elo tnersaitehy,' they worts fis bcdoms one; ' We nro told that "many of the toWns country would yield• to this .sentiment of l people, homozoneoun in nothing - but in tin which are marked on the trap cuts.' immobility, andstand stilt' that mighty ! imperial deems A charts crtrthfic was ed to exist"—some of these with twenty work of improvement, material and intel- 1 got up air IheoClON3il3o, and by a kind-oror thirty thousand inhabitants. . . tectual, which it has been doing for goner. politintal legerdemain--if notns dexterous I can afford but one extract for the , ations, and will he called utpon to do for at least ns rapid as the -feats of the necro- .tleeds of the Austrian butcher, letter generations yet to come. triineer—rill the traits of rintionality, cher. ktiown.bythatcpithet than by thessiame of •'"Let not the s tireiti be alarmed; where islisid. : by the essociatedS members •ofthe :Haynau ; but that distinction would have there is free Inquiry, there is no dang,er. monarchy, were swept away, and they all 'given him power and place under Nero. ,There is'a fund of practical goo'd sense, as , beCtitno Austrians by this net Of arbitrary ! well as, a deep - morel and religiouslfeeling, . " Haynau put 13 Hungarian peasants to power, as offensive to their pride a - I s l was ' the raelfs 'one after the other, tolored in the people Of thiti country, which will subversive' of their. tights. Hungary was • them ts, t ell the: con c ern ing . to diSapperirfroin the map of inde d t -.• • Ie ~ truth an up; hold on - to our institutions , not with. blind pen en , ' pare:illy fortified town. ,tena . !city, but with a firm resolution to main- natiena, end all its institutions while 'wisely admitting were pia. , They all isms death, true to their coun- 'thin them •and ced nt the mercy of a .foreign court; and I t r y, : • I improvement, rejecting impracticable and while the empty form of a - kind of repro- I I . had taken a memorandum of the the dangerous projects, Often. originating inl eentritien, was given to her, in a jerking as- !letter of a Hungarian lady, who was flog- honest though mistaken views. Let us sembly, divided by language, races, and ! ged in a public square after her husband not fear tho • progress of opinion. The interests, all substantial power was reserV- had committed suicide and her son been, world is probalsly.yek, very "far in its ex 'ed - to the Emperor and his cabinet. •,, • !comp elled to enter as a soldier the Austrian treine point of improvement. Before that • But 'Kossuth has himself depicted the ' arm y;'butlT b ' s or ear,having re no • pleasu re ' • is reached, many a project will be propose conditionof his country in words of truth ,in this retrospection of human suffering.. ed and rejected—many an experiment and power, which appeal to every heart: Even the Cologne Gazette, subject to tried and failed—and a spirit of investiga' " Nothing but the most revolting:trench-, Prussian censona, when alluding te the ter- ! tion will be abroad, dangerous only when • cry ; the most tyrannical oppression, andlrible scenes at Arad, and while _tweaking I met by force, instead or argument. • 1 ' cruelties unheard of in the words of histo- with reserve, sufficiently indicates its sea- lam not going to reason with this feel ' ry—nothing but the infernal doom ofhn• timents, and +says : "WO' pass over the i in" , whichavouldhave enjoined upon our ' iiihilation to her national 'existence,, pre- ground of these capital sentences. ''They' fathers to stand still and suffer, instead of • served through a thousand years, throtigh Ore the same ; as those assigned by' the rushing into the danger era revolution, not ' adversities so numerous—were'able to Austrian courts-martial." ' ' ' i only because lam sure it is not a senatori -6 arouse her to resist the fatal s strelte;aim- ' Mnrtyra and victims, there were hoble i til one, but because iris entrenched be •ed at her very life—to enable her to re. examples among then) offirmness' and pa. hind barriers which • reason cannot over -4 pulse the tyrannical assaults of the un- I triotism, , Which will illustrate the pages of come. To such, not here, but elsewhere, 6 grateful Hapsburgs—or accept the strug- ' Hungarian history in all time to come:— the example of the French chamber may • isle for life, honor, and liberty, forced Prominent among these was Batthyani, divest this proposition ofhalf of its terrors. 