Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-03-12
TEXAS.

We believe that the extension of our
republic Its peculiar principle of GO
vernment, its progressive population, and
its destined influence on the happiness and
improvement of our race over this wide
and new continent--has been less regard
ed in the discussion of this great measure,
than points which, however prominent
now, will in very few years have lost all
their importance. The nice balancing of
the north and sonth; the addition of two
or three States more or less to the con-
federacy; the existence of slavery for
time in one or more of the added States;
the payment of a debt of ten millions of
dollars out OF the proceeds of fifty or
hundred millions of acres of land will, In
the lapse of few short years, have pass
ed into an oblivion as complete as the
flimsey grounds on which forty years ago,
the propriety of annexing the vast western
valley of the Mississippi was violently
combattcd. But as these--the topics of a
day-pass into oblivion, the inappreciable
benefits derived from the peaceful and
gradual progress of those peculiar institu.
lions which it is our just pride to have a.
dopted, for the first time in the history of
the world, will be The more strikingly ap-
parent, as they will be universally confess
ed. The great axioms of government
which America has promulgated, and so
far, by her onward progress, has enforced,
are universal individual equality in poll
tical power and right; the exercise OF go
vernmental power, in sovereignties of Inn
tied extent, by direct representatives of
those individuals chosen in equal proper
tions according to the number of constitu.
ents; the union Of these soYereigniies in a
confederacy expanding as they increase,
so as to bind The whole in a common fra.
ternity-not by means of treaties, allan
ces, the fruitful parents of jealousies, RI
valries and wars-but by system which
substitutes for all these a bond infinitely
stronger-by promoting a common and
benefcent object, and with il common
ambition and common spirit of patrio-
tism. These are the axioms on which
rests our noble plan of govergment. This
lis our experiment. In no other age OF
country has it been tried. No where here
tofore has the real and universal equality
of rights in the governed been recognized
mo where has real representation of the
whole people existed--above all, no where
; has the noble problem of nation so com
posed of expanded sovereignties been re
allied. This, we repeat, is our experiment
a great and glorious one, if successful, fol
the future welfare of mankind. We have
no right either to distrust or TO abandon i
on one point more than another. We have
no more ground to say that sovereignties
because they are numerous, will be hes
united by the treaties of independent pow
crs. as distinguished from a constitutions
f confederacy, than we have to say tina
equality of individual right should be cur
tailed, because population has largely in
| creased. If the time shall come when tn
race, sprung from our own republic, vii
, carry on its governments more happily o
prosperously, by relinquishing that com
, mon tie of brotherhood of which they ar,
4 now so justly proud, then must our expe
! riment be abandoned; but that time ha
, not yet conceive trust that it is yet fa
/ distant. Let US perform our part in tn
4 worlds drama - not dIstrustingIy nc
looking back forever on the dissimilar in
!, situations of Europe-not judging foreve
. of the future, by past which has, and ca
have no real analogy for us--but in III
/ true spirit of our young country, our ind
f genious institutions, and our enlightene
age. PennsylUGnian.
mAp WITH RpIrAIN