The Arkansas banner., 1844-05-15

miles; population l4,000, 0,000-1,0 100000
 white, 100000 Indians; and the remainder 1 being 9,000,000, blacks and other coloreC
 races.
 The outlet for our negro race, through
 this vast region, can never be opened but by
 the remuneration of Texas; but in tha
 event. there, in that extensive country, bor-
 dering upon our negro population, and foul times greater in area than the whole Union
 with a sparse population of but three To the square mile, where nine-tenths of the popu- iation is of the colored races, there, upon that fertile soil, and in that delicious climate so admirably adapted to the negro race, as all experience has now clearly proved, the free black would find a home. There, also as slaves, in the lapse of time, from the den sity of population and other causes, are eman- cipated, they will disappear from time to time west of the Del Norte, and beyond the limits of the Union, among a race of their own color; will be difIused throughout this vast region. where they will not be degraded caste, and where, us to climate, and social and moral condition, and all the hopes and comforts of life, they can occupy, among equals, q position they can never attain in any part of this Union.
 The remuneration of Texas would strength en and fortify the whole Union, and antedate the period when our own country would be the first and greatest of all the powers of the earth. To the South and Southwest 1t would give peace and security; to agriculture and manufactures, 10 the products of the mines, the forest, and fisheries, new and important markets, that otherwise must soon be lost forever. To the commercial and navigating interests, 1t would give a new impulse and not a canal or a railroad throughout the Union, that would not derive increased busi- ness, and augmented profits; whilst the great city of New Y ork, the centre of most of the business of the Union, would take mighty step in advance towards that destiny which must place her above London in wealth, in business and population, Indeed, when, as Americans, we look at the city of New ' ork, its deep, accessible and capacious harbor, united by canals and the Hudson, with the St. Lawrence and the lakes, the Ohio, and the Mississippi, with two-thirds of the inn ports, and one-third of the exports of the whole Union, with all it's trade, internal, coastwise, and foreign, and reflect how great and rapidly augmenting an accession 10 it's business would be made by the remuneration of Texas; and know that, by the failure oi this measure, what is lost to tls is gained by England, can we hesitate, or do we never wish to see the day when New Y ork shall take from London the trident of the ocean. and the command of the commerce of the world Or do we prefer London to New ork. and England 10 America And do the opponents of remuneration suppose that a British Parliament, and not an American Congress, sits in the capitol of the Union.-- Shall, then, Texas be our own, with all it's markets, commerce, and products, or shall we drive 1t into the arms of England, now outstreched to recieye it, and striving to di- rect it's destiny; If we refuse the feannexa- ton, then, by the force of circumstances, soon passing beyond the control as well oi this country as of Texas, she will pass into the hands of England. The refusal of re- annexation will, of course, produce no friend ly feelings in Texas towards this country United with this will be the direct appeal ol England 10 the interests of Texas. She will offer to TaXas a market in England, free of duty, for all her cotton, upon the assent of Texas to receive in exchange British manu- iactures free Of duty; and such a treaty would no doubt soon be concluded. The ships and merchants and capital of England will be transported to the coast of Texas Texas has neither ships, nor capital, nor manulac- lures, but England will supply all, and re- ceive ill return the cotton of Texas. Two nations with reciprocal free trade are nearly identical in feeling and interest, except that the larger power will preponderate, and Texas will become a commercial dependency of England, and isolated from LIS in feelings, in interest, in trade, and intercourse. Texas would then be our great rival in the cotton markets of the world. and she would have two vast advantages over the cotton-groWing interests of the Union list, in sending 10 England her cotton, free of duty, which is an advantage of 75 per cent, augmented five per cent. thereon by the act of 10th May, lS40, 5 Victoria, chap. r, which made the duties paid in England on our cotton crop of 1840, 3.247,800, and all which, to the ex- tent of their crop, would be saved to the planters of Texas, giving them this great ad- vantage over our planters, carried out into all the goods manufactured in England out of the free cotton of Texas, and also de- priring our cotton manufacturers of the ad- vantage they now enjoy from that duty, over the cotton manufacturers of England. 2d In enabling the planters of Texas to receive, in exchange for their cotton, the cheap man. ulactures of England free of duty. These two causes combined, would give the Texas cotton planters an advantage of at least 20 per cent over the cotton planters of the Union. Such a rivalry we could not long maintain and cotton planting would gradu- ally decline in the Union, and with that de- cline, would be lost the markets of the South for the hemp, and beef, and pork, and flour of the West, and the manufactures of the North. Now, is it just, is it safe or expe- dient, to place the South and the Southwest in a position in which they will constantly behold an adjacent cotton-growing country 1l.,, d.,