of unpa- ralleled outi-age on Mexico. It is the seizure of two thou- sand miles of her territory, without a word of explanation with her, by virtue of a treaty with Texas to which she is no party. By this declaration, the thirty thousand Mexicans in the left half of the valley of the Rio del Norte are our citizens, and standing, in the language of the President's Messao-e, in a hostile attitude towards us, and subject to be repelled as invaders. Taos, the seat of the Custom-house, where our caravans enter their goods, is ours ; Santa Fe the capital of New Mexico is ours Governor Armijo is our Governor, and subject to be tried 11"
for treason, if he does not submit to us ; twenty Mexican towns and villages,'^ are ours, and their peaceful inhabi- tants cultivating their fields and tending their flocks, are suddenly converted by a stroke of the President's pen into American citizens or American rebels.
" I therefore propose, as an additional resolution, ap- plicable to the Rio del Norte boundary only, the one which I