Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1844-11-02

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have been inspscleR The editor of the
Joarnal heard agentlemen state. that he
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s5eam wns up. What safety can there be
on our waters when sudh criminal caEe-
lessness and recklessaess are tolerated?
TEXAS-THE HAWKEYE-HON.
ROBERT DALE OWEN.
In the Hawkeye Of the 10th ult. ve
and the following illiberal and unchssitab3s
allusion, made to our sister republic, Tex
as, whose, inhbitants, be it remembered,
are bone Of our bone and flesh Of our
flesh: S - .sstz5 s, .vslS
"The annexation Of Texas is not the
only scheme whose fulfilment will follow
the restoration Of the exiled Stuart Dynasty
to the high places Of patronage and pre-
rogative; but it will be the first. The
hitherto unsullied banner Of the Republic
must be stretched to its extreme capacity
to cover the multitudinous iniquities Of
government and people, young in years,
but already gray IN stn.'
We commend to the editor, and all who,
like him, for the want Of better arguments,
resist the annexation Of Texas on such
grounds as these, the perusal of the an
nexed beautiful extract from speech de-
livered in Congress at its late session by
the Hon. Robt Dale Owen, Of Indiana:
ITO one other objection only, in con-
clusion, will my time permit me to advert.
1t is one which is made, and earnestly
made, BY many good men. Texas, it is
sometimes said, is wild, border country,
peopled by an outcast race, with more Of
unbridled enterprise than Of law and order
about them; and we scruple to admit such
an one into our peaceful and law abiding
Union.
Indeed! Are our own doings so blame.
less; our own hands SO clean? Among
us, here at home, does liberty run never
, to license, nor riot interrupt the even tenor
Of our national way? And what shall we
say-yes! even of that grave, time-honored
State, in whose forests the Quaker Colo
mist once sat down, to treat for the land
which his conscience forbade him to seek
to obtain by conquest What Of William
PENIS own city Of brotherly love? Can
her citizens lay their hands on their hearts,
and lift their eyes to Heaven, and say, that
they are guiltless, even Of appalling riot?
guiltless Of midday arson? guiltless Of
! watching, with Vandal-like joy, while the
flames arose that reduced the records Of
learning and Of genius, piled up, bonfire
in her very streets. to heap Of blackened
ashes? guiltless Of shouts Of savage exult-
alton, when the cross-that emblem en-
shrined as the hottest in the hearts-the
honest, if mistaken, hearts-of thousands
among her own people-when that vener-
ated cross, tottering on its lofty tower, to
which the hands Of the civilize,i incendiary
had applied the torch Of prosecuting ven
geance-fell, at last, in a shower Of glitter
ing sparks, and was buried amid the burn
ing ruins? And we thank God we are
not as other nations, or even as this frontier
territory; peopled, as our selfrighteous-
ness would have it, with publicans and
sinners! When we can boast, that the
galaxy on our own republican shield
shines out, at every moment, stainless and
undimmed, it will be time enough to set
about registering each fitting cloud, that
may have obscured, for brief season, the
risins brightness ofthe lone star Of Texas!
Until that time arrives, let the con-
sciousness Of our own sins inspire charity
for those Of our neighbors. Let us regard
the alterations Of young Liberty, to adopt
the sentiment Of . graceful writer, but as
the dashing spray, which the swelling
waves Of freedom occasionally cast beyond
its legitimate bound. S