New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-06
rRE dnsILLA DISPUTE.


say IN favor Of universal and perpetual Peace-vors
its readers With this specimen of its Logic With
reference to the cloud gathering on our Mexican
frontier:
innprudeni in the Mexican Government
70 spd an armed force occupy N dfP1tsf ferrt,oy
sscb step beng virtually an appeal IRON dp, macy .
III ord and not prepared ~ say tnA me nsa
S,s.ss i. Uropp ia me-iiug this denomination with
COM movement We cannot suppose thai u en- u AT ana
bs- orders attack Tra even If The latter shoad INSIST
or r.m ming with his troops IN the disputed territory
All that necessary either I" our honor or sale y i u put
ours I've on par with Mexico IN respect to oeclpaDci
sno thus To keep the que-on OF tue IN foey tnce, uhl
shall be settled by diplomacy To occupy tue territory
ours lyes auo al the time insist tn the M-xcAn
tro shs rere woud b- 10 place ourselves "a the sane
pos;iio " col IN the Hexicans, w attempting 70
DECIDE he Question Of title Temporarily at l-4st ny
arrned occupancy. Either the he1ic4n force should be
vi hdrawu end own not enf-ror else oon nations
she nd have sn armed force within TIE territory and this,
W. trust bui do know is all that IS At present TO De
Insisted On By Our Government The FIST alternative
would be the safest; but the second need not oeset
conflict II The commanders of the respective forces are
reasonably prudent anc foTbeariog
There uas an unsettled boundary between Us aud
Mexico OF tbe close Of the last wsr-a new boundary
being esab sbed by that Treaty of Peace and PrOSi
sion made in that Treaty for lis clear and final demar
Ea,ion by Joint Commission The Commissioners ac-
cordircy met found the language Of the Treat! some
what equyccs and up confc ing pretension' watch
they fDsly adjusted by compromise. They agreed ex-
pressy on he point where the boundary between
the iwo countries should STRIFE doe West from
the Rio GraDde. few miles above Ell PssO, pro-
ceeded 10 run and mark the line accordingly, and trans
nitted the result 20 their yeetive Governments
Now tpere is no dispute as the position Of THIS line
so run By the Boundary Commissioners delegated by
and representing the two Governments, expressly
charged by thtm, 10 accordance with provision oil the
treaty, with tie duty Of ascertaniog determining aud
settling this Boundary. True, The Ireay provides
for Commissioner and Surveyor on each SIDE and
the Surveyar "a i Gray) accompanying our Com
missioner. j. r Bartlett did not accent 10 the point
fixed on by the L. s. Commissioner, along gl'h the
Mexican Commissioner and Surveyor as that at which
the Boundary strikes due West from the Re G'inde
separating New. Mexico from Chihuahua l, Is there
fore peri, city legitimate TO argue that the boundary Is
not sbsolurey settled aud may still be the saoject oil
negotiation and adjustment between the two Counnes
But. while the line agreed on by the Commissioners
representing each Government may not be deemed hna
and uncLanoeabe it certainly must be regarded, by all
who love Peace ard Justice as correct prime tae and
pending the establishment of another Neither Gov
eminent can justly be accused of aggression or dspo'
tion TO assert It's claims by force of while it keeps
To talk therefore as The Journal does Of Mexico being
required during the pendency of further efforts for adj
uftuent to abandon this strip OF territory, conceded by
our own Commissioner to be hers is absurd and afro
cious. We might as vel ask her to abandon all her
provinces east Of the Sierra Madre. let occupy
them jointly with her with an armed force, pending Nc
gotations to whether she should haze them IN
permanent possession.
Ia H., C,-~ r4t,ur bet+ trti
Gle Of the Treaty ofMexico, which reads as follows
tswttn tic Gov ernnen,s ofis Rpaenc
to he anon OF ,py stipulation m mi. epy or wn espsct
To s1 ber po.icusr conc.rans The poicslo % auno
lliiou Of e s"o Nsion Tire sdd pove' -nis "a ti t
he OF 4nole 40 manner f ference % ar
,evg sei ibe.else van f5r ri ead mutual pre-
,iors pacac egoIs' a.o by aese M ns eJ s9old
count b. o 70 1epa es essn o. n.' y VI AN >a oy me
oecns il.e ta hye .-d te soiet Of
peaos sod nelloihod ui-r r5ri- A' o' o' 'i,
side ~ o. 0a' cg Nation esd. sl Dds ah clr'r be- 'o,
/, altogether couraabe VITA t.s nature II tAe cieFees or Tho
--Tnere Is The basis Of fair honorable and peace
fui adjustment Of the new Boundary dspite. already
indicated and commended the yerg Treaty on which
tlat sImte is leunded Let each Government respect
temporail, tie boundary which their Two Commission
eIs bave agreed upon ac 20 keep its officers and
troops within tie limits thus assigned ir aud let the nl-
cn that feels acgreved by thai Boundary pro 'ose ne"
Commission or a Foreign Arbitration for the conclusive
sad binding settlement OF the difference. Whichever
shall reject this course and proceed the BOan-
5ary thus officially established with Civil jurisdiction or
Military io.ce will stand before Heaven aud the civil
lied world convicted Of a reckless and criminal trans
with the Prsce Of Nations and the Progress Of inAind
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