Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1844-10-11

coast, up Inc MlsSlSSlppl river anu It's va
rious tributaries, TO supply our own wants
and that of foreign countries, would vastly
extend the navigation of the United States;
and in the articles of timber and naval
stores for building vessels, especially ad-
vantage the people CT North Carolina
Here our own manufactures would find
ready market. In times of icdr, a vast in
iernal commerce could be carried on with
Texas. through our broad and numerous
western rivers, free, independent, and safe
from aggressions of any hostile power
With Texas, our boundary would be round
ed off; the valley of the Mississippi made
entire, as the hablation of one great kindred
nation; the risks of border wars would be
diminished; the internal commerce be-
tween the States, in time made to supply
every want; what should prevent the U.
States from being the happiest and great
est nation on the earth? Let England,
however. obtain this cotton gro,0ing re-
gion, and we lose not only wealth, but the
best chance of making her dependent upon
us for that article. and thereby of keeping
her at peace ,rith US. Her very existence is
almost identified with manufactures, and
cotton is indispensable to maintain these
In India and other parts of the world she
has attempted to compete with the United
States in the cultivation of cotton, and has
most signaly failed. Texas she hopes
to raise up as rival to the United States.
and thus TO control the p'ce Of our Gotten
and other staples. 1t is in the cheap cul-
tivation of cotton, by slave labor, that she
considers the United States are to become
her formidable rival in manufactures and
here too lies the secret OF her abolition PHI
lanthropy; or. if she can succeed in abolish
ing slavery in Texas, hernext step would be
to exclude our cotton, raised by slave la
Dor, from her markets.
Texas ought 10 be annexed TO the Unit
ed States TO prevent great injury 10 our
manufactures, commerce, navigation, our
Atlantic cities, and the revenues of the
Government arising from duties.
Texas extends nearly two thousand
miles along the territory of the U. States
part o, the boundary runs along rivers, and
part consists for many hundred miles of q
mere geographical line through wild lands,
Inhabited on both sides by savages. Brit.
ish goods could be struggled along this
line, almost without the possibility of de-
lection; nor could the U. States effectuaIly
preventit, without an army Of revenue Off
GERS, if they were honest enough to do it,
at too great an expense to be borne: This
would certainly be ruinous 10 our manu-
features, cut short the revenue of our Co
vernment derived from duties, and to that
extent render resort TO direct taxation in.
evitable. Besides, it would attract such a
large portion of British trade to the free
ports of Texas. as to cripple, if not destroy
the capital, commerce and navigation 81
Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Bal.
timore, which are the principal markets oil
the Southern States.
Finally, the annexation of Texas to the
United States will strengthen and perpetu.
ate oar Federal Union, and extend the
blessings of our free institutions over the
valley of the Mississippi, and to genera
lions of men yet unborn. And when we
reflect how many rich, lnestimable bles-
sings-social. christian, and polite al--fow
to US through our democratic form of CO.
vernment; how, as nation, we are DIS
lingushed in point of happiness and privi-
lleges, above all the other nations of the
earth this alone makes annexation "o
consummafion devoutly to be aUished."
"Our system Of confederated republics,
under which the Federal Government has
| charge of the interests common TO the
hole, whilst the local Governments watch
over the concerns of the respective States,
is capable of almost Indefinite extension,
with increasing strength; because, the more
dependent will be the several parts upon
the whole, and the whole upon the seve-
raj parts."- The more distant States feel
ing their dependence greater, for security
and protection, upon the Federal Govern
ment, will cling TO the Union the stronger;
and hence iii thai the new States have ne
verbeen known to utter the cry ofdisunion,
but have been most remarkable for their
loyalty. On the other hand. the Federal
Government will be kept from overstep-
ping its constitutional limitations, by the
number of States, proud of their sovereignty
and privileges, and disturbed in every di-
rection, as counterbalancing checks and
weights.
Strength as well as defence lies IN num-
bers. Place the solitary star of Texas In
our federal constellation, and lis effuIgence
win penetrate the dungeons of oppression
In ererr ane and cline. As an emblem of