Louisville messenger. (Louisville, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-11-11
WHY TEXAS OUGHT 10 BE
ADMITTED lNTo TfIE UNION.

(c9Nt Lcsi0r,)
The arguments, Mr.. Editor, IN IT,
vor Of HE acquisition OF Louisiana by
The Uniicc States apply 80 admirably
TO The annexation Of Texas 20 our
Union, that am prompted to contin-
NC lhi. part Of the subject.
| Mr.. l.iv ngston, in letter to Mr..
Mad son, secretary Of state, dated Pa .
~, eoIh Dec, 1902, says: Consider
Tie value OF The country, (l.oiisiana,)
its importance to peace--tIe ex-
pen'iye csiablishmentsTit will save,
aud its intrinsic worth from the price
Of the land and the aotu..l revenue
When II Is remembered that Mr..
Livingston, in thus referring to Lou
lslana, actually included Texas in his
estimate ofthe value If Louisiana, we
can apply his language above quoted
with double foIce 10 the question be-
fore Us. The value Of Texas; IFS i'm,
portancc to our peace; the expensive
custom house establishment along its
border which its annexation to the
Unit. d States will save, AMI its in
trinsic worth Eom its land domain
and the revenue to be received, aIe all
Considerations Of the highest impor-
lance, and the public mind has only
10 DC directed to them to appreciate
fully their immense value.
There are those still living, Mr..
Editor, who remember the excite
ment produced in this Country by the
act Of the Spanish lntcndant, in c!o-
sing to our Commerce in 1901 the
port Of New Orleans. Let Great
Britain once obtain for her policy
foothold in Texas, and a repetition of
1901, attended by circumstances
which the general government my
NOT be able control, will assuredly
follow. The smuggling of British
goods into the United States by way
Of the ports Of Texas, will utterly de-
stroY our home manufacturing indus
try, and the people, Who will feelthc
first blow which England designs, in
all her Texan negotiations, to give
this country, are the people Of the free
states, who are, in some degree, at
The present moment, prcjudiced a.
galnst admitting Texas into The I'm.
ion, by the defamation Of a few de-
magogues who care not silver for
the countrys good. The Southern
planter will not pay one do.lor pair
for Lynn made Sizes for his slaves,
when Great Baitain will furnish them
to him at so cts. pair; and so on Of
all other things. The blow being
first felt by the Eastern people, viii
next fall upon the western people who
will lind tie home market Tor their
produce cut off BY the injury inflicted
upon Eastern industry, aud they will
soon discover that the British Texan
capitalist will exhaust the valley of
the Mississippi Of its coin in payment
for cheap goods. The elect upon
the East and West will be followed
by, if it be not simultaneous with, an
other effect which will be the ruin OF
the whole industry of the South. That
effect is, the escape Of our slaves from
bondage into freedom, b., merely pas
sing the line OF Texas. Then will
commence the beginning Of. our end.
Mr.. Livingston, in a letter to Mr.
adison, January gath, ls03, used this
language as reason why France
lhould not be permitted to occupy
1t is applicable to the
question before us, and rhould show
to us that Great Britain ought never
to be allowed TO get the ascendency
in Texas ;-"l have no Doubt" SAYS
Mr.. L., ''that they will provoke an
'lndian war, by paying them moth
ing, and that in their Solicilude to
'acquile wealth they will act over
again the tyranny Of ST Domingo.
III will be necessary, therefore, to
take the positioR that will best guard
against The effects Of these evils
lfGreat Britain should SUCCEED in her
diplomatic aggressions upon Texns,
every one will see that she will pro-
'oke not only an Indian war, but
ervile war upon our southwest bor-
Ter. Look at the tribes Of Indians
hirsting for vengeance on our from
Ter, not more than a weeks journey
rom the banks Of the Red River.