The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-03-25

States tho which they may be entitled by
any arrangement which may bo agreed upon between
them Ind these orders being nled In the treasury, will be
ample security tothe United States ana protect us from the
details be prescribed by the authority OF the Treasury
Department"
The has generally gone abroad that after the
passage OF this law Texas undertook to scale her debt and
fix rate al which she would pay IT, This is mistake. In
ls4s years before the passage OF the boundary act
she Ied the rate at which she would pay her debt She
ascertain the outstanding Indebtedness and classify it,
and afix 10 il the rate at which il made available to
the State That law enacted upon the suggestion
OF number OF the creditors OF Texas; published
according to its terms in various public wspapers
throughout the Union and objection made its
the boundary act of $780, appropratng the $40 000O 900
Nearly all OF the claimants submitted 10 lis terms by
fling their demands with the auditor and comptroller OF
the State OF Texas,
The reports of the auditor and comptroller fixing the
amounts which Texas received for these liabilities,
before the Senate and commented upon by several
senator's and known to all before the boundary law
passed showed TO the honorable senator from Ken
lucky (r. Clay) at the time. and he read and comment
ed upon it, The from Maryland alluded 10 il in
the speech from which, have read an extract as did many
others.
When the committee of thirteen raised for the pur-
pose OF settling this matter, claimed that the amount TO
be put IN as indemnify to Texas for the lands ceded by
her should he the OF twelve and half millions, be-
cause the face o the amount OF the debit reported BY
the auditor and comptroller was twelve and half mil
lions placed the report OF those officers before that
committee al the request OF the honorable senator at the
head OF that committee, (Mr. Clay,) who is now no
more The whole of the papers were laid before them.
also claimed ha. we were entitled to this amount not
only account of the land which ceded in the set.
emeni OF The boundary question, but because the United
States liable to Texas in damages for agrant viola
ton Of treaty stipulation 70 the amoun, OF more than
two-thirds o that debt; and now repeat that the United
States liable 10 the State of Texas in than two
thirds of the amount OF this debt for violation of a
treaty stipulation, Tor which, if they had been guilty OF
such violation with the government of England. any
other government able to enforce the observance OF trea
ties they would have been glad to get clear BY paying
twenty millions OF dollars desire 10 prove what say
as go along, and therefore will read the thirty-th
article oil the treaty between the United States and Mex
leo, to which refer. It is in these words:.
"ARr. xxxII. II is likewise agreed that the
uacting parties SHALL by all the means in their power,
nations who nhabt the lands the lines and riv
the this object both parties bind themselves
expressly restrain by force all hostes and incursons
on the part of the Indian living within respect
i've boundaries that tho United States of will
not suffer their Indians to attack the citizens OF the United
Mexican States, the Indians inhabtng their territory
will the United Mexican States permit the Indians
siding within their territories commit hosties against
the citizens OF the United States of America nor against
the Indians residing within the limits Of the United States
In any manner whatever"
MIR. President, this article of the treaty shame
fully violated by the United States before the revolution
in Texas took place The Creeks, the Shawnees, the
Caddoes, and the Cherokees with various other tribes,
to the number o over two thousand warriors, went over
and settled themselves upon the soil OF Texas against
the provisions of The treaty which refer. and from
that day 10 this have been committing depredaons upon
the people Of Texas and Mexico.
Mr.. BAYARD. The treaty was with Mexico. not
with Texas.
Mr. RUSK. know that the senator from Delaware
good lawye and maglnes that he will get clear OF
the obligations incurred because the treaty was made
with Mexico, and not with Texas. Sir, there is treaty
OF the same now with Mexico, and ii is violated
every day There is not soldier there TO enforce It Let
knowledge, will show him before get through, that it
is only in violation OF law, but II is violation OF
every principle OF humanity and good neighborhood upon
the part OF this government to have treated Texas IN the
she has done with regard TO these Indians Sir,
may have some feeling this subject II may amuse
the senator from Delaware. 1t did moi amuse 10 know
that women and children were massacred by these In,
dams, and that this government resorting TO special
pleading TO avoid the responsibilities following upon
the faith IT had pledged The attention Of this govern
ment called to this nfraclon OF the treaty, and al
though the obligation admitted, steps taken
10 comply with lis provisions Texas revoluonIZed
and, sir the senator from Delaware knows well
do, that that revolution gave US the legal right to enforce
all OF the obligations of this treaty against the United
States, especially when the United States claimed the
benefit OF it's provisions, against Texas, as they after
wards did, a. their negotiations show Nobody, !
take il, dispute that the United States bound
by the obligations OF the treaty ii they claimed It's
benefits. When Texas was part OF Mexico, they
were bound BY its obligations towards Texas as well
towards every other part OF Mexico. When Texas
took up arms, she had overwhelming force 10 con-
tend with. and in the darkes, hour OF her troubles when
SHE could no, muster over thousand efficient men,
under apprehensons for the safety of their families
from the United States Indians than they did for them
selves under the certainty that they had 10 meet hve
times their number OF the enemy in the field These In
dams were there have said, violation OF the treaty
Il was known TO the officers OF the United States that
they mbodIed under an agreement with Mexico TO
extermna,e the Texans and thai they 10 have the
lands OF Texas from Mexico If they succeeded. Our
wives and children exposed to their mercess war
fare. They hac to abandon the country We could not
abandon posts before invading enemy coming on
our western borders Our women and children could not
fight the Indians OF the United States, whom you were
bound prevent from intrudng upon our so but who
were there under promise from the Mexican govern
that they should have the Texan lands II they ex
terminated u.s. The result robbery and devastation
OF the whole country Our and children fled, and
everything they left behind them taken by these In
disns and left nearly beggars a, the close OF
the campaign OF 1896
After the close Of that campaign our debt did not
much exceed million of dollars. A law was passed
by Texas to issue promssoy notes. and when they were
frat issued they went at seventy, eighty, and DiDeiy
cents on the dollar. We had domain larger than
France. We bad nearly two hundred millions oil
acres of the finest public land upon the North American
lean foo, and upon the faith Of this public domain we
sssed promseory notes. II il had not been for the
Indians OF the United States, who rendered public
domain perfectly useless, could have raised fund
sufficient TO have met the issues OF those promissey
notes But they not only prevented US from using the
began war upon our whole border under agreement
with Mexico, which was known to the officers OF this
government, often and often repeated TO them These
Indians began war under the stipulation with Mexico
that they 10 eytermlnate us and take lands
These facts could make abundantly manifest, II had
bearing upon this subject but time presses that
a them. nd shal begin with treaty.