The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-03-07

| "to perpetual relinquishment of territory what
ever eastward Of Rio Brave" In the message OF
that Texas contains :" four-hihs Of all the live oak
now in the world" Cotton will be its great staple
and some sugar and molasses will be Produced
| The grape, the olive, and indigo, and Cocoa and
nearly all the fruits OF the tropics will be grown
| there also. In Texas are valuable mines OF gold
and silver; the silver mine on the San Saba having
been examined and found TO be among the richest
| in the world.
In the recent debate in the British Parliament,
Lord Brougham said: The importance OF Texas
could not be overrsted. II was country Of the
greatest capabilities, and in extent full large
France 1t possessed soil of the finest and most
fertile character and II was capable of producing
all tropical produce and its climate was Of a most
healthy character Ithad access to the gulf, to the
river mississippi, with which it communicated by
means OF the Red river" The possession of Texas
would ensure to US the trade OF Santa Fe and all
is large and indispensable portion of the valley of
the West. That valley once was all our own but
| II has been dismembered by a treaty formed when
the West held neither OF the high executive stations
! OF the government, and was wholly unrepresented
in the cabinet at Washington The Red river and
| Arkansas divided and mutlated, now flow, with
their tributaries, for many thousand miles,
through the territory OF foreign power and the
West has been forced back along the gulf, from the
Del Norte to the Sabine. IT, then, IL be true that
the sacrifice OF Texas was made with painful reluc-
lance, all those who united In the surrender will re-
joice at the re- acqulsltlOn.
This is no question Of the purchase Of new terri
tory, but Of the remuneration OF that which once
was all our own 1t Is not question OF the extern
sion of our limits but OF the restoration Of former
boundaries. !tproposes new addition to the valley
Of the Mississippi but OF its reunion and all its
tiers, more, under our dominion. II the Creator
| had separated Texas from the Union by mountain
barriers, the Alps or the Andes, these might be plau
sble objections; but he has paned down the whole
valley, including Texas, and united every atom of
the soil and every drop of the waters of the mighty
whole He has linked their rivers with the great
Mississippi, and marked and united the whole for
the dominion OF one government and the residence
Of one people; and It is lmplcus IN man to attempt
valley is pert Of New York and Pen an sa,
a part of Maryland and Virginia, and Ohio, and OF
with it the waters of Georgia, Alabama, and Caro-
lima. The Allegheny, commencing its course in
New York, and with the Youshioogany, from Mary
with the beautiful Ohio at the metropolis of western
Pennsylvania, embrace the streams OF Texas at the
mouths of the Arkansas and Red River, whe nee
their waters flow in kindred union to the gulf. And
here let me say, that New York ought to reclaim
for the Allegheny its true original name, the Ohio,
of which it is part, and SO marked and called by
that name in the British MAPS, prior to !776, one
representative from the Pttsburg district OF Penn
sylvania. The words "Ohio" and "Alleghany,"
in two different Indian dialects, mean clear, as de-
~ssp FOLK SS !. hs
York is upon the Ohio, and truly stands at the head
Of the valley ofthe West. The treaty which struck
Texas from the Union, inflicted blow upon this
shall remain dismembered and mutilated, and that
the ancient boundaries OF the republic shall never
be restored! Who will desire to check the young
eagle Of America now rshsns her gaze upon our
eternal flight? What American will say that the
flag of the Union shall never wave again through
out that mighty territory; and that what Jefferson
acquired, and Madison refused to surrender, shall
never be restored? Who will oppose the re-esta-
bishment Of our glorious constitution, over the
whole of the mighty valley which once was shield
to curail the limits OF this great Republican empire
and again to dismember the glorious valley of the
Westl Who will refuse to repant the banner of the
Republic upon our former boundary, or surrender
coast of the gulf Who will refuse to heal the
bleeding wounds Of the mutilated west and reunite
tine veins and arteries, discovered by the dismem-
bering cession Of Texas to Spain? To refuse to ac-
cept the annexation is to resurender the territory of
Texas, and redismember the valley of the West.
Nay. more, under existing circumstances it il to
st. George, and to surrender the florida pass, the
mouth of the Mississippi, the command of the Mex
ican gulf, and finally Texas ITSELF into the hands Of
England
As question of money, no State is much more
deeply interested In the remuneration oil Texas
than your own great Commonwealth of Kentucky.
There, it Texas becomes part Of the Union, will
be great and growing market for her beef and
pork, her lard and butter, her flour and corn; and
there, within a very short period, would be found
ready sale for more than a million dollars in va
Nor cannot il be that Kentucky would desire, by
the refusal Of remuneration, to mutilate and dis
member the valley of which she is a part; or that
Kentucky would curail the limits of the Republic,
diminish its power and strength and glory. 1t
cannot be that Kentucky will wish to any flag
except our own upon the banks of the Sabine and
Arkansas and Red River, and within days sail
of the mouth Of the Mississippi. and the outlet of
all her own commerce IN the Gulf Many of her
own people within the limits Of Texas, and its
battle-felds are watered with the blood Of many
headed the brave three hundred, who, armed with
rifles only, captured the fortress Of the Alamo, de-
Tended by heavy artillery and thirteen hundred of
the picked troops Of Mexico, under one of their
best commanders And will Kentucky refuse to
re-embrace SO many OF her own people or permit
them, without leaving Texas, to return to the
American Union? And if war should ever again
revisit our country Kentucky knows that the steady
aim of the western rAemen and the brave hearts
and stout hands within the limits of Texas, are in
the hour OF danger, among the surest defenders of
the country, and especially OF the valley OF the
West. The question oil remuneration, and of the
restoration OF ancient boundaries, much strong
er case than that OF the purchase of new territory
1t Is stronger case also than the acquisition of
Louisiana or Florida; not only upon the ground that
these were both an acquisition of new territory
but that they embraced foreign people, dissmar
to our own in language, laws, and institutions and
transferred without their knowledge or consent, by
the act of a European king. More especially, ia
case like this where the people Of Texas occupied
a region which was once exclusively our own; and
this people, in whom we acknowledge to reside
the only sovereignty over the whole and every por-
ton of Texas, desire the reanne xation-that we
cannot re-estabsh our former boundaries, and re.
store to US the whole any portion Of the terri
tory VIII ch was once our own, is proposition, the
bare statement of which is its best refutation.
Let US examine, now, some OF the objections
used against the remuneration OF Texas. And here,
it is remarkable that the objections to the purchase
OF Louisiana are the same now made in the case of
Texas yet all now acknowledge the wisdom Of
that great measure and to have opposed it, is
now regarded as alike unpatrotc and unwise. And |
SO will it be in the case of Texas. The measure |
will Justify itself by its results; and its opponents
those who objected to the purchase of Louisiana.
The objections, we have said, were the same, and |
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