The Arkansas advocate., 1830-07-07


 tslSe from them. He farther mentions It as certain, from the best information, that the subject of Texas is going to be taken up at Washingtan---tlaat the President has omitted to mention it in iill:s iaessage,i 1t was in order that 1t might originate in Congress under a more pe- puiar aspect, and that with the same view 5O gun irigate, the Brandywine, will soon sail with few others, to be iitted out by the Cabinet at Washing zjton.
 inc means to counteract this imagin- Eed invasion which are advised by him, which has taken such hold upon the imagination of Don Lucas. are various and energetic. lie seems thoroughly lmbued with the fancy that the United States are determined to seize upon the territory by foree--if intrigue and di- plomacy do not succeed. He calls up- on the nation to assume a firm attitude, and assures the representatives that the executive will sustain them in the mea- sures thus recommended, both in diplo- matlc discussions and with military force; the honor of the republic and the integrity of its territory being threaten ] edo
 The Gazette thus eoncludes:-
 ct may be important for those Ame- rlcans who have conceived the project or wish of emigrating iate Texas, to know what are the views and plans of the present Mexican rulers. Mr. Ala man and his party have always been hostile to these United States, though both government and people have been the earliest and most steadfast friends of Mexico, anxious for the triumph of American freedom and American inter- ests generally, over the machinations of internal and external enemies. We have advices of the latest date from Mexico, showing that her condition is indeed deplorable. The dominant fac ton are relentlessly prosecuting their ladyersaries; dissolving contracts made l by their predecessors, even after pay ments have been received; declaring 1 the legislatures of the States opposed to them, to De Illegally constituted in or- der to have new elections, and thereby i'll the legislative assemblies with their own creatures. At the same time, re- sistance is almost every where organiz- ed, and a severe struggle to be expect ed. Bat. Rspubl5eais. 1be Uaion.-We believe there has never been time siitee the foundation of the Federal Government, when the necessity of strengthening, by mutual iorbearance and mutual sacrifices the tles which connect one portion of our country with another, has been so appa- rent as the present day. Our territory has become vast and unwieldly '; the tide of population has foiie5a, with eeaseiess impetus back from the early settled ter ritories towards the setting sun. The oniy i3 states-those which built up Jour independence, occupy at present, but a small part of our immense territo- ". II, during the next twenty years the torrent of emigration continues to roll on, the western Ocean will be reached; the Oregon will be alive with busy navigation; the enormous territory of the valley of the Mississippi will be crowded withinhabitants; the lakes now bosomed in the almost unexplorcd soli- tudes of the western forest. will be laid open to the sunshine, and their delight : ful borders adorned with lively villages; and every mountain tributary of the Ohio, the Wabash, the Illinois, and the great Mississippi, will become as faniI- far with civilized life, and industry, as those of the Connecticut of New Eng land, and the Potomac of the Old Do niiFiion.
 1 Yet what arc all these anticipations loi our future glory, if the bond oi Union be hereafter rent asunder-a bond ce- mented by the blood which has poured out like water in the tremendous sacri- flee of the revolution. Alas!-if by the extension of our borders, the feeling oi traterlal love is to be extinguished; fl the distinct and peculiar interest of the different and remote portions of this Igreat family, render them forgetful ol their mutual alliance, upon each other; If the Iealousies which now embitter us, [are increased into open hostility; it were better that our territory was cir cumscribed as at the time of the revolu- tion; better even that the battles of our independence had never been fought