6 upon her:" • revered through Hungary, and who was The other halt' may be safely left to time. • • t3he did accept it, and the • Hungarian condemned by art:Austrian 'Court 'to'. the They will gradually learn that the great people rose ns one man to resist these punishment - of death. PieVious to the political truth of our day is contained in gross aggressions; and their gallant exer. revolution he had held a high office, which the sentiment recently anounced by the tions would, in rill probability, have been he resigned ; and ho was sentenced "for disting uished senator from Massachusetts ' an age of progress. " Crowned by success, had not the Common loosing the ties between Hungary, and —"We are in And the eloquent remarks or Mr. Can sympathy adespotisin brought a new elf. the Imperial Royal States," and "for hay emy into the field. The Russian scented ing entered the army of the enemy."- ping, when placed in ci retunstanees bear the blood from afar, and Hungary fell, Rome—l mean ancient Romeovotild i ingsome .resemblance to ours, may lessen like Poland, before the Cossack and the have decreed him an ovation ; Austria seinlapprehension among those—and there are Pundour—an everlasting reproach to the him to the scaffold! True to the instincts many in this country—who believe that tantemnors of the laws of God . and man, of his nature, his country was at his heart no good can come out of our American Whtinecomplished these nefarious schemes, and her name upon his lips, as death clo- Nazareth, but that what comes front !Seg. The - issue was made known to the Czar sed the scene of Austrian vengeance.—; laud is best and wisest. by his general, in a despatch whose brevi- "My country forever" were the last' Words I "Those persons," said that distinguish ty Sparta might have envied: "Hungary- he uttered.. i ssi ... ... man, and in a similar spirit with that hes at the feet of your Majesty." Mem- Now, sir, I say it without reserve, that displayed by the sen *tor from Kentucky, °sable words; and to he remembered' in a power thus setting at defiance the opin- almost at the same time, and while taking all future time! The . foot of one man up- ion of the world,and violatin g the best e :!. a kindred course, "seem to me to imma on ten millions of people 1 Imperial arm- ing of our nature, in the very wantonnesslgine that, under no possible circumstan- ' Hance can go no further. He who does of successful cruelty, has no bond of innun ces, can an honest - non endeavor to keep, not instinctively and indignantly scorn with the American people. The sooner his country upon a line with the progress such pretensions would have opposed the the diplomatic intercourse is ' dissolved— of political knowledge, and to adapt its declaration of independence on this side with marks of indignant reprobation—the course to the various circumstances of the of the water, and the.great charter ofKing sooner shall we perform an act of public world. ' Such an attempt is branded as an John on the other, duty, which, at home and ' abroad, will indication of mischievous intentions." He' I have presented this brief review of meet with feelings of kindred sympathy recommends "the pressing of generous Hungarian rights and wrongs, not us the from all, wherever they may be, who are and noble .sentiments into the service of direct Motive for the adoption of this reso- not fit subjects for the tender mercies of his country." lutkin--;that I choose to put upon another Austrian power. Too much caution is not . wisdom, ground, the ground of atrocious cruelty— I have already said that at least one though rashness may be folly. He who burl:emus° i desire to take from Austri- representative body in Europe had pursued does not keep himself upon the time of an advocates (if there are any in this a course not very dissimilar to this, in or- knoicedgc will soon ,find the world ahead country—lhnow there are none in this der to mark with their disapprobation a of him, and that his' associations belong to Senate) the last excuse for these violations palpable violation of national rights, under a past generation. of the common feelings of our nature, by circumstances of peculiar injustice, origi. If there are any here so fastidious as to showing that the attack upon Hungarian natins in the basest cupidity. It was the desite plain truths to be disguised by independence was as reckless and unjus- Cham ber of Deputies of France, which, to "honeyed words," and who are disposed tifiable as were the cruelties inflicted upon their honor, year alter year condeinnd the to 'arraign the freedom of debate upon this the Htingarian people. las; partition, by which the remnant Of occasion, I recommend to them to go heel After the political catastrophe came the Poland—all that was left of the land of ' and learn wisdom from the discussions, in catastrophe of vengeance, still more aft Sobieski and Kosciusko—was broken into the English House of Commons and in flicting to humanity. . The love of power provinces, and seized by the same triple our own Congress, and especially to take being gratified, the love of revenge claim- combination, doomed to infamy by the first a - lessoeinthesetiquette of political debate, ed its hour of triumph, and well did it .en- division of that unfortunate kingdom.