Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1845-02-08
CONGRESS.

io'h "alhe' lheh Cdlle tlc proceedings
which we copy from the Globe:
MISSOURI AND ANNEXATION.
Mr.. Benton presented the resolutions of
the General Assembly of the State Of Mis-
souri, in favor Of the annexation Of Texas.
and requested that they might he read
which was done accordingly.
Mr.. B. moved that the resolutions be
printed, and be referred to the Committee
on Foreign Relations; and, before the vote
was taken on his motion, he proceeded to
make some remarks in favor of the reso.
lutions and Of the General Assembly which
had passed them. They were drawn, he
said, IN the proper spirit The State of
Missouri was more deeply interested in the
annexation of Texas than any other State
in the Union, but was willing to agree to
the compromises which the peace and har-
mony of the Union required. This was
patriotic and wise, and worthy of the spirit
in which the constitution was formed. Ii
was an example worthy to be followed by
other States. 1t was in conformity 10 the
Ietter-paternal and immortal il ought to
be caIIed-which General Washington adj
dressed to the States when he presented
to them for their acceptance that sacred
constitution under which we now live,
The father of his country then declared
that the spirit of compromise had estab-
Iished the constitution-that there could
have been none if each State had insisted
upon having her own will. Thus the con-
stitution was formed: thus only could it
be preserved; and he (Mr. b. was proud
to see the young States of Missouri breath.
iFCy ba
mended. Mr.. B. said the resolutions as.
serted the honor and Justice of the Texan
revolution-that it was commenced for
just cause, and conducted with humanity,
and honor--and that independence had
been gained without stain or reproach. Ii
gave him pleasure. he said, to SUSTAIN this
assertion of the General Assembly of his
State, not by a speech composed for the
occasion, but by referring to what he had
said years ago when the people of Texas
were but little known to Europe or the
world. and when a voice in their favor from
the floor of the American Senate was
worth something more than any thing that
he could say now. He had then detailed
the causes of the revolt, and showed that
no revolt was ever more Just and sacred.
not even our own, TO which it bore a close
resemblance. He had seen no recent
statement, much as he had seen recently on
the subject of Texas, which did Justice TO
the origin of the revolution: his own. made
eight years ago, was the most accurate that
he had seen, and to do Justice to the case,
and to avoid making a new speech out of
an old one, he would now read what he then
said. 1t would be curious and instructive
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revolt, and that of our own American colo
MES, were the same.
Mr.. b. then read from a speech he had
delivered in favor Of acknowledging the
independence of Texas, in the month of
July, 1886:
"Heartless is the calumny invented and pro.
pagated, not from this floor, but elsewhere on
the cause OF the Texan revolt. 1t is staid to
be war for the exlen,ion Of slavery 1t had as
well be said that our own revolution was a war
for the extension Of slavery. So far from it, that
no revolt, not even our own, ever had more
just and more sacred origin. TIE settlers in
Texas went 10 live under the form OF govern.
ment which they had left behind in the United
States, a government which extends so many
guarantees for life. liberty, property, and the pur,
suit OF happiness, and which their American and
English ancestors had vindicated for so many
hundred years. succession of violent changes
in government, and the rapid overthrow Of ru.
lers, annoyed and distressed them; bat they re-
NAMED tranquil under every violence which did
not Immediately bear on themselves. In 1922
the republic Of 1921 was superseded by the
imperial diadem of lturbide. la 1923 he was
deposed and banished, returned and was shot,
and Victoria made President. Mentuno and
Bravo disputed the presidency with Victoria, and
found. in Punishment, the mdest issue known
TO unsuccessful civil war. Pedraza was elected
in 1928; Guerrero overthrow him the next year.
Then Bustsmente overthrow GuererO; and,
quickly, Santa Anna overthrow Bustamente, and
with him all the forms OF the constitution and
the whole frame of the tederave government.
By his own will and by force, Santa Anna dis
solved the existing Congress, convened another,
formed the two Houses into one, called it con
vention, and made il the instrument Of deposing,
without trial, the constitutional Vice President,
Gomez Farias, putting Bauagan into his place,
stimulating the State governments, and eslab.
fishing a consolidated government, Of which he
was monarch under the retained republican title
Of President. Sill the Texans did not take up
arms. They did not acquesce, but they did not
revolt. They retained their State government
in operation, and looked to the other States,
older and more powerful than Texas, to vindica.e
the general cause, and to re establish the federal
constitution OF 1924 In September, 1925, this
was still her position. In that month Mexican
armed vessel appeared off the coast Of Texas,
and declared her ports blockaded. At the same
time, General Cos appeared in the west with an
army Of fifteen hundred men, with orders 10
arrest the State authorities, to dsarm the inhabi.
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