The Arkansas banner., 1844-05-01

DS and willing to sell our government, soil, pos session, and interest, for valuable conslde- ration, which they will put in their pockets, and return to their native country. have talked with hundreds of the most influential, intelligent and substantial citizens of Texas on this subject. They say that they must be annexed to the United States, or that they will have to sell out to any government who will pay the most; that they are satisfied they cannot live under government so pow erless and weak as the government of Texas mustneeessarily be formany years, and which affords so little protection to life and property. That their government is mere government of suf1erance, and the little strength 1t pos sesses is the result of the love of good order among the people, rather than moral influence or political power which the government has to enforce its own laws" The people ot Texas universally have the heart ache to be annexed to the United States, and to feel that they are once more citizens of It's soil. And if this cannot be done, to gratify that feeling of patriotism, so dear to the heart of man, and which in the breast of one born Tn the United States, is only associated with, and cannot be separated from his native country, they will sell out, put the avalls of their property in their pockets and return. 1hls feeling Is so unanimous as to be ndttondt and rest assured that the people of Texas, Tn case they cannot be annexed to the United States, wiH accept terms from Great Britain, sell out their slaves and plantations and return to the United States. British influence has been busy all over Texas, visiting every log cabin, and telling the people of '' the great benefits of free trade with England, the pro- lection which that government would give their property, the rapid settlement of their country by free white population immigrat-
 ing from Europe, the consequent rise of then property; the inAnX of wealth and capital and last butnot least, the large price whichthe philanthropic associations of England would be willing to give for their SlareS, on condl- ton of their enamel patton and the aboishmen of S7arery forever in the Republic" These influences and these representations have had their effect with the people of Texas, and have given England a secondary position, which only awaits the refusal on the part ot the United States to annex Texas to this country, to render this position primary, and British influence pdrdmou7u. The people of Texas understand the strength of the position they now occupy. They can now say to the Government of the United States :. d3lRer HS 10 y0A, or we annex ourselves to Great Britain '' or what is tantamount to the same thing sell out to Great Britain, and let her import population who will be willing to liver under protection. Thus would peacea- bly, be accomplished the designs which Great Britain has upon the soil, territory and Gov ernment of Texas.
 The views which have taken of the in- fluences which are most likely to act upon the people of Texas, will probably be con- sidered by some as problematical. Be this as it may, l have presented them as l have received them from the lips of citizens of 1 Texas-men of influence and intelligence, and leading minds. As such offer them to ycu, believing, as do, that 1t Is important | that there should be no miscoacepti0n of what really is the public opinion and public will of the people of Texas on this. subject.- | Though this communication IS extending it. self to considerable length, yet 1 cannot for bear glancing briefly at the interest of the United States, likely to be affected uniavora- bly, by the course of the ultimate decision had in this case. To those practically ac- l quanted witL the effect which the abolition of slavery in Texas would have upon the in- stitution of slavery as existing in the South, there can remain but one opinion. With the South 1t is question of if-preserration.- If the annexation of Texas to the Union becomes necessary to prevent the erection of Texas into a non-slave-holding Republic, then the whole of the southern and southwes- tern slaveholding States will demand the an- neXation, at whatever sacrifice or cost Ii war is the price, that price must be paid Starery must continue 10 eriSt m IeraS, or cease 10 erist in the United States. Letslave- " be abolished ill Texas, and it's perpetuity be guaranteed the power of England, and the immediate consequence would be to depopu- late Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi The bloody scenes of a servile instruction would spread ruin, desolation, and death l throughout the Valley of the Mississippi where slavery exists. Then would come war, and such war a war of extermiation
 Hence say, that this question IS one of SelE preservation, and as such, the people of the United States must act upon It. So far as the annexation of Texas would affect the great agricultural interest of the South no Southern man doubts but the immediate effect would be to add new and powerful stimulus 10 the growth of their great staple, already over produced Disconnect the annexation of Texas, if it could be done, from the disas- trous effects upon the peace and safety and protection of the institution of slavery in the United States, which would result from the existence of that Republic as non-slave- holding State, and the South would be op- posed to the annexation of Texas from u- terest If the Alps, instead of the Sabine, constituted the boundary line between Texas and the United States, and Texas should wish to abolish slavery and cultivate her soil by free white population, it would at once become for the interest of the cotton and su- gar growing States to urge its accomplish ment. Slavery in the South would be pro- tected by this great barrier of nature, slave