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 ledge its sovereignty, is a mates Q 2, significance, and in diplomatic 0i should not receive the slightest ~ aall In the able report of the comm;t,' tUlsde that "when Texas was ours hr a Louisiana and sixteen years, nod;a He session, and when Spain was iSpu H;lll should be so, the inexplicable trsse palls E. da gave up all beyond the Sab;s
 part of Texas was our territory r.. mlttee deny any constitutional a1S 9Sq the treaty-making power to pat with Tail out consent of its inhabitants; who treaty of Louisiana, were promised ship in the Union, and wee, in fact At any rate, the extraditisn was mi Z co, but to Spain, by the treaty. Me- no right to Texas butthat of rovola la force. The Mexican revolution b. 1891, and ended in 1925, so faraso of Spanish power But Spain di5 knowledge Mexican independeuces s t1 twelve years afterwards, by the trp,,s drid, 18th of December, 1886, r
 treaty of Florida, in 1879, to that in Decembe,, 1886, Texas was 2 c province, to which Mexico had m .'E ledged right. Meantime, in April, l93s eral mopths before Spanish recogns @ MeXican sovereignty, Texas was Ssn. ' conquest at the battle of Jacinto'' q'' authority was expelled from Texas.s T| government was established, and b,'1 since, for nearly nine years, rensips5 :, turbed, and acknowledged by most ns nations. The treaty of Madrid, reeon Mexican independence, makes no nsss1 Texas" Thus 1t is obvious how jpy,S] Mexican claim to Texas. As Texssra ceded to Mexico by the treaty of Ill but to Spain-as the independencs of M was not confirmed by Spain until afte, \ had achieved hers-and as the rigbtd1 co to Texas has never been aeknowIJ] other nations, is t not a great piece d| sumption and arrogance for Nexicob1 her right to Texas as an obstacle tool quiring that territory ? If we respect flimsy claim and be intimidated by f, efforts to annex Texas to this Union \, will continue to assert that claim soJs we make any movements to accompia an object. And, moreover, while ersI remains the most remote probabiEtg ] annexation of Texas to the Uniie1 ; Mexico, in order to frustrate such al. on our part, and to have some ground which she can urge her specious cIs Texas, will continue to persist inhaa to acknowledge Texan sovereignty we see that the great obstacle, setupk to the annexation of Texas. to lRE will remain so long as the objectiseli templated.
 In reference to this point there r a circumstance of considerable weight 4 portance. IL Is understood that End the creditor of Mexico to the amountd eighty millions of dollars. This isa nous sum, and one which will gyeE much power and advantage oyer Now is 1t not reasonable to suppo England, possessing the power oyal which the existence of this debt gn will, by dictation, compel Mexicotor her refusal to recognize the independ Texas until she England has fome scheme by which she can herself sci latter territory? The mere circumst the existence of this debt should aHsl most serious apprehensions, as we ha known Il to be the policy of England herself of every opportunity to aagn power; and as we have never yetkno to falter or be tardy in her movement sell-interest prompted her to act | that Spain, also, Is England's debtora siderable amount. Now if Englandt duce Mexico to transfer all her rright' to her (England) as an equivalentiori of eighty millions of dollars, she vol propose the same mode to Spain tocaI debt, and thereby acquire Cuba-whlcI verify the prediction i'll a precedIal graph.
 But waiving the question of the de intention of England to gain poses Texas, there is still another clrcaI ! which should receive the deep and consideration of every one wishing Q the institution of slavery in the S
 the insolent boast of England that wish and design to have slavery ao 1 throughout the world, and that she Vi every exertion and use all means | about the cpnsummation of sach al As slavery exists both i'll the UnlIed and Texas, of course the machlnaton' gland will be directed to its abolliloal two countries; and as Texas IS the : power of the two, and Mexico cane a tool and accessary, England will III to abolish 1t in Texas in order to en that institution in the States oi the and gradually to cause its total ef throughout the Union. When slayeiy
 ished in Texas, we had better at ones " one of our slaves at liberty than the humiliation of seeing them elial ll by the machinations of England, VIM ing able to repel such an incendlary ~ as proof that that sl;;ccii sl;ccii design $ eln by England, she has already sugss'a rather commanded, Mexico, that lh' ll' latter should deem itproper to deele,l sI a sovereign state, to make as one .. ..' 7 ditions of any treaty stipulailons ~ :. feet, the total abolition of slavery p Lord Brougham has declared on U U, p,I the House of Parliament, that nc " "lOs ,s ward most anxiously to the aoollp.li .,i very in Texas, as he was coaYlIsss ,i,;a, would ultimately end in the aooliDt, e ', d. 4l whole CI m