The Arkansas banner., 1844-07-03

co vain and foolish as to com
 Vsli Cities with us in the event of the
 os'llf'Tl Texas, if she failed to result
 0N ,taited ', States during the revolu-
 .agIe. O is it not natural to suppose
 saus ,ets at the present day to conquer
 I m nrove abortive'
 pI ionqer allude to the long train of
 ,ho lo Union I which would follow the
 ,' of ofTexas by England, nor longer
 on 0 inc danger to the institution of
 DO PoD ,be proximity of foreign non
 x j;og territory to those States in which
 ui,s s3s Nor will descant upon the
 ,. Ai,, Effect to, and the probable utter
 ps ,ps trade e flowing from the production
 lo pl,,t;on of our great staple, cotton, by
 ol'r rigal in the production of that ar as ' nation which now consumes the
 .aantitv "% of it. All these points have
 .Sa consideration of those whose
 on such questions are more forclble
 4;tled to more respect than mine,
 ,abt @ not every argument bearing upon
 ,ats %Y is familiar to my readers. But
 ' anotber matter relative to this ques-
 f;rb wish slightly to notice before ]
 r matter of surprise to me why this
 
 l sbonld meet with such violent op- 1 rom the abolitionists of the North.
 extension of slavery be the conse- i of inc annexation of Texas to this ! Itbink not. Slavery already exists Ess and consequently the union of that with this would not have the least ry to extend the dominion of that in-
 hut if annexation should at all af- srprv. its tendency would be to confne
 s.it1tion within more narrow limits. Event of annexation, those shareholders
 mon exhausted lands in the more En States, would immediately move to EiIe lands of Texas and the result of I icration would be the diminution, ifnot @.i extinquishment, of slavery in a few l southern and western States, whilst { EIi not be extended beyond the limits < to it in the South. But even if an- &p should make slavery more wide 8atthe South, its extension there would I in psoportion to its diminution at the I and therefore would not transcend its @ conpass. It IS thought by the com E on foreign affairs that the annexation |Rs will ultimately result in the extinc- 7 daverg in America. Tn their elabo- Fort thcy indulge in the following spec S:-@Yot looking to the providential Asen slavery may no longer exist in \ the United States, to the diminution Seed, and ultimate extinction, Texas IS N land of promise where philanthro- gho are not zealots, can descry the ! of that consummation. Mexico has FFes, because her population of the Iblack, and red races, is blended. In ighborhood and near, if not with her l the colored inhabitants of this coun- \ be united eventually in national num- ssiith tfle strength, the character, and lstitutions of an independent people. fatonal combination may be accom- without revolution or commotion. fcan nation may arise, the descendants prish, other African, and Indian pro- !s,with the improvements of free gov Dts engrafted in their sovereignty, ln- feternizing slavery, calm consideration with the United States en- es the hope thatit may end in Texas lily and gratefully disappear there. !, Canada, Hayti, abolition of slavery 'aveholding States, even gradual eman- min the free States, all schemes of ei- ting whites with blacks, or separating l the same communities, without the itlon of the blacks, often worse than Ondage, have proved abortive. The 'f slayery's euthanasy by its allocation southern parts of Texas and borders leo, may be a delusion. But 1t pro- nore to rational humanity than any rcect yet suggested. At all events, ezation of Texas cannot but tend to hthe alleged evils and powers of slave {" If this, then, would actually be 1t of annexation, why is the measure ently opposed by the people of the
 Viewing the question in this light, their. opposition as nothing but ar and presumption, and another at Q dictate to the South and the real of their opposition is their jealousy of casing prosperity and political weight uence of the South. And in order to from urging upon Congress the con ion of this measure, we have been led by the North with dissolution Inion. Now if the Union IS ever to as bug-bear to frighten the people south whenever they propose a mea- ving their interest in view, l say let on of the North and South be at once d, and then the South can adopt such of policy as will best tend to aug prosperity and develope its resources. s no one in this Union more opposed solution than am, and l would de- ueh an event at any time and under but if we are always to tened and awed into acqulescence by lreatened with it's dissolution, l think be far preferable to the South to have edlately dissolved, and thus forever fself from NortherR oppression and Il.
 exas has declared her inability to sus- own government, and the absolute vol immediately throwing herself ln- ums oi some more potent nation for 'oh and assistance, let us then throw UT maternal arms and fondly embrace