The Arkansas advocate., 1830-04-28
From tlte TeraS Gnsette.
 TRANSLATION.

No. l26l-Most Excellent sir-Ia
 company to your excellency, the copy of a representation directed to me by the Chief of Department of Texas, ma
 nltesting the fatal consequences that
 would be producedi in the territory under his charge, by the decree which, under date of the 18th of September last, his
 exceiiency the president was pleased to dictate, abolishing slavery in the whole
 Republic, and praying on that account gan exception of the law in favor of said
 department, which prayer he asks me
 to strengthen, by interposing the high
 consideration of this government, as be-
 ing aware of the evils that must arise 5 in the state on account of said decree.
 This government, most excellent sir, without the necessity of the solicitation before mentioned, would have proceed ed immediately, on the receipt of said decree, to implore from his excellency. the president, his favor and protection towards this state, by means of exemp- ton or some other of a similar nature. to the one indicated, as it has acquired ] by the peculiar situation of the state q knowledge of the difference between its
 situation, in regard to slaves from that ol *any other state of the Mexican Confed
 iteration. To carry into effect the said &decree, would not only overturn the |pleasing hopes for the future progress sand prosperity of this state, which al
 this time are presented by its coloniza-
 tion; but 1t would also give a destruc- 5 tive blow to it; the present situation o1 1t is very preearious and miserable; and perhaps its character as q state might disappear, under the operations of the decree. The resources of the state al this time are in generative existence
 and measurably relying fortheir increase on the colonial establishments, assisted
 by the slaves existing in them, and which increase, the decree in question, will re- duce to an unimportant consideration. FheobJect of the aforementioned decree
 for thousand other reasons, as recon. mendable, withheld me from represent.
 ing as before indicated, until had more
 extensively seen (as have by the peti.
 ton before mentioned,) whether in that part of the state where principally il
 would occasion very great injuries. il would be possible to reconcile the great interests which oppose, with the pur- pose worthy of the great consideration to which the decree aims, which is the 5 philanthropy of liberating these men from condition to which they have been reduced by the most shameful of human institutions, adopted in an obscure and ] savage age; the evil effects of which un fortunately, even the most civilized na s tloas, have not been capable of annihi iating at blow. In the United State: S of the North, in that classic country cradle of liberty, and of practical phi
 lanthropy, so favorable to the independ enee and dignity of the rational species we see that it has not been permitted te Its wise legislators to gratify the mos
 2pieasing wishes of their hearts, on the
 subject of which I am speaking: and
 shere, as in all other places, it is neces
 sary there should yet exist slaves, by the
 irresistible Powero of the circumstances
 which created the respective laws O