will read, and send to the Secretary's table, and one on which I shall at the proper time ask the vote of the Senate. This is the resolution :
" Resolved, that the incorporation of the left bank of the Rio del Norte into the American Union, by virtue of a treaty with Texas, comprehending, as the said incorpor-* ation would do, a part of the Mexican departments of New Mexico, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas, would be an act of aggression on Mexico, for all the consequences of which the United States would stand responsible."
There can be no doubt the resolution would have passed, had not the rejection of the treaty prev^ented a vote being taken. Mr. Silas Wright, a distinguished democratic Senator from New York, afterwards vindicating his vote against the treaty, asserted, " I believed that the treaty, from the boundaries that must he implied from it, if Mexico would not treat with us, embraced a country to which Texas had no claim, over which she had never as- serted jurisdiction, and which she had no right to cede."