- The follo-vfing are some of the Mexican towns and settlements along the east border of the Rio Grande, which according to Mr. Polk, are on our side " the boundary line of the United States," but in which, at the time of the invasion, Avas not to be found one single magistrate holding a commission either from the Federal Government, or the State of Texas—viz Taos, Peuris, Grampa, Embudo, Namba, San Juan, Vitior, San Domingo, San Branilla, San Aux, San Dios, Albuquerque, San Fernanda, Valencia, Fonclara, Las Nutrias, Alamillo, San Pasqual, Christobal, Las Pepuallas, Presidio, Dolores, Loredo, and Point Isabel.
It thus appears that, in 1844, Messrs. Tyler and Calhoim admitted the boundary of the Rio Grande to be an open question ; while Messrs. Wright and Benton, and probably a great majority of the Senate, disclaimed and repudiated all right whatever to what Mr. Polk terms " our western frontier."
On the 3rd March, 1845, Congress passed an act al- lowing drawback on goods exported to "Santa Fe in Mexicoy But according to the Texan Act of 16th De- cember, 1836, Santa Fe was in the Repubhc of Texas.
Here, then, we have, on the part of the Congress of the United States, a distinct repudiation of the paper bound- aries set up by the victors at San Jacinto. We had, moreover, a Consul at Santa Fe, recognized not by the Texan but the Mexican Government. Yet it was after this act was passed, and before we had acquired a title to a foot of Texan land, that Mr. Polk took measures to seize by force of arms the territory on the Rio Grande, in case of annexation.
Falsehood is ever inconsistent with itself. Mr. Polk, in his Message, 8th December, 1846, speaking of the actual separation of Texas from Mexico