Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-03-22
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FR1DAY1MoR MING, MARCH 70, 1884,
ANNEXATION OF TEXAS.

hN.>CAA lION OF lEAAS.
All our late advccs from Washington
concur in the startling announcement that
project is on foot, and far advanced, for the
annexation Of Texas to the United States
There is no doubt that a treaty is already
matured, signed by the President, and shortly
to be presented to the Senate for its action
and, what is most alarming, the belief is con-
identy expressed in some quarters that two
thirds of the Senate can be brought to sane.
ton this nefarious project. But we shall not
believe this, till we see it. Yet it behooves
every man to speak out, and let our would
be rulers distinctly understand that this is the
point where forbearance ceases. For one,
we are ready for revolution, sooner than see
the annexation Of slave territory suffi cient
10 control and destroy the free labor of the |
north for the next half century. When Mr..
Winthrop brought up the question in the
House of Representatives, in asking for an
explanation of a remark of Mr.. Holmes of
South Carolina, that the annexation of
Texas vas the settled policy ofthc country"
he said that he did not know whether tina,
gentleman made the remark in Jest or in ear
nest. With the same doubt has the start
ling proposition been received every where
and we have been slow to believe, that there
existed grounds for its PRONUNCIATION. There
now remains little reason 10 doubt, and it is
to the Senate Of the United States that we
must look to protect the Union from this at
tack of the Executive. With one exception.
the Wing press has taken bold ground on
this subject, and we are gra,ifed to note the
decided tone Of the Atlas:
"We have, all along, until within a very
brief space, looked upon the projec. Of an
nexing Texas to these United States as the
merest chimera that ever filled the brain of
the most visionary politician. The project is
so irrational, so nanifestly agains, the proyi-
sions Of the Constitution, and so diametric-
ally at variance with the most obvious inter-
|, ess Of the Country, that We have not enter
tanned a serious thought of the probability of
e its consnnna,ion. We have even believed
i that some of our friends, who have expressed
. strong fears on tins subject, were causeIessl,
. alarmed in regard to it. The prepostcrous
$ character of the plan which was supposed Ia
= be in operation did not enttle it, in our estma
ton, 10 that serious and alarmed considers
p lion, with which some of those friends seem
ii ed to be inclined to invest it. 1t has never
. unit, recently. entered into our imaginatio,
< that the project could have found favor will
d any considerable number of persons connec
ted with our government-or that any per
g, son, having any greater weight than the al
T. together contemplate influence Of JOHN TY
= LER, would undertake 10 forward the meas
y. ure, and stand up in its defence. Occurren
h ces, which have been developed to US with
+; few days, have worked a great change j
!" our views on this subject. 1t fills us wit
I'd CONSERVATION and alarm, to hear that this in
of fernal plot has been mainred, to an exter
=. which we could not have believed, and ca
now scarcely realize. They mus, be insan
we care not who they are-they must b
> lost to all regard TO the preservation of o,
p free institutions, and the maintenance of o,
in republican government, who can harbor a
- idea favorable to this annexation, or who ca
IS seriously contemplate to lend it their add
- We call upon all good men and true, to star
w. by the Country, and pre- vent this great wro'
or from being done. We warn all who are di
CT posed to give il their countenance and su
X port. to BEWARE. Let them look car
'c' fully to the frs, step they take. The fl
al movement may be the prelude to conseque
nd ces involving irretrievable ruin ruin
but bloodshed-,he downfall of Republican pr
ne. ciples-the overthrow of the freest goveI
'er ment that ever exis,ed-,he precursor
~" evils, the overwhelming extent Of which, ii
Ia. can neither appreciate or understand.
the our own par,s--as conductors of Put
ore Press--as ci,izcns Of this free Republic
'or- we declare-solemnly seriously. advise
that we will not stand by, and see the
~ :, dependent Nation of Texas annexed to
am. Country, as a part Of it's territory. and a
,ere widespread field for the extension and
was semna,ion of Slavery. We will resist il
as every way in which resistance can be ell
c tive. We will resist it, with our pen.
od,.r will resist it, with our tongue. We will
,ned sist il, with the last drop Of our blood. III
in a is no hope Of happiness on earth that we
~ OF not surrender, rather than submit 10 this
heso cursed, hellish plot. We are, at pres
sian most adently engaged in political c
they paign, the result of which we have deepl
most heart. The brigh,es, and most chez
sou prospects have spread themselves on, to
'""'S view. Success seems TO be within our q
each There has never been time, when the
Tareh vantagcs of true and faithful adm'nstra
Of our government, by wise and able