The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-07-16

~ decided BY the compstent ahthoiAa This is enough
~: Is. 81 .o Of IL ss sss GHs .nd there
~ dis4pe sbo4 them. He spoke for himself and biz
words viii st.n1 monument to bic memory monu-
|en bis judgment TO the right. aud his fmne ~
ia nantanlng it, II his last message and the sym
Dol OF his chsracerbriei. plain, honest wse firm Ill
was worthy 10 b. the list message Of General Taylor
sd viii ~ into the heads aHd hearts OF the people, and
will the memory Of his country longer than
[graven words remain upon stone or brass make
no allusion to the present President l. would be uDpar
Iiamenary and INDIGENOUS to do lie has sent mol
message But are bound to believe that he will do his
duty, he understands and al all events we have no
right 10 act upon contrary supposilon-o suppose maj
THE President will not maintain the altitude OF his prede
cessor and thereby make necessary for Congress 10 dol
something IN his place
MIR. President. WE are government Of divided pow
erslegislatve. executive and ludical-and no one de-
parlment has right 10 that another department
will not do i~ duty. and theenpon assume those duties
itself or do something thai ought moi to do, on the sup
position that the other departments will do nothing such
assumptions and lDefferences are the bane OF All gov
crnment, and the excuse for much wrong. We have
seen how mistaken it such thing OF the
late PresIden-t was To suppose that he wondno DO
his duty IN maintaining the possession OF New MEXICO
land make that suppOsion our excuse Tor giving her
|away. II may be equally mistaken 10 make the same
supposion OF his but will not suppose one
way or the other rest on the principle OF parliament
|txy law and decorum and will not suppose or presume
10 delinquency OF duty the part OF any other depart
men OF the government, and rising above all party feel
|ngs shall hold self ready in the case OF President
Fillmore, that of President Taylor to sustain him
in the fn execution OF all his constitutional duties when
believe him to b. right
The late President, in that same message, informed
Congress that be reason TO apprehend that Texas
would practically interfere with the possession of !ne
United States. The expression honorable to him
ii much as to say that he did not believe thal
Texas would comm, breach OF law and order and Set
example OF violence and bloodshed in the assertion OF
contested claim do not know whether circumstances
had occurred TO induce him TO qualify that opnon but
Join him in III and II, unfortunately, should turn out 10
be mistake and Texas troops should be marched upon
New Mexico, have my future course TO md IN my past
conduct and to do by the Texas authorities what did by
the Missouri authorities, in similar case few years
|ago. And here touch point which have never made
Fpublic relation to my own conduct, and that OF my
Then colleagues the boundary dispute between the State
LOT Missouri and the Territory OF Iowa Everybody a
troops marched baaliOns and prepared to night battles
but no one knows how these wsrke preparations were
Missouri delegation here heard that their governor was
marching troops upon Iowa. they got together consulted
on the CASE and addressed private letter 10 the governor
Ito let him know that they could not support him IN snch
movement, and recommending the cessation OF military
aud the commencement OF judicial proceedings The
advice, something else prevaled military operations
stopped, judicial proceedings began; Missouri lost the
land but gained the honor OF submitting TO the laws OF
the land.
Dr. Linn, whose brother and nephew sit my left
f(Mr. DODGE, OF Wisconsin, and Mr. DODGE, OF lowa.l
then my colleague in the Senate ex-governor Miller
and MIR Edwards colleagues in the House OF Repre-
senta,ves We united in the letter, and. satisfied With
it's effect, never told what we had done nor should
now tell il except to give the example of Missouri in
case similar TO that OF Texas and to show IN my past
conduct what may be my future conduct If troops are
marched upon New Mexico The senator from Iowa,
nephew OF Dr. Linn [Mr. AUGUSTUS DobGE] was lien
delegate from Iowa, and knew all about our COM 1 ex
cept The letter for law and order, and the ppor
of the constituted authortiesfor doing my own duty
in nv own sphere and leaving to the executive and
! the judiciary to do theirs in their spheres.
return 10 my motion-the motion to strike out the
committees ne which begins twenty miles above FL
Paso and 10 insert the which propose. and which
begins three hundred miles below that point II the
line propose is adopted, we shall save all New Next
CO. gel the surplus territory TO which Texas has right
fu Claim and have jushabIe cause for paying her q
good sum of money. II the committees line Is adopted,
there will be Justification for paying Texas cent
and upon the question oil these two lines naked and
apart from all other questions now wish the vote OF
| the Senate, and ask the yeas and NAYS
| Mr.. RUSK, having obtained the floor said: do not
Intend to occupy much OF the time OF the Senate, IN an
swer 10 some OF the positions OF the honorable senator
from Missouri with which desire to take ISSUE and
more especially with regard the map which he takes TO
prove common title Texas will take that map and
will 90 BY it, because BY that map the country OF Santa
Fr ,ecoz nred too BY the authorities Of this government
10 laid off, and extends the forty second degree OF north
latitude and in portion of that can single loot OF
land described New Mexico be found lying on this SIDE
| Of the Rio Grsnde. -
Al the suggeston of several senators MIR RUSk moved
an adjournment; which agreed to- and
The Senate adjourned