Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1845-01-30
GEN. JACKSON AND TEXAS.


~ referred TO by Mr. q in a recent publication, they
have been furnished accordingly and oil them is pub
lished with three columns Of mysying comments in
the Washington Globe. But The editor 81 that PAPER.
with all his ingenuity cannot plain away The fact that
Notwithstanding all The flummery we have heard about
the crimnaly Of those who ceded away Texrs in 1919,
by the treaty by which Florida acquired, the Gen
eral himself Gas Mr. Adams some time since alleged)
gaze 10 that treaty The stamp q has rfniea appr0ba,
ton This is admit, matter Of very sulaI conse
quence per se-and is only important showing that
if The provisions of that treaty evinced want ofloya
| ty 10 the country, Gen. Jackson well Messrs
Monroe, Calhoun. Crawford and Wit. all Southern
statesman must come in for his full share Of tina, i'm
putalion The exchange of Texas for Florida was the
work Of Southern administration enphaiicaRy, and
was sanctioned by the Southern peoplescarcely Wits
per Of sapprobaton having been uttered reere
it, except by the few political opponeols Of Mr.
Monroe, until the spectators in Texas land and scrip
suddenly, in lsll, made the grand discovery that
had been sadly cheated in the bargain-lha we had oh
tanned only reI marshes and barren sands exchange
for sort Of FL Doradojust as the Foridas were said
to be "when distance lent enchanlnent tn the view"
General jackson, in his letter of June, 90, 1920,
Mr.. Monroe after severe rebuke the '11magusnes'
who were at that time attempting he said, to WELD
this ireaIy o injury Of The adminstraon,' remarks
81 clearly of your opinion, that for the present. we
"ought TO be conent with the Flofdas- frtify them
'concentrae our population, COZ fine frontier prop
ser limits, until cur country, to those limits, filed With
"a dense rcpulaton"-For. not having then, had his
Imagination tckled by that sonor-us and hill sounding
but, in reference to Texas unmeaning idea, of 'exend
ing the Of Freedom. he declared that IS the
extension of our limits bou ,dless expanse, bn,
that I'll is the denseness of population, hch gives
strength and security 10 our frontier" Heidi not them
when his mind was in full vigor,-when there were
sycupans and tineserv surrounding him to take
advantage of his decayed facues-and when his opin-
ion upon military questions entitled to far re-
spect than they are now-he did not then, we say,
deem the possession of Texas at all important
means Of defence against foreign arms-dnd his opinion
of 1890 may this branch of the subject be Irium-
phaniy clea TO retnte the contrary opinion Of 1914
We appeal from Philip Drunk to Philip Sober'-from
ian old shattered by the of State t. one
in the prime Of his manhood from the wreck of Par
,isan Leader, whose opinion are moulded by the pot
cal advenuers that nfest his dying cou b, TO the vcto
rlous General at the head of his legiuns surveying
the ground with the eye of a Patriot, unnluenced by
extraneous considerations What did Gen. jackson ss
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the friends Of ''mmedate annexation, in the year
1890? Od he then believe the possession Of Texas
cessay the defence of New Orleans and the securi-
ty of the Mississippi Valley? Not at a--no more than
he regarded essential the extension of 'lhe area
'ot reedon" For he s,id with the FlorIdas in our
"possesson aud forticalions completed, Orleans,
''the great emporium of the West is srcnre. The
'Flordas in possession Of foreign power you can be
..iny III.
led, and the lower country redused. FROM TEXAS,
IAN INVADING ENEMY WILL NEVER At
"rEMPr SUCH AN ENTERPRISE: Ii he does
Notwithstanding all that has been said and asserted on
"ihe f, ROT Congress on this subject ,riu roch The
'inrader uM pay. for his temeriiy" Such the o.
pnion of Andrew Jackson in 1920, when there was no
thing to warp his Judgment and when that judgment
was tselfenlilled, in military Matters to he respect Of
the country. Upon that opinion rely to conlue and
overthrow the contrary opinion to which as Mr.. Brin-
kehof, Locotoco leader in Congress ieatlessy as
sens, he has "bcen made' to lend The weight OF his
name since the question of ere anne xatio has been
started by the scrip and land obbers, and pressed with
such hot and indecent haste, from motives far less pari
oiic than precnnary and personal and for purposes
which, We're they stripped of their DISCUSSES we verify
believe would expos the chief actors in the plot to the
execraon ofhe honest portion Of those Tho have
under nober impulses, enlisted with them in the enter
prise.
BE this as IT may however, one Thing is ceriain-If
Gen Jackson right in $50, he is decidedly wrong
now IT, as he then said, people ouo ht to be con-
cenfated, because the security of our frontier is render
ed more certain by the density Of population it is mani
lest that We endanger that frontier by its imitabe ex-
tension, coupled with the simultaneous diffusion IS ar
citizens over an almost bouadess IT. As Gen. Jack
son said IN 1870, an invading arm; will never, Blu, with
certain overthrow Stang il in the face a,tempt to mass
Tough iexas for the purpose of striking us blow
and even an unmlary eye. ii 10 u.s. must be sat
lshed that no serious apprehension be felt that such
an attempt will ever be made, or if made that il will
be attended with success ,-what BECOMES Of all thuse
appeals to the fears Of the country based upon the ar
sumed necessity 81 The possession Of Texas ir the M
pose guarding against this alleged danger2 Especial
ly, what are we think ofGen. Jacksou's own more
recent declaration, that the annexation Of Texas is es
senal TO the defence Of the Southwestern 1ntier}
~ rom Matborouahs eyes the Tears of doaue flow y
And we cannot expect that Gen. jackson, So lon, the
victim oil wasting disease escape the inlrn,ips
common 10 our race. Cruel, indeed are those friends
VINO, tr The purpose Of buserlng up feeble cause with
the weight oi popular name drag those nfirmi,ies
iTom The privacy Which should forever hide Them frn
the public gaze and thereby exor hose
which even Gen. jacksun's enemies liz any man b b !;