— where h uman rights are in question, from joy it. The world, in the darkest period The answer to the King's speech was the Brougham and Clay—l use these names of its history, has rarely witnessed' such occasion usually taken b y the chamber to historically—those masters of the power scenes of gratuitous cruelty as marked the express their opinion upon grave questions of scathing rebuke. esttiblishment of Austrian supremacy over of policy, foreign and domestic ; and for Mr. President, there is one topic I de unhappy Hungary. The moral tenden- some years, during the reign of Louis sire briefly to touch. In the allusionS I cies of' the ago are to check the effusion of Phillippe, a reproof was thus annually ad- have seen in many of the papers, and in blood; to stop these judicial murders for ministered to the royal spoilers— a re p roo f conversations I have heard here respecting political offences, so styled—often, indeed, which excited much sensation in Europe, this subject, the name and personal claims AS jpi this case, the efforts oftrue and tried and was known to give much offence to the of the gentleman who has recently &par patriots—men who do honor to our dm- high personages thus arraigned at the bar ted upon a mission to Austria have been mon nature by their noble qualities - -to of public opinion. I believe that for some brought into question, as though they had secure the blessings of freedom to'their time, this free expression of eon d ernna . some necessary connexion with the ob- i country. It is honorable to 'France and , tion by the chamber, Wit did not interrupt, ject of this resolution. I trust, sir,s England that political martyr , arc no !on , ,„ rendered very precarious the diplomatic that these views will not be entertained .er considered by public epin:a t i a s vile I relutior:s bet % eun France and Russia ; here. The measuro proposed is wholly ! malefactors; and I believe not a drop of i which latter power seemed peculiarly sen. indeperitlent of such personal considera- I blood has been shed in either country fort sative to these rebukes tbr the adoption of tions, and had we a minister At Vienna,! offences of this kind during a period alma- this truly Muscovite process of national equal in character, and experience to ny years. But the Austrian code, in grin- aggrandizement. One of these paragraphs Franklin or Jefferson, it ought not change ciple and practice, out-Dracos Draco; and _that in the address of January, 1840— in the slightest degree, the course of our Jeffries himself loses half his claim to in- I will here introduce, not only on account action. This proposition is ore far higher famous distinction, when placed in coin- of the proper sentiments it contains, but to nature than any questiOn of personal qual- .petition with Austrian judges and generals. show that the chamber felt free to census iflcations. Let not its importance be pc- , I am not going to spread before you a a great act of injustice, in *terms not less fected by any such considerations. map of these enormities. They have re. forcible than just :But, sir, I owe it to the relations subsist sounded. through both hemispheres for ma= "In all the questions which divide the ing between that gentleman and myself ny months. I shall merely glance at a t world, France invokes but justice; she de- thus publicly to say, that if I were called few general factS, that the true character i islands only, the respect due to all rights. upon to give my vote upon his nomination of Austrian supremacy may be justly aP- Can she cease to recall to Europe those of divested of all questions but his personal preciated. , ' . the ancient Polish nation, and the guaran- fitness for the office, that vote would be' . .Let.the,pntriot leader himself speak.— ties that repeated treaties gave to a genes- given in his favor. I have known him , `ln his .letter to Lord Palmerston,after ous people, whose misfortunes time seems since his boyhood; and mutual regard and' crossing the Turkish ' frontier, and when only to aggravate?" kindness have always subsisted between , he feared the Porte.would yield to the me- , lam gratified at being able to refer to us. I consider him fully competent to naces of Russia, mind while refusing to this example of representative firmness; discharge the duties of a foreign mission; save his life by becoming a renegade to and though I do not seek to disguise that. and Ido him this act of justice. because he his religion, he makes this powerful appeal: