Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-12-19

ter the supreme authorities of Texas shall have
formally agreed to these resolutions.
on tho motion OF Mr.. c. j. Ingersoll, the
House ordered the printing Of 5000 copies Of the
maps appended to the Texan Treaty. Mr.. Win
throp, of Mass. member Of the Committes On
Foreign Affairs, denounced the treaty.. m hosfss
to the law of Nations, repugnan, to good povens.
ment, and dangerous to the public peace. and
gave notice that when the subject came up he
would give his views at length.
On Friday, the Senate did not sit
In the House, Mr.. Duncan's bill providin. for
the election of President and Vice Prssiden, ~ ].
one day in all the States, was under consider.
ton. Mr. Dromgoole proposed some amend.
men's, but they were not acceptable to Mr.. Dun.
can. Mr.. Campbell moved to except South Ca.
rolina from the operation Of the Law, which was
negatived by large vote, SO TO I4i. The dav
was spent upon the bill, without any thing matsa
rial being done. Mr.. Winthrop called attention
to the true position Of the Democratic party in re-
gard to this bill.-They had blamed the Wbip
Senate for not passing the bill at the las, session.
when it had been withheld from them so lono. J
that its passage would have been nuga,ory, the
State Legislatures having generally adjourned,
and it would have been impossible to obtain the
necessary State Legislation to carry it into effect.
The Globe, he remarked, had an article in tho
paper of that very day. in the same spirit and ten.
per. But the debate had disclosed the fact to the
country that the party in power were themselves
altogether disagreed as to the form Of the bill.
Neither House sat on Saturday.
Ma. BENToN's ANNEXATION BlLL.-The fol.
lowing is copy Of the Bill introduced into tho \
Senate on Wednesday by Mr.. Benton, and now
Tin company with Mr.. McDuffie's Joint Resolu-
ton on the same subjecD before the Committee
on Foreign Relations
ii BtH f0procide for the Annexation of Ttras TO
the United States.
lie IL enacted, Sc.- That the President of tina
United States be and he hereby is authorized and
advised to open negotiations with Mexico and
Texas for the adjustment of boundaries, and the
annexation of the latter to the United States on
the following basis, to wit:
1. The boundary OF the territory annexed to be
In the desert prairie west Of the Neuces, and along
the highlands and mountain heights which divide
the waters of the Mississippi from the waters of =
north.
III. The people of Texas, by a Legislative act.
or by any authentic act which shows the will Of
the majority, TO express their assent to the said
annexation.
III State to be called SHE State of Ieras,"
with boundaries fixed by herself, and an extent
not exceeding that of the largest State in the I'm.
ION, be admitted into the Union, by virtue of this
act, on an equal footing with The original States.
Nv, The remainder of the ANNEXED territory
to be held and disposed Of by the United States
as Of their territories, and to be called "Mr
Southwest Territory"
V. The existence of slavery to be forever pro.
hibited in the northern and northwestern part of
said territory, west Of the Tooth degree of loppi.
tude west from Greenwich, so as to divide as
equally as may be the whole Of the annexed coun.
try between slaveholding and non-slayeholding
States.
vi. The assent of Mexico to be obtained by I
treaty to such annexation and boundary, or to bs
dispensed with when the Congress of the United
States may deem such assent to be unnecessary.
VII. Other details of the annexation to be ad.
Justed by treaty, so far as the same may come
within the scope of the treaty-making power