Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-12-21
Dec. 81, 1886.



,,;cle in relation to Texas from the N
Y, Sunday Morning News. The infor-
nation Il contains IS Of the utmost import
auce to the whole country, and we are
not aware that it has before been given to
the public ..,.,
Tsras-We stated in a recent para
graph that the agent despatched by the
President Of The United States to Texas,
with Instructions to procure information
in respect to the political and military
condition Of the country, had returned
and made a report conforming out and out,
with the wellknown wishes and views OF
the President on the subject. We now
add. that we have received additional IN
formation on the SUBJECT, and are enabled
TO assure the public that the report is Of
the most favorable character, exhibiting
Texas as capable of discharging the du-
ties and fulfilling the obligations OF an IN
dependent power. -. I
In.the mean time Texas has elected
President and now Congress with great
unanimity and order: and the question be-
ing submitted to the people at the polls,
whether they wished an annexation to the
United States of North America, it was
decided almost unanimously in the afir-
NATIVE.
It's now, therefore, almost certain that
great effort will be made at the ensuing
session Of Congress to procure the &C
acknowledgement Of the independence OF
Texas by our governmental establish
with it diplomatic and commercial rela-
tons, and to settle the preliminaries for
its admission into the Federal Union
The state of parties in this country will
greatly facilitate this measure. The Van
j Buren, party, as has been proved, will not
venture, by placing itself in opposition to
the annexation, to disoblige its southern
and western friends; and the southern anti
Van Buren, party will be forward and ear
nest in promoting policy which will so
much strengthen the interests Of the south
ern slaveholding states. The mercantile
and manufacturing interests Of the north
will also, be decidedly favorable to the an
nexation; for the reason that it will give
additional and profitable employment for
their capital and industry Nothing grows
at the South. under the present system
that does not grow for the benefit Of the
northern merchants, manufacturers and
\ navigators. Texas, with its fertile fields,
and inaptitude for any but merely agri-
cultural purposes, will be to them better
than mine OF gold Her slaves are to
toll, not for their masters, nor for them
selves, but for the northern capitalists
Ifanv one doubts this, let him look both
a, the ante and past revolutionary history
Of the southern states. Let him, Tor IN
stance, take the tidewater country OF Vlr-
ginia, for century previous to the revo-
luton, productive Of tobacco, then the
richesI export Of the colonies to the mother
country. Where can you find the results
of her fertility and her labor, during that
long period or time2 Not in any public
or private improvements, or in any tangl-
bic or permanent capital within her own
limits; but in the bloated wealth, and mu'
nifcence, and luxury, and improvements
ofthe mercantile and manufacturing cltle'
of England and Scotland, by which ne
trade was monopolized. The trade was
bvthe revolution, transferred to the north
ern and eastern states, and with the SAM
results. The same will be the history o
Texas, whatever nation may enjoy he
trade. With her it will be only choice
between England and the United States
in granting the advantages of her trade
and she very naturally prefers TO give 1T
the nation which has the more sympath,,
with and affinity for her.
The people of the southern slave state
have also strong motive for an allE n ::
with Texas, independently Of any Polltica
considerations. Texas is the greatest cot
ton region in the world. 1t is not onl
more fertile Of cotton than the souther
states, but it produces better article
There is land enough in Texas to enabI
it to supply the world wit this great sta
pie, TO the exclusion OF the southern state
from the market, but the labor is wanting
None but slave labor can be used in III
culture Of cotton. Now, if Texas become
independent, she may supply herself wit
slaves from Cuba, and speedily enter int
competition with our states In the produ
ton Of cotton, at once depreciating II
value of our slaves, our cotton lands, al
our cotton The south would never, Their
fore, assent to the recognition OF Texan i
dependepec, but with the npderstandin
thatthe country shall be annexed to Il
United States, and made subject to OF
1aws in respect to the importation ofslave
The price Of cotton will then be mali
tanned, and the valuation Of slave lab
enhanced; because tie number Of slav
ean'only be Increased by the means
their natural increase, on whatever 81
Of the Sabine they may ultimately be co
cAntRatcd. o. D. t.
There can be little doubt, thetefofe,pi
terested as all parties and sections are
the measure, that the independence