Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1841-11-18
From the Norfolk Beacon.
TExAs-ANNExATIoN.

Republic of Texas, with its vast resources
and grea, capacity FOR Improvement, have
for some time rendered it an object Of in.
,erest with the British Government and
public. The recognition Of the independ-
ence Of this republic by the Court Of Great
Britain, was hailed al the time by the
British press as the harbinger Of unwont-
ed commercial prosperity.
The active industry Of the Anglo A mer-
lean race, were expected to draw from the
ample and fertile fields lying between the
Sabine and the Rio Grande, the treasures
Of tropical agriculture, including cotton,
sugar, rice and tobacco, which are TO be
poured into their markets at price at
least oue.third less than they are now fur
nished by any other nation, while the
manufactures Of Leeds, Sheffield, BIrmIng.
ham and Manchester, are TO roll back IN
exchange unembarrassed by any high ia
riff restrictions and burdensome duties.
The increase Of population and influx of
capital consequent on the progressive de-
velopmen, of the great natural resources
of that country, are expected to create an
immense consumption, which will be sup
piled by British manufactures transported
to very considerable extent in British
bottoms. Her people are claimed to be
of English origin, with all the sympathies,
and political and social propensities which
are invariably found to be concomitants
Of that origin.
1t is not little remarkable, tina! while
Great Britain is affecting to exhibit such
al 20 tho inQtiftttiop oG do
mestc slavery as it exists in the Southern
portion of tho United States, that she
should have manifested so much enlhusi-
asm upon the recognition Of the independ-
ence of a country, the products of whose
immense plantations must be the fruits oil
that species Of labor, and must necessarily
be the cause Of its still greater extension.
Some oil the London papers indeed, have
stated that tho determination TO retain
slave property, contrary to the Mexican
laws, and the determined resolution OF the
Mexican authorities to support the laws
on that subject, were the primary causes
of the Texan revolt and separaiion.-l
They are aware moreover Of the fact,
that while the African slave trade is pro.
hi5ited by Texan laws, that the importa-
ton Of slave labor from The United States,
is openly and fully legalized, the Texan
Congress being prohibited by law from
passing any act forbddlng emigrants from
the United States from carrying their
slaves into the republic with them, and
holding them by the same tenure by which
such slaves were held in the United States.
Thus a wide door is expressly left open
for the increase of the slave population OF
Texas, and as the cultivation of cotton
and other products is extended, will!
the supply of slave labor be increased.
All this Great Britain sees, but with
vision enruptured by the belief that she
is to have direct and unimpeded COM
mercial Intercourse with great nation Of
planters, with their immense fields OF cot.
ton, rice, sugar and tobacco.
The independence of Texas had been
recognized by France, Holland and Bel.
GUM, before its treaty with Great Britain
was ratified, all these nations acting on
the policy of exchanging their own man.
uiac,ures and productions for the raw pro-
ducts of country which neither has nor
is likely soon to have any manufactures
OF its own.
If foreign nations attach so much inn
portance to close connection and init
mate communication with this rising re.
public, ought the people of the United
States to regard with indifference con.
federation with a nation whose population
speak the same language and derive their
origin from the Same stock with them
selves. Her people-her laws-her SYM
pathIes-are all Of American origin, but
il we obstinately refuse TO entertain her
fair and friendly overtures for annexation,
she will necessarily as years roll by, not
only become attached to distinct and
exclusive foreign policy, but in the end
come to regard the United States, its near
and powerful neighbor, with feelings OF
jealousy and even anlipathy. 1t is the
policy Of Great Britain to excite these
feelings, and to raise up hostile nation
on our Southern border, which would
throw its weight into her scale in the event
of war with this country.
Texas has national domain Of 200,-
900, 900 Of acres, which Great Britain
hopes will some day or other attract
portion Of her redundant population, whish
would lead to wider diffusion Of the Brit.
ish race, and nurture within the borders
OF that republic, class imbued with
British sympathies as well as identified
with British interests.
We copied few days since from the
Natchez Free Trader, paragraph stating
that it had high authority for asserting
that proposition for the annexation of
Texas would be brought forward by a dis.
,inguished member Of Congress, at the en-
suing session, under highly favorable aus
pces. From this we infer, that the Tex
an Minister has been instructed by his
Government, to submit proposition for
the admission of Texas into our coniede-
ration, ant if so, the President and Senate
Of the United States will have submitted
to :hem an offer, which, if rejected, will
in all probability never be renewed, of
forming by virtue Of the treaty making
power, more intimate union with coun.
try, whose growth has been most remark
able if not unparalleled, and whose desll-
ny promises to be one Of no common or
der.
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