The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-09-04

principle Of the freedom of the States will in
sure in the midst of union that diversity of
character, pursuit, and interest, which are essen
hal TO the highest and most comprehensive cul-
ture. While, therefore, the opponents of demo-
cracy shrink from an enlarged domain, as involv-
ing the policy of strict construction, the republi-
can party has never turned pale at the thought of
Extending the area of freedom.
/ The reannexation Of Texas is question al
ready spoken of. 1t merits to be viewed in all
lis bearings; and TO be decided by reference to
/ the good Of the whole, to national honor and
NATIONAL justice. A decision attempted on mar
rover grounds would make the acquisition i'm
| possible.
That Texas is independent, is a fact that
brings with il its own justification. Its indepen-
dence is recognized, without any reservation, by
the United States, by England, by France, and by
other powers; and is the received opinion of the
civilized world. The peaceful acquisition of
that territory, with the consent of the American
people and the people Of Texas, will give to the
western valley Of the Mississippi security against
| foreign aggression. Il will hreak up the possi-
bility of extensive Illicit trade along the present
! frontier. 1t will include within our limits the
capacity for every agricultural production that is
essential to the convenience of life, and make
us safe against wars, by making us completely
Independent. Its exuberantly fertile fields will
furnish to our spndles and looms cheap supplies
of the raw material. Its population, destined to
increase vastly on the settlement of IFS political
condition, will afford unsurpassed markets for the
products Of our fisheries, and our manufactures
of iron, of cotton, of leather 1t will furnish
new and perpetually increasing employment for
our shipping, as the carrier of its products and
Its supplies. 1t will secure to us boundess
increase Of commerce in the Gulf of Mexico
If it is not re-annexed, all these advantages will
by treaty devolve on Great Britain. England,
indeed dsavows the purpose of coIonzing Tex
as; but declares her desire to check our extern
sion upon the Gulf of Mexico, and to gain for
herself commercial benefits. We have the op-
ton of securing the market of Texas, by recov-
ering that territory, or of abandoning that mar
ket and all its advantages to England
/ There ale those who asperse this regard for
the interests of American manufactures and A.
merican shipping. Assuredly those interests
ought never to prevalove principle. Here, too,
we ought calmly to calculate the probable effects
| of remuneration. ....
The territory, it should be remembered, ex-
tends far TO the north, to the latitude of Massa-
chuseus. So little is the measure of its re-
acquisition to be decided upon the ground of
slavery, that on the occasion of the cession OF
Texas to Spain, the question of slavery, as am
well informed, was never once suggested by any
member Of the cabinet. And now, as the ques-
ton of receiving it back again is presented, it
4 will be recovered, if at ALL not on sectional but
on national grounds.
The extension of slavery is not involved in
the question. Slavery is already in Texas; its
re-anneXaton, in that point of view, tends rather
to set territorial limit to slavery; and would ex-
clude, in perpetuity, ard still more effectually
than now, all increase of slavery from abroad.
A variety of causes conspres with an impulse of
their own nature to draw those of African des-
cent towards the South the boundary line of
slavery would recede all along its present north
ern frontier; and as the spirit of emancipation
increases, an avenue would be opened to them
Ito pass to moral and political equality in the cen
tral regions of America, where the preludices Of
race do not exist.
Nor would the remuneration of Texas increase
the danger of an undue geographical influence.
Every enlargement Of territory has made CEN
Itralizaton more and more difficult, and has also
thus far more and more confirmed the Union.
This has been in an eminent degree the result Of
the annexation of Louisiana. Experience has
proved, that no great portion of our country can
unite except in good cause; and such cause
Twill never remain sectional, but will always find
some support every where. The southern line
from Florida to the west of Texas, is too exten-
ded ever to be capable ofan insulated concert o.
action. Besides, Texas would be closely con
nected with the North as we'll as with the South
At this time there is a more intimate relation
between Louisiana and New York than between
Louisiana and any Atlantic State south of Mary
, laud And Texas and New England would be
reciprocaly bound together, not less than the
, Texas and the Carolinas / cannot, therefore
share the anxiety of those who would rather see
n the Union dissolved than Texas recovered, and
am willing to trust the whole subject to Con-
! gress and the country.
| will once more express to YOU, gentlemen
my sense Of the honor done me by the conven
ton, in proposing me for their candidate, in q
: State like Massachusetts,. 1t IS the land of my
nativity and my affections. Let the elections
60 as they may, this is the cherished portion o
f our globe; rich in free schools, in dense, intel
: ligent, and active population; in the good feel
, ings, good purposes, and good works of that pop
ulation and for all its faults, the successive gen
erations of its people have done more for popu
! lar liberty than the inhabitants of any equal por
f ton of territory on the face of the earth.
4 Accept my thanks for the cordial manner ir
, which you communicate to me the will of thu
! convention, and be assured of my unfailing at
tachment.
! GEORGE BANCROFT.
| To B. f. HALLETT, and others.
From he Dayton Empire.
The Ohio Democracy have taken th'