The North-Carolina standard., 1844-10-02

e she obtained large part of the territory OF tn
a State of Maine, when she held In her possession
s at the time, and concealed it from our Govern
s ment q map containing line traced by the ham
e of George the Third, which showed that the tel
e rtory was ours. We point you to the wrong
8 which brought on The Revolution ofT6 willis
!, she was always disavowing the intention to op
D.! press US or to deprive us of our Liberties W.
r point you to her disavowas before the war o
( 1872 while she was committing every aggression
|, upon our neutral rights. We point you to th'
millions of slaves that she holds in India, while
. she is hypocritically denouncing slavery in tht
J United States Is she not now encompasslng the
globe with her armies and navies, and interfering
with the concerns Of every nation, savage or civil
J izcd2 Whence does she derive this 0mnlp0tenI
prerogattre to dictate to the world No where
: but in her Unsuitable appetite for dominion and
3 gain President Monroe, more than twenty years
|; ago in one of his annual messages to Congress
!, denounced all claim on the part of European Co.
vernments to colonize this continent; and the peo
pie responded to it with acclaim. Nor will the
American spirit ever brook the idea of bending
the knee at the foostool of Great Britain, to sue
for the privilege of treating with Texas or any
other member of the American family of nations
\ The democratic party are for peace with En-
gland "r1 the world they seek the earliest prac-
ticable annexation of Texas to this Union TO Grert
q car with England, before her interest and
}pride shall have become too deeply interviewer
with Texan affairs
! The Clay leaders next say that Texas is not an
independent nation that it is a province or de-
partment of Mexico; and that annexation involves
US in breach of faith TO Mexico. If that be so,
we admit it would be wrong, and as democrats
we repudate all dishonor to our country. But
here we take issue with our opponents and will
proceed to show that Texas is SOVEREIGN
STATE.
France acquired Texas by discovery and first
occupancy, and the United States purchased it
| from France, in 1903, as part of Louisiana.
For this have the authority of Jefferson, Madi-
son, Pinekney, Monroe, Adams, Clay and jack
son. without, rs we believe, one dissenting Ameri-
can statesman In 1919 John O. Adams, Secre
tary of State under Mr.. Monroe, negotiated our
treaty with Spain, whereby we purchased Florida
from Spain, and reinquished to her the territory
of Texas. Texas thus became Spanish pro-
vince Spanish territory, not Mexican territory.
About 1922 Texas, with Mexico andthe other pro-
vinces OF Spain in Central America, revohed from
Spain and proclaimed themselves independent
In 1924, Texas with Coahuila, as one State, esta-
blished Constitution and Government Judicial
ry, Legislature and Governor, free and indie
pendent State. The same year she was received
into the Mexican Confederacy of Independent
Sovereign States, framed after the plan of our
Federal Union. The Constitution of Texas
Wnlcn was approved Oy the Mexican Oohleoerd- ,
cy, asserted "thut Teas qoaS free and andepe1
dent Of the other Meaiean States, and of erery
other power and domimion;;" and it also asserted
the great republican principle that "the sOcer-
oss.t" Of t4o Slate resides originally and essen
TALLY IN the general mass 0fMe people. sps0 cOn-
pose IT," AS early, then, as 1924, Texas, by her
own Constitution and form of Government and
by the consent and appreciation of Me1ico, esta-
btshed herself side by side with Mexico, in the
nroo MEovinop TtopEoJoroF;on ofC CtoFo
eign and independent State as Mexico herself
f. then, Texas is not sovereign State, neither is
Mexico Our own citizens were induced to settle
IN Texas, under the promise and expectation of
being governed by laws made through rcpresen-
tatives chosen by themselves, and under the guar
anees of the Constitution of Texas for the protec
tion of their lives, liberty and property. But in
1885 the tyrant Santa Anna overthrow the Fede-
raj Constitution Of the Mexican Union by the
sword, proclaimed the several State Constitutions
as extinct, and expelled the Legislature of Texas
from lis hall at the point Of the bayouet Bat the
usurper's military force and fraud did not exlin-
gulsh the independence of Texas-no more than
he occupation of Louisiana by tho British army, t
and the proclamation of Gen. Packcnham, extin- +
guIshed the sovereignty of that State in 1915 c
Texas resisted the tyrant; and in the spring OF
l836. against the odds OF two to one, conquered Il
lis army on the plains of San Jacinto, in one of r
he most glorious battles recorded in history. d
santa Anna was made prisoner of war; his life, v
Justly forfeited by the laws of war, for the cold
FLOODED murder of five hundred Texan citizens at a
ioliad, spared. AS the Dictator and Su- c
lreme Head OF Mexico Santa Anna then made to q
texas a solemn written acknowledgment of her e
Independence as a State. The battle of San ia b
into only confirmed, By arms, the independence n
t Texas as nation. This she has maintained e
Or eight and half years, against the world, pos r
esSlng and conducting with wisdom, Justice and 81
rmness, at home and abroad on land and sea, all is
ae functions Of a sovereign State The United if
tates, Franco, England, Spain, Holland, Belg.t ii
m, and as the foregoing facts show, euen Meuico ii
nd Santa Anna have recognized her ndepen- sc
ence No nation on earth can establish her title J.
} independence on higher and nobler grounds s.
ian Texas. Like the children of Israel, unaided I
ave by the God Of battles, she has fought her. tu
'ay through the wilderness, to independence, q
endered more glorious by the establishment of Re
epublIcan Government the arts of peace, chris ci
an and literary institutions, and quiet posses OF
on OF more than eight yearsl Texas therefore. IN;
tGct and OF r1ght is free, sovereign and indie al
endent State Mexico never owned Texas for u ea
lomenti on the contrary, she confederated with M
er as an independent State, and when Santa
nna abolished that concderacy, Texas stood up-. W
her former rights as State, as fully as North in
aroina would do were the abolilionists to abol- g
q our Federal Constitution ythe sword Again. sr
e third article of our treaty with France in 1908 te
the purchase Of Louisiana declares that "the m
habltans of the ceded territory shall be ipcorno sw