Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-01-27
VERMONT PmGNIx.
Messaxe Of the President on the political
condition of Texas.
BRATTLEBORO, VIZ.
Friday Morning, January ~, 1887

hteness Of Mr. Hall, our Representative in
Congress. The tenor of this communication
is quite characteristic of the administration
which is frequently in the habit of looking one
way and rowing another. To be sure the
President 10 remarkably modest in his language,
and seems to pay great Difference to the Con-
stitution and to the two Houses of Congress,
and is for once willing that they should stake
the responsibility He says, "there are cir
cumstances in the relations of the two coun-
tries which require us TO act, on this occasion
with even more than our wonted caution.-l
Texas was once claimed as part Of our pro-
perry; and there are those among our citizens
(referring doubtless to his dear friend Benton)
who always reluctant to abandon that claim,
cannot but regard with solictude the prospect
Of the reunion Of the territory to this country"
. GA large proportion of its civilized inhabitants
are emigrants from the U. States; speak the
same language with ourselves; cherish the same
principles, political and religious, and are bound
to many of our citizens by the ties of friend |
ship and kindred blood; and more than all, 1t is
known that the people Of that country have in
stituted the same form of government with our
sion, openly resolved on the acknowledgment
by US, of their independence, to seek for adj
mission into the Union as one of the Federal
States" sThe title of Texas to the territory
she claims, is identified with her independence;
she asks us to acknowledge that title to the
territory with an avowed design TO treat inn
mediately of its transfer to the United States. .
s'It becomes us to beware of too early move
ment, it might subject us, however unjustly
to the imputation of seeking to establish the
claim of our neighbors to a territory, with a
view to its subsequent acquisition by our
selves" "Prudence therefore seems to dictate
that we should still stand aloof, if not until
Mexico Itself or one of the great foreign pow
els shall recognise the independence Of the new
government, at least until the lapse of time or
the course of events shall have proved beyond
cav or dispute, the ability of that country to
maintain their separate sovereignty, and to up
hold the government constituted by Them"
Appended to the Message is the correspond
ence of Mr.. Morit, Gen. Jackson's agent sent
t. to Texas to inquire into the state and condi-
ton of that province, with our Secretary of
State; which with some statistical details con-
iains jealous argument, decidedly favorable |:
to the cause of the Texans. This is sent out
to the people probably with view to bespeak ,
beforehand favorable reception among them
Of the union of Texas with the States, if that ,
project should be resolved upon by Congress. /
Apropos to the above subject, we have within q
a few days been put in possession of pamph- 3
let entitled "THE WAR IN Texas; instigated a
by Shareholders, Land-speculators, &c., for
the re-establishment of Slavery and the Slave
Trade in the Republic of Mexico. BY citi- :,
zen of the United States.' From this paniph- :
let we make the following extracts:
The prime cause, and the real objects OF "
this war, are not distinctly understood by t
large portion Of the honest disnterested "
and wel-meaning citizens of the United c
States Their means of obtaining correct
information upon the subject have been me- a
cessarily limited; and many of them have a
been deceived and misled by the misrepre- Il
sensations Of those concerned in il, and es- e.
pecially by hireling writers for the newspa- Ii
per press They have been induced to be. h
leve that the inhabitants Of Texas were en- n
gagged in a legitimate contest for the main o.
tenance Of the sacred principles of Liberty, "
and the natural, inalienable Rights Of Man:
--whereas. the motives Of its instigators, 81
and their chief incentives to action, have D
been. from the commencement, OF directly il
opposite character and tendency IL Is sus- Il
cspt,ble Of The elearest demonstration, that Il
the immediate cause and The leading object S,
Of this contest originated In a settled design, c,
among The stockholders of this country (tcith j
and slapetraders) 10 forest ri
The large and Uaiuable territory of TEXAS Il
from the Merican Republic in order 10 re- "
establish Tie SYSTEM OF SLAVERY; D
10 open rast and profitable SLAVE ii
MARKET therein and ultimately. 10 an
ne1 IL 10 the United States And further, it tie
is evident-nay. il is very generally ac- n,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the insurreclionsts are re
citizens of the United States, re-
who have proceeded thither for The purpose r,
OF reyolutionizing the country; and that n
they are dependant upon this nation, for both a,
the physical and pecuniary means, to carry B
the design into effet We have sill more d
important view of the subject The Stare ],
hold'ng Interest is n0w paramount in the p
Erecufice branch Of our national gopern- ii
ment; and It's influence operates indirectly, ],
yet POWERFULLY, through that medium, IN fa- e,
nor Of this Grand Scheme of Oppression II
and Iyrannicel Usnrpation Whether the to
national Legislature will join hands with ii
the Executive, and lend its aid to this most .
understandable, aggressive attempt, will de-
pend on the VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
expressed in their primary assemblies, bu
their Petitions, and through the ballot
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