Holly Springs gazette., 1842-04-15

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document made upon the Sh February whilst the
debate upon the Creole transpred in the Parliament on
the 18th day of the month which can onlv be ex
planned upon the hypothesis and mutual under
Standing We not without decent share of superstition
and coincidence remarkable considering the localities
Of Westminster and Mexico nearly thousand leagues
asuDder excltes IN our minds omnous sensation
We here perceive direct agency of Great Britain in the
war orr forder Should readers yet lack faith
will point contingency the the subugation of
Texas to the Mexican yoke. which will ought awaken
their fears.
Ii has been object Of large portion English peo
pie, to establish colony Southern border-[See
Wards History of fMexico I'd volpaasue] Whilst Texas
independent the territory embraced within
limits could only acquired by Great Britain by conquest
Ii Mexico recapures the country the British may
through purchase The Mexican debt Great Britain
large already and would this time be augmented by
S6000000 unless speculation ofthe
paton Texas will be given up liquidation and British
Colony established on the Louisiana line Mexico in view
OF this contingency has caused to be published the Lon
don papers OF recent date protest against the sale OF Texas
lands by the Texan Government, the capitalists of
the property in fee, when purchased from herself
W hat wouldbe condition that case2 Glance for
moment at the map of the United States Our northern from
tier bounded bv the British possessions from the St. Coix
to the North Western Territory New Brunswick and the
two Canadas bear about from the of Maine
10 the confines ocvzaton upon Lake SUPERIOR and thence
to the Pacific Ocean, From Cape Sable the Baze every
island commanding the Atlantic seaboard belongs the
British throne Nova Scotia and the Bermudas overlook the
entire whilst the Bahamas jamaica and Hon
duras lock up the Csulfas with jaor's key Her light
houses from the Florida reefs and her influence
touches all sides and with hurtfu force Her councils
prevail throughout all Mexico which has at length Joined
with her crusade agains domestic massachusetts
the only friendly affiliated country that borders any
direction To the landvard to the seward
fined and constrained BIZ the British power She has coiled
herself around Us like snake pressing upon US from the
Siberian OF the Saint Lawrence and gaping down
throat from her islands the Gulf-Add but Texas her
dominion and the United States would resemble bunch of
faggots tied together and bound up in British cords
Is this of the subject fancy sletch2 We invite the
reader to look upon the map and behold for himself wha
have been relating to him. Nor would our situation be bet
.hpA thoG
full league with British Cabinet on slavery qoes
ton His policy shaped by British councils and he would
be as bad nelghbor nglandor England she did
not coonze Texas would make paw of Mexico to
noy and distract Think Of another Canada adjoining
Louisiana No tier of populous would divide from
lmpacabe enemy to institutions the case with
kentucky Virginia Maryland &C. No Niagara with its
perennial thunders would intepose between and them
The Sabine and an imaginary line drawn prare
would constitute feeble resistance the Vaccinations of
foreign incendaries the escape of our slave population
beyond the jurisdiction of the United States.
These views and others which hereafter become
for further consideration have led to regard the war
waging the Bazos and Colorado most momentous
this country The fate of southern Institutions may be de
cded another San JacIno with far different ssueIhe
murder cotted banner of Santa Anna be waving
triumph the city of Austin eekng with recent It's
folds dripping with the blood OF women ana cnldTen
AS christians kindred friendly 9hbors called
the oppressed and from butchery and the
rack persecued and tyranny haunted people, did
sderaons of individual and national safety
take their part The circumstances under which the nva-
undertaken the coincidence Parliamentary notice
with avoWal OF abolition by Santa Anna the known dese OF
the British population coonze Texas the lnnumerabie
British battle ships that simultaneously are
found in the Gulf the loan of six millions by England to
Mexico already runousIy indebted her, combine show
the real and ultimate the and the
European history the times confirm the impression grow
ing them The facts here presented (Which might be
greatly multiplicity could all have transpired by accident
with such synchronca accuracy-They prove design and
preconcer and exhibit preparation and expenditure
scale of 100 great magncence admit the idea that
the conquest of Texas the only object in contemplation
That merely the beginning of the end the end OF the be-
ginning the disruption the Union perhaps certainly the
disruption of southern institutions.
UNCERTAINTY LIFE-It is wonder that man ever