Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-06-21
ANNEXATION.
VIEWS OF MIR. UPHAM.


After Mr.. Buchanan closed his speech upon the
Texas Treaty on Saturday, Mr. Archer, who was
entitled to the floor, yielded it for short time to-
Mr.. UpnAM, who contended, |. That the cesson
or purchase of foreign territory is not within any
of the powers expressly enumerated in the Constl-
tuition and if it exists at all, which is doubtful, it
is the result of national sovereignty and of del
egated powers.
| g That the clause in the Constitution empower.
| ing Congress to admit new States into the Union,
had sole reference to the territory t:en belonging
to the United States and was designed for the ad.
mission of such new States should thereafter be
formed out OF the territory subject to the ordinance
of 1857.
| g. That the sovereignty of an independent ma
ton cannot be eStinguished and its existence mer-
ged into another nation by the treaty making pow
| ers
d. That the President and Senate have no power
to declare war, or to make the United States par
ty to in which other nations are engaged.
5. That Mexico and Texas are now at war, and
the raticaton of the treaty would be adoption of
the war, and 60 insiant make our Government a
party to it.
d. That the ratification of the treaty would be a
faithless violation of treaty stpulations with
Mexico, and act that we could not justify before
the civilized word.
z. That new slave States, composed of for
egn territory, cannot be admitted into the Union
stituton.
s. That the treaty in its present form should be
rejected, because IL leaves open another Missouri
question, which will produce great excitement in
the country, and may, in the end endanger the in
I tegrity Ct the Union.
9. That it is Objectionable because it binds our
Government to pay the debts OF Texas, to the a.
mount of Sl0,000,000 with no hope of remunera-
ton but from her unappropriated lands, which are
worth little or nothing.
| Mr.. yMcDufe's Resolution. The following joint
resolution was, on the 23rd of May, moved by Mr..
! McDufie:
Resolved That the compact of annexation made
between the Executive Government of the United
Estates and that of Texas and submitted to the Sem
ate for confirmation by the President ofthe Uni.
ted States, be and the same is hereby ratified as
the fundamental law Of the union between the U nj
ted States and Texas, as soon as the supreme Elk
exutive and Legislative power Of Texas shall rati-
fly and confirm the said compact of annextion."
The resolution having become part ofthe public
record of the Senate came up in order on Tues
day, and was ordered to lie on the table by the fol-
lowing vote:
Yeas-Messrs. Archer, Barrow, Bates, Bayard,
Berrien, Choate, Clayton, Crittenden, Dayton, Ev-
ans, Francis, Huntington Jarnagin, johnson,
Mangum, Merrck, Miller, Morchead, Pearce,
Phelps, Porter, Rives, Simmons, Tallmadge, White,
Woodbridge, fright -27-(All wings but Wright)
Nays-Messrs Allen, Atchson, Anterior, Bag
by, Benton, Breese, Buchanan, Fairfield, Fulton,
Hannegan Haywood, Huger, Lewis, Niles, Sewer,
Sturgeon, Tappan, Walker Woodbury-l9-(All
Locos)
BENTON'S PROPOSITION.
Benton's proposition is even greater humbug
than Tyler's treaty. Tyler was open and above
board and went the whole, on the principle that if
one steals at all it is better to take whole loaf
than half. But look at Benton: he had COM
planned of Tyler for not limiting his treaty to the
old Texas-yet he himself runs beyond the old
line! He complained of Tyler for annexing with
out the consent of Mexico, and said it would be
icar to do so-yet he leaves it to our Congress at
any time to annex ,Vitiout the consent of Mexico !!
He soft soaps the North with pretended division
of the territory into slave and free divisions, but
mark the present settled and fertile portion of
Texas on the gulf is to come in at once as a Siape
state, while the western and northern portion em-
bracing long space of the Rocky Mountains and
the deserts of Chihuahua, and now in the possess
sion of one of the fercest tribes of savages, the
Comanches)-is to come in merely as territory, on
this condition-half to 60 for slave state, and
half for free state, if ever states are made at all
gu; of it: so we are to have one slave state of
100000 square miles Immediately, and sometime or
another there may be one more slave state and
one fran state As to the $22,000,000 nothing is
is said,-of co,,rse zoe must pay it, and how SEN
ator Jarnagin of Ten. tells us that the lands real
ly valuable are already covered by titles, and ma
ny of them covered by double utles,so, in the end
we must TAX THE PRESENT UNION TO
PAY FOR TEXAS and the extension and perpt'''-
alton Of Slauery. Such is the bill of Mr.. Benton'
the Locofoco leaders swallow that as they swal'
lowed the treaty, but we are glad to say that the
Wings, North and South, will with great unaniml-
ty scout this well every other like scheme Tor
| the degradation Of the Union.