The Arkansas banner., 1845-02-12

the debts oi Texas. But it had been said
 ana that, too, by high authority, thatif Texa.
 IS admitted into the Union. it will not .onI, produce a dissolution, but that it would iusti. i y such catastrophe. Now, this was Ian.
 guage which fell strangely on the ears oI
 western men, Why, in the new States, said
 Mir. C., 10 talk of disunion is little better than
 treason. We do not suffer our minds to
 dwell on such theme, and if we hear it, we
 dlsmiss It from Us with loathing and abhor-
 renee, It might do for the old Common
 wealth oi Massachusetts to talk of disunion:
 sile might threaten it again and again but he
 would tell Massachusetts that she could not
 dissolve the Union if she tried 10 do it. No
 proposition of that kind had ever come from
 the West; and never could come from tha.
 quarter We love the Union, and though
 the North and the South might both threaten
 Its existence, the gian of the West would
 pear aloit It's banner as the emblem of our
 happiness and safety. If he understood the
 interests and feelings of Massachusetts rigbt-
 iy, she was the last State that would ever
 take long farewell of her sisterhood. He
 had greatly mistaken the character of he peo-
 pie Ii they were willing 10 reinouish the ad-
 Vahtages which the Union had given. and would continue 10 give them; Massachusetts
 knew too well that her sterl rocks had been
 mad to blossom as the rose by this Union :; and she knew too well that one continued stream of wealth had been poured into her lap from the sunny South and the young
 West, and would continue to enrich her Whtle the Union lasted She knew. too. that dissolution of this conlederacv would reduce her to the impoverished condition ot her ancestors, when they land- ed on the rock of Plymouth; and that the counties she now enjoys would be withdrawn from her forever Where would she find a market for rhermanuiactures, with protection oi 5O or 4O per cent.-a protection that no other government in the world ever gave to any portion of her citizens2 Would she forego all these advantages to follow the lead of parcel of fanatical abolitionists in a cru- sade against southern institutions2 He did not believe that she would. We have been asked (said Mir C. to point out the advan- tages to be derived from the accomplishment siof tn measure. He would reply that they were innumerable, and that it needed but glance at the map to make them plain to the meanest capacity. MT. C then went to de- scribe the climate, soil, and salubrity of Tex as; its unexampled fertility, and capacity to produce every species ef agricultural wealth The great staple of the world-cotton- could be produced in greater abundance in 1t than the best cotton lands of the southwest; and so the lands of Texas were capable of raising more sugar than was done even in Louisiania. The third great article-tobacco could be raised there with equal facility. But (said Mir e. by way of better under standing the advantages of annextion, let us look at the effects of refusing to admit Texas into the Union. We have been told by the gen tleman fromN ermont, Mr. Marsh, that it is a matter of little consequence, Texas only hay ing about l40,000 inhabitants, and her trade amounting in imports 10 only about $400,- 000 or fS500,000 annually. That she was but small affair at best. The gentleman must have forgotten one of the first lessons he learned in the books of his childhood, which told him that
 "Tall oaks from little acorns grow;
 Large streams from little fountains low'
 Texas, though but small now in her popu- alton and resources, is destined to be one off he most wealthy, populous, and extensive 'epublics on this continent, and perhaps the greatest agricultural power in the world. She nay support population of fifty millions at east, and her commerce will probably be the argest in the Union. We should view this natter (said Mr. c. as wise statesmen, and lot with the iaundiced eyes of bigoted and partizans. Let us suppose that Texas makes treaty with England, by which he admits British goods into her ports at a ow revenue duty, and has her cotton admit i ed into England free of duty; what will be he consequence? All her cotton lands will oe immediately brought into cultivation, and Ter cotton going to England under facilities which ours will not possess, she will have he exclusive benefits of that market The | southern States must then raise grain and tock in~lieu of the cotton which they now aise, and this grain and stock will supersede | hose articles now supplied by the west. De- ,rved of their natural market for these arti- l ;les. the west must turn their attention to and thus come into competition with the manufacturers of the north The forth will then find in the west a powerful 'va, instead of a-consumer of her manulac- ures; and where, then, will she find mar let What, then, will a protective tariff avail Ter? She can'tsuppose that Texas, excluded rom the Union through her means, will give lere bounty of 30 or 40 per cent. over the of the English, at the expense of her own citizens. Here Mir. c. was re- minded, by the falling of the Chairmans nallet, that his hour had expired.