State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-09-13
TIE TEXAS QUESTION IN ENG.
LAND

LAND.
1t will lie seen by the following article
from the London Patriot of July &, that the
affairs Of Texas are beginning TO arrest the
attention of the British public, and have
even bccOmC II sub ect of consideration in
Parliament.
'The British public ought to he made
aware of what is going on at present IN
Texas; of the true cause and the true nature
of the contest between the Mexican author
tiles and the American slave jobbcis. None
of the daily journals, however, Liberal or
Tory, have CARED Ia bring the facts under
the notice of their readers.
TeXas has long been the Naboth's vine
yard Of Brother JONATHAN. For twenty
years or more an anxiety has been NANTES
ted to push backward the boundary of the
United States territory, Of which the Sabine
river is the agreed line so as to include the
rich aluvial lands of the Delta of tie Colo
RADIO, at the head of the Gulf of Mexico.
The mere lust of territory, which, in the
Americans, seems national passion, is not,
however, the sole cause of this anxiety to
appropriate, by fraud or force, what unqucs-
tiondbly belongs to the Mexican territory.
There are strong passions at work, deeper
interests at stake. Texas belongs 10 u Re-
public which has abolished slavery; the
oh cCt of the Americans is 10 convert it
INTO slavehotling State, not only TO make
it the field of shave cultivation, and mar
ket for the Maryland Sla> e-trade, but, by
anncXing it TO the Federal Union, TO
strengthen in congress the preponderating
influence of the Southern or slaveholding
States.
| This atrocious project is the real origin
and cause ofthe pretended contest for Tex
J ian independence; war Oh the part of the
! United States, of unprovokcd aggression for
the viest of all purposes. That we are hot
speaking too strongly or without evidence,
our readers will he convinced, on reading
| the speech of Mr.. J. q. Adams, an EXPIRES
ident OF the United States, delivered in the
House of Representatives i'll May last,
which we transcTibe from the American
papers. 'What did we now see in Texas
he exclaimed. why, Americans fighting
( for the rc-cStablishment of slavery within
that State where ii had been abolished. lie
repeated the question. Did not every man
who heard him know, although the House
had not seen fit to grant him the documents
! by which he could establish the fact, that
the war raging in Texas is q icdr for The
restoration Of Slavery iohere ii had been abot
iShed? Aud you Sir, you, own Government
has gwen ioi a ~ tiiS i1C''A VI
the Mexican Government, to make war in
the cause of human liberty; aud he might
invade your own territory
Mir. Adams, it will be seen, proceeded to
point out to his reluctant audience what
would have been the probable result, had
Santa Anna crossed the American border
with the banner Of freedom waving about
him, and proclaining Mexican liberty to
the negroes of Louisiana and Alabama,
Missouri aud Gorgia. But surprising Santa
Anna shot or destroyed, did they think that
lhey would be. allowed, without further diff
;icuIty, TO make Texas territory OF the
Union? There was, said Mr.. Adams,
ANOTHER COUNTRY to which the voice OF
Liberty has claim quite rs powerful rs it
has here, with this addition-that IL eX ,ndS
that feeling of liberty TO all races, TO all
conditions and colors. That county has
set YOU an example within the last two
years, of procIaiming freedom to their
slaves i'll the very vicinity of your own
country. Ay, that is the country for fanatics,
for aboltionisls! Before you admit that
territory into your Union, you will have to
ask the permission of Great Britain
This is language which could not but be
very unpalatable to the slave Iobbers i'll
Congress assembled, with their slayehold-
ing Speaker; but which ought TO enlist the
feelings of every British phianthropsi,
every British Christian, i'll support OF The
undetermined mel, who are standing for
ward in the United States, to resist The tor
rent of national inquity. W call upon the
country TO rulse its voice. Trust nOt to the
smooth words and slow movements of Lord
Pulmerston. Ii will be seen from our Par
liameutaay record, that on Thursday night,
the subject OF what the papers call the Re
pOU IN IerSaS was moOcd i'll the House
OF Commons. la answer 10 The question,
whether Government had received any
communication relative to the establish
ment Of Slavery and the Sidue tra,,e III IerGS,
Lord Palmerslon observed, that the inhahi-
tnils of Texas were IN recoA against the
Mexican Government, and that, if they sue
cceded, i'll such case the laws of Mexico
could not be applied. Was this reply
worthy or British statesman? Mr.. Hoy
announced his intention of bringing the
subject under the consideration OF Fara
lnent: and we will take care that the sub Get
shall not be stitcd. Dr. Lushington asked
whether Government had received any in
formation of the importation Of siareS from
Teas into The United !StaieS? Was the
honorable and learned gentlemen content
with the answer which lie obtained? We
are sure he was not.
.Nt,o Machine. MIR Abel Williams of
Ashticld, has invented II machine which he