Tlw 1·om111il l1•1• ha,c· 110 i11fon11ali1111 n•:-1wdi11~ tlw rc1-e11l 1110,1'11\l'III:- in Tl'xa:- c•x1·cpl .:<m:h ii:< i:: deri,1·d from the: p11hlil: prilll.:'. .-\l'torrlinl! lo lhut. llw war hrok1• out in T,•,a:-- la:-l a11l11m11. It~ prufrs:,:1•d olijl:'t't, lil..1• lhat of our rl'vol11tio11ary contcsl, in Lhc 1·0111 nw11c1·nw11 I. wil:,: nut srpara I ion and indcp1•11 d1•11ct~. hu l il rl'drl':-:- of :,..rri,·, anc<·s. In \larch htsl, i1ulq.>c11d1·11cr wa:- pruelaimt'.d. ,111d a 1·011:-litut io11 aml form of government wt-rt• 1·:-la hi i::;hccl. No 1tlt'a11:,: of a:,:n•rtai11i11g ateurafrl) lhc exact ,IIIH>Lllll of Liu.· popula• tion of Tl'xas arl' al tlw comnrnnd of the commill1·c. It has her.n estimated at some sixty or seventy thousand souls. Nor arc the precise limits of lhc country which passes under Lhc denomination of Texas known lo the committee. They arc probably not clearly defined, but they arc supposed lo ue extensive, and sufficiently large, whr.n peopled, to form a respectable Power. If lhe population is small; if, whP.n compared with that of thr. United ~lexican States, amounting prouahly to not less than eight millions of souls, the contest has been unequal, it has, nc,·crthdcss, been maintained by Texas with uncommon resolution, undaunted valor, and eminent success: and the recent signal and splendid victory in which that portion of the Mexican army which was commanded hy General Santa Ana, the President of the \lr.xican Government, in person, was entirely overthrown, with unexampled slaughter, compared with the inconsiclerable loss on the other side, put lo flight and capturccl, including among the prisoners the President himself and his staff, may be considered as ·dr.cisive of the independence of Texas. That memorable event will prohably be followed by negotiations which may lead to the acknowledgment by Mexico of the independence of Texas, and the St'.ltlcmenl of its boundaries. And, under the eircumstanccs, il might, perhaps, be more confonnahle with the amicable relations subsisting between the United Stales and the United Mexican States, that the latter should prc:cedc Lhc former in the acknow• lcdgmcnt of the independence of Texas. But if the war should be protracted, or if there shoultl be unreasonable delay on the part of the Mexican Government, the Government of Lhe United States ought not lo await its action. The recognition of Texas as an independent Power m,1y he made by the United Stales in various ways: 1st, by treaty; 2d, by the passage of a law regulating commercial intercourse he( wc:cn the two P1,wers: 3<l, hy sending a diplomatic agcml to Tcx.-s, with the usual crcdc11tials; or, lastly, by the Executive rncciving and accrediting a diplomatit rr.prcscnlativc from Texas, which would be a rccognitimi as far as the Executive only is comp('.tcnt to mah it.
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