The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-01-27
From the Bnnsiabie (.haS. } Patriot
TEXAS.

We go heart and hand for the remuneration Of
Texas. We believe 1t not only to be our righ but
our daiy to re-annex her Tors away from US by an
insiduous tresty-deHationalized by an act of ours
and having DO, ne all the wrongs and hardshps con-
sequent upon that act, they now, after having won,
by hard fought battles and great privaons and dis
tresses their independence Of the country to which
we assigned them-bound by allegiance to any
country, but harrsssed by frequent threats of nva-
sion-they come to US again, claiming their birth.
right the protection of flag, of which have so
unjustly deprived them. Shall we deny them their
requesti Shall we refuse TO repair the wrong we
have committed when in our power to do without
infringing the right Of others Shall we stand qui-
city by and brothers, relatives and friends,
threatened with ruthless Of determination and
not extend helping handi No! God forbid that
ever young America should have this sin laid ulon
her. We do not believe the symPathising spirit of
freedom is confined by metes and bounds-and we
do not believe that that sympathy should be confined
wholly to words, but that we should just and pro-
per occasions show it by our acts We believe that
the genius Of free institutions is to spread over
the whole earth-that we but the depository of
the leaven which shall eaver the whole earth and
the instrument in the hand of Providence TO spread
the spirit of liberty and that this is among our first
missions The tree of liberty having struck deep lis
roots here, its branches to oversbadow the whole
continent, and scions taken therefrom, shall regene-
rate the older continents. Let then be faithful to
trust. That Texas IL not free from sin, that the
plague spot of slavery upon her. is but the greater
reason why we should receive her cordially to our
embrace. Under the regenerating influences of our
institutions, time, which cures all things will cure
that II that in her youth, she will have slaves, bit
ter that she should take them from us, than that she
import them from Africa, so that there shall not be
more human beings in bondage. Denseness of popu.
lation and competition in trade and labor, is fast
rendering the slaves in the northern portion Of the
sa vsholdlng States burden and grievance, which
they see the necessity to be early rid OF and where
well, both for them and their on ners that they
Should go, as to the fertile fields and sunny skies Of
Texas, where mingIing in blood with the Mexicans
and Indians, slavery shall eventually disappear from
our broad domains without endangering the lives or
welfare Of any. Let us then, brother democrats, all
press forward earnestly in this MEASURE as one which
vii not only advance he political welfare of Texas
and ourselves, but which will lend TO The ameora
ton of thousands of human beings now held in bond
age. Let US not be animated and actiated BY that
spirit Of excIsvei-m which pervad.s the acts of the
wings generally in this matter Let us be willing that
every body may enjoy the blessings Of the institutions
which we now live under. Let no threats of dissoi
ton Of the Union proceed from us, but rather let US
cherish II as our only ark Of safety relying, as we
have in times pa t, the good sense of the majority
to govern rightly, remembering the oft repeated Latin
phrase Vor poput, est Del the voice of the
peot lie, ia the voice Of God