Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-05-10


puacp populations aud pursuance. over the North Ame
r,can Cont,nen:-not by wa:s and conquest, but in
peace and harmony, by government substantially the
same, If not one aud ind'visible.
Every new State corroborates the unon of the whole,
BY rendering IT difficult for any one to dslocae
itself Should Texas and Oregon add len States
10 the Un,on the effect Will be 10 strengthen II; for
no one can prosper without the rest, any more than
Texas nov. CunfedeIacy with lie other States, OF
the protection of some European metropolis, ,be
inevitable option.
Threatening and bodng dismen berms Mt from in
crease of the States th,s Un'"n has proved memoirs
BILE misapprehension. Even the most president and
patriotic have not been able 10 anticipate the pro
d,aous national growth of these u Safes and elastic
energy of their Government-growth whose prodises
are chiefly uscribable extension OF territory The
mere necessity Of the single port of New Orleans FOX
the export OF the products of the magnificent South
west and that before was known the immense
staple it has become led 10 tho fortunate purchase OF
Louisiana The author of that acquisition, including
Texas, goes TO posery with renown for 1t hardly less
han that which canon,zes him The author OF the
Declaration of independence. 1t IS edfyng, IN con-
siderng the objection 10 the annexation OF Texas, 10
yecur 10 Jeffarsons views Of that Of Louisiana
"As soon as II was known says one OF his h'stor
ans "on the general pacilcation in Europe in 1901,
that Spain had coded Louisiana 10 France filed the
zchole United States with anxiety end apprehension
The port of New Orleans IN the hands OF foreign
power would be used brbe threat TO detach the
Western States from The rest OF the Union. The UNI
ted States could not zee with indifference SO formula
BILE power as France planting colony along her Dor
dsrs. by which they would be hsmmed in and ianked
on the North and South by the two most potent
tons on the globe So lively and general were these
npprehe nsians, that the American people would have
been willing to incur the certain evils OF war; rather
han have risksd the dangers they aPprehended
Your Committee desire TO apply THIS Apprehension OF
France, when the population of the United States did
no, exceed millions, to present jealousy OF Great
Britain, WHEN our population IS nearly twenty; snd
much OF that prodgious increase the offspring OF the
acquisition Of Louisiana If Pennsylvania was eager
for then, as is we'll known, rather than let France
acquire New Orleans from Spain, what should be the
feelings of he lch9ie United States now, the peri
lous scendan which England has but to WILL and she
NAV have, over Texas much The Bahamas:
Addressing himself 10 Ms. Livingston, our Minister
in France President Jefferson wrote that"psrhaps no
thing the revolutionary war, has produced more
uneasy sensations through The body of The nation,
than the transfer by SPAN of Louisiana 10 france =
The purchase effected, as IS well known The
writer Of this report WILL probably, be excused the re-
mark, that he cane with Intelligence OF that treaty
from Europe. 1.-THE area Of country coded according
TO Jefersons est,ma,e) exceeded million of square
miles, the whole number of inhabitants, besiues lrd'-
ans amounting TO but eighty or ninety thousand, OF
whom about forty thousand were slaves. The treaty
was ratified in he Senate by "a 4 and in the
House of Representatives. Says The before mentioned
historian, Mr. George Tucker,) "the tsesty also met
with opposition from the Federal party. Very many
politicians Of the United States considered such gent
extent Of county the Unsd States compreheGd-d,
with this large accession incompatible with SIM
gle government; and that separation, always ap2re
hended from The Western States, would be FASTENED
and facilitated by this purchase. Even the author OF
the acquisition whose foresight has ben wonderfully
proved in the progress Of American institutions and
their tendencies had not providence enough TO fore
that the inhabitants of Chicago and Dubuque would
be indsso!uby bound by the great Wss.er highways
with those Of the Atiakapas that l. veil, New
Bedford, New York, and Philadelphia, wit IN the life
time of the bearer of the treaty Of Louisiana to this
country, would be so closely connected with New Or
leans that union confirmed as i, extends infinitely
beyond the guarantees of constitutional settlement In
letter Of January, 1904 Jefferson says of the ucqu
sliion of Louisiana
uWhethe. we remain confederacy or form
into Atlantic end Mississippi confederaces belle We it
not very important 10 the happiness of ether part
Those of the western confederacy will be much
children and descendants those OF the eastern and
| feel myself Us much identified with that country in
future time as with this
"Northern and New England politicians adds Mr.
Tucker considered ;hat The more immediate effects Of
the purchase would be lessen their relative weight
in the councils of the confederacv Time has shown
the aliacy Of these views The Union had been rather
strengthened than weokcaed the whole territory of
the Union east of the Rocky mountains seems nov as
susce ptble of one General Government, for limited
objects, The thirteen original States thought
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Thus, while even Jefferson, in 1901, apprehc nded
the possibility of peaceble disunion by extension OF
territory, the result has proved what his bopraahe
even so lately 1897, cocld hardly realize Jefferson
had no idea Of what Mr. Tucker does contemplate
the iBcoDceivable practical approximation which ply
steal science has since supere3ded to political improve
ments. New Orleans is within eight dcys, BY
land, OF New York within litle more, by water, OF
Pi,,sbu-g. The Rocky nncntlins not far off as
Cincinnati Tho twen!y-s,x United States are
more contiguous now by steam, than the thirteen orr
g,nally by constitution Ii clear that pre-
sent, Texas is much Massachusetts, than Lou-
sana was when The British attempted wIes, that re-
gion from u.s. and defeated IN 1915
In estimating the value of Texas therefore, are
always TO bear in mind that Great Britain 10 al Rermu
d. with all her formidable power at door, placed
there by the same means hch draw the United States
close together; and that her northern canals and West,
possessions enable her 10 strike fatal blow at any
unforeseen moment. In tho official comm nication
dated at Client, December 25 1914 By the American
of that place. they wrote Tint the only important df
ference (after impessment aud indemnity FOR capurcs
remaining to be discussed, those relating TO the
mutual restoration Of territory taken during the war;
t. the navigation of the Mississippi river by British
subjects; and TO the right of the people Of the United
States the fisheries within the British jurisdiction
Instead of general e>t-icon Of captured territory,
which we had proposed the British Government at
nfSt WtSHpu 10 coHlhe ~ " TIE tlheH ny
ther party, belonging TO the other. On ohsctina
that this would make each party The judge, whether
territory taken did did belong the other and
thereby occasion disputes 'hay acknowledged it
t. be their occ that each should, antH dec,ioa hid
taken place 'ci respect 10 TITLE, rta.n possession
Of ali the territory cia,aed by both parties, which may
not have been claimed by such party during the war
Although the treaty finally agreed to, without this
provision, yet it to put beyond question the de-
sign OF England TO take New Orleans, and then hold
i, after peace, denying title to LOUISIANA, as pur
chased from France under protest from Spain TIE
failure of their invasion put ont of their power To
raise that question. But the attempt to prepare for It
by treaty, their insisting an ultimatnm, our re-
storing all lands teksn from ndsns, ard the tenth ar
tc!e of The treaty of Client, spulaiing against the
slave trade oil demonstrate d. sgs upon he territories
acquired by the United States a Louisiana. And he
must be extremely ignorant, III o! history and man.
kind, who trusts Diplomatic ance, the ordinary
&c whatever It most solemnly denies, that G
Britain will not interfere with either government or
slavery in Texas.
The idoa,ry of England yet lingering in this coun-
try separates her from oil other nations, and d'scrsd-
her being aciua,ed BY the motives which mpel other
nations to ambitious action. Du, without mput,ng TO
maritime Great Britain aggressive dangerous