The Arkansas banner., 1844-08-07

Et NHsf tttN tlAAift Nittt Nt+t-t NN''+ ] try by virtue of legislation, and this was
 prevented onlyby the subsequent ratification
 and peaceful delivery of it, without render
 deHine an actual resort 10 violence, on our part, necessary. afterit had been proposed.
 h short, the South stood shoulder to
 shoulder with US in the Revolution, with this
 properly and these institutions. They came
 into the Union with them on equal terms
 tbey have so remaaed for balf a century.
 and so must they continue, i'll injustice CT
 tauaticisnI, or treason, violate all the sacred
 compromises of all We hold.
 The ratification of this treaty is alsoyastlY
 important to our whole people in an indus
 tfia point of view. t gives 10 us enough additional territory for tourofGyelaree States immediately contiguous; and some of them. l by their location on the ocean, with fine bays
 and immense rivers, virtually Atlantic States
 in tkeir habus and intercourse, an increase of near third of million in our population and q near andfich oatIetfor the overdowinqs of tlie otAef States; swelling as they must in the next fifty years, to more than most of the kingdoms of Europe in ilieir mighty masses.
 ihe annexation of Texas, iu it's influence on all the. great bfagchcs-of industry, is notmere- iY western CT southern question. but one deeply interesting to every quarter of our common country-whethcr t promotes that industry by opening to agriculture more fertile soils and genial climates, OF by forming q
 wider home market for manufactures. or by
 furnishing new articles Of commerce, and new
 bays and rivers for the free navigation of wes- tern steamers, IS well as coasting and ffeight- ing vessels from the East. Gun independence Of other countries by .nore lands, more ftted to sugar, fine cotton, and rice, aud even cof- fee, would thus be greatly promoted.
 On this, aud ether kindred topics, shall net, oil this occasion, enlarge; believing that very strong case of duty to take the cgssion is madeeut, unless it be counterbalanced by some of he objections which have been ure- ed in tbts dcbaje.
 proceed al once to examine, in some de- t4L themost prominent of these obiections:
 The annexation is opposed by some, on the ground that ii will makeuuf territory toe iafge; but experience has eyinccd that arep- reseniatife republic can, win convenience and efficiency extend ever limits far wider than from the St. Croix to the Rio del Rorte. Indeed, by the aid of railroads and steam, the Union, with Texas included, will De taFniore accessible in other parts, either for business or government, than Ii was at ihe revolution with only thirteen States. and thoso all situ- aled ln tac narrow helt of. lhe eastern de- cllylty ot tbe 8llo9maaies. And this abicc- tion, i tenable, should have been urged. and prevailed, before We purchased either Lou slana or fhe tleridas.
 How gfoundiess, in connection win this. Is lhe objection by some scnators, f3Iesars. alillefaad Choate) thatduty does not require assent to the eession, because il is the lust for '" territorial aegeaudizemeHt which now prompts us-When the whole We seek was not only obtained two generations age, but 8as justified then by such men as Jefferson, Madison, aad Monroe, and advocated since and attempted 0 be regaiAed, h4 such men as Adams, Clay, and Jaeksons Or because, as imputed by the senator from New Jersey, we wish to seize Texas now as "spoils of victory, '' as eoaqaeat jy treaiH" when in truth, she comes nto an equal union of rights and privileges, from friendship and mutual ehoce-aad suited for 1t bv education and principles, and .ining cutie as much hy ita9 We, or Rhode Island gained 9y uaitiag with Us after l5S9, CT as Scotland gained hY her union with England near the commencement Of the last cenHlrY
 To repeat again some of my remarks on former occasion:
 The anneXation has been opposed as not i ! duty, because incIining the balance of po- ilical power in our system loo much in favor | oi the West aud South. But the same course of reasoning would strip us of all our great domain on the Pacific ocean country never to be surrendered while an American vhaler i Visits lis waters, or an American emIgTant i chooses to fish, hunt, or plant on the banks i oi the Columbia. IL would also. from like | as to the balance of power in | the N orth9 prevent any laurc pcaceable an neAaiion oi the Ganagas. so ardently contem- plated hy our fathers from the commencement of the revolution; and il would heretofore have defeated the purchase of the Floridas by Air. Monroe, and of Louisana including Tex | as, by 4lr. Jefferson; and would not oulv cast eensure ea them and their venerable c6adiu-'F iors, for thus detanging the balance of power then, hat would add rcproach on ATessrs. Al- { ms and Clay for attempting 10 regain Texas in 1895 and 1927, and on General Jackson [ 1nd Nr Van BaFeni for . like aNemptn 1929, ! md what Is still worse, by this course of reasoning, for seeking, as was done in 1895 by General Jackson and Mr. Forsyth, to ob- tain vast tract of additional country still | artAer south and west, from the fort7-second degree of latitude to the thir,y-sevanth, and stretching towards the setting sun over that degree across the entire continent. But, in truth, the durable interests of tbewhole Union are believed 10 have been looked to on these occasions as now; and the theoretical balance oi power if adpeged to at all, can never en- danger the practical workings of eur system. which will always produce greatest harmony when least inauenced by any sectional ieai- f ousies or local preiudiees; and which will always De most attractive, strongest and most aourishiHg, where 1eeat, unless liberty and progress are mere phantoms of the ilnaqina- Iion.n
 More than all this, Texas, if added to the Union, may we'll be regarded for ages. if not r