The Whig standard., 1844-06-12

confederacy, and blending the whole in harmo-
nions and solid union.
But weighty and all-prevailing as these con-
sideratons would seem to be, the object rises
still higher in importance when we consider the
dangers and the evils to which we should be
exposed, If Texas should fall under the do
minion OF the influence osaay rival or unfriendly
power. And is there. MOI some risk of this,
Mr. President if we should now coldly or con-
tumeliously turn our back upon her. We know,
sir, that there is a great European power, ever
intent land in saying this, mean no reproach)
on the extension Of her commerce or dominion,
who has, for years past, taken deep interest
ia the destinies OF Texas. Even before the
separation of Texas from Mexico, the eyes Of
her statesmen were eagerly turned in that di-
rection, with the avowed policy to profit of
events, and at all hazards, to arrest the natural
and necessary tendency Of things, to restore the
United States 10 their former limits upon the
Gulf of Mexico Have gentlemen forgotten the
significant declarations Of Mr. Huskisson, in the
House Of Commons in 1880, when the Jealousy OF
English power and commerce had been aroused
by rumors of the negotiation Of General Jackson
with Mexico for the re- acquisition OF Texas
That distinguished statesman, person. ying as ne
did the traditional and invarable policy OF his
country, declared that the United States must be
prevented from usurping, as he called 1t, the
. natural influence" Of England with the Mexi-
can States, and that in order to maintain "her
commercial ri ghts in the Gulf of Mexico" and to
preserve unimpaired her maritime and com
aercias ascendancy in The ne,o world, she should,
if necessary, invoke the cooperation OF her al
lies, the great Powers Of Europe, to interfere in
the affairs of America Here, sir, was an early
and imposing revelation Of the views OF Eng
land in regard to Texas, of her claim TO " ma
iural influence" with the Mexican States, Of
which Texas was one, and Of some mysterious
and underlined commercial rights in the Gulf
of Mexico" which were interpreted in the next
sentence to mean ga maritime and commercial
ascendancy in the new world"
But this is not the only warning we have re-
ceived on this subject. OneDf the most distin-
guished and influential political as well as literary
periodicals Of Great Britain, (the Edinburgh Re-
view,) az recently as 184l, specializing on the
consequences of the rejection by the United
States of the proffered annexation of Texas in
1889, counts among those consequences feel
ing of dissatisfaction and finally of jealousy and
hatred on the part Of Texas, which will ALLEVIATE
her more and more from the United States, and
draw her ultimately into more clio e and Intimate
Union with Great Britain. One Of the practical
fruits of these new political and commercial re-
lations with Great Britain is then confidently an
noupced TO be that Texas will repeal the Tariff
Will not my honorable friends from the East and
the North heed this warning, ere yet it is too
late. And how sir, would Texas "repeal or
nullify" the Tariff! She would become the
depot OF British manufactures at low and pri-
vileged rates of duty, under commercial ar
rangement, which British policy well knows how
to recommend to weaker, and, in some degree,
dependent Power; and from thence through
long and extended frontier, admitting every IA
cility for evading our revenue laws, they would
be dlffused through the valley OF the Mississippi
and the Southern States. with the advantage Of
having paid low duty in Texas, and none at al
in the United States What would become Of
the interests of our manufacturing brethren of
the Eastern and Middle States under a competi-
ton like this! They would not only be entirely
deprived of the new and valuable home market
which is now offered to their acceptance in Texas,
but they would be superseded and driven, to "a
great extent, out of the markets Of the Southern
and Western States, of which they now have the
almost exclusive supply. And what would be-
come of the interests OF American navigation
under this system! II, too, must lose entirely
the new and profitable field for employment,
which, under other and more natural circum-
stances, would be all its own ] need hardly
mention the consequences OF the supposed state
of things, (too likely to be realized, if we con-
tnue to sumber on in suplneness and security,)
to the cotton States Of the South and Southwest.
With the manufactures of the North crippled or
broken down by illicit trade or foreign monopoly,
and discrimination in the British market in favor
Edinburgh Review for April is4i. Article X. Re-
view of the Rise, Progress and Prospects Of the Re-
public Of Texas, by William Kennedy
The whole article is of the highest interest dsco-
sing the policy and Of England in regard to Texas
but the following passage too full of admonon to the
manufacturer of The North well the planter
of the South not to deserve especial notice:
The foundations of the new Republic says the Re-
viewer may be said to be laid in the principle of free
trade Her wealth consists in her raw produce her
wants in manufactured articles. Our utmost demand for
cotton may and in great measure WILL probably, ere
long, be supplied from Texas and no fantastic scheme
Of encouraging imperfect and costly manufactures of her
own will be allowed, may be sure, ever to induce
her sacrifice her true OF prosperity by refusing
to take the wrought goods of Manchester and Bimng
ham in exchange for the produce OF her soil Here, then
wo have security against that entire dependence on
the commerce Of the United States which, with all its
pacific influences cannot be contemplated without appre-
henson. Texas will either repeal the Tariff Of the
United States or nullify its operations and however