Mississippi advertiser., 1845-02-08

ARGIMENIS AGAlN5I hNNFAAIION, THE SETONI
HAND APPEALS OF THE OPPONENTS TO THE an.
MISSION OF MIssoURG-PINKSEYs' SPEECH
Reasons WHY TExAs SHOULD BE ANNEXED
FROM NORTHERN CoTEMPoRARY-N. ORLEANS
JEFFFRsoNIAN-THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS
la the labortd attempts of opponents to annexn-
ston, to abolish the institution of snveryiu part Of
in whole in the admission of Texas into the Union
we discover the same principles at work. which in.
llen ed the opponents to the admission of Nilsson.
ri slave state; and it appears very clearly to
us, and the same arguments which were then pni
forth by King of New Yo'k and Morrill, of New
Hampshire, have been borrowed largely from by
their present followers. We have been surprised
to find so much of imitation and so little ordscoye
nv and invention. The future historian NAV dwell
upon the sophisms, even of BURRILL, of Rhode
Island, with some degree Of interest. and provoke
smile from the rigid constructonist, with this
trainers loose views of constitutional interpretion,
but he may search the length and breadth of the
present discussion, and though he may encounter
The Adams'. the Bsntons and the Choates', men of
the most distinguished ability, lie will not fad in
all their arguments, one stone unturncd that was
not unturned twenty times before--one position
laid down that has not its counterpart and origna
its eucidation and comment in the debates Of a
previous day.
And it is equally plain to us, that we cannot
meet the enemies of annexation with more power
hl nnd cogent arguments on many important
points involved, than were at that day udvanced.--
Every old observer is familiar with the celebrated
speech of WILLIAM PINKNEY in the senate of the
U. States, February Is, 1920. We would refer
to that document complete exposition of the
clause in our constitution relating the admission
of new states and thus of the right of Texas to
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"New states mag be admitted by the Congress
into this union" 1t is objected that the word
''may" imports power. and obligation; n right to
declare; discretion o grant or refuse TO this
it might be answered, that power is duty on many
occasions. But let it be cnceded that it is discre-
lionary. What consequence follows1 power to
refuse, in a cuse like this, does not necessarily in,
volve power 10 exact terms lou must look to
the result which Is the declared object OF the pow.
er. Whether you will arrive at it, OF not, may de-
pend on your wilt hut you cannot comp ON Sc
with the result inteEded and profassed. What
then is the prohessed RESULT To admit state in
TO this UaS0R. What is that Union? A couiede-
ration Of states equal in soyleigny; capable of eve
ry thing which the constitution does not forbid, or
authorize congress TO forbid2 Its an equal Union.
etwcen parties equally sovereign. Ih were
sovereign, independently of the Union. The object
Of the Union was common protection for the exer-
else of already existing Sovereignty. The parties
gave Up portion Of that sovereignty to insure the
remainder. As far as they gave it up by the COM
mon compact they have ceased to be soyreign,-
The Union provides the means Of defending the
residue and it is into that Union that new state
is to come. By aecodng to it the new state is pla-
ced on the same footing with the original states.
It accedes for the same purpose, 1. e. protection
for its unsnrrendered sovereignty. If it comes in
shorn Of its beamsi crippled and disparaged be-
yond the original states, it is not into the orSgiRai
Union that it comes; for it is different sort Of
Union. The first was Union inter pareS: this is a
Union between deS9afateS; bNtwern giants and a
dwarf between power and ieebIenessi between
ulI-proportioned sovcreignties and miserable i'm
uge Of power; thing which that very Union la.
shrunll and shriyeled from its Just size, instead Of
preserving it in its true dimensions ......
at is into "lhis Union," l. c. the Union Of tic
federal constitution, that you are to olmit, Or re-
fuse to admit. You can admit into no other. YoJ
cannot make the Union, as 10 the rev state, wha
it is not as to the old for then it is not this UNioh
that you open for the entrance Of a new party. II
you make it enter into new and additional com
pact, is it any longer the same onion! We are
told that admiiing state into the Union is a com
pact Yes; but what sort Of compact A com
pact that it should be a member of the Union, a
the constitution has made it, You cannot new
fashion it. You may make compact 10 admit
but, when admitted, the original compact prevails
The Uhion is a compact, with a provision of polid
cai power and agents for the accomplishment Oft
objects. Vary that compact as TO a new state
give new energy to that political power, so as t,
make it act with mo,c force upon new state tha
upon the old-make the will of these agents NOR
eaectually the arbiter of the fate of state tlm
ofthe old, md it may be confidently said that tn