The North-Carolina standard., 1844-10-02


10 the various mechanical arts2 Unless the meas
ure OF our prosperity is different from that whIci
IS applicable to all other nations tits impossible t.
resist the conclusion that it will be promoted b,
the annexation of Texas. This conclusion deem
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But great as are the advantages of annexation
IN the encouragement which wilEsresuIt 10 our in
dnstral puTsuitsadyantage in which ak section.
lof the Union will participate-they are not so i'm
portant as the security which Texas in military
point OF view offers US 1t is in this aspect of the
question that shudder when / look at the course
oI tne newspaper press opposed to annexation, and
reaa me speeches OF many public men-who, alb
Isorbed IN the effort to make President seems ia
care nothing for the intrigues of Great Britain to
defeat ourtrue policy.
t . We have iabored for many years TO free the
states composing our Union of the Indian popu-
atlon within their limits, and NAV be said to have
just succeeded in the accomplishment of this bu-
name policy These Indians are now wsplaced on
our western frontier, and in a territory favorable
to their gradual civilization and protection, against
the intrusion of influences hostile to them and to
US AT present they are not accessible to British
influence, except on the northern boundary line,
is It not apparent, however, that the whole Of our
policy IN respect to their, civilization, will be
1thwarted If any foreign power acquires control
over Texas q The line between Texas and these
Oh miles, ana COM
municates with Oregon in the most direct and
practicable route TO the great river of that terrific
ry. Texas, therefore, in hostile hands, could feed
and sustain an army that could. not only act a.
gaInst Oregon, but at the same time against Lou
lsIara and Arkansas, and, by conjunction with the
| Indians could make inroads on every western
State to the lakes. An army thus employed, Sec
onded by proper organization of force on the
lakes, would put the whole West in a blaze. and
oTISS mi,
months, than years of peace could atone for
The sagacious statesmen of England under
stand much better than do the force of the mill
ary considerations / am here suggesting; and
hence you will find that no pecuniary obligation
will be deemed by them too great to prevent the
annexation to this country The success of our
free system-its capacity TO secure order, to pro-
mote the progress Of the arts and sciences, and to
stimulate the energies of our nature to point far
higher than any yet attained under the forms of
government in the Old Worlds alarming to the
advocates of monarchy. The further progress of
our principles will be demonstration which the
popular mind throughout the world cannot mis-
take, and opposition to these principles is there
fore necessary part of European policy; and it
would be shortSi hted for us to tan fer grant
ed that dinerent feeling will control their policy,
as itwould be for one Of our navigators to en-
bark on the ocean without chart or needle 10 aid
wreck So settled do consider the anita aoonistic
features Of monarchy and repubIicanism, in the
present state of the world that I would feel safe
in inferring what our course ought to be in refer
ence to this measure, of such vital national inter-
est, by finding out what was the course of Great
Britain. Our position here, as 1t has been gener-
ally heretofore, will be found to be directly oppo-
site to hers.
But why should press on you-a further view
tbo. e IT
States on the score of safetyc Every mind con-
versant with the Operations of war, and with the
causes which give military ascendency, must see
from glance at our map, that such a genius as
Wclllngton's or NapoleonS sustained by naval ar
maments on the Gulf Of Mexico and on the lakes,
and in possession of Texas, with very small /
force on land, could, in one campaign, paraIYzel
one half Of our Union, deprive US of Oregon, I
and produce scenes of seEviie insurrection and |
massacre that humanity would shudder to describe |
This is no fancy sketch-no chimera of the i'm
agnation to frighten women and children: it is
the natural operation Of cause and ef1ect-nevita.
bic and irresistible
Give Texas and Oregon to Great Britain, and
she will have more territoryon this continent than
the United States She will surround US from
our northeast corner to the southwest corner.
Leaving outlet to US by land we shall be literal
ly embraced in her potent grasp, and open TO her I
INVASION by sea q iand at every point OF tho u nIon
And yet we are told by leading politicians Of
he day, that the project Of annexation is mere
bubble blown for political purpose: to put down
one leader and put up another; and this too on
he face of assurances that reach US every day
which tell US that England holds in her hands
guaranty of peace to Texas, if she viii only with
]raw the proposition of union with US I am
proud to see that my friends throughout the Union
Ire treating these foreign menaces as American
patriots should who love their country, and are
to stand by in all emergencies with
put regard TO party.
Let US next see, in answer to your third. fourth +
md fifth inquiries, what would be the probable eff \
ect Of the Determination of Texas to- accept Ii
guaranty of uonarchial powers. A treaty of
commerce would be the first result, and the basis
IF this treaty would be one Of reciprocal beneftt
IN the exchange Of the raw productions of Texas
or the manufacturing articles of those powers
England would aim at once to destroy the
interests of this country in compe-
ition with her; to.do this she would be the gain
'r by opening her ports to Texas; and Texas, in
ler turn, first, anxious for the payment Of her.
rational debt, would so adjust her revenue laws
IS to givethe greatest possible stimuusto the cul.
ure of cotton and tobacco, andthe Development of
HI her agricultural resources. Thus her debit
would soon paid, and her prosperity would then
De accelerated by the double force of European
I'D and domestic pride-unembarrassed on the
me hand by high duties, upheld on the other by l
he deep-seated determination of the European E
,owers to cripple the United States and scatter
tmong them the seeds of discord and jealousy