The Arkansas banner., 1844-05-15

would be as completely within British lntlu- ence as though already British colony, es- pecially when we consider the other most ex traordinary privileges which she has already granted to Ingland, including the right of search. In the official proclamation of June 15, l843, President Houston says: < An offi- cial communication has been recieved at the departmnnt of State, from her Brjtan1llc Ma iesty's charge d'allaires near this government founded upon despatch he has received from her Maiesty's charge d'aHaires in Mexico, an nouncing to this goyerment the fact that the President of Mexico would forthwith order a cessation of hostilites on his part; therefore I, Sam. Houston, President of the Republic of Texas, do hereby declare and proclaim that an armistice is established; to continue during the pendency of negotiations between the two countries. and until due notice of an intention to resume hostilites Should such an intention hereafter be entertained by either party) shall have been formally announced through her Britamac .MdjeSty's charge d'affaires at the respective governments" " Is not Texas a}ready dependent upon EHgia'1d, when England obtains from her an armistice, and the President of Texas announces that this will continue until its termination IS an- nomced by Eaglaad2.
 In the message of the President of Texas of the 12th of December, 1843, he speaks of the s'generous and friendly disposition, and active offices of England" And he speaks also, of ssiniuries and indignities infllcted'' by this govenmentupon Texas, and declares 'that reparaton has been demanded.n Such is the wonderful advance in Texas of the in- huence of England, that she has succeeded in having 1t announced in an executive mes sage to the people of Texas, that England iS heir friend, and hat nee are heir enemies. If all this had been predicted three years since, 1t would have been deemed incredible; and if Texas Is not re-annexed, she is cer- tain, within few years more, to become first a commercial dependency, and then colo
 ny, in fact, if not i'll name, of England.- When we regard the consequences which have already followed the mere apprehension of the refusal of remuneration, what will be the result ill Texas when remuneration Is positively and forever rejected When this IS done, and Texas Is repulsed with contempt or indifference; when her people are told "The flag of the Union shall never wave over YOU, go-go where you may, to Eng land, if you pleaseo-Who can coubt the le- sut2 To doubt, Is wiIlul blindness; and whilst we will have lost a most important territory, and an indispensable portion of the valley of the West, England will have gained depend ency first, and then a colony; and we shall awake from our slumbers when, amid British rejoicings and the sound of British cannon, the flag of England shall wave upon the coast and throughout the limits of Texas and monarchy rises up on our own continent and
 on our borders, upon the grave of a republic.
 Y es, this Is not a. question merely between us and Texas, but question between the advance of British or American power and that, too, within the very heart of the West.
 It is question also, between the advance of monarchy and republicanism throughout the fairest and most fertile portion of the Ameri- can continent, and is one 1.-the mighty move ments in deciding the great question between monarchy and republicanism, which of the two forms of government shall preponderate throughout the world. In the north, the flag of England waves from the Atlantic 10 the Pacific, over a region much more extensive II several thousand miles upon the banks of the tributaries of the great Mississippi, and al the gulf, from the Sabine to the Del NorIe, we will be surrounded on all sides by England in America. In the gulf, her su- premacy would be clear and absolute; and in the great interior, she would hang on the rear of Louisiana and Arkansas, and within two days march of the Mississippi, while her forts would stand, and her flag would wave, for thousand miles, on the banks of the Arkansas, the Sabine, and Red river, and in immediate contact with sixty thousand h. dian warriors of our own, and hallsas many more of what would then be British Indians, within the present limits of Texas. If any doubt her course as to the Indians, let them refer to her policy in this respect during the Revolution and the last war, and they will find that the savage has always been her ia vorite ally, and that she has shed more Amer ican blood, by the aid of the tomahawk and scalpng-knile, than she ever did in the field of fair and open conflict And has she be- come more friendly to the American people :? Look at her forts and her traders, occupying our own undoubted territory of Oregon; HOOK at Her press III EilSIdl ana 0aAaua, teeming with abuse of our people, govern ment, and laws; look at her authors and tourists, from the more powerful and insidi- ous assaults of Alison, descending in the scale to the falsehoods and arrogance of Hall and Hamilton, and down yet lower to the kennel jests and vulgar abuse of Marryatt and Dickens, ,industriously circulated through out all Europe; and never was her hostility so deep and bitter, and never have her efforts been so great to render us odious to all the world. The government ofEngland is con trolled by her aristocracy, the avowed ene- mics of republican government, wherever it may exist. And never was England endea- voring to advance more rapidly to almost universal empire, on the ocean and the land Her steamers commanded by naval officers, traverse nearly every coast and sea, whilst