Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-07-19
July ls, 1887.

speech, published at length in the Missis-
sippian:
Resolved, That it is expedient in a
national point Of view, to comply with the
desire Of Texas, to become an integral
portion Of this Confederacy without de-
lay. .-......
Resolved, That the annexation Of Tex
astO this Republic, is essential to the future
safety and repose Of the Southern States
Of this Confederacy.
Resolved. That our Senators 10 Con-
gress be instructed, and our Representa-
lives be requested, to use their best exer-
lions 10 procure the annexation Of Texas
10 the United States as early as practica-
DE-"
From these proceedings we may con-
clude that the subject will be brought be-
fore Congress at its next session, and press
cd with zeal.
These resolutions, we nre further in
formed, passed the lower House mani
m0WsLy, and were only postponed by the
Senate tor the want Of time 10 examine
them and the reports"
In these resolutions, Mississippi has
Their intention is evident.
The question then is, shall Texas be
annexed to the Union2 The decision of
this question will decide another Of mo-
mentous importance, viz: whether slavery,
in this nation, shall be overthrown by
moral means. or by the discriminating
thunder" Of Heaven2 We regard it as
absolutely essential to the success Of the
present peaceful effort for the removal Of
slavery: LIST. That the resources Of the
nation should be welded against the per-
pctuation AMI extention Of slavery, and
should be pledged to freedom: that thus
the sIaveholding interest may not trampIe
down, at will, everv effort for its over
throw, by arraying all the executive, le
gisIative, judicial and military power of
the country, against universal freedom
At present, the balance Of power is in the
handso of the free States, and may be used
to save our institutions.
Cd That we should not have too many
shareholders to convert to the principles of
emancipation. Looking at the attitude
assumed by the South on the subject of
slavery, within the last two years, surely
the hope Of her speedy repentance is not
flattering Her highest civil and reli-
gious functionaries have renowned their
old heresy, that slavery is an evil, moral
and political, and now boldly declare it 10
be "the best existing form Of civil gov
ernment"-"t the Corner Stone Of our Re
publican Edi6ce"-"a practical blessing"
ia Divine institution" the special ia
vorite Of Heaven, sanctioned by the apoS-
ties, and sanctioned by Christ, and the
worlds last hope And, while Govern
ors and Doctors Of Divinity have erected
its affairs the people have done homage to
their idol by sacrificing TO it whatever
would no, bow down and worship! Sure,
~, ii the truth we proclaim will bring all
these men to repentance, We need no in
crease Of their number to prove its Divine
origin OF ,uch Southern brethren"
we already have an abundancel Read
the characters Of the principal men OF
Texas. and tell Us If the incorporation OF
such desperudoes into our confederacy,
will inspire the hopes Of those who seek
the peaceful removal OF slavery!
yIcIssrrrpEs OF FoRrUNE.-In the year
1912 or 'l3, Ira Ingram was a school-teach-
er in the village Of Utica, where he commit
ted forgery, for which he was sentenced
20 Imprisonment in the state prison at New
York. After his release, he assumed anoth.
er name, and became bookseller, in small
way, somewhere in Kentucky. We per-
ceive by the Newly ork papers, that law
on the subject Of slavery has been recently
enacted in the nation Of Texas, and that
one Ira Ingram has signed the same as
Speaker Of the House OF Representatives
ofthat Republic.-MohdUk Courier.
TThe above Ingram, Of State-prison no
toriety, is the Identical Ingram who signs
laws in Texas-ED. Fl. RI
And was not the Charles E. Hawkins
who recently died in New-Orleans, hold
ing the Office of Commodore of the Tex
ian NAVY, the same individual who, some
eight or ten years ago, committed a mos
savage, cold-blooded, and deliberate muir
der, in Key West, Florida, upon William
Allison McRea, Esq, the talented, high
minded. and honorable Attorney OF tn
United States for that District; and escap
ed the gallows only because the deed wa
so atrocious that jury of the DIstrlc
could not be had, who had not formed
and expressed an opinion on the subject
The territory could not demand chang
OF venue-ihe prisoner would MOTH
was therefore discharged after two term
of the court-Ndshrille Banner.
We know nothing about the foregoing
statements, but we are very certain tina
the vic;ssitudes Of fortune have tran:
formed multitude OF cut-throats, despel
ADDE'S, outlaws, and criminals, into Texia
heroes and statesmen. Robert Potter an
Moseley Baker, both great men in thu