Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-11-23

UNION OF THE UNITED STATES AND TExAs-Iti is
reported In the Southern papers, that an effort will
be made at the ensuing session of Congress-, for
the union of Texas with the United Setes 1t will
be recolected that proposition of this kind was
made few years ago, which met with favor from
considerable portion of the southern members in
Congress-, and there can be but little doubt, but
that fellow feeling still prevails to a considerable
extent, In the States of the South with the people
of Texas However much the South NAV regard
with favor a union between the two Republics, as
a measure calculated to strengthen their peculiar
interests and institutions with the people of the
North there can be but opinion. Whenever
the press In the northern states, have expressed an
opinion on this subject, with but very few excep-
tons the idea of admitting Texas as component
part of this Union, has been repudiated There is
evidence to induce the belief, that public sent-
ment has undergone any change on this subject,
during the past four years. On the contrary it is
probable that there exists stronger feeling, in op-
position to measure of this kind at present, than
when the subject was first preached before the peo-
pie of this Republic
The policy of extending the lines of the United
States, cannot be regarded with favor, especially in
view of the future good of this nation The strength
of nation does not depend so much upon the ex-
tent OF Its territory, as upon the union of interest
and feeling of its people. Varieties of climate,
soil, and productions produce diversies of inter-
est. 1t follows then, that the more extended the
dominion, or greater the under the control of
one government the more difficult is to govern by
a uniform system oflaws. Nature has its influences
upon the pursuits and habits of mankind Differ
ent attitudes of the earth, produce different fruits
the channels of labor diversified, and the in
terests of men regulated accordingly. The inhab-
ltants OF the tropics can never accommodate their
habits, their modes of living and their pursuits of
of life to those of the high attitudes of the north
Nature has gned to in every portion of the
EARTH the means of hts subsistence, and has kindly
suggested the kind of labor best adapted to the at
tainment of this object. Hence the extreme diff
Guilty in uniting under one harmonious system of
government, those whom the laws of nature have
directed to different pursuits
The policy of the United States is widely differ
ent from that of Great Britain with respect to the
extension of power. The government of the Uni
ted States has colonial possessions-no tributary
countries acquired by conquest,-nor is the attain
ment OF these any part of our national policy Our
government acquires no additional possessions
without extending to the people the boon of liberty
and the enjoyment of free and equal ri gifts in COM
with the people of the United States Eng
land is yearly extending her territories on various
parts OF the globe, but she does not incorporate her
vast possessions into one common government, and
extend one common system of law over the whole
But each of her colonial dependencies, is measu
rably left to adopt internal laws and regulations
adapted to the peculiar pursuits and habits of the
people. This policy is doubtless wise. Were the
whole of the British possessions throu ghout the
world consolidated into one government, and one
uniform system of law regulating trade, commerce.
and administration ofjustice, made every where to
prevail the same, the power of England would soon
be severed by discordant interests and the govern
ment sink beneath its own weight.-Hence if it be
true that England strengthens her power by the
continual acquisition of new territory it does nor
follow that the power of the United States would
be strengthened by additions of territory but
on the contrary that our government would be
"0"Neieu ny acquiring ne" possessions. Inc rea-
son OF this is obvious-because as before remarked
the policy of England and the policy of the United
States are of opposite kinds The one, recognizes
tealty subjects and dependances-the other, recog-
nlzes no grades In the scale OF political hberfy but
extends equal privileges all within its jurisdiction
The diversity of interests which exist in different
sections OF the United States, have already more
han once brought us on the verge of dissolution.-