Arkansas intelligencer., 1844-04-27

From the extract taken Of the Democratic Re-
view. and Geni. Hamilton letter, our readers can
judge concerning the interest, which is every
where taken in the Texas question.
1. Opposing spirits are growing more bitter as the
discussion grows wider; and the wordy war RACES
with unremitting violence. Declarations are de-
livered pro ct con, leaving no stone unturned which
can hide any necessary argument supporting, or
initiating against the question, according to the
decIaimcr's leanings.
Tho North opposes it through fear of an over
balance fpower; the vital interests of the South
are inseparabiy interviewer with its success.
What must be, must be; and the sooner it's the
better. Our Republic is the load-stone, Texas
the pioce of steel, so according to natures mmu.
table laws, they must, when all artificial obstacle
is removed, come together, and the result be-
annexation. To this it must come: saying moth
ing of the great good accruing to us, to the world
We think by right, that Texas is ours Foolishness
alone surrendered it, and now Justice cannot be
violated in its annexation; we only retake what
should never have been given up. -f.f-ri. ..s. q
'.This is no question of tho purchase of new
once was all our own. 1t is moi question of the
extension of our limits, but of tho restoration Of
former boundaries. 1t proposes no new addition
to the valley of the Mississippi; but Of its reunion,
and all its waters once more under our dominion.
1t the Creator had separated Texas from the Tn.
ion by mountain barrier, the Alps or the Andes,
those might be plausible objections but he has
planned down the whole valley, including Texas,
and united every atom of the soil and every drop
n hole
ked their rivers with the great Mississippi, and
marked and united the whole for the dominion of
one government and the residence of one people ::
ana !: Is lmpious In man to attempt to dissolve
this great and glorious Union. Texas is part
OF kentucky, portion of the same great valley
1t is part Of New York and Penns yIvania, a
part Of Maryland and Virginia, & Ohio, and of all
the Western States, whilst the Tennessee unites
with 1t the waters of Georgia, Alabama, and Car.
oiina. he Allegheny, commencing its course
IN New York, and with Youghiogany from Mary
land and Monongahela from Virginia, merging
with the beautiful Ohio, at tho metropolis of ives.
tern Pennsylvania, embrace the streams of Tex.
as at the mouths ofthc Arkansas and Red rivers
Whence their waters flow in kindred union to the
Oul. And hero let me say, that New York
ought to reclaim for tho Allegheny its true ORR
ginal name, the Ohio, of which It is part, and so
marked and called by that name in the British
maps, prior to l776, one of which is in the pos.
session OF the distinguished representative from
the Plttsburg district of Pennsy lvania The words
Ohio and 'Alleghany,' in two different Indian
mean GEAR, as designating truly in both
cases. the charac ter of the water Of both streams
and hence il is that New York is upon the Ohio.
and truly stands at the head Of the valley Of tho
west. The treaty which struck Texas from the
Union, inflicted blow upon this mighty yaley
And who will say that the West shall remain
dis-membered and mutiIatcd, and that the an.
Gent boundaries of the republic sha never be re.
stored Who will desire to check tho Young ca.
ge OF America, now refixIng her gaze upon our
former limits, and repluming her pinions for ;,er
ie'urninS night! what American will 81 " that
inc nag OF the Union shall never wavo again
throughout that mighty Territory, and that VIA,
Jefferson acquired, and Madison refused to sur.
render, shall never be restored? Who will on
pose tho REIMBURSEMENT of our glorious constr
tutlon over the whole of the mighty valley which
once was shielded by its benignant sway Who
VIII wish again to curtail the limits Of this great
republican empire, and again to dismember the
glorious valley Of the West Who will refuse
to replant the banner of the republic upon orr
former boundary, OF re-surrender tho Arkansas
ana he'd rivers, and re-transfer the coast of the
Gull who will refuse TO heal the bleeding
wounds OF the mutilaied West, and re- unite the
VEINS and arteries discovered by the dismember-
ing cession ofTexns to Spain To refuse to &C.
eept the remuneration, is to re-surrender the ter.
rilory OF Texas, and re-dismember the valley. of
the west. Nay, more; under existing crcum-
stances, It IS to lower the flag of the Union be.
lore the red cross of St. George, and 10 surrender
the Florida pass, the mouth Of the Mississippi the
command of the Mexican gulf, and finally Texas
itself, into the hands England. "-Den,ocrati Re.
view. 80