The Northern galaxy, and Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1843-1844, 1843-11-22
THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS.

We took occasion few days ago TO men.
lion The reception Of pamphlet on the Tex.
an Revolution, bv "Probus." We do not
know who " Probus" is, but we conjecture
him 10 be David L. Child. At any rate, he
has done a good service. The pamphlet
occupies 81 large pages in small type, and
contains mass of well authent lcaIed facts,
drawn mostly from official documents, ex>
hibi,ed with piquant and opposite comments.
These facts are known 10 but few of the
American people, though deeply concerning
them. They show beyond all question that
the project of getting Texas added to the
Union by hook or by crook" has been
long cherished, and that the means resorted
10 have been unwarrantable and outrageous.
1t was darling project Of Gen. Jackson,
and from the moment he came into power
he set himself about il with great assiduity.
10 examining the correspondence between
our Government and that Of Mexico, pub
lished by order of Congress Probus discov-
cred frequent reference 10 other letters which
are not 10 be found, bu, are suppressed as
private, not being of a nature fit for the PEG.
pie TO see but what are published sufficient
" disclose that the principal business of our
Minister in Mexico, for the last fourteen
years, has been TO coax, intrigue, wheede
and cheat Mexico out of Texas, and that
finally fraud and force were added in
the most sinister manner through the agen-
cy of Houston and The Texan volunteers.
In all these intrigues, Mr.. Van Buren, was
as ready if not as willing an instrument as
Clo,,o hol1a, tho nd ntIact
being the extension of slavery INTO that rich
and fertile region, where the Mexicans had
abolished it. Our government began the
quarrel with Mexico, because her govern
ment would not make treaty TO deliver up
fugitive slaves. This effort was made as
soon as John Quincy Adams was driven
out of office by the miserable, kuavish hvp-
ocri,ical cry of bargain and corruption
and when Mexico peremptoriy refused, the
Texas. To accomplish this, we have sew
eral times been very near engaging in war
with Mexico, and hosiilities would actually
have commenced at one time if Gen. jack
son could have got from Congress the au-
thority he asked for. We verify believe
that Mr.. Adams and few other Wings, saw
ed the country from war with Mexico in
which The latter would no doubt have called
G eat Britain 10 her aid. We cannot now
90 into particulars, but we shall recur to the
correspondence of Mr.. Poinsett, of S. C.,
Mr.. Anthony Butler, the latter Texas land
speculaior of the most proaigae character,
and Mr.. Powhalian Ellis, Miss;ppi planter
all Ministers 10 Mexico. What requires
immediate and pressing attention is, that
Mr. Tyler and all his guard are now bent
in carrying out General Jackson's plan of
annexing Texas 10 the United States, and
of stretching The dominions Of Texas over
California. The Santa Fe expedition and
the seizure of Monte Rey by Com. Jones,
which was little premature, we're all part
OF the same system Of operations. What
now causes great urgency, as well as the
utmost secrecy in bringing Texas into the
Union, is the fac, that the single star Repub-
lie is in a very embarrassed condition and
many of the emigrants are beginning TO
think Of abolishing slavery. This would
upset all tie plans of the extended domin-
ion of slavery which have been so long cher
ished, and tire only way TO prevent abolition
is To bring Texas into Our Union immdiate-
". Besides. if slavery is abolished there,
the slaves of all The North. Western States
will run away in three years, and thus ut =
terly destroy the South. Western slave mar
ket, by which Virginia. Maryland ard N.
Carolina now thrive. The whole question,
then, Of liberty and slavery from Chesapeake
Bay to Gulf OF California, turns on the SIM
pie point TO which the public attention can
not be 10 much aroused. There ought 10
be hundred thousand copies of " Probus"
printed and circulated Immediately. Let
cheap edition be printed which every
body can buy.-Kennebee Journal.