The Arkansas banner., 1844-08-07

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 the log cabin and the savage torch
 1 say that al tlfs was accomplished witt the boundary then obtained, and was ia somt degrea lost without it, having as We had, ! foreign foe and foreign Indians so near us a9
 the Sabine and the Red rivers. The grea American captain Of odf age, with hundred.
 of others, haze staked theif sldll and reputa-
 ton on tllis; and hence thatboundary, it once
 owned by us, should never have been parted l with in 1873; or should be regained the first
 favorable and just opportunity, as has been
 since constantly attempted ggain. and again, ] and as is now amicablx within our power, by
 raliying thc treaty underconsldefauon We have already seen that is 10 new idea that
 freedom of commerce is of little value with
 oui is security.
 1 lt no ue8 project thata Iioe ianHerwest i than the Sabine is yilal to itsssecurity. as well
 as Improvisation protection in var, botIiagainsi
 civilized and savage foes.
 Itis no new Tagerv, that when our fathers,
 in l7S8. Gnalls resolved on theif rights to the free navigation Of the Mississippi, theY,salso, in the same act, and by the same damllcss
 spirit, meant to enforce thal right til success
 tul, and to defend t,also, when once&ellnowl-
 edged, ,as they afterwards did ia many an ln-
 dian war, ds well as on the bloody fields oi
 New Orleans Il IS no new principle 0f ua=
 tional law, tlat Ii then became the duty of the
 whole Union to look over the luXufaat re- eions west of the Aleehanies with the same
 affection and aid, and lavish on them like
 deereHCe and regard as on other pars ot inc
 Union; and that only half cur obligations
 would be discharged ii procuring iIeenayi- gation of the western waters, Il pot follow iHg 1t up with procuring security to thatna galion and the immense interests connected win it. Such men as Messrs. Gofhm and Clymef had, or aughtto have, outgrowa tboir more narrow views and sectional preiudices. The Weet and lAe Southwest were, bY the tide of emigration, becoming buuc of our bone and flesh of our flesh In taking honest pains 10 give them protection as well asptos- perity. the position of thing kas 90 cbanged- that the North and East, and Middle States, are in truth eiting them to their owniamilies, nr inc plavmates of their youth. Even if selGshness promp'eda dilerenteoufsein l785, 1t will, fl enlightened, concur in inc course recommended in lSl4. Let me pardealarize T single Illustration of this anstg thousands of like cases scattered over tbe East, and, n- deed, ihewhole Atlantic States
 On ono of the hIl-iops in the inferior of New Hampshire, only two generations ago, dwelt true, eaterprisiag, industrious New England fauilY Are they still confined to their native mountains, and their interests aud affections centred only there3 On the con trary, sir, some of themWe leliiHg he forests in the mighty Vest others plant the sunny South; one is pnshing his fortunes in the Empire State; anotherip Michigan; another ii Mississippi; anether on the rich soil ot HaiHma; aud tHus their homes and tteif for ane5, their anxie9ies and their patriotism, are limited only by their counhA3s extent and welfare The next generation will probably zee some of tbeir descendants in Oregon or Texas. and breathing Che balmy air of the Columbia ar Rio del Eorte.
 Such, sir, is the destiny of most of theneo- pleof this leading republic of the New World presenting form of government as novel and stnkmg as was the conlinentitselE whsa dis covered by Columbus, and developing mis- sion on earth by lhis branch of thc Anglo Saxon race, which, while the sehool-houae and village church, side by side, mark their progress, will never be completed ill they reach the Pacific. The mass ,of them are 1ot as tliey wander, either fanatics or higos, toalilocal institutions like peace i lhle citizens, til reason and experience are lble to work salutary changes.
 How much more is ito our duty to receive hese persons into the Union, when an op- ooriunily offers, than ihe French of l.ouisi- m, or the Spaniards of Fioriaa2 However H worthy, in many respects, tile character of the alter, yetall mustse that the moral fitness, | he education, habits, and religion of most off our kin in Texass render them more suitable for an intimate alliance with us; and that their republican form of government makes the Union more appropriate than what we have already overcome i'll receiving those in Lou lsiana and Florida, educated under monar- ehies. Another important consequence of the purciaseof Louisiana, was to give greater quiet to the commerce and the people on all the tributaries of 1le Mississippi, as well as on ifs own great channel. But parting with Texas, we lost in-the same treaty the sources i of the Arkansas and Red rivers, as well as afge tracts oi land adIomhg; ana unless re- door is opened for constant an- loyanees and collisions between Us and those higher up on the stream; and one cardinal I leneiit of lhe original purchase is entirely re- inquished.
 The treaty presents al the same moment 8 . .ortunate occasion 10 do that, as well as en- force better the guaranties of the constitution iopromote domestic iranqWily in the South md Southwest, no less than thc West and East, The property and domestic instiu- lions of the former, however different from hose at the North, were secured as amply un- fer the old confederation as those of any other region; so arc they by the present con so are they by all our legislative 1 lnd judicial decisions; and so must they con
 nue to be, till the compromises of the con- stfuion are wantonly violated, or the Ua-l on ndissolYed Hence tie losses or capture 1f their property in slaves have often been their escape into other States has i 9een redFessed by a surrender of them and he domestic traaqaidg designed for al the sf.s Al