our action- e -if we act at all—will extend is absent, and exposed to severe censure, "Time pieiSeS. Our doom may in a the principle further than it was carried in and because, as a politiCal opponent I "few days be scaled. Allow me to make France, still the feeling of national sympa-, may thus speak of him, without any dan 'an humble personal : toques% 'l am a thy for national wrongs was at the founda- ger of being misunderstood. But, sir, ' 4 man, my Lord, prepared to thee the Lion of the movement there, as it will be while I say this, I shall alio, and with e- s i worst; and I can die with a free look at l here. We have many good men among qual truth, that his departure from the U. ' 'Heaven, as I have lived. , But lam also us, who arc alarmed 'at any proposition nited States on the very, eve of the meeting ' a husband, son, and father. My poor, for public action, unless the very same of the Senate interposes, is in my opinion, ' ''true-hearted wife, my .children, and My thin,, ' e lies been done here or elsewhere.— insurmountable objections to his con fi rma- .. • '• noble - old' mother, are wandering about If' the case is not in the books, no remedy tion.. Whether a foreign minister should 'Hungary. They will probobly -seen fallexecutive a - can be applied, however imperious the ,cir. ever go abroad upon a mere execu p ' 6 into the 'hands of those Austrians, who cumatances. They have an instinctive pointinent, upless in rare cases of public 6 delight in torturing • even feeble women, dread of progress, believing that what has urgency, may' well, admit Of - doubt. I do 0 , of child been done has been well done', and. not say this as' a party man, because I 6 and with h - whore :the innocence . . hood : 6 is no protection against. on yersecut. ; ought to be done again, and .that nothing know 'full Well that no such a reserve has I'Conjure your excellency; in the name else +slmuld be done. ' s • recently been, imposed upon these appoint ' 'of the Most 4110, to put a stop; to .thesoThi • s spiritof standing still--conserva- me ats, by. any administration. ' But us the 'Cruelties by your powerful mediation, & tism, J.believe, is the fashionable, name' for Session of the Senate 'approaches [ the pro lit in England, an is becomine• so here, eednopt s becorrics the more, improper, and illy to accord to my wife and c hit-, , , • I While both the n ral and physical , world ' utterly indefensible . , ~when it occurs , upon '.very-ev of its commencement. I giving evidence that change . iss one of ,the , •, e, :. to great laws ,of nature--elittle becomes ; 0.,1 tp,.1% , g parpgr4ph. in•otio s of, the ci . ty,pppess, iuntry like ours,. which : , is advancing in only three or .four (lave ago, etming that ; a to career of improvement with an aced.' diatinguished citizen, for whoa IlittV,e rated pace unknown in the .history of the! much p : ereonalrespect s bed felt Kentucky,- 'orld. •s' .. , . lon the 22d of December to . p r o ceed upon a .. . Standing still ' I,„.Why, sir, ,you might !mission : to Mexico:, He nev,er . will receive s.well, attempt to, follow the .exampie.of .my,yote to remain; 'here. i l'itO not under. the Jewish .leader,, and say to the' sun; stetid, Shia unSeernly, haste-s-thia' tliott lteitatinhou st il t upon Gibeon, 'and .thon ; from. the, jialgenterit,,of tiro B . ofiate,'', 'as ieen;in:the , ; valley of ,Ajelen," a nd'ex, though : Conti tma tion : .were ..Maddred wee. le c t telissobeyeds askte, expect Mat s this I fusty by 00, public exPwase, Puts incurred, • , • .„,„„ 'and a sort of obligation consequently im posed upon this depository of a portion of the 'executive power to conform its action to the action of the President. I trust that no such motives will influence our conduct but that we shall take a course which, while it asecrts - the rights of, the - coontry,'l will restore to the. ,Senate efficient con- . trot, and will yield.nothing: 7 4 will hot isay, to, the cupidity, but I will say. to the ear nest desire ofoffice, Which wits never more powerful nor more powerfully displaye than now. Rom Me Pennsylvanian ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA. This mail steamship arrived at New York'on the 16th, bringing London dates to Dec. 28, and Liverpool to Dec. 29. We gather little news from the papers and letters brought' by her. The most inter , : esting or important we note below: Letters from Rome contradict the pre-. viously announced return of the Pope to Rome on the 2d of January. It is now asserted ihat his HOliness had postponed his decision till the Bth inst. The archduke John has resigned the of fice of regent of Germany- The papers have nothing further -res pecting the alleged conspiracy of the no. i bles against the Emperor