Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1845-02-15
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PAS&4CE or THE ANNEXATION PRO-
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Texas. we have this week the pleasure
{ announcing to our readers, is annexed
. The American Union as an independent
tate. % far as it IL in the power Of the
popular branch Of Congress to consum-
nate 80 desirable result. The joint res
buttons submitted BY Mr.. Milton Brown,
wing member fro,a Tennessee, were
inally adopted BY the House Of Represcn-
atives on the 25,h ult., by the decisive
'cte Of ll9 to IS; and it now remains
Or the Senate to confirm or reject them,
Is to that body may seem meet. Should :
majority be found willing and ready to
,ullify the action Of the House, and thus
probably forever shut out all hope Of
restoring to the Union large and valuable
region Of country Of which it was improp-
erly dismembercd, they will incur res
Of no ordinary character.
Texas, is on all hands conceded, form
ed pa RI Of Louisiana, and thus became the
Of the United States BY virtue Of
the ratification Of the treaty of Paris of
1903. In the negotiation of 1919, for the
rlorijas, under Mr.. Monroe's administra-
ton, the American title to the country
was re.inquished TO Spain; and from thu.
date down to the present-a period Of
twenty years lit has been ! foreign
dependency, province, or republic. Mexi-
co revoked from Spain, and achieved her
independence, and Texas became colony
Of the new republic; but it was not or
dered that she should occupy this relation
for long period Of time. Her inhabitants,
mostly Americans by birth, placed too
high an estimate upon the principles Of
liberty to submit 10 the oppression and
extortion attempted to be practiced upon
them; and revolt, which resulted in the
establishment Of their independence as a
separate republic on tie glorious r'ains OF
San Jacinto, was the result. Since . IL
contamination Of that great event-now
nearly nine years-the Republic Of the
Lone Star has been treated in all respects
as free and Independent government by
all the principal Europeanpowers, as well
as by the government ofthe United States;
and although sort Of constructivc war has
for portion Of the time been waged by
Mexico, it has not been accompanied with
actual offensive operations. Thus recog-
nized and acknowledged, with full power
to act in her own behalf, Texas presents
herself at the door Of Congress, and asks
that she may be permitted 10 lay down
her national existence and be taken into
the Union of American States, from which
she was wrongfully and unjustly severed,
She asks, simply, that there being now no
obstacle in tho way such as existed before
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she may not be denied the benefit Of the
guarantees and obligations secured to her
as an integral portion Of Louisiana, in the
treaty Of 1903; and even were a compli-
ance with her request believed by a ma
jority Of the people TO involve injurious
. results, it is difficult to perceive how it
could be denied without violation of the
moral obligations resting upon our govern
ment. The result Of the recent election,
however, affords the strongest and most
convincing testimony that majority Of
the American people are in favor Of per-
mi,ting Texas to avail herself Of the priv
ileges secured to her in the treaty of ces-
sion above alluded TO, believing that by so
doing greater security and permanency
will be given to the Union, and millions
and eventually hundreds of millions be
added to the aggregate wealth of the ma
ton. Texas once ours, We have complete
monopoly Of the cotton product-at pres
ent constituting in value upwards Of twe-
thirds Of our exports-which, to use the
language Of another, sswould secure the
dependence Of England upon this country
for the raw material Of her most impor-
tant branch Of manufactures, and thus
there would Be imposed upon her bond
to keep the peace with us which would be
far more potent in its controlling efficacy
than the sanctity Of any treaty stipulations
with which il would be possible to bind
the two nations.;' These, and other equal
" convincing and patriotic considerations,
have influenced majority in the popular
branch Of Congress to the adoption Of the
step chronicled in the beginning IT this
article; and we are not without hopes tina.
notwithstanding the strong partisan chsrac-
ter Of the Senate, the resolutions may pass
that body. On great national question
like thisthe letters Of party cannot be made
to operate upon all, although majority
may be found ready to submit to the whip
and spur. The resolutions adopted were
introduced into both houses Of Congress
BY whigs-Mr. Foster, Of Tenn, having
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