Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-01-03

delicate and increasing cOhSidoraion H.
ccssarlv involved in the issue ol the pend
iar struggle between Mexico and Texas.
Your Committee are quite willing, and
they believe the Senate would desire 10 re.
cord their entire concurrence in the wishes
so cmphaticaily expressed by the Governor
for the preservation of the neutrality of our
government, in the subsis;inc contest be-
tween these two powers. Ills EXccllency's
views embrace principles as clearly in con-
fortnity with The mayims ofinternational law,
rs they arc with the lessons Of sound policy
and Justice. Our government should Ger
taiuly maintain all those relations towards
Mexico which are at once sanctioned by The
faith Of existing treaties and usages the OF
civilized nations in amity with each other.
+ Nor does your Committee believe that there
is Tic slightest reason TO apprehend tha;
the Independence Of Texas will be rccog-
n:zcd by orr government, until she has
vindicatcd her claim to such recognition,
! by victorious possession of the country,
and by establishing a government de tacfo
clothed with all the attributes Of sovereignty
and Observation-Disclosures this event shall
occur, this question, as well as that of her
voluntary admission into this Union, may
be safely confilcd 10 the only constitutional
tribunal 10 which it properly belongs, the
! Congress of the Uni;ed States, and in the
deliberations necessarily involved in this
subject before that body, your Committee
have no reason to h''lieve that tine dele
CATION from South Carolina viii not dis
charge, in a manner eminently satisfactory
to their cons itucnts, their duty 10 their coun-
try, and that portion of this confederacy
having the deepest and most abiding inter-
ests III the question.
Here your Committee would willingly
leave this subicc under Il painful reluctance
! they cherish to ake anv course which might
seem to indicate difference Of opinion be-
tween oar late Executive and this body, who
has Just rc,ired from the discharge OF The
duties of an office which have served 70
confirm his high and irrevocable claims 70
the gratitude and confidence ofhis country.
But the discussion has been forced on your
Committee by tie Report Of the House OF
Representatives, transmitted for our con-
currance, which seems % afford an unequ-
vocal sanction TO the sentiments which our
! late Governor seems TO entertain OF the res
pective claims Of the contcnding parties 10
our sympathy and regard.
( In expressing this dissen: from the opin-
ions of our late Executive, we arc prepared
to do Justice to the exalted motives OF patrio.
tsrn which have influenced views which VIC
may deem 20 b. erroneous.
! Your Committee arc cons raincd to say
that on this topic, they differ with him on the
declaration that boh Mexico and Texas
arc equally entitled 10 our sympathy, which
is precisely tantamount to the proposition
that neither can invoke any such feeling;
for it will be scarcely pretended that Mexico
IN her career Of violated faith and stupen-
doas a:rocity, can put in any such claim.
! Upon simple statement Of facts, it remains
to be seen whether Texas has just preten.
sion TO challenge any interest on Our part in
her present Struggle.
The cause of Texas is Identical with
the cause which severed the Colonies of
Nos,h America from the parent Country.
1t is a radical mistake TO suppose that the
Revolution in Texas was commenced by Il
band ofmcre adyenturers, unsustaincd by
resident population IN possession by legal
title of chartered rights and portion ofthe
property ofthe country. The truth is,that at
an early period after the acquisition Of Lou.
isiana, when Spain exercised scarcel y any
iurisdc ion, civil or military, over this vas:
Territory, the hardy emgrants of our
Western Frontier pushed their enterprize
into these solitudes, and commenced settle.
mcn,s which have since become the most
hourishng portions Of the Country. The
infant settlements gradually increased, and
in the struggle between Spain and her Pro-
vinccs, Texas rendered the mos. essential
services to the common cause Of liberty |
and righ,.
Immediately after the termination Of the
Struggle By which Spain lost her Colonies |
on our Continent, the actual settlers in Tex
as obtained guarantees and charters for the !
encouragement of emigration and settle.
ment, which alurcd an cnterprsing portion
ofthc people Oft the United States within her !
limits, under tic faith of the mos: solemn
compacts. These were violated without a !
colour of justice, under dcspotic jealousy |
Of the growing importance Of Texas, and !
in the most iagrant manner, and it was not
until The Coalcdcracy Of the Provinces was
fayiiously overhrowcd by the substitution
Of consolidated central despotism, that
Texas rcsistcd,a even her resistance was
not commenced until she had exhausted
every resource of supplication and rcmon.
s.rancc. Her resistance rested like that of
t:e former Colonies which now form these
independent States, on violation of char.
tered rights and constitutional guaran.