Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1844-10-11

10 her perhoy In the washington treaty,
whereby she obtained large part of the
territory of the State of Maine, when she
held in her possession at the time, and
concealed it from our Government, map
containing line, traced by the hand of
George the Third, which showed that the
territory was ours. We point you to the
wrongs which brought OH the Revolution
of '76, whilst she was always disavowing
the intention TO Cypress US or to deprive US
of our liberties. We point you 10 her dis
avowals before the war of 1912, while she
was committing every aggression upon
our neutral rights. We point you to the
millions of slaves that she holds in India,
while she is hypocritically denouncing
slavery in the United States. Is she not
now encompassing the globe with her ar
mics and navies, and interfering with the
concerns Of every nation. savage Or civlIi-
zed? Whence does she derive this ON
interchangeable to dictate 10 the world!
No where but in her Unsuitable appetite for
dominion and gain President Monroe,
more than twenty years ago, in one of his
annual messages to Congress. denounced
all claims On the par! of European Gov
ernments to colonize this continent; and
the people responded to it with acclaim.
Nor will the American spirit ever brook
the idea of bending the knee at the foot.
stool of Great Britain, to sue for the priv
Iege of treating with Texas, or any other
member of the American family of ma.
tions.
The democratic party are for peace with
England and the world; they seek the ear.
Hest practicable annexation ofTexas TO this
Union 10 overt n aOar ,cith England, he.
fore her Interests and pride shall have be-
come too deeply interviewer with Texan
affairs.
The Clay leaders next say that Texas
is not an independent naticn; that it is {
province or department of Mexico; an,
that annexation involves us in breach o
| faith to Mexico. If that be so, we adm
it would be wrong, and as democrats we
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here we take issue with our opponents
and will proceed TO show that TEXAS IS !
SOVEREIGN STATE.
France acquired Texas by discovery &
first occupancy. and the United States pur
chased it from France. in 1903. as a par
of Louisiana. For this we have the an
thorily of Jefferson, Madison, Pinckney
Monroe, Adams, Clay and Jackson, with
out, as we believe, one dissenting Ameri
can statesman. In 1919 John Q. Adams
Secretary of State under Mr.. Monroe, ne
go,iated our treaty with Spain, whereby
we purchased Florida from Spain, and ra
linquished to her the territory OF Texas
Texas thus became Spanish province
Spanish territory, not Mexican territory
About 1922, Texas, with Mexico and the
other provinces of Spain in Central Amer
lea, revolted from Spain and proclaimed
themselves independent. In 1924, Texas
with Coahuila, as one State, established ;
Constitution and Government, a Judiciary
Legislature, and Governor, as free anC
independent State. The same year she
was received into the Mexican Confedera
cy of Independent Sovereign States, fra
med after the plan of our Federal Union
The Constitution ofTexas, which was ap
proved by the Mexican Confederacy, as
serted "thot Teas aCas free and indcpen.
dent ofthe other Merican States, and Of
every other power and dominion" and il
also asserted the great republican principle
that "the sovereignty Of the State resides
originally and essentially IN the genera
mass Of the people. acho compose it." As
early, then. as 1924, Texas, by her own
Constitution and form ofGovernment, and
by the concent and appreciation Of Meri
co, established herself, side by side with
Mexico. in the great Mexican Confedera
ton of States, as sovereign and indepen.
dent State as Mexico herself. Ii, then
Texas is not sovereign State, neither is
Mexico. Our own citizens were induced
to settle in Texas, under the promise ant
expectation Of being governed by laws
made through representatives chosen by
themselves, and under the guarantees OF
the Constitution of Texas for the protec'
ton of their lives, liberty and property
But in 1885 the tyra II Santa Anna over
threw the Federal constitution ofthe Mex.
lean Union by the sword. proclaimed the
several State Constitutions as extinct, and
expelled the Legislature of Texas from its
hall at the point of the bayonet. But the
Iusurper's military force and fraud did not
ex,inguish the independence of Texas
no more than the occupation OF Louisiana
| by the British army. ard the proclamation
of Gen. Packenham, extinguished the SOW
a..;nnt.. nf that State In 1919. Texas re-