New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-04-03
THE TRIBUNE.
Instrumentation Defended.

sRe-Annexation' Defended.
To he Editor Of The Tribuie:
aware OF your opposi:lon TO the enumeration OF
Texas the glorious one-starred republic TO limited
country Yet Of liberslty, and that the people
having the light Of may judge correctly between
you and the friends OF remuneration, ask you the inser
ton Of the following argument which, to avoid the
your columns, have desgnedy condensed within the
rowcst limits. DEMOCRAT
EXAMINATION or TEXAS.
The recent news from the republic of the one
Pickering star has cast shade of groom over ma
nya patriotic countenance. Democracy, with face
lately so radiant and eyes glisiening with delight,
comes forth at each returning morning, sad
and disconsolatc, with an air as wobegone as if
the light OF hope had gone out in utter darkness
And is 1t so, that all the mighty labors the toll the
sweat, have been expended in vain =? Is patriotism
TO be lef, to weep over blighed hopes and Texas
Scrip and Texas Bonds to be left uRhonored and
without market? Shall Slavery, SO long a firm
and glorious bulwark OF liberty and chvalry, be
now left unsupported and ready al any moment 10
crumbe under It's own weight Shall no new abut-
ments strengthen il against the undermining efforts OF
tyrlnt opinion and fanatic pick-axes1 tempora
Omores, Drear and dark would be the prospects
of our country If bereft OF this cherished hope
Blu, trust shall be able vet 10 tighten NJ the
saddencd countenance and 10 cheer on 10 new efforts
Most anxIously have looked on passing events
sleep has been a stranger to my eye-ids while their
fast flowing torrents have watered my pillow. But
light has tiengh beamed on my perturbed thoughts
and hastento shed It's rays on those, who like me,
have SO long dreamed by night and mediated by
day. only of Texas--the one-starred Texas
We bought Louisana-nobody denies that
France and Spain had been dabblng with this little
spot OF ground. tossing ii back and forward from
one to the other I'LL we stepped in and made a bid
aud it was fairly knocked down to us for good
fifteen millions, and the cancelllng for and or be-
half Of few hundred shop-keepers and owners OF
sea-cral of some millions more. II matters NOT
how much, as our government Will never bend the
statencss OF lis dignity 10 consider mere mercantile
dealings, losses or miShaps Now every body
knows thai neither France nor Spain had been 10
this continent TO ascertain the boundaries OF Louis
lana. OF having to look up these boundaries
ourselves 1t is our business 10 lind them when they
will answer US the most convenient purpose. II may
properly be considered shifting boundary, and we
being on the spot and knowing best where TO Ixl',
choose TO call Qor the presently the Rio Grande the
Southern boundary. As neither France nor Spain,
the owners by turns OF Louisiana, makes any OBJ
lection, who will be so idle as 10 say that any body
else has right 10 interfere?
know that made certain treaties liking our
boundaries this side OF the dark haired aid and 1t IS
true that there are men so stupid IN poftcal matters
as 10 hold us bound by such treaties. Did Indian
treaties ever stand in our way, at least within The
last 10 years? Their arguments are scarcely worth
swer may be given To this pettiiosging obecuon-
Cold, as every body knows, contracts, while heat
expands THIS applies TO paper constitutions as well
as 10 any thing else; hence IN the cold regions oil
the North constitution contracts itself within
narrow space, while under the kindly rays OF
Southern sun il expands with natural and agreca-
bic facility. Indeed no one can set bounds as II
goes Southwark 10 lis eXpanslbity, or say over
what regions and what acts II may not, without
danger of rent, be made TO spread itself. Nognod
Democrat can fail to sec the applicability ana the
concluslveness OF this argument We cast aside,
therefore, as futile, every objection grounded on
treaties, which, contrary 10 nature, attempt 10 re-
strain the powers OF expansion under Souiherh
sky.
Our plan, then, in short, is. as Texas ioolishly
and ungratefuly refuses our proftered embrace, al
once by large and expansive act oil legislation, 10
extend our jurisdiction To the RIO Grande on inc
South and Westward To the Pacific, with sucn
boundaries hereafter on iull consideration may
be thought most compatible with our own seii-res-
pect and interest," enlar9ing them from time 10 ''he
as circumstances may require Inc vaiian. armies
which SO sorousy trlamphed over the iegions OF
fine warriors IN Flo,lda--the war-worn veterans
who won laures there by wason.loads, would lead
on our troops 10 victory and glory, III Loeiiy'
Truth and Honor should hold their court on every
spreading prairie and Texas acknowledge our right
tu sovereignty In short, II she VIII not come 10
our arms willingly 1t is our solemn constitutional
duty To bring her within their embrace by the eXer-
else OF salutary force. The impudent huSSy :
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insratitude Did we not furnish her with powder
and arms-with patriot sodiers--with speeches that
made the welkin ring. when she set Mexico and
her emancipation laws at defiance Have we NOT
defrauded eur prisons and gallows Of their rshllul
due TO people her with bold and hardy race :
Have we not helped TO make strong the slave.pedes
tai of her liberties And now 10 be spurned by
her. Fellow Democrats, il need be am for war
LIE; every true patriot seize his arms and rush TO The
rescue OF our nsuted honor. To arms!-to arms!
and le; the cefiers Of Mexico and the gold OF her
churches pay for The trouble and the insults she has
been the means OF bringing upon us
Friends, Patriots chivalrous Sons OF the South
and true-hearlea Democrats of the North! let one
and ali stand ready for the battle. Huzza Tor new
crop of heroes, Huzza for Texas, and Liberty, ana
Slavery, and the Constitution.
p. S forget 10 say that. as we might on taxing
Texas he placed under some troublesome oolSa-
tons 10 pay her debts, and as our friends may be-
in masv instances, her creditors, II vii! be both
convenen, and proper TO apply 10 tins object the
amount which our Government Is supposed TO have
assumed for French spoliauons OF cur Commerce,
and thus AT once 10 put an end 10 The ciamors OF
these Yankee Merchants their widows and chill
dren.
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