The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1844-08-30

for even the steril mountains and barren
praIrles had been granted TO spectators 10
sell 10 the U. States and in Europe and
the assumption TO pay the scrip debts of
Texas III consideration Of the yacaat lands,
Was naked and fraudulent assumption to
pay ten millions for nothing-and that to
siock-Jobbers who had given two cents,
and five cents, aud seven cents in the dol.
lar for the claims, and whose agents were
at Washington inlesting the Capitol, the
/ Presidents house, aud the Department of
State, and doing all that was in tleir pow.
or to sustain the treaty, and to pull down
The Senators who despised lhcm and their
scrip. The treaty was fraud in not an
nulIlng the great granis, made for consId-
erations not fulfilled, and fer not scaling
Tie deprecated SCRIP dept. Ii was fruud
IN these particulars, but this fraud created
a voraclous and clamorous interest for tho
treaty. Mr. b. said the patriotic people
OF Missouri were mistaken in supRosing
that every body were like themselves, nc.
iuaicd by laudabc motives in wanting Tex.
as, because II was geographically connect
ed with the U. States, and essential to lis
political, commercial, aud social system.
There we're others who wanted it for very
different purposes-thc disunionists, for
example, Nho wanted 10 use it for scparat.
ing the slayeholding from tho non.sIave.
holding States; Presidential intrigners,
who wanted il TO make and unmake Pre-
sdentlal candidates, and 1,specnlaiors
and stock lob ''n0 wanted TO emf
lhsTfouphout his speccn, MT. y: present
ed it as HE design of the Texas treaty ho'
to ge, Texas into the Union, but 10 &c,
the Southern States out OF II, and showcu
that the whole treaty, and all the CORES,
pondence relating TO il. WAS studionsly ane ,
r.ii.u- ., ,r--4rrr with Great Britain, and al
with the Notwithstanding States on the
subject Of slavery, was the open, nndls
guised object Of the ncgotiator from the he.
ginning TO tho ending. To array lie
slaveholding against The non. slavehulding
half Of The Onion was bis open and con-
linucd effort. To present the acquisition
Of Texas as Southern, sectional, slave
holding question, wholly directed to tho
extension, perpctudtiop, and predominanco
q slavery, was his express and avowed
object. And after all this open effort to
make the Texas question slave question,
the admission of the Texan States into
the Union was to be submitted 10 House
of Representatives where there was ma.
lority Of lorty.six members from the non.
sIavcholdiug States? Wha, could all this
be for except 10 have The Texan States re.
fused admission, and a pretext furnished
! the Southern States for secession AL
this was so well understood in s. Cpoli-
ma that the cry Of " Ttras or Dis'nton
was raised in that quarter no, opy before
the treaty was rejected, but bnoie II was
made Let it never lie Ghgolten, SAID
Mr.. b., that treaty caAnot ADMIT pew
States. The Constitution grants that pow
er 10 Congress. The Texas treaty did
not, and could not admit Texas as State:
i, only admitted il as n territory. he
question of rImitting the States would
have TO come on afterwards in Congress
aud the non.ndmission being previously
made cure of, then the secession from the
NORTH and adhesion to Texas was TO be.
cone the lightful remedy" Texas be.
Ing in the Union as n territory by the su-
preme law of the land, a treaty, her non.
admission by Congress would become
breach Of that supreme law, and many IN.
der those circumstances were counted up
on to sccede who would otherwise aLhor
secession.
MIR. B. said he saw the frs, signs of lhis
scheme Of disunion during the session Of
Congress in S42-43. He saw other signs
Of it in the summar Of 1913; and by tho
end Of the late session Of Congress the
signs had become so thick and clear lhn,
he was able to dcnouncc it on the floor Of
the Senate. His reply 10 Mr.. McDuttio
on Saturday, the 18th Of June, was tho
first public remuneration Of this new trea.
son against the Union. He had dcnounc-
ed ii long before TO many persons, and
particularly at the late session Of Congress
to Mr.. A. V. Brown, member Of Con.
grcss from Tennessee, who had vicarious.
" Obtained the Texas letter from General
T jackson, and who seemed to be yicarious.
3 ~ charged with some enterprise on him.
self and which was nippcd in the bud, be
it what it might. He had loretold at the
commencement of the session all that no
had proclaimed at the end Of it. He
knew the reasonable design, and the Pre-.
sidcntial intrigue, long before he proclaim.
ed it IN the Senate. He could not speak
out until the signs were sufficiently dcvc.