Document 1: President Polk's Instructions to His Minister [Envoy] to Mexico, John Slidell, Nov. 1845 In regard to the right of Texas to the boundary of the del Norte [Rio Grande River)... there cannot, it is apprehended, be any very serious doubt. It would be easy to establish, by the authority of our most eminent statement-at a time, too when the question of the boundary of the province of Louisiana was better understood than it is at present...the del Norte was its western limit.... It cannot be denied, however, that the Florida treaty of 22d February, 1819, ceded to Spain all that part of ancient Louisiana within the present limits of Texas; and the more important inquiry now is, what is the extent of the territorial rights which Texas has acquired by the sword in a righteous resistance to Mexico. In your negotiations with Mexico, the independence of Texas must be considered a settled fact, and is not to be called in question.... Should the Mexican authorities prove unwilling to extend our boundary beyond the del Norte, you are, in that event, instructed to offer to assume the payment of all the just claims of citizens of the United States against Mexico, should she agree that the line shall be established along the boundary defined by the act of Congress of Texas approved December 19, 1836....
Document 1: President Polk's Instructions to His Minister [Envoy] to Mexico, John Slidell, Nov. 1845 In regard to the right of Texas to the boundary of the del Norte [Rio Grande River)... there cannot, it is apprehended, be any very serious doubt. It would be easy to establish, by the authority of our most eminent statement-at a time, too when the question of the boundary of the province of Louisiana was better understood than it is at present...the del Norte was its western limit.... It cannot be denied, however, that the Florida treaty of 22d February, 1819, ceded to Spain all that part of ancient Louisiana within the present limits of Texas; and the more important inquiry now is, what is the extent of the territorial rights which Texas has acquired by the sword in a righteous resistance to Mexico. In your negotiations with Mexico, the independence of Texas must be considered a settled fact, and is not to be called in question.... Should the Mexican authorities prove unwilling to extend our boundary beyond the del Norte, you are, in that event, instructed to offer to assume the payment of all the just claims of citizens of the United States against Mexico, should she agree that the line shall be established along the boundary defined by the act of Congress of Texas approved December 19, 1836....
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![with the assignment directions.
Document 1: President Polk's Instructions to His Minister [Envoy] to Mexico, John
Slidell, Nov. 1845
In regard to the right of Texas to the boundary of the del Norte [Rio Grande River)... there cannot, it is
apprehended, be any very serious doubt. It would be easy to establish, by the authority of our most
eminent statement-at a time, too when the question of the boundary of the province of Louisiana was
better understood than it is at present--...the del Norte was its western limit.... It cannot be denied,
however, that the Florida treaty of 22d February, 1819, ceded to Spain all that part of ancient
Louisiana within the present limits of Texas; and the more important inquiry now is, what is the extent
of the territorial rights which Texas has acquired by the sword in a righteous resistance to Mexico. In
your negotiations with Mexico, the independence of Texas must be considered a settled fact, and is not
to be called in question.... Should the Mexican authorities prove unwilling to extend our boundary
beyond the del Norte, you are, in that event, instructed to offer to assume the payment of all the just
claims of citizens of the United States against Mexico, should she agree that the line shall be
established along the boundary defined by the act of Congress of Texas approved December 19,
1836...
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Transcribed Image Text:with the assignment directions.
Document 1: President Polk's Instructions to His Minister [Envoy] to Mexico, John
Slidell, Nov. 1845
In regard to the right of Texas to the boundary of the del Norte [Rio Grande River)... there cannot, it is
apprehended, be any very serious doubt. It would be easy to establish, by the authority of our most
eminent statement-at a time, too when the question of the boundary of the province of Louisiana was
better understood than it is at present--...the del Norte was its western limit.... It cannot be denied,
however, that the Florida treaty of 22d February, 1819, ceded to Spain all that part of ancient
Louisiana within the present limits of Texas; and the more important inquiry now is, what is the extent
of the territorial rights which Texas has acquired by the sword in a righteous resistance to Mexico. In
your negotiations with Mexico, the independence of Texas must be considered a settled fact, and is not
to be called in question.... Should the Mexican authorities prove unwilling to extend our boundary
beyond the del Norte, you are, in that event, instructed to offer to assume the payment of all the just
claims of citizens of the United States against Mexico, should she agree that the line shall be
established along the boundary defined by the act of Congress of Texas approved December 19,
1836...
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