The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-12-14
From the kentucky Woman.
MASS MEETING IN CARROLL COUNTY.
ANNEXATION OF TEXAS

From the kentucky Woman.
MASS MEETING IN CARROLL COUNTY.
ANNEXATION OF TEXAs.
Democrats and Wings have imparliay called
general meeting at the town Of Client, in Carroll
county, Kentucky on Saturday. the 18th November,
lSa3 for the purpose of taking into consideration the
Importance of admitting Texas into the United States,
Lawrence Ashton was called to the Chair, aud Bart
lett Searcy appointed Secretary.
Whereupon George n. Sanders offered the follow
ing preamble and resolutions
We, citizens Of Carroll county, Kentucky in mass
assembled, without distinction of party present to
our fellow citizens Of Kentucky and the other Uni
ted States OF America, our earnest and deliberate
views in regard to our sister country-Tcxasand to
the statesmen Of the Union, our solemn and unaer-
able opinions TO the importance and necessity Of
immediate admission into our conlederacy.
The Territory of Texas formerly belonging to the
United States, having been unwsey and prodigally
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 rlghu 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
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 as Objectionable by some we clohe
our ideas IN the just and beautiful language of Mr..
Calhoun, in his letter to our country in lSiO I'm
taking the course have, was governed by deep
conviction that our system Of Government fairly I'M
derstood, eXcels In beauty and wisdom all that has
preceded it; that, il administered according to its
true construction and the intention Of its trainers, it
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most limits, and endure to the latest generation ~
lie concludes by observing that when the creed and
system OF Thomas Jefferson stall be securely estab-
shed, our Tree institutions, including the General
and state Governments each IN its assigned orb diff
usng light, and heat, and happiness will become the
wonder and the admiration Of the world Can any
OF our sister States be selfish so heartless so OBJ
stinately blind the harmony and interest of all as
seriously TO determine TO shut out the genial sunshine
oil our Constitution from any Of fellow creatures
WHO may ask TO gladden. their soil IN its warmth
whether on the Rio del Norte or the bottoms of the
Sabine II we are deeply penetrated with the ele-
waiting tendencies OF our code Of laws, neither gene
rosity nor humanity 20 with in our ohursh re-
iusal to admit to the same board the brothers who
have eaten and drunk from their childhaod in onr
Z" fathers house,
Our patriots, our orators and press, have con-
s,antly proclaimed the lovellness and majesty of a
system oil government which left the lndy dual States
independent while il brought it into a irmoni us
fering however, widely from ii in climate products
or internal policy. And IT argues want OF faith in
our professions TO show any hesitancy to receive
people, "bone OF bone aud flesh Of our flesh ~
reared up under our own glorious institutions and l.
mlring Them we do they ought 10 be received with
Joyful welcome. Any reluctance on our part now
must diminish the good feeling which ought to exist
between us after our reunion. Circumstances NAV
hereafter arise which will compel us 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 countr,'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.
line drawn from the mouth OF the Rio Del Norte
thence along the Cordillcras till IL cuts the Arkansas
river, Is plainly the 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 2Oih degree Of longitude west from Wash.
ngton city, TIL II strikes the Colorado thence 10 its
mouth, the limit Of slavery in Texas The free
States OF Texas would thus have border for two
thousand miles along the Mexican frontier giving
them all the advantages Of the trade along that eve
tended boundary. They would own fve-sixtbs Of
The new territory, and ha an equal sweep along the
/ Gull coast They would interpose between white
slavery IN Mexico and negro slavery in the United
States, and probably form a 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 10 that traffic as lately car
ried on between the United States and the West In
dies. This circumstance will have weight with those
abolti nlsts m the North who actuated by mis-
tiken teDevolence and not by interested motives or
degrading subseryency 10 British dictaton. or the
weighty, and, TO the Southern States solemn matters
connected with the slaves, we have prepared our
selves TO speak with the seriousness with which they
are ffaught. The accession Of Texas would bring
IN vast tract Of country separating them from the
interference OF foreign people Whereas, should
We, by our supineness force the republican, NJ
texas TO accept the aid Of the willy diplomatists
OF Britain, II requires no prophetic fire to light US
| 10 The inevitable fate Of Texas and all thai ,.e
have 10 dread In her fall. Clenched in the silver vice
Of the British abolitionsts she may .igh in vain over
foul Vaccinations against her kinsmen and former
assoe'aes-the shareholders Of the United States. l.
there anything in the fierce and unccasnp denunoia
tons OF Englishmen against shareholders where The
ie.sake OF the white man is forgotten In the dolatry
Tor black blood anything in our own recollections
oil British warfare on the United States Territory >,
anything IN the daily cry from the trampled and de-
vastated countries of the old world TO lead the soutb
ern states to hope for any honorable policy to-
wards them than system OF household mt,rder All
INFLATED by the zcaots who would insidiously ,br,
the iaggot and the knife into the hands of neonle
ignorant OF what they would have aud infauaie then,
WI ihe belief that the assassinations OF the kind
white friends, whose hands have mnistered IA tbom
m sickness, and who have watched their in ami stems
and trembling age with tenderness of which Eng
lano would ~ vain seek TO boast towards her own
oppressed multitudes will be as holocaust 10 ,be
! God Of the Christian
The new and unsettled States Of Texas would o0er
an EATEN i've market TO the eastern Manufacturer and
aarge carrying trade TO the shipping of the prea,
mercial cities, Boston, New York. and philsdeIpbia
while the products Of the West which now too oC,on
s'u5 the New Orleans market, would be carried OIL
] FREQ MI he.