Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-02-17

foreign erriiorv. and also of certain |
SUPPOSE be cases, recur to the prnpos. 4,
llon wuh which | SIT out, and which |
must take leave here 10 repeat:
Ihat this Federal G. " rnment. IN
any or by all its dvpar,me and finc.
lonaries, has no over ar rglt un lcr
The Constitution acquire hre,Sn ter,
Tory and annex that TERRITORY 10 IN
United States and Sd ,o enlarr., and ex
pand The area AMI empire the Repub.
Iic-such acquisition being pro ,rsod as
dis met, substantive. and independent
measure. aud Mt proposed asa mea
sure M ident, or AUXILIARY. and nee SIS
AIRY Ia The performance of any prescribed
or admitted ddty, .r tn, execution ofany
granted power And tr there be n con
stitniional authority thus To acq ,ilr
foreign territory much less has the Gov
ernment any power 10 iorm n trrrItorIa
and political union aud nm ,lg imlton
between the United States aud foreign
and independent; country.
And here feel myself justified in
say ing. that one tn NJ is al l.Ist certain
that there his been no precedent IN our
hist Try for such an acqrsi ion Of f,rcign
territory as Is here proposed. And #
'uch thing his been NJ any time here
oiore proposed. suggested, or att, mp,ed,
by any Administrator. or my eff ,ial
person. whether il was Il, xsnr nuv O.
ther territory that was sought to be az
q .ired, mean To- embrace all such prc.
vious attempts, us well as the one now
before US, IN The condemnation expressed
nrnnnSItinti oh
peated. But II IL the prescn, case with
which am now dealing. as the first
instance and exam. lie which has ever
come before Congress for cons iic ration
where IT has been distinctly proposed Ia
adj to the public domain and the poli,l.
cal jurisdiction o: the United States an
Extensive foreign 'crrirory and country,
as substantive and independent nca-
sure.
Ard his rs exactly what IS proposed
| to be done in this case. We have n,
question Of uisp I,ed boundary. and no
81 utes OF any sort tn Texas. We
want her territory, as frederick, think
IL WIS, wanted province aud we FRO.
pose 10 ob'a it, II We can, as the naked
object of a treaty, compact or Legislative
bargain. There is nothing for The Pres
Ident asd Senate 10 negotiate ahou, anu
settle with Texas there 10 nothing for
Congress to bargain abou', if Congress
had the right 10 b,rgain at all IN n
foreign Po~e'. but for the ac acquisition ol
Texan territory aud country. The
whole bargain, if one b. m,dc in any
form, must begin and end with this.
/ A..
ment has no power To do Government,
has no right, as a distinct and indcIeG- =
dent object, To seek to enlarge the pub
lie domain of the United States, and So
extend the territorial jurls iciion and
empire of the Re, .ub;ic Look through
The Consiituto on take in lis neral
scope and design, or search with micro.
scope vision through each paragraph
sentence, clause, line, word, and syllable
IN II, and not tho slightest colo can be
ionnd, by any candid and impair ial in :
qulrer, for the idea, that ii was the de
sign Of the trainers Of tina, instrument
TO give 10 this Federal Governm.r, DOW,
Ell 10 acquire foreign territory as u dis
tlnct and substantive object TO bring so
much additional territory, and so many
souls. IT you please under the dominion
and jurisdiction ofthe United Sales.
|. will not surely be pretended tina, il
was the design Of the trainers Of the
Constitution 10 make this Governments
an instrument by which the people of
he United St ties, Ang o.Saxon as they
are, should become the great land rob
bers OF their time. We know very well.
from ihe history Of the period. that il
was The last thing that entered into their
thoughts or designs, 10 make provision
Tor the enlargement Of the Boundaries OF
INC Republic beyond the ample icrritori
al limits which it already had. IL was
common and serious apprehension, at
that period, that the Union. when the ex.
tent oil It's deOendent domain, even rs il,
then existed, was considered. would he
found eventually 10 be TO much extend
ed TO be easily he together as ono con-
Tolerated Republic. Madison devoted an
entire number in the Federalist 10 the
discussion OF this subj ct, with view 10
snow that a Republic as large as the then
il'n'iS OF the United States, with the mod
81 which our Republic had. might be kent
from falling to pieces but he nlima cd
no opinion that it might be safely extend,
ed Washington was not without his up>
PIehensions on the subject. as NAV be
seen IN the Garnet manner in which he
directs tho attention of his colntrymcn,
IN his Farewell Address, TO The indispen-
SAP necessity of opening and imprCv,
ing communications, by land and wafer.
between the Atlantic sea bo1rd and the
'hio, and the great lakes OF the West
And though, by the wonderful inventions
oi modern lines, facilities Tor locono-
l'on and Iniercommunlcation between dis
iant regions have been supplied which
could u have been Imagined, or at mos,
were only dreamed of. in the earlier
Times OF our history, so that. at this dnv.
We nave little sympathy wi the prn.
dent and cautious policy Of our Guhc 8
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