The St. Landry whig., 1844-10-10

latitude a~ndlong;tude, and BY hundreds of thou
sands and millions of acres at q time. The
Kings Government made CRACKS there from 1720,
to 1920; then the States Of C6ahuila and Texas.
united as one State, made grants from 1920 to.
1885, when the Texan revolution broke out:
and since that Texas has been granting by
wholesale and retail, having q General Land
Ohlce at the seat of Government, and a local
one IN every county, all employed in granting
land, and that to the Anglo Saxon race whose
avldl,y for land is insatidbles After all this,
what vacant land can there be in Texas? Not
an acre worth having so that the assumption of
hef deot by the treaty was gfatditois, and with.
out consideration.
NJ D. said the Presidents message comm.
nicating the treaty to the Senate was as untrue
in relation to the granted and to the vacant lands
IN Texas as it was in every other Particular
Instead of two hundred millions OF acres, there
were only eighty-four millions Of acresin Texas
proper the rest was the one half in TamauIi.
pas, Coahulla, Chihnapa, aud New Mexico, and
had been granted away centuries ago; and the
other halt IN the wild country oftle Camanches
andfhe Sterrd OtScttrd mountains, and must be
fought for and bought from these Indians before
1t can be possessed, and will be then found tobe
covered by Beaie's forty-fi Il million acre Grant.
Instead ofthirty-seven millions Of acres granted,
every inch ofTexas proper, and all the Indian
country besides, was granted away. Instead of
one hundred-and thirty millions of acres of va
cant land, there was no vacant land for even the
steril mountains and barren prairies had been
granted to Spectators to sell to the United
States and in Europe and the assumption to paw
the scrip debts ofTexas in consideration Of the
vacant lands, was a naked and fraudulent as.
sumption to pay ten millions for nothing-and
thatto STOCKHOLDERS who had given two cents,
and i've cents, and seven cents in the dollar for
the claims, and whose agents were at Wash
lngton intesting the Capitol, the Presidents
house, and theNlepartment of Estate, and doing all
that was In theeidpower to sustain the treaty, and
10 pun down tht Senators who d~espised them
ana their scrip. Ihe treaty was n fraud in not
annuling the gleht grants, nNplif for considera-
tons not iultilledtEand for not Sfssttng the dcpre-
ciated scrip dehlS 1t was a lfntd in these par.
tlenlars, but thistiraud createds, 5voraciotis and
clamorous lnterefa for the treaty. Mr.. b. said
the patriotic peoise of Missouri were mistaken
in supposing thatJeyery body were like them.
selves, actuated bylaudable motivesin wanting
Texas, because it was geographically connected
with the United States, and essential to its politi.
cal, commercial, and social system. There were
othersfWho wanted it for very different purposes
the G;Alsunionists, for example, who wanted to.
use it ! h separating the slave holding from the
non slege-holding States; Presidential intriauers.
who Wanted i to make and unmake Presiden-
tlal ca PdidateS and land spectators and etocl,.
%JobbetE, who wanted to enrich themselves,
ella hAd tSretold at the commencement Of thc
session Al tat he had proclaimed at tho end Of
I. f1LlEl7W the reasonable design, and the
fresiqe AZ 9 uraigue, long before he proclaimed
u NTH 81 hate. He could not speak out until
the sitzls idere sufficiently developed to command
the altentt1 N and the credence of the public
before theend ofthe session this was the case.
believing in the strength of the Texas question,
anu mat the patriotic sympathics of the people
might DAnd them TO the consequences Of rash
ooansels, the old nulliiers and disuiionists Of
1882 went boldly TO work to accomplish tho do.
sign which they admit they began too soon then.
Dlslnlon, as a consequence of non.annnexa.
ton, was proclaimed in hundreds of resolutions.
Measures were openly concocted for carrying
the resolutions into effect. Members of Con-
gress from the Southern States were invited 10
act together communications with the Texian
Minister were recommended to be opened; all
the slave States were to be reused and excited
and, TO crown the scheme, a Hartjford Coauea.
ton, under the pretext of a Southern iIcxas
Convention, Was proposed to re held at Nash.
vile. All this he, Mr.. b., hatI denounced in the
Senate: He denounced 1t il the hearing Of
thousands, with the concurrence of almost all,
and without denial from anypt4 Wings and Dem.
ocrats applauded him. HnraTly there was one
green spot lii the political iesl where wings and
democrats united, and that YEAS in the patriotic
held OF devotion to the Untores Wings cfeered
hlm as well as Democrats Wien lie dEifouHced
disunlon in the American capitol and since that
time n still more striking spectacle has been