The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-03-25

such compact, any question which may arse about
her boundaries her division into other States, her
Indians, her public debts, and her public lands. We
give her citizens welcome all the rights and pryl
eges 10 full participation of the great power and
the high character Of American citizens. Let her
be bone Of our bone, and flesh of our flesh. The
name Of Virginia is proud one as that Of Texas
yet, Virginia has become, and will continue TO be-
proud sovereign member of the Coniederacy of Amer
lean States. TO the relation, we cordially in
vite the people of Texas:
From the NJ o. Bulletin.
TO THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS.
This journal having so long been regarded among
you your steadfast friend and advocate, In every
yiclssIuue of your fortunes, and having suffered
what probably, no other ournalin the United States
ha, been subjected to, little oboquy and reproach
account of ITS unremttlDg efforts 10 support OF
your claims TO admission into the Federal compact
and OF the general policy eXpediency and propriety Of
that measure we trust it will not be considered Off
ciUus or immodes If venture TO address ourselves
thus directly to you at crisis interesting and I'M
portant as the present moment.
By the same conveyance that this will reach you,
you will receive authentic intelligence that the
bnation of adverse influences and circumstances
which has 50 long operated to prevent your admis
sion into the U nion has been at last overcome, the
Legislative and Executive branches of our Govern
ment having united IN measure to give expression
the desire of the country, and provide for your
toraton to the Republic. Now is auxiously feared
by many of your friends, and exuitingly hoped by
your enemies, that the terms Of this the
part of Government will not only not be accept
able to- but will be rejected by you and thus the pro-
posed measure of union ead of being Immediately
consBmmated, be placed at greater hazard than be-
fore If not forever defeated. We do profess TO
share in those apprehensons though the tone OF
your Government press is well calculated to awaken
anxiety, and especially to grieve those who have re-
lied your at achment to your native country and
E.Ia Itt,tlpn hal
forts to obtain your admission the privileges and
protection which the Union guarantees.
IL Is true, that the bill Whch has passed through
the forms OF our Constitution, and acquired as far
the assent OF this country concerned the force
| at once OF law and compact, is not without its
points of objection. 1t may be true, that full Justice
Is not done by 1t TO Texas and that it is not, in all
respects, the magnanmous and liberal offer which
1t would become this great country under, all the
cTcums tinces, TO make you. Let grant all this
Let us grant, the more is required of, and less qua
rantied 10 you, than ought to have been proposed
Will that warrant you in declining the position
which you have sought, and which has been Ga ned
with so much labor and difficulty, through SO much
contumely, and wi so sincere desIe for your well
fare, in connection with that If our common and be-
loved country We venture to respond to this query
most emphaucally, No. If participation in the adj
vantages OF this Union rs desirable to you ALL it is
desirable under the bill which has been adopted in
Congress for your admission. Under thai bill YOU
will allain an exact equality with the other States,
and that is all you could reach under any circum-
stances As TO denuding yourselves Of your nation
aly, and sinking your separate existence, against
which such earnest appeals made to your PRIDE it
Is, OF COURSE indispensable TO connection with this
Government-and indeed, is more than every one
OF the original States OF this Union did each for it.
SELF nightly considering that the adva to be de-
rived from common and united government were
Infinitely above those fancfu considerations that
we've then held out to Them and are now held out TO
you, and that IN fact, the greatness which would
spring out OF the union of the States would ref, CT
more real dignity and character on its several mem
beIs than they could 10y any means attain to as petty
sovereigntes. The State OF Virginia, with territory
attached To her as large as your own, and VIII oh
contains population counted by millions and di-
vlded into several distinct States did not dsdaln To
part with portion of her sovereignty for the sake of
the security and character to be gained by means Of
the confederation. Neither did Massachusetts, por
New YORK, nor PennsyvaDia, nor Connecticut nor
the Carolnas nor Georgia, all having sufficient ter
TltorIaI hmlts and exIslng as well formed and solid
communities. Would ony one of those States derive
additional importance IN the estimation of the world
or IN any way consult its prosperity or dignity could
It withdraw, even in the advance and improved condI
ton to which they have all attained and become n
distinct sovereignty No, no, there is no State in
the Union, as iamiary as dissolution of the sacred
bond is sometimes talked Of which the other twenty
seven could drive from its portals or which, being
oct, would not sink to deplorable insipni6ca nee
and sue Tor re admission.
The same circumstances that made il desirable for
Louisiana or any other State of the Union ia rest
beneath It's shadow, renuer it also desirable TO Won
We will not say that your country does not possess
the elements of distinct and commanding nationaI
y; we will not say, that in the conflict for politcaI
power and Tor commercial and territorial superiority
which are springing up, you will find it impossible to
MAINTAIN your independence. But we will saw. that
you cannot attain TO the one nor maintain the other
except through painful and protracted effort: thai
you put at hazard all your political and social sys-
tens by the irrupton Of a population. which ubai-
ever its merits, has habits inclnations and interests
incompatible with your present relations that Won
cannot as distinct power, enjoy either the repose
or the security necessary TO speedy development of
the resources OF your country, OF realization of
the hopes which led you to emigrste thither; that
you cannot participate to nearly the same extent in
the great changes which now prosecuting and in
anticipation, for the ameioraton oil commercial and
social intercourse, and the general advancement Of
mankind, as If you we're co.workers in This conr.d /
erscy, and shared in its trumphsl progress that as
The population OF your country and the opening up of