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Texas and the Boundary Issue, 1822-1829
Apart from these two very cautious attempts of Poinsett to open
negotiations for carrying out Clay's instructions of March 15,
1827, for the purchase of Texas, nothing of importance on the
subject of limits passed between the two governments from that
time until the beginning of the following year. In the meantime
the Mexican commission to examine the country near the proposed
boundary had completed its slow preparations and started to the
scene of its labors. The two years which Poinsett had said would
be necessary to complete the work, if a joint commission were sent
as Alaman proposed, had more than passed before the Mexican
commission started from the City of Mexico. In July, 1826,
.Poinsett wrote that a commission had been appointed and that
General Mier y Teran had been placed at its head. That gentle-
man had told Poinsett that he expected to start in September of
the same year; but the latter supposed his departure would not
take place before October." It did not. Neither did it occur for
more than a year later than that. On September 6, 1827, the
Mexican congress appropriated fifteen thousand dollars to defray
the expenses of the commission. " A month later Poinsett wrote
Clay that the commission had still not departed because the money
was not in the treasury, and he was still trying to convince the
government of the uselessness of the mission till the treaty had
settled the boundary.50 But still they persisted; and the money
was soon forthcoming. On November 10, 1827, the commission
started from the City of Mexico. Almost four months later it
arrived at Bexar, March 1, 1828, and was ready to begin its work.5.
state rights. If the matter could have been submitted to a vote of the
people of the state the difficulty would probably have disappeared. In
1829 Van Buren suggested that this be done.
"Poinsett to. Clay, July 12, 1826, MS. Dept. of St., Mex., Desp., III;
H. Ew. Does., 25c., Is., No. 42, p. 24; B. and F. St. P., XXVI, 837.
49Mexico, Leyes, Decretos, y Ordenes que forman el Derecho Int., 139.
"6Poinsett to Clay, Oct. 6, 1827, MS. Dept. of St., Mex., Desp., III;
H. Ex. Does., 25c., ls., No. 42, p. 25; B. and F. St. P., XXVI, 840.
5Berlandier y Chovel, Diario de Viage de la Comision de Limites
bajo . . . Mier y Teran, 7, 115. This seems to be a very
much condensed and slightly changed translation of a manuscript in
French by Berlandier filling seven octavo volumes on travels in Mexico
and Texas between 1826 and 1834. This and a few other Berlandier
manuscripts of interest in the history of Texas and the Mexican War
have recently been purchased by the Library of Congress. Berlandier
was the naturalist of the expedition, and his notes are of value chiefly
from the scientific, especially the geographical standpoint.239
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