,t
and philanthropist has been placed in our hands.
with permission TO publish II:
Letter from Professor Hare to Senator Foote.
PHrLADxIrHIA, Ocrosxn, 1850.
Dean SIH AS you did the honor to publish in vour
History Of Texas letter written in reply addressed % me
by in which Ivindi
Gated the Texans sgns the blame upon them as cpo
M iuaders trust you will not believe cabsbls Of any
undue bias as respects their territorial claims IT. that me
rove to vndcate them from censue, wherefore should
now be disposed treat them with injustice Yet there is
one ground upon which the preensons up by the State
in question utterly Inconsistent with the prnci-
pies upon which the resistance Great Britain grounded
and which have been sanctioned by all parties in the
United States especially that party which has marched under
the banner Of Democracy.
alude the principle that people ought not to be bound
in law or by any legislation, treaty, political
pact TO which they have not been made parties with their
unequivoca consent in the making of which they
not been represented 1t the attempt violate this pnc
pie which led to the by which national independence
was established As the resistance Of the authority of Santa
Anna was jusaby predcated his attempt transform
Federal Government into centralized despoism which
both reasonably and legally considered releasing the people
Of Texas from allegiance to the Mexcan Government,
understand why the people Of New Mexico not
equally emancipated from any yrannic and Legitimate
troll by which he endeavoed to dispose Of them and their
tory under the treaymskng power Even il he had not
been captive but the contrary, had in the Mexican
metropolis been in the full enjoyment of his assumed power
backed by subservent Congress- the consequent treaty,
made ,Ohout the consent Of the people Of Nv MxO would
have been invalid in the estimation of every Democratic
Republican, and ought have been especially futile in the
eyes Of Texans who had entirely epudaed his petensions
as q ruler
By what process them have the people of Mexico become
part Of the sovereign STATE of Tsrass" When and
where did they consent be part of that sovereign
State Have they sent any representatives to any con-
venton by which constitution formed for them as part
off, sovereign State appears to that, without the
Of the inhabitants part of the territory which came
the possession Of the United States by the treaty with
Mexico be considered part of the State of Texas
agreeaby the principles Of oreahers upon which our
independence asserted those Of Democracy put forth
by Jefferson the foundation Of which the right Of man to
self government.
Is the sovereignty Of people to be aside by the words
sorergn State Are nominal States rights to abrogae the
actual rights Of Is the sovereignty of the people of one
part of country abrogate the claims the
eighty Of the people of another part Can any thing be
unjust than that the people Of Texas while claiming
eighty for themselves, should not only not concede similar
privilege the people Of New Mexico but should actually
to be their masters, and hold them bound by State
constitution in the making of which they had no partcpa-
ton
If such be the ideas in Texas what is there called State
sovereignty will elsewhere be deemed State usurpaton and
what is there set States rights will elsewhere be deemed
States wrongs were, indeed, notifying and la
menabe exhibition Of human inconsistency and cupidty if
upon such grounds and upon the dastardy deceptive udu
lent and reacherous grant of manaced usupe the rights of
Of people to choose their to be asde
and constitutional powers Of glorious Confedecy sup
planted bloody and anarchca warfare Was there ever
more papabe neglect of the precep take the beam out of
thine eye than that while the Governor Of Texas was
menacng the New Mexcans with the despoc and blood
shedding exercise Of sovereignty, which they had
the excessively sensitive the
nteposon Of the sovereign power Of the United States which
had by them been fully recognised especially obviously
the object Of the President merely to act the defensive
til Congress should settle the boundary by legislation
The Senator who displayed the portentous indgna-
ton at the idea Of the sovereign State of Texas being
aced by the national sword should have perceived that was
contemplated inepose the national power in offensive
defiance Of State but in the constitutional and consce
ous defence Of people, and in sustaining the supremacy
Of the national Judiciary in all questions arising under the
treaty-making power
With kind remembrance, yours, very truly,
ROBERT HARE.
HExRI s. FoorE, Esq, U. 8. Senator.