Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-06-09

the shock. lie conquest oi MI MEXICO Wohu
seem TO be no improbable result, Of the conflict,
peeially if tho war should extend no farther
than To the two mighty combatanis. But will it
be so confined Mexico is clearly the weakest Of
the two Powers; but she is not the least prepared
Tor action. She has the more recent experience oi
war. She has tho greatest number Of veteran war
riors; and although her highest chici has Just SUI
Tered "A fatal and enomlnions defeat, yet that hHs
happened often before to leaders oi armies TOO
confident OF success and contcmptuous OF their en-
envy. Even now, Mexico is better prepared for n
war oil invasion upon YOU, than You are Tor n war
OF invasion upon her There may be found a sue
cessor 10 Santa Ana, nIamcd with the desire, not
only OF avcneing his disaster, but what he and his
nation will consider Your pcriidions hostility.
The national spirit may 20 w'lh.hlm. lie may
not only turn the tables upon the rcNiun conquer
ors, but drive them for refuge within Your borders,
and pursue them into the heart ot your own ter
rilotles. Are YOU III condition 10 resist linn Is
the success OF Your whole army, and all Your ,ctc-
ran generals, and all Your miliim-eall~, and all
yonf mulinonS volunteers against IA miserable
band ol five OF six hundred invisible S"m'nolc In
dams, III vour late campaign, an earnest oi the
energy X vipor with which YOU are iend> 10 carry
ON that far otherwise formidable and complicated
war l---complie did | 81, And how com
pcatcd Your Seminole IS already sprend-
! my 10 iiI' tittks, anu, III h''''h'' h's''"-
ton, they sweep. along with them Your negro
slaves, and put arms into lhrlr hands io make com
mon cause with them against YOU; aud how Tar
| will IL spread sir should a Mexican Invader, with
a torch of liberty IN his hand, and the standard OF
freedom floating over his head procnin'lnr cn'an-
cipalon to the slny, aud revenge 10 the native In
dian, aS hc gooS, invade Your sod What Will be
the condition OF your States OF Louisiana, OF Mis-
sissippi of Alabama OF Arkansas OF Missouri,
and of Georgia Where will he Your negroes
Where " i'll he that combined aud concentrated
mass OF Indian tribes, whom, by IN inconccnahc
policy, YOU have extended from their widel, dis
tant habtaons, 10 employ them within IA small
compas, on the very border, of Mexico, MS IL on
purpose to give. that country n nation OF natural
allies in their hoslili,icS against You J Sn, you
have II MEXICAN, an Indian, and n negro war upon
Your bands, aud YOU are pluneing yourself into II
| blindlold; yonhrc talking about acknowledging the
Independence OF the Republic OF Texas, and YOU
are lhirs,lng To annex TeNns ny, and toah''la aud
| TamauipaS aud Santa fc, from the source to the
mouth OF the Rho Bravo In your already oNcr-d's-
| tended dominions. Five hundred thousand square
Mules of the terriloly of Mexico would moi even
now qucnch Nonf burning ihrist or aeHrandize-
ment.
Bun will Your FOREIGN wal for tbs be with AleN-
co alone No. sin As the weaker party, Men
!
look abroad, rs well rs among Your negroes and
| Your Indians Tor assistance. Neither Great Bri-
tain no, France will suffer YOU to make such con-
quest from Mexico; no, nor even To annex me
independent State OF Texas to your Confederation,
without their intcrposliion. Ion "'ll nave an
! Anglo Saxon nlcrw,ncd with Mexican war To
wage. Great Britain may have no serious obJcc-
ton to the independence OF Texas, and may be
willing enough TO take her under her protection,
as II barrier both against Mexico and against YOU
But, as ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 10 You, she will not rea-
Oily suffer it ; and, above all, she will not s"''cr
You to acquire by conquest and rc-esiabl'slmen'
of slavery. Urged on by the irresistible, over
wlelming ,orrcn, OF public opinion, Great Britain
has recently, ut a cost OF one hundred millions oi
dollars which her People have loyiullv paid, abol-
| lshed slavery throughout all her colonies IN the
West Indies. After setting such AN example, she
will MOTT is impossible tina, she should-e,and
by and witness IA war for the re-c>,abl'shmrn, OF
slavery where it had been 10. years abolished,
and situated lhus i'll the immediate nc'elborhood
of her islands. She viii tell you, tia, you must
have Texas a member OF your Conicderac,,
it must be without the faint the trammcl OF
slavery and If you will wage war 10 nandcnll
and icncr your fllow-nlan, she will wage war
against you TO break his chains Sir, what n II
cure, in the eyes of mankind, would you make
in deadly conflict viii, Great Britain; she fshil 2
the battle of emancipation, and You the battle oi
slavery she the benclacrcss, and you the oPprcsso,
OF human Kind. In such war, the enthusiasm OF
emancipation, too, would unite vast numbers OF
the People in aid of the national jealousy against
our ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. No war was ever 80 polu-
lar IN England as that war would against slave
ry, the slave-tradc and the Anglo-Saxon dcsocn-
dant from her own Ions.
As TO the annexation Of Texas to your conicdc-
ration for what do you want il Are You not
large and unwcldy enough already DO not two
the insatato rapacty OF your land Jobbeis |
hope there none of them within the sound OF
my voice. Have YOU not Indians enough tocxpcl
from, the land OF their fathers scpnchrcs, and
to cxermnate What in prudential and
military point of view, would be the addition OF
Texas to your domain II would be weakness,
and not power. Is your southern and southwes-
tern frontier not sufficiently extensive not suh-
cien,y feeble not sufficiently dciencclcss! Why
arc you adding regiment after regiment OF dra-
goons to your standing army Why are you strug-
Cling, by direction and by indIrectlon, to raise pc,
saitun tina, army from less than six TO more thar
tive MY thousand men Your commanding Gen
eral now returning from his excursion to Florida
openly recommends the increase Of your army I"
that number. Sir, tho extension Of your sea
| cost frontier from the Sabine TO the Bio Bravo
would add to your weakness teniold Tor IL Is
, now only weakness with reference to Mexico. II
, would then be weakness with reference 10 "'ca'
Britain, to France, even perhaps to Russia, to es-
Lob, ,,,a,s Iln