of RdSsia. A !recent ukase of the Emperor summons all his subjects who are abroad, to return home, on penalty of the confiscation of their property. The New York ship Oneida, was w reek ed on the 19th Dec., off the Island of Guernsey. N lives were lest, and but a srmill portion ot 'the cargo. Letters from V:enna, Dee. 1, confirm the ace:Quilt of the Servian insurrection,! but add nothing to the intelligence already' ' received by telegraph. The circumstance of the cordons being raised on the Turk. ish frontier, is relie.riled as a most impor-j butt feature in this insurrection, as all those Hungarian and Polish refugees who I have the means of escaping from the ens li tody of the Porte, will be thus able to join the Servion insurgents. These letters, so state if Jellachich is too discerning a man not to see that the present govern thent is so rash, violent, weak, unstable and friendless, that its endurance for a nother year is next to impossible. lithe Croats revolt en masse, it is not easy to see what card remains for the Ban but to put himself at the head of the movement.' That he will use all his influence to retard, such an event is beyond doubt. But caus- 1 es are in operation to bring it about which are beyond his control. Jellachich left Vienna suddenly for A gram. It seems to be thought that there would be more chance of Jellachich re signing his Banship, if he could afford tot do without the pay attached to that office. The Agnes Aurensfelt, from N. York / for Bremen, was wrecked on the coast oft Texal, the 19th of December. Twelve of the crew and seven passengers were sa ved; and the master, nine men and thirty four passengers drowned. The Sandwich Island Princess, Alexan-' der Lihihiho and Lot Kamehameha, with . the Hon. G. P. Judd, had arrived in Eng land. The First Lord of the Admiralty, ap preciating the eminently distinguished ser vices of Captain Sir James Ross, both as one of the most successful Arctic and An tarctic explorers, has awarded to him a vacant captain's good service pension of, £l5O per annum. The Queen and Prince Albert have con tributed five hundred pounds toward the fund for promoting female emigration, which is now raising under the auspices of the Right Hr n. Sidney Herbert. The next batch of convicts, under sen tence of transportation, will be forwarded to the new settlement at Perth, Western Australia. The late Commissary General, Sir Ga briel Wood, has bequeathed £70,000 to erect and endow a hospital at Grenock, for shipwret'ked and distressed Tariners. The Emperor of Austria has 'seal his portrait, richly framed, as a present to the President of the French Republic, accom panied by an autograph -letter, complimen ting him on the services he had rendered to the cause oforder and society. The President has likewise received an autograph letter from the Pope, in which his Holine , s informs him of his proximate return to Rome, and thanks him for hav ing freed his dominions from the oppres. sions of an anarchical and anti-christian faction. The United Service Journal says that another North West expedition is proba bly determined upon, and that the com mand will be given to the veteran Sir John Ross, who maintains that he is still vigor ous enough to sustain the rigors of an ice campaign. The Washington correspondent of the I Baltimore American, states that news has reached the former city, that a . . personal encounter leek place . ht Limd, on the 9th of . December last, between,our newly ap pointed Consul, Col. Potter, and Mr. Suli ven, the British chargo'clUffairs near the Government of Chili, end the nephew of Lord Palmerston. The origin of the dif- . ficulty is stated to bei.that Mr. Suliviin, in the absence of Col. Potter, forcibly ejec ted Mrs. POtter and Child from her lodg ings in the hotel, whereupon Col Potter! sought an interview with him, and not re ceving .! n, sufficient apology, gave him a severe horse-Whipping which he richly de-' served. • ' A FEMALE HORSE i rnzet,..--On Mon day night last Mr. Baijarnin Buffington, of Blizabetliville, Dauphin county, arri ved at . this place in pursuit' of a woman who had stolen from his stable, on Satur day night previons, a' fine horse,. buggy and harness. Ho had' frame' thus - far, and while getting bills 'struck here, her learned that she had_been; seen near LeW isburg. The roads being very heavy; Otipt: Henry V. Simpson, of this accompanied 'by Martin Harrison, set out about midnight, with a span of fine horses in pursuit, and overtook her ladyship' at a private house near Anronsburg, Centre county. Her entertainer, and herself hav ing made some resistance, a warrant was applied; for, and in the-..mean ..time the we man, managed to eseape. The captors re turned Jo . thia place on Wednegday with the horse, buggy and an old sett of har ness. The next morning Mr. Buffington left Ibr . 