The Arkansas banner., 1843-10-21

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 .4nmeration of Ieras.-This interesting question appears to be receiving increasing attention by the people of the United States; and 1t is to be hoped that at the next session of Congress, the question may be determined, by receiving Texas into the Unon The following remarks, from the New Orleans Bulletin, are to the point.
 TExAs-Remarks which we offered some time since, on the propriety of the re-annex- ation of Texas to the territory of the United States, concluded as follows
 < At all events we think the project of an- nexation is worthy of vigorous effort by its friends at the approaching session of Con- gress, and we hope to see it taken up and pressed upon the attention of the country.- We may safely say, we think, that no such opportunity of adding a State like that of Texas to their dominions, was ever before suffered to pass unimproved by any people, Are the American people so blind as to con- tinue to refuse this magnificent addition to their territory, wealth, and poWer'
 Copying this paragraph, the United States GaaeHe inquires-ssD Does the American peo- ''ple need that magnificent addition of terri ':tory, acealth, and power?" And adds .'We doubt whether Congress would con- ''sent to such an addition to its cares, Gin :. time to is numerical force. ihe ques- "tion, however, is one that is receiving '.much attention, and as 1t is one proper for "public discussion, we present 1t to our !Sreaderso
 We think thata a glance at the map of North America must convince our contemporary that the people of the United States do need the addition of Texas to their territory; and that without that addition, there is less secu- rity for the continuance of the Union than ought to satisfy any lover of that sacred bond. The enormous preponderance of Northern territory, as the limits of the coun- try are now defined, will at once suggest the certainty of such preponderance of N orth- en population and Northern States, and con- sequently of political power, as must destroy the balance-which is the safety-of the Un- ion. The Republic cannot be consolidated
 it must, therefore, be equipoised With- out reference at all to the peculiarities of Southern interests and institutions, 1t seems obvious that the fesmony of the Union must be broken up, whenever one division of 1t is entirely at the mercy of the other; as i'll be the case in three or four years at farthest, unless sufficient territory at the Southwest be added, to compensate in a degree for the immense expansion of the opposite quarter. At the present moment, the N orth has great ly the advantage in the popular branch of the 'afla I latn inf fbn ~ pll of Presidential Electors and the only check held by the South is an uncertain and unsta- ble one, in the Senate, which is daily becom- ing of less force, and before the expiration of another Congress, may pass from her hands. The heart-burnings and jealousies between these sections, which have already sometimes threatened the Union, warn us to prevent, if possible, circumstances which must increase their intensity and frequency
 An appeal, on these grounds, to the patriaa otlsm and sense ot justice our bTctiifcs, g. the North, ought to reconcile them to the restoration of Texas to the limits of the Un- ion, even if they were to derive no advantage from the measure; and more especially as there is now no alternative butto incorporate Texas into our own territory, or to see her 
 which has no friendliness for us or our insti tutions. But that this natural, proper, and rightAll expansion of our territory, will be of great advantage to all sections of the country, we have no doubt; and upon this point we shall beg, at another day, to ask moments attention from our respected contemporary.
 Description of Yamkee.--.. We are born in haste,o says an American writer; 'we finish our education on the run we marry on .he wing; we make a fortune at a stroke, and lose 1t in the same manner-to make and lose it in the twinkling of an eye. Our body is a locomotive, going at the rate oi twenty-five miles an hour; our soul high pressure engine; our life is shooting star :; and death overtakes us at last like flash oi lightning"
 A bachelor up Penn-street, Pittsburg, Pa, picked up a thimble. He stood awhile, nc ditating on the probable beauty of the owner' when he pressed it to his lips, saying, ' Oh, that it were the fair cheek of the wearer." /" Just as he had finished, big wench looked