The Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1843-1852, 1844-07-17

| MULTUM IN PARvo.-The following is General
HAMhToN's reply to an invitation 10 attend a
| IeNas meeting IN Macon county, Ala 1t COM
Prses in the compass ofa nutshell the great points
| IN the Texas question.
OwTcHEE BEND, June 2S, lS44.
Ny Dear Sr:-I most deeply regret l have
! made an engagement for tomorrow cannot violate
| which Precludes the possibility Of my accepting
| the invitation to the public meeting, to be held at
Auburn. in Macon county, to discuss. without dis.
tlnciop OF party the Apne xaiion Ques,ian-I feft
in the Post Office at Columbus, on "Wednesday
evening last, letter to the Committee Of Ar
rangements communicating my regret to them of
my inability to accept with which they likewise
honored me. y
You will permit me, my dear sir, to say, that
the question itself involves of those self evil
dent propositions, which requires no elaborate
course OF reasoning ut least far as the South is
concerned to eucidatc or enforce
The Propos 'tiom for tie South IS, shall we have
an ally on the weakest part of our whole frontier
| IN entire sympathy with interests and institu-
tlons, who shall have sworn allegiance to our fac:
or shall there he built up there IN effect foreign
power in hostility to theml A consequence nev-
liable, from the rejection of the proposals of Tex
as to become member Of our confederacy.
proposition for tile acholc nation is, Shall the
supply OF the navigation, trade, and manufactures
OF Iexas belong to us, under our confederate le
gislation, and belong to foreign nations, under dis
cr'muatiou III. favor Of their tonnage and e,por,,
1he question t0r both as, shall these ADVANTAGES
be perllled Ivy delly In otherwords, was not I'm,
med'ate annexation necessary to secure them2 I
believe 1t was.a You see treat it as a question
settled under the unfortunate rejection of the
Treaty by the Senate of the United States, that
Texas Is not to be annexed
The letters OF Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Van Buren
so entirely fortified the prcensons Of Mexico, for
they are mere preensons,) and far justified the
interference Of foreign nations, that it is now pro-
bably 'ml'uct'cable except through the immedi-
ate action OF the Southern States speaking in
language not TO be misunderstood, through a con-
vention of them all. But from the unhappv d;v;s
ions among ourselves, this, I presume, is Just as
Impossible as any human event we'll be- altho'
the organ OF public meeting in this county felt
1t my duty to submit such proposition No, nv
good sir, these two then candidates for the Presi-
dency, one OF them still abiding in the field have
argued the question so thoroughly against their
country ena e esss4slIx lip and ir4se i4e
tr,evably,) that under time-serving submission
OF a majority Of the Senate of the United States
the South has probably lost forever, an impree
nable boundary, and staunch ally in the hour of
danger and difficulty, and the whole Union one Of
the most productive and copious theatres for our
commerce, navigation and manufactures in the
whole world.
AS to the northern Senator's who have gone
"Sa"s' US we must lcaFe them to the grateful
garlands with which they will be crowned by the
Aboonists of their own country. Thew have
certainly laborcd most successfully in the vocation
OF our worst enemies. But what shall we saw to
the Senators of the South who from no other mo-
tive than to sustain Mr.. Clay, and to PROSTATE Mr..
Tyler and MIR. Calhoun, have sacrificed the inter-
ests OF their own States, by fixing us forever in a
hop eleSs, degraded and colonial minority! Such
an obedient Senate has certainly not sat Since the
time OF the Emperor Commo,lIIs
must confess take a very gloomy view of
public affairs The South is divided, PROSTATE. >.
and undone and PROSTATE and undonc because
she is divided. There is no invocation among us
sufficiently powerful to recall the "buried war
like and the wise, and the living seem to have no
terncss and humiliation. | remain, &c.
j. HAMILTON.
SOUTHERN CoNvENTIoN=Ata meeting of the