The Arkansas banner., 1843-10-14
BRITISH pARJJANFNT


 Ieras-In the House of Lords, on Friday, the subject of Texas and Texas Slavery in the following manner, as reported in the London Morning Chronicle of the morning of the 18th.
 Lord Brougham said that seeing his noble friend at the head of the foreign department in his place, he wished to obtain some in- 2formation frout him relative to state of great interest at the present time, namely, Texas. That country was in a state of independence de .facto, but its independence had never been acknowledged by Mexico, the state from which it was torn by the events of the revo- lution. He was aware that its independence had been so faracknowledged by this country that we had treaty with it. The importance of Texas could not be underraed. It was country of the greatest capabilities, and was in extent fully as large as France. It possess ed a soil of the finest and most fertile char acter, and 1t was capable of producing nearly all tropical produce, and its climate was of niost healthy character, It had access to the Calf of Mexico, through the river Mississippi, with which It communicated by means of the Red River. The population of the coun- try was said to exceed two hundred and forty thousand, but he had been insured by gen. tleman who came from that country, and who was a member of the same profession as him. self, that the whole population, free and slaN es, white and colored, did not exceed one hundred thousand; but he was grieved to learn that not less than one fourth of the population, or twenty-five thousand persons, were in state of slavery. This point led him to the foundation of the question which he wished to put to his noble friend. There was very lit!le, or no slave trade carried on with Texas from Africa directly: but large number of slaves were constantly being sent over land to that country. Although the ma jor part of the land in Texas was well adapt cd for white labor, and therefore for free cul- tlvatlon, still the people of that country, by some strange infatuation, or by some inor- dinate love of immediate gain, preferred slave labor to free labor. As all access to the African slave market was shut out to them, their market for slaves was the United States, from whence they obtained large supply of negro slaves. The markets from whence they obtained their supply of slaves were Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia which states constantly sent their surplus slave population, which would otherwise be a burden to them, to the Texian market.- No doubt it was true, as has been stated ti:a, s!ioy treated their slaves tolerably we'll because they knew that 1t was for their in- terest 10 rear them, as they had such pro. fitable market for them in Texas. This made him irresistibly anxious for the abolition o q Nr1. f ..
 there, not only would that country be euiii- vated by free and white labor, but it would put stop 10 the habit of breeding slaves fol the 'fexian market. The consequence would be, that they would solve this great question in the history of the United States, for it mus ultimately end in the abolition of slavery il America. He, therefore, looked forward most anxiously tc the abolition of slavery il