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grOes ss your Indians, TOR assistance.
Neither, reat Britain nor France will
aufFer you to make such a conquest.
from Mexico; no, nor even to annex
The independent State of Texas to
your Confederation, without their 10.
ferpositon. You will have an Anglo.
Saxon intertwined with a Mexican
war to wage. Great Britain may
have no serious objection to the inde-
pendence of Texas, sad may be will
ling enough to take her under her pro.
lection, as barrier both against Mex
leo and against you. But, as aggran-
dizement to you, she will not readily
suffer you 10 acquire it by conquest
and the re-establishment Of slavery.
Urged on by the irresistible over
whelning torrent of public opinion,
Great Britain has recently, at cost of
one hundred millions OfdoIlars, which
her People have jOyfully paid, abOl
ished slavery throughout all her colo.
MES in the West Indies.-After set
ting such an example, she will not
it is impossible that she should--stand
by and witness a war for the rc.estab
Hshmeut Of slavery where it had been
for years abolished, and situated thus
in the immediate neighborhood Of her
islands. She will tell you, that if you
must have Texas as a member ofyOur
Confederacy, it must be without the
taint or the trammels of slavery; and
If you will wage a war TO handcuf aud
Getter your fellow.man, she will wage
a war against you to break his chains.
Sir, what figure in the eyes Of man.
kind, would you make, in deadly con-
Aict with Great Britaini she fighting the
battles Of emancipation, and you the
battles Of slavery; she the bene efactress
and you the Opposer Of human kind!
10 such war, the enthusiasm Of
emancipation too, would unite vast
numbers Of her People in aid of the
national rivalry, and all her natural
jealousy against our Oggrandizement.
No war was ever so popular in En-.
gland, as that war would be against
slavery, the slave trade, and the An.
glo.Saxon descendant from her own
loins.
As 10 the annexation of Texas TO
your consideration, for what do you
want il3 Are you not large aud IN.
wieldly enough alreSdy! DO nottwo
millions of square miles cover surface
enough for the irsatiate rapacily of
your land jobbers? | hope there are
none Of them within the sound Of my
voice. Have you not Indians enough
10 e1pel from the land Of their fathers
sepulchres, and TO exterminater What,
in a prudential and military point Of
view, would be the addition Of Texas
10 your domain? 1t would be weak
ness and not power. Is your southern
and southwestern fronlier-nOt sulli
cienlly delencelesS1 Why are you
adding regiments of Dragons to your
standing army! Why are you strug.
Cling by direction and indirectiOn,
raise per SdItum that army from less
than six to more than twenty thousand
men? Your commanding General,
now returning from Florida, openly
recommends the increase of your
Army 10 that number. Sir, the ex en-
sion Of your sea.coast frontier from
The Sabine TO the RIO Bravo would add
TO your weakness ten fold; for II is
now only weakness with reference to
Mexico II would then be weakness
with reference to Great Britain, to
France, even perhaps to Russia, TO
every naval European power, which
might make quarrel with US for the
sake Of settling colony; but above all
to Great Britain. She, by her naval
power, aud by her A merican colonies,
holds the Keys of the gulf of Mexico.
What would be the condition Of your
frontier from the mouth Of the Missis'
sippi TO The Rio del NOrle, in the
event of war with Great Britain?
Sir, The reasons of MIR. Monroe for
accepting the Sabine as the boundary,
were three. First, he had no conf
dence in tho strength of our claim as
far as the Rio Bravo; secondly, he
thought il would make our union so
heavy thatit would break into frag-
ments by is own weight; thirdly, he
thought ii would prolrndc long line
Of ses.coast, which in our first war
with Great Britain, she might take
into her own possession, aud which
we should be able neither TO defend
nor 10 recover. AT that time there
was no question Of slavery or Of abO
iiIion involved in the controversy.
The country belonged TO Spain; il was
a wilderness, and slavery was the es,
lablished law Of the land.
There was no project for carving out