Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-06-30
N U NJ B E R 40.

formidable and complicated war com.
plicated, did l say? And how complicat-
ed! Your Seminole war is already
spreading to the Creeks, and, in their
march of desolation, they sweep along
with them your negro slaves, and put arms
into their hands 10 make common cause
with them against you; and how far will
it spread, sir, should Mexican invader.
with the torch of liberty in his hand, and
the standard of freedom floating over his
shead, proclaiming emancipation to the
kslave and revenge to the native Indian,
as he goes, invadeyour soil? What will
be the condition of your States of louisa
ma, of Mississippi, of Arkansas, of Missou-
ri, and of Georgia? Where will be your
negroes2 Where will be that combined
and concentrated mass of Indian tribes,
whom, by an inconceivable policy, you
have expelled from their widely distant
habitations, 10 embody them within q
small compass on the very borders Of Mex
leo, as ifon purpose to give that country a
nation of natural allies in their hostilities
against you? Sir, you have Mexican.
an Indian and negro war npon your
hands, and you are plunging yourself into
it blindfold you are talking about ac-
knowledging the independence of the Re,
public Of Texas, and you are thirsting 10
annex Texas, ay, and Coahuila, and Ia
maullpas, and Santa Fe, from the source
to the mouth Of the Rio Bravo, to your al
ready -distended dominions Five
hundred thousand square miles Of the ter
ritory Of Mexico would not even now
quench your burning thirst for aggrandize-
ment
But will your foreign war for this bs
with Mexico alone! No, sir. As the
weaker party, Mexico, when the contest
shall have once begun, will look abroad,
as We'll as among your negroes and your
Indians, for assistance, Neither Great
Britain nor France will suffer you to
make such conquest from Mexico; no,
nor even 10 annex the independent State
of Texas to your Confederation, without
their lnterposition You will have an
Anglo-Saxon intertwined with Mexican
war to wage. Great Britain may have
no serious objection to the independence
of Texas, and may be willing enough to
take her under her protection, as bar
rier both against Mexico and against you
But, as ACKNOWLEDGEMENT to you, she will
not readily suffer it; and, above all, she
will not suffer you to acquire it by con-
quest and the re-establishment of slavery.
Urged on by the irresistible, overwhelln.
ling torrent Of public opinion, Great Brit
ain has recent Y, at a cost of OLE hundred
millions of dollars, which her People have
joyfully paid, abolished slavery through
out all her colonies in the West indies
After setting such an example, she will
mott is impossible that she should
stand by and witness war for the Tees
Enlistment of slavery where it had been
for years abolished, and situated thus in
the immediate neighborhood other islands
She will tell you, that if you must have
Texas as member of your Contederacg,
it must be without the faint or the tram.
mels of slavery; and if you will wage a
: war to handcuf and fetter your fellow
man, she will wage the war against you
to break his chains. Sir, what figure,
in the eyes of mankind, would you make.
in deadly conflict with Great Britain shs
fighting the battles of emancipation, and
you the battles Of slavery she the bene-
factress, and you the oppressor. of human
kind ! In such war, the enthusiasm of
emancipation, too, would unite vast num-
bers of her People in aid of the national
rivalry, and all her natural jealousy against
our ACKNOWLEDGEMENT No war was ever
so popular in England as that war would
be against slavery, the slave trade, and
the Anglo-Saxon descendant from her
{ own loins.
AS to the annexation of Texas to your
5 Confederation, for what do you want it ?
2 Are you not large and unwieldly enough
t already? Do not two millions Of square
} miles cover surface enough for the insa-
tate rapacity Of your land -jUbbers l hope
! there are none Of them within the sound
/. of my voice. Have you not Indians
q enoug oh to expel from the land of their ia.
:, theirs sepulchres, and to exterminate?-
8 What, in prudential and military point
= of view, would be the addition of Texas to
your domain? 1t would be weakness
# and not power Is your southern and
t. southwestern frontier not sufficiently cx.
81 tensive not sufficiently feeble? notsuff.
i GENTLY dcfenceless2 Why are you add
> ing regiment after regiment of dragons
# to your standing army? Why are you
:. struggling, by direction and indirectlon
n to raise per saltum that army from less
e than six TO more than twenty thousand
e men2 Your commanding General, now
a returning from his excursion to Florida
,. openly recommends the increase of your
> Armv to that number. Sir, the extension
! of YOUR sea-coast frontier from the Sabin,
h to the Rio Bravo would add to your weak
ps ness tcnfold for it is now only weakness
80 with reference to Mexico. 1t would ther
n be weakness with reference to Great Brit
~ ain, to France, even perhaps to Russia, t