'home With his property,doss $25, the amount of the reward paid, and an old, instead of a new sett of hurness.--;Bunbie:, rJ Americap. THE DOLLAR. Cle. ay L1.V..4.; Pa., Jan. $3 , iso. 0:7 - Court commences in this place on next Monday week. .0. . •, (grlVe arc pleased to learn that T, C. McDowELL, Esq., has been selected as State Librarian for the ensuing year. Dreadful Accident. We learn, verbally, thata n truly mel ancholy accident happened the other day, near Wilkesbarre, by which three young ladies . suddenly passed from time to eter nity. This is the stpry, as told to' us A daughter of Judge WoonwAitn, a daugh ter of the latel M. BENNEU, of Bellefonte, and a Miss B 'DOWN, were on a sleighing excursion, end on crossing clam, broke through the ice, and were drowned. We !earned no other particulars. STATE TREASURER. The election of State Treasurer took• place on Tuesday last. The Democrats of both Houses met in caucus on Saturday last, and rifler several balloting, selected Gen. BICKEL, of Schuylkill county, as their candidate. We have not heard the result of the election, but presume that Gen. 8., who is said to he a gentlemad of fine capacity, was elected. The Magazines for February. Both the LAnv's Boox and SARTAINS Union Magazine, for February, are before us. We have not had time to give them a perusal, but a glance at them is suffi cient to convince any man with eyes that they publicly sustain their high reputations. Louis A Colley. We forgot to acknowledge last week the beautiful full length porrhit of this gentleman, the- accomplished publisher of the Lady's Book. His appearance is en tirely very attractive, and not a single la dy could look at it without at once extend ing him her—patron-ge. WHAT CONSTITUTES TEXAS ? Among the leading questions in contro versy in our National councils, that °Nile proper boundaries of the State of Texas, is, to our mind, of the greatest magnitude. And whilst we anticipate a' most exciting discussion on this question, we are well satisfied that whoever makes a thorough, examination of it, determined to be gov erned by no other lights than those truth and justice, must come to the con clusion, irresistibly and immovably, that there are no grounds for controversy at all, and that the claim of Texas to all the territory on the east side of the Rio Grande, not hitherto belonging to the Uni ted States, is "clear and indisputable."-1 But a number of politicians, and a few ofi the Northern State Legislatures, have al ready committed themselves, by the ex pression of opinions averse to the claim of! 'Texas---certainly without giving the sub-1 ,Ject that investigation which they should have done ; or, what is worse, they have been influenced by a wicked desire to fan the flame of agitation on the exciting sub ject of slavery. The question is this : Does Texas in ' elude within her limits the territory lying between the rivers Nueces and Rio Grande, and also that part of New. Mexico known as the Santa Fe District? This territory (or at least the Santa Fe district) was never in the peaceable possession of Texas—never conquered by her—but several expeditions sent out by the-Tex ans for the'purpose of conquering it, and bringing it Under the subjectioo of theTisTr-• an government, failed in the undertaking. However;by the treaty conaluded between Santa Ana and, his officers, and. the Tox an authoritieS, after the victory of San Ja . einto,--tind which treaty, according tek wi tional law, was' made fully binding upon Mexico•by reason of her availing herself oral! 'the 'advantages stipulated therein, such as the recovery of. all the arms ,andl Military stores . then within the reach of the Texans—Lin this treaty; we•say, the limits of Texas were clearly defined as id chiding nll`the territOry lying east of the Rio Grande, from .its mouth to its source. The Mexican 'government .saw proper.to disregard, this treaty, and • for seven or eight'years—ft : ono 1886 to 1844 . -;=4efused to make peace Asvith Texas, and ;arily:kept np a : liOstitoat,gtude by 40044 ef invgsion.l Other tiatiotis--our ? 7. : otitt among the ri uth..l biirr.recogn*:ed.theirideptldene,o of Ta.:l • •,-! elitv treated4lth'4lter . took .her place on the-rnaps, among tile ha tione 'hf.ilita earth; and • edit° acknowledge lier,artindepetidoim a t.. tion. Then comes the Act of ArineX.atiOri.L.H . and here the controversy must cease, tin less tit government or, the United Stoics I wilfully disregards her solemn contracts. The limits of Texas were clearly : dall i ed in that act, and it is oak the boundaries thus definedthat Texas is noWcOnitaicling for. And 'again in support of the claitnor Texas comes in the late treaty of peace between the United States and In defining . theOndriry between the two. countries in that . treaty, a certain map is, referred to and ,made part of the treaty, According to this map Texas covers alt the territory lying . y*reen the Rio Grande —from its mouth:to its source—and•tha • weArn boundary,of the United States:-.. 