Louisville messenger. (Louisville, Miss.) 1842-1843, 1843-10-28


The very same rohsvns, 10 u greater
az less extent, Mr.. Editor, which nc
tuntod Mr.. Jefferson In tlle purchase
ofl.ouisinna from France, should nc.
tuatc the people of the Uaited States
to consent 10 nn immediate nnnexa-
ton ofTcxas TO this country. Let US
examine some ofthe arguments which
prompted The nation 10 hail the ac-
QUESTION Of Louisiana as blessing
that could notbe estimated by dollars.
Mr.. King, in his despatch to the
Secretary Of State, dated London,
29lh March, 1901, abiding to the
cession Of Louisiana 10 france by
Spain, held this remarkable language:
81 am apprehensive,v says he, "that
this cession Ito France) is intended 10
have, and may actually produce ei-
fects injurious to the Union and con-
sequent happiness of the people Of the
people Of the United States" So The
independence ofTexas, recognisedby
Mexico, through British influence,
will exert similar injurious effects up
on this Union TO those which MIR.
King apprehended would flow from
the ces.ion Of Louisiana to France.
And what were some Of those effects?
The Secretary. of State, in his letter
to Mr.. Livingston, our minister to
France, under date September 80, Is
OF, explains what some Of them are,
thus:--"You may find it eligible to
remark on the irquietudes which
would be excited in the southern
states, whose numerous slaves have
been taught to regard the French as
the patrons Of their cause, and the
tendency Of French neighborhood.
SC, &c, Should Louisiana be ce-
ded to France by Spain.'') If such
were some of the dangers TO be P-
pretended by a French ncighbor-
hood in 1901, in Louisiana, how much
greater danger may be certainly APP
pretended from the proximity to our
Slave states of free state in Texas,
in 1913, made so by British diploma
cy, and guaranteed in its independ-
ence by a power whose aggressive
policy is concealed under the fanati-
cal plea Of the abolition of slavery
throughQut the world!
Again, Mr.. Livingston, in a letter
TO Mr.. King, dated Paris, December
81, 1901, Observation-Disclosures told
me yesterday that it was considered
to have an outlet for their
turbulent spirits" Gas reason for get
ting Louisiana from Spain.) lsitnot
easy to see that a similar argument
may have great weight with Great
Britain, in getting all asccndency in|
Texan councils? She would desire
nothing better than tohayc Texas as
an outlet to her turbulent spirits, her
aboiitionists, who being located on
the confines OF our slave states, would
soon find themselves employed in ex-
citing a servilc war within our Dor
dcys, and thus carrying out the policy
Of England, 40 destroy the slave la
Dor Of the south and divide the con
federacy.
Mr.. King informs the Secretary OIL
State, under date London, February
S, 1902, that s;Louisiana was spo-
ken III as d place TO which the rebel |
lious and untraclable negroes and
people Of color may be sent from the
French colonies No man Of re-
Election can fail to see that if Eng
land shall succeed in becoming the
patron of Texas, and getting slavery
abolished within her limits, the next
step will be 10 induce an emigration
81 ali The srebellious and qntractahle |
negroes and people Of color" from
the English colonies into the new re-
public, for the express purpose Of
sowing the seeds Of dissenslon ia the
slave States of the Union, and caus-
ing the flight from serviIude Of our
slaves across The Sabine.
Mr. King, in letter to the Score.
tavy Of State, under date London,
February 9th, 1902, adverts again
Ia this argument as d reason why
France should not possess Louisiana.
'sHas il occurred 10 you, says he. |
'sthat the French government will
probably send thither d large body Of
people fsnm France, and that Il may
add ID them All the refractory and
Disconnected blacks and persons "
color of their West India SoIoniesf'
wonld ask. MI. Editor, what is ito