Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1838-06-21
ANNEXATION OF TENAS.

y, he Senate on the 1fh INST Mr. Preston moved
10 take up his resolution, some time since offered,
which was done, and short debate arose, plinCi-
palIy on the motion of Mr.. Southland to lay 1t On the
table with an understanding that it should not be
taken up again during ,hc present session. Mr..
Calhoun declared hmselfin favor of hcresolutlon OF
ais colleague, though opposed to that portion Of the
preamble BY which ii was preceded, which declares
that part of the United States territory coded
to Spain by the treaty which made the Sabine the
boundary line between this coInry and Mexico.
Finally however, the resolution was again laid upon
the table, by oi2i to H. aud will scarcely be
called up again during the present session.
l We loss, for a time, To guess why 1t
was that Mr.. Calhoun found stumbling block in Mr.
Presion's preamble, which, in our humble opinion
Fortified by that OF Mr.. j. @ Adams wlio as Sec
,ctary OF State, during Mr. Monroe administration,
negotiated the treaty with SPAIN and protested a.
gainst the provision Of the treaty referred TO 10y Mr.
P,eston) merely asserts historical act-,o wit that
under the treaty with France, by which Louisiana
acquired, the just and tue boundary of the Unit
ed States extended in the Southwest TO the Rio
Grande del No,ic, Z" which river continued to be
the true boundary line until The territory west OF the
Sabine surrendered to SPAN by the treaty of
1919" Butwc afterwards recolcctcd that Mr. Cal
houn was a member of Mr.. Momoc's Cabinet. AT
the time that the treaty Of 1919 was nc gotated, and
that he concurred with Mr. Mon,oe aud with the
heads of the several Departments, 90. Adams alone
exccped) in urging the reIinq ushmcnI o our claim
the territory III question. lie pcrccivcs that
lie was, as Southern man especially, guilty ola gla
Ing orcrSi GIT and priding himself particularly upon
his far-seelns sagacty, he will now venture upon the
bold task of disprovng thc justice of prycnslons
at that period, by attempting to overthrow the
wciehty authorities cited by Nj Adams in his CORES
pondence with Don Louis dc Ons aud the I'D ion-
al evidence referred to by Mr.. Preston his speech
all going to show that The Rio Grandc del Noc, and
not the Sabine, was the just and true boundary OF
the United States. He would rather relnquisl Tex
altogether, though the eXpe dIency olanuex-
ing it TO Union were unique stionablc and unqIcs
TONED, than to admir- that lie erred in tho advice given
10 Mr.. Monroe in 1919, by which tlis immense and
fertile territory was coded away, in exchange for the
comparatively barren sands OF Florida. IL combat
ing Mr. Prestons assumption, indeed, Mr.. Cal
houn i. taking away from the supporters of the
ncxation OF Texas their very strongest arg unlcnt-
But what matters that, when his character for po-
litical wisdom is at stake Having consented in
1919 the cesson of this territory, now bchooycs
him to show that it was not our Territory at all !,
But if he can do this. shall give HIM credit for
greater skill in argument than we willing to
ascrlbe TO him, though are not Il whit behind the
varnest OF his admirers in admitting he gigantic
powers of his mind. Its not in the nature OF hings
however, that arguments, however Ingenious C an de
sroy facts. Facts may indeed be perverted but in re-
i,,ion TO night the territory in question: they
in,it ,f nv 4
sumo, indeed ha, right to this territory was not
denied, either by Mr.. Calhoun. or any body else
during the negotiations of 1919 but that it was rein.
pushed far exchange for FIoriJa-a most
wretcled bargain, indeed at the remembrance of
which we do not wonder that Mr.Cahoun feels some
thing like emotion OF modification md chaglin
The following the vote in the Senate, on
the motion to lay Mr.. Prcstons resolution on the
table
YEAS-AIessrs. Allen, Bayard, Brown. Buch-
anan, Clay of Ken, Clayton, Davis Hubbard, King
Knight, Lyon, Mexican, Nicholas, Niles, Novel;,
Pierce, Roane. Robinson, Southland, Wall, Webster,
Williams, Wright, loung-2i.
NAlS-Messts. Benton Calhoun, Cuthbcn,
Fulton, Grundy, Linn, Lumpkin, Mouton, Preston,
Kwes, Sewer, Strange, Trouer, WhIe-n.
In The House Of Representatives., animated de
bate on the same question las arisen, a rcsolu-
ton reported from the committee on Foreign Al
fairs, asking to be discharged from the farther con
slderation OF the whole sub ect, and lhat all the pa
pers relating thereto, and to them referred, be laid
upon the table Mr. Gushing moved that the report
be recommtted to the committee, ''wilh nstruc-
tons TO make report thereon in full as to the merits
OF the questions presented by the resolutions of the
Legislatures of the several Safes of Tennessee Ala
bama, Michigan Ol 10 and Massc husctts and of the
various petitions before the House on the succt
Texas And Mr. Waddy Thompson moved still
farther to amend by striking from Mr.. Gushing pro-
serting, - TO report joint resolution directing the
President TO take the proper steps for the annexation
ofTexas TO the United States as soon as il can be
done consistently with the treaty stipualions oGths
Government" On these several pro positions IN ami
mate debate arose, in which Messrs. Gushing,
Pickens, Carter OF Tennessee, Dromgoole, Adams,
Howard DC. participated. But question
has yet been taken, indicative of the sense of the
House. as TO the expediency Of present action upon
the subject by Congress, the chdactc Of that
action, hould II be determined to put the question
OF annexation to a vote.
This question is destined lead to no little kettle
ment at not very remote day. and in order TO nut
our readers in possession of the facts and arguments
relied upon both by the friends and the opponents of
the annexation of Texas TO the Union we propose
a short me tn lavb efo t,vo nc ii,