'Such was the debeaipticin of the Texas that •• was annexed to the Unites itates by a ace_ leminct ofCongress.' Cart any thing plainer? To settle the question forever, one would suppose, it would only be n i e• cessarY to produce this map. ,•,••• • But it is contended, hat, as thid , territo.' . ry never was in . the pa2cenble possssion, of Texas, but was.conquered from. Mexico by the . United' States, it necessarily . be: longS'; not to Texas; but to the United States,. Suppose the British were in possessiOn of a part of the State of New York, and•tha. United States were to drive them out, air Gen. TAYLOR did the Mexicans, would. that territory, thus conquered; reverrto, New York, or would the United States put. in a claim to it as national property? Or: suppose again, that the. Northeastern Wm.: dary question, instead of 'having been peacaebly settled, had been the cause of war, and that the territory in dispute had, been "conquered" by an American army,.. and the British driven out, just as the Mexv • icons were driven out of Snnta Fe, would that territory have been claimed as no." , tional property, or would it not have been, conquered as territory forming a part 6f, the State of Main 1 Undoubtedly it would. Then why should there be any dispute a.: bout the limits of Texas? What would have been justice in the one case, must be justice in the other. Strip this question of: collateral issues, and there is not a sane mind, who knows there is such a State al, - , Texas, who will dispute the validity of the . claim of Texas for one moment. There. is nothing in it to be disputed. Unfortunately, those who opposed the late war with Mexico, • and denounced , President Pout. for ordering Gen. Tnnoa to take up his psi:ion • and "ocet . py" the territory between the Nueces and the Rio , Grande, will be' placed in an unfavorable: position, if the claims of Texas are twee. , ded to—or rather, we should say', if Texas; is not despoiled of her just rights. .For,'• if the limits of Texas—Texas as annexed by act of Congress—did extend to the Rio , Grande, and include the territory ordered: to be "occupied," then all the &nuncio ! tic,lis about "invading foreign territory": (;ills to the-ground, end their authors wi11 . .. be forced to acknowledge that Mr. POLIC was but discharging his sworn duty in, marching an army to the protection and: defence of one of the sovereign States of the Confederacy. The late administration . . thoroughly understood this question, and: if they had not believed that the United :, States were bound, by every obligation that could bind a nation, to the faithful ob., servance of the words of the act •ef,Annex% • ation, clearly describing Texas as egtert:i ,ding u'p to the Rio Grande, they never would have ordered an American soldtery to cross the Nueces. Without such.tui understanding of the act of Congress, seek an act would have been a Clear violation of the Constitution, and rendered theta subject to an impeachment. To take thit territory from Texas, in disregard of tie Act of Annexation, and claim it as the territory of the United States, would bo is virtual acknowledgement that the war wail unconstitutionally commenced, and that we had wrongfully despoiled Mexico. o her possesions. Thanks to the wisdt ., : and foresight of the statesmen whose cote cil gave, directionto the acts of the la adininistiation•; they 'COMmitted .rte damning. error. Guided, by their oath . their ambition was to "see that the lOU' were faithfully exeCuted." -There are (titter facts in support.of!!: I just' claim of Texas, but which we ho, not room to .refer •to now,' One' of th - ' , is, that Texaa'came into the Unionbitt tberied With a 'heavy national debt,;e4e tracted in her. war of. independenco ! ,, Thiadebt was not assumed by the Genet at 'Government. And to have takenli* ptiblie lands from her, Would have ; slid to rob TexaS of her'only meainiefvtOr that debt. • • Mir IN But our object was not to discusszi question. It wss merely to call , the sti , tion of 'our renders to it, and to Pallit il, some-=ef its nioet:iiroininent rdourvi t that those Nvho _. hal: Adifjpy. o9 tigtqd , .„ ,subject.might be. Mimed iti;eidek for. Mb" thatiott atid,imipaieViettiselvas4itfritill , l'!?' • ••• LftP.::.) '1 , _Nn0`1 , .., , 4'1L:'! , ; :c Vvll":.A.l f. ...‘- I! RIM
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