Arkansas intelligencer. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1842-1859, 1844-05-11
ANNEXATION OF TEXAS,

= ANNEXATION OF TEXAS.
Losisiana as purchased in 1908; the belief of
Jefferson, thsdeclaration of France, the testimony
Ct all the Psesidents who have acted upon L,
(chieAy Mcnroe and Adams,) with Mr.. Clay, IL
strenuous advocate of the purchase of Texas, All
agree and conciude that the boundary of Jefer.
sons purchase extended 10 the Rio Bravo, incIud.
ing al Texas. Thus we see that the country
has bsen purchased by the United States, and also
that Texas formed an actual part of our Union
for sirteen years-from 1903 when the purchase
was made, to 1919, the year of Spanish Treaty.
Indeed, the very act and word of the treaty with
Spain confirms this, "rc do eeds" are the words
Of that treaty, fully acknowledging right to
cede )" for how could we cede lands were they
not oursi Would Spain have received cession u
unless she considered Texas as portion of our
domains would she have received from us by trea.
,y what she held as her own? The inference is
clear; Texas Is part Of Jeferson's purchase, SO
deemed by France the United States and Spain,
as we have shown.
But we contend not only that Texas should BE-
admitted into the Union, but we declare she is al.
ready by treaty, purchase and the sacred author.
ty of the Constitution, part of our country: she
Is ours. -.
Though we have Constitutional right to pur.
chase territory, we have none whatever to alien.
ate. Our Government cannot treat our land.
away, II can acquire but cannot sell that acquisi.
ton. Because our Government is not supreme,
merely the aeeney ofthe several and united States
whose power Is alone sovereign, and thus not be
ing supreme our Government cannot ALLEVIATE
lands, nor transfer an acquired incorporated ter
ritory.
The North threatens dissolution; the threat is
thread.bare, uttered only to brighten. Northern
interests are as deepsy, if no. deeper connected
with the annexation, as those of the South-a vast
market being opened thereby. But shall such
bugbears as these threats deter us from securing
our projections, our interests, our commerce, nay
even our very existence as Unionl Shall a
foreign wer be allowed to possess so great por.
ton of the Great Mississippi Valley, because fana.
tics talk Of dissolution, and the Wings, headed by
the National Iuteigencer, make it a question sub.
servient to party mosives' Nc, verify.
But the Wings who oppose the annexation are
strangely inconsistent. Their great leader often
advocated the purchase of that territory, and he
has brought up the ablest argument establishing
the principle that the Treaty of 1919, was incor-
poratve and unconstitutional; and Mr.. Adams
was the last man to accede to the Sabine bouuda.
~, settled by that treaty. Yet slavery existed
then tho same reasons, and better Ones we're to be
found why Texas should not be purchased, thai
are now raised against the annexation.
In 1926, Mr.. Clay, then Secretary of State
and endeavorng to purchase Texas for million
of dollars, says:
!" The line of the Sabine approaches our great
western mart nea rer than could be wished. Per.
haps the Mexican Government may not be unwil.
ling to establish the Rio Brassos de Dios, or the
Rio Colorado, or the Snow Mountains, or the Rio
Del Norte, in lieu of it,"
Again no speaks of
"The importance Of having entirely within our
limits " Red Rirer and the Arkansas, and their
respectire tributary streams"
And in his speech upon the treaty Of 1919, Mr..
Clay contends that the treaty was imperative, -
that there was no power, by which the Federal
Government could ALLEVIATE any portion of our
territory to foreign nation. As we'll might Go.
vernment sell Arkansas or Tennessee to Mexico
or Spain.
What needless inconsistency have the Wing.
displayed. They would elect tho very man who
has done more than all others to annex Texas, tc
u" save" the Union from that annexation. Truly
they possess great ductiIity.
0Did any body ever hear a Locofoco gather.
ing hurra for Van Burenl-Gazette. p.
Did any one ever know q noisy mob to gain q
victory over a. silent. quiet and orderly phaanx
OF veteran soldiers, even though that mob were
headed by Generals Gazette7
Gibson has been completely foiled in late
Southern "speechifying; 'and Elector Byers has
had his eioquence silenced most signally BY Judge