The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-12-15

From The Kentucky Woman
| MASS MEETING N~CARROLL COUNTY.
| ANNEXATION OF TEXAS.
! Democrats and Wings have impartialy called
general meeting at the town of Client, in Carol
county, Kentucky, on Saturday, the 25th November
lS43 for the purpose Of taking into consideration thu
Importance of admitting Texas into the United States
Lawrence Ashton called to the Chair, and Bart
lett Searcy appointed Secretary.
Whereupon George N. Sanders offered the follow
ing preamble and resolutions:
We, citizens of Carroll county, Kentucky in mas
assembled, without distinction of party present t
our fellow citizens of Kentucky and the other Uni
! ted States Of America, earnest and deliberate
views in regard to our sister country-Texas-and tC
the statesmen OF the Union, our solemn and unater-
able opinions "a to the Importance and necessity Of
! immediate admission into confederacy.
| The Territory of Texas, formerly belonging to the
United States, having been unwisely and prodgalIy
coded to the Government of Spain, has, notwith.
standing, asserted the claims arising from its near
neighborhood and neglected advantages, by becoming
the residence of the Anglo Americans, who are now
the rghtful owners of the SOIL both by conventional
engagements and the laws of nations. BY similar
train of events they erected the free State OF
Texas, as we became the free States of America
| They have declared and maintained their indepen-
dence, now acknowledged by Great Britain, France,
and the United States. They have asked to become
what they always should have been, sharers of the
blessings which the virtues of their and our fathers
won for the vast dominion which we claim as the
United States territory. Respecting the increased
extent of territory which the annexation Of Texas
produces (urged OBJ ectionable by some) we clohe
our ideas IN the just and beautiful language of Mr..
Calhoun, IN his letter to country in 1870 {" In
taking the course have, | was governed by a deep
conviction that our system of Government fairly I'M
derstood, exce!s in beauty and wisdom all that has
preceded it; that, if administered according to its
true construction and the intention of its trainers, it
might embrace our wide spread territory to its ut
most limits, and endure to The latest generation'-
He concludes by observing that when the creed and
system of Thomas Jefferson shall be securely estab-
ished, our free institutions, including the General
and State Governments each IN lis assigned orb, diff
using light, and heat, and happiness, III become the
wonder and the admiration Of the world.n Can any
OF our sister States be selfish, heartless so OBJ
stnaely blind 10 the harmony and interest Of ALL
seriously to determine TO shut out the genial sunshine
of our Constitution from any Of fellow creatures
who may ask TO gladden. their soil in its warmth
whether on the Rio del Norte the bottoms Of the
Sabine If we are deeply penetrated with the ele-
waiting tendencies OF our code OF laws neither gene
rosity nor humanity go with US in churlish re-
tusal to admit to the same board the brothers who
have eaten and drunk from their chdhaod IN onr
/ /" fathers house,
! Our patriots our orators, and our press, have con-
stantly proclaimed the loyeliness and majesty of a
system of government which left the individual States
! independent while IT brought it into harmoni us
union with affiliated corps of Independence, diff
ierng, however, widely from it in climate, products,
or internal policy. And II argues want Of faith in
our professions TO show any hesltancy TO receive a
people, "bone of bone, aud flesh of our flesh, -
reared up under our own glorious institutions, and J.
mring them as we do they ought to be received with
! a joyful welcome. Any reluctance on our part now
must diminish the good feeling which ought to exist
between us after our reunion. Circumstances may
hereafter arise which will compel US TO do that amid
storms and terrors which we have now the opportu-
nifty of doing in peace and with deliberation.
/ The futile objection of the mother country's mega
ton OF the independence Of Texas, had much better
be urged against the introduction of Florida without
the appreciation Of the Seminoes, they being in fact
the occupants of the soil.
A line drawn from the mouth Of the Rio Del Norte,
thence along The Cordllleras tall II cuts the Arkansas
river, is plainly the most natural and suitable boun-
dairy between the United States and Mexico To
harmonic the Northern and Southern sections of the
United States, we suggest TO the Texans that they
make the ooh degree of longitude west from Wash
ingon city till it strikes the Colorado, thence TO its
mouth, the limit. Of slavery in Texas. The free
States Of Texas would thus have a border for two
! thousand miles along the Mexican frontier, giving
them all the advantages of the trade along that ex-
tended boundary. They would own fve-siXths Of
the new territory and have equal sweep along the
Gull coast They would Interpose between white
slavery in Mexico and negro slavery in the United
States, and probably form continuous chain at no
distant day from Maine to the Gulf Of Mexico The
laws of the United States against the importation OF
slaves would put stop TO that traffic as lately car.
rled on between the United States and the West In
dies. This circumstance will have weight with those
aboIitioniss in the North who are acuated by mis-
taken beneyolence and not by interested motives, or
degrading subscrvlency 10 British dictation. OF the
weigy, and to the Southern States, solemn matters
| connected with the slaves we have prepared our
10 will he wifi hey
are iraught. The accession of Texas would bring
IN vast tract OF country separating them from the
interference of foreign people. Whereas, should
we, by our suplneness, force the republicans OF
/ Texas to accept the aid of the willy dplomatists
of Britain, it requires prophetic fire TO light us
to the inevitable fate Of Texas, and all that we
have to dread ia her fall Cenched in the silver vice
of the British abotioniss, she may sigh in vain over
foul Vaccinations against her kinsmen and former
assocates-the Shareholders of the United States /.
there anything in the fierce and unceasing denuncia
tons OF Engishmen against Shareholders where the
life stake OF the white man is forgotten in the dolary
for black blood Anything in own recollection:
OF British warfare on the United States territory p
anything in the daily cry from the trampled and de-
yastaed countries OF the old world to lead the South
ern States TO hope for any honorable policy to-
wards them than system of household murder, St
mulaed by the zcalots who would insidously thrust
the Gaggot and the knife INTO the hands of people
ignorant of what they would have and infatuate thc
wi h the belief that the assassnations of the kind
white friends, whose hands have muistcred to them
in sickness and who have watched their in ant steps
and trembling age with tenderness Of which Eng
land would IN vain seek to boast towards her OWL
oppressed muitltudCS, will be a holocaust TO the
God Of the Christian
The new and unsettled States of Texas would ollel
an extensive lket TO the eastern manufacturers
large carrying trade to the shipping of the great com
mercia cities, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia
while the products of tho West which now TOO offer
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to Texas free of the onerous taxes which now fette
Y our trade. Our intercourse with Santa Fe would b.
D greatly facilitated II could not be long before tn
G West would receive for her manufactured articles