Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1844-06-15

tienco to any proposition which might bol mad
for lhe arrangement OF payment Of the deb
owing hy sotna Of the States already enclosed
within tho pale Of the Union, and which, on
might think, wodld be first sntitled To- theti
aymbatbies.
Having TINA Rlahced, fellow %ciiizeis, Al
these points Of general interest 10 our sDutt.
try, let us look i littls into The eff cts 81 ~
~nazation upon Loui6iau9g as d Gotten and 49,
gar producing State. 1t ii my delitsratg
opinion that, should the treaty b6 ratified, The
lands Of Louisiana viii bt reduced sttshty
five per eBhl, III yalae, and our grett Staples
MY PR cent Emigration ID Louikiana from
the Atlantic 6lagoh0Iding States will sense
--in fact, We may oxpec: partial eGiigfati9n
fssn Louisiana to Texas. This being: the
case, where shall VIC find a tIai k6t fUF our
! improved or uuinfpfoged lands | An impl0v.
I'd tract or land now worth fifty thotisand DOL.
lars would not command twenty Thousand, as
no purchasers could be found. 10 what q
condition would this state 6f tidrge reluca
the indebted portion Of our people, who night
wish To- sell, on whose estates might bg sold
under execution I The effect upon the price
Of sugar and cotton will be equally a9 great.
We know from actual experiment that sugar
Of the beet duality eau b6 made IN TesaGt and
that tire climate Of that country lie f1ofb fave.
rable to its production than that Of Louisiana.
Can, then, a Louisiana planter, whose land
las cost bin fifty dollars per acre, expect to
complete successfully with his riValih TsxaB,
who removes from Virginia and buys his land
nj one dollrf aud twenty-five cents per aero !
The same may be said Of the composition If
the Texian cotton planter. Tile land would
be much clfoapef, and the climate and soil ag
we'll If not better, adapted 10 its Cultivation
Bot there yet remains Il more important con.
siaera,ion, ard ono which moro seriously ar.
feets our Interest as sugar and cotton plans
ters and that II, the rapid and iUiriengg adj
dItion which would be made 10 the qfHttiiy
Of our staplea. little treaty be ratified, there
can be no doubt that in tho nest three years
two hundred aud Fifty thousand working bands
will be introduced into Texas from the Unit9d
statos, and principally from sectio1S Of tliB
siageholding States producing no sugar and
bat little cotton. This force employed inI
Texas, say two hundred thousand hands In
the cultivation Of cotton and fifty Thousand In
lie cultivation Of sugar; will be tho means III
adding ono million Of bales Of cotton and onB
hundred and fifty thousand hogsbeada Of SO.
gar To the present oyergfovn crops, pad these
will be produced by laborors not snoV. pro.
ducine more than 100000 bales 81 the former
and 6dft he latter. What mufst Inevitably bt
the result ofibis great addition to the qtPJnti-
~ Of our staples |! Most ssguredIy a reduc.
ton in each Of more than Gfy per cent. And
are you prepared To- suffer u this 5xtefai5 10
aid in the accomplishment Of 4 measure BY
which so many evils may DO inflicted upon
the nation at large, and from which you. can
as | have endeaeOfof TO shUts, 10 cor
responding advantage
| have thus, fellow citizens; presented 70
you, in my "plain unvarnished" way, the
| entertain upon a question which
am compelled 10 believe, has been agitated, in
it's inception and progress, rather with q tiew
to the qualification Of selfish ambition AND The
attainment Of power, than 10 promote th5 III.
terests and %harmony Of tho Whole country
And, in conclusiong | would aek you to ra!se
and reflect, as | have done, bef5ie yo1 allow
yourselves to be carried away BY the spe.
cionB but false arguments of the advocates Of
This measure. ] would ask, too, If Immediate
annexation lie Of such overwhelming in1pory
lance that We should be ready 10 sacrifice for
lis attainment those great prirciples-such AZ
1 national currency a tariff, a distribution of
.he public lands--for which We have 81
Tong and 10 m~anfully contended 10 ob-
Texas, which can be obtained At this
line only with danger and dishonort are. You
wiling to throw overheard these and The
,lher principles Of the Wing party; and 70
after them THE Mka who ig their triest
nd bost representative 7 90
ALEXANDER BARROW.
WAsHfEeToH, May "a, 1914