Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-05-19

liberal scale; under which encouragement tney
have improved and ilourished beyond exam
pie The South has very peculiar interests 10
prescrpe-nteIests already violently assailed
and boldly threatened.
"Your Committee are fully persuaded that
This protection 10 her best interest tciH be at-
.forded By The annexation Of Teas; an equi-
poise of influence an the halls Of Congress
tciH be secured, ,chich 'ciH furnish as per-
manent guaranty Of protection"
The speech of Mr. Adams, exposing the
whole system of duphcity and pertidy towards
Mexico which had marked the conduct of our
Government, and the emphatic expressions OF
opposition which began to come up from all
parties in the free States, however, for time
nearly siIenced the clamors OF the South Tor an
nexaion, and the people Of the North have
been lued into the belief that the PROJECT is
nearly if not wholly abandoned, and that at
least there is now no serious danger of its con-
summation.
Believing this to be false and dangerous
security, that the project has never been aban-
doned moment by its origlnators and abettors,
hut that il has been deferred for a more lavura-
bic moment for its accomplishment, we refer to
few evidences of more recent development
upon which this opinion is founded.
The last election of President OF the Rcpub-
lie of Texas is understood to have turned main
IN upon the question Of annexation or no an
neGati0n, and the candidate favorable 10 that
measure was successful by an overwhelming
majority. The sovereign States of Alabama,
Tennessee and Mississippi have recently adopt
ed resolutions, some if not all of them unGni-
mousiy. in favor of annexation, and forwarded
them to Congress.
The Hon. HENRY A. WISE, a member Of
Congress from the district in which onr present
Chief Magistrate resided when elected Vice
President, aud who is understood TO be more
intimately acquainted with the views and de-
signs Of the present Administration than any
other member Of Congress, most distinctly a
vowed his desire for annexation at the last scs-
sion of Congress. Among other things he said,
in a speech delivered Jan. &c, 1912:
"True, if Iowa be added on the one side,
Florida will be added on the other. But there
the equation must stop. Let one more North
ern State be admitted and the equilibrium is
gone--gone forever. The balance Of interests
is gone-the safeguard Of American property
of the American Consitution--of the Ameri-
can Union, vanished into thin air. IH;s must
be the inevitable result, unless, by treaty
Nth .Merico, The South can add more ,ceighf
10 her end Of The Ierer! Lei the South stop
al The Sabine, (the eastern boundary of Tex
as,) while the North may spread unchecked
beyond the Rocky Mountains, and The South
eTn scale must htc6 me bedm!"
Finding difficulties perhaps in the way Of a
cession by treaty, in another speech, delivered
in April, 1912, ON motion made by Mr. Linn,
of New York, to strike out the salary Of the
Minister to Mexico, on the ground that the
design of the Executive in making the appoint
ment was 10 accomplish the annexation of Tex
as Mr. Wise said, che earnestly hoped and
trusted that the President was as DESTROYS [of
ahneXaiion] as he was represented to be. We
may well suppose the President to be in favor
of it, as every wise statesman must be, who is
not governed by fanaticism or local sectional
prejudices." He said of Texas that
"While she was, as State, weak and almost
powerless in resisting invasion, she was herself
irresistible as an invading and conquering
Power. She had but spare population, and
neither men nor money OF her own, to raise and
equip an army for her own defence; but let her
once raise the flag of foreign conquest, let her
once proclaim crusade against the rich States
to the South of her, and in moment volun-
teers would flock 10 her standard in crowds
from all the States in The great raiiey Of The
.MiSstsSippt-men of enterprise and vaor, be-
fore whom no Mexican troops could stand for
an hour. They would leave their own towns,
arm themselves, and travel on their own cost,
and would come up in thousands TO plant the
lone star Of the Texian banner on the Mexican
capitol. They would drive Santa Anna to the
South, and the boundIess wealth Of captured
towns and rifed churches, and lazy, vicious
and luxurious priesthood, would soon enable
Texas TO pay her sodiery, and redeem her
State debt, and push her victorious arms to the
very shores of the Pacific. And would not all
this extend the bounds Of slavery Yes, the
result would be, that before another quarter OF
century the extension of slavery would not
stop short of the Western Ocean We had
but ttco alternatives before us; either 10 re-
ceive Teas into our fraternity Of States, and
thus make her our opn, or 10 teaue her TO con-
quer .MeGico, and become our most dangerous
and formidable riUai.
"To talk of restraining the people of the
great valley from emigrating to Join her armies
was all in vain; and it was equally vain TO cal
culale on their defeat by any Mexican forces,
aided by England or not. They had gone
once already; IL ,cas They that conquered San
la Anna at San Jacinto; and three fourths of
them, after winning that glorious field, had
peaceably returned to their homes. But once
set before them the conquest of the rich Mex
lean provinces, and you might as well attempt
to stop the wind. This Government might
send its troops to the frontier to turn them
back, and they would run over them like a
herd of buffalo"
"Nothing could keep these booted loalers
nun iuSllllIR Oh lH lhtN hIbhCu INT 1IullSl
priests out of the temples they profaned,"
Mr. w. proceeded to insist that a majority OF
the people of the United States were in favor
of the annexation; al all events, he would risk
it with the Democracy of the North.
"Sir, (said Mr. w. } il is not only the duty
Of the Government 10 demand the liquidation
of our claims and the liberation of our citizens,
but to go further, and demand the non-nvasion
Of Texas. Shall we sit still here while the
standard of insurreciion is raised on our bor-
ders, and let horde of siaves and Indians
and Mericans roll up 10 the boundary line Of
arkansas and Louisiana? No. 1t is our dn-
~, at once to say to Mexico, If you strike
Teras, you strike u.s. and if England, stand
ing by, should dare to intermeddIe, and ask,