The Republic of the United States of America Its Duties to Itself And Its Resp
The Republic of the United States of America Its Duties to Itself And Its Resp
Nahum Capen
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" ^Vhatever may have been our opinions upon this question, nothing was more certain tlian that we had no authority to decide it. It was not for us to assume a position for Mexico which her government had posi- tively disclaimed. We had no right to sit in judgment upon a boundary question in which her interest w^as involved without her consent. Mexico cannot have the privilege of two posi- tions in respect to the same interest. She must stand as claim- ing all Texas, or a part of Texas, but she ...must make her elec- tion which. She did, indeed, make her election, but her friends made a different one. T We insist that she shall speak for herself. No party has a right to speak for her, when her * «* Well, then, were the United States at liberty to surrender a portion of that territory ? 'SVliy, that would have been a flagrant violation of the implied contract which the joint resolutions of Con- gress had completed. Could the president of the United States take upon himself the responsibility of such an assumption as that Texas, after becoming one of the United States, had ceased to have her limits up to the Rio Grande ?
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