The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-01-29
From the .Ns.o Haven Conn Register.
THE TEXAS QUESTION.

From the .NsO Haven Conn., Register.
THE TEXAS QUESTION.
The Boston Federasts have called State Con-
vention Of their BRETHREN om all parts of Massachu-
sets, to meet in Fsneuil Hall and concert measures
to prevent If possible the restoration Of Texas 70 the
U United States. 1t was a Secretary of State from
Massachu setts, Mr.. Adams, who conducted the ne
COLLATION. that ceded away that valuable country in
1919, the acquisition of which, wi h Louisiana, IN
1903, of the trophies of the great DemocIa-
tic victory, which brought Jefferson into the Pres-
dency. The story rs told in few words. Jefferson
acquired Texas tor us-Adams, as Secretary of
State 10 Mr.. Monroe, bargained il away-while the
Democratic party, steady to its original purpose, in
the election OF MIR. Polk have shown their determl-
nation to restore to the JefIersonian territory
along with the Jefersonian policy. Massachusetts,
stands now where she did then--ln deadly hostility
to both IL was this opposition 10 the acquisition of
Louisiana and Texas in 1909 that ripened after
wards into the Hartford Convention in 1914. The
first movements that Swallowed forth that celebrated
assembage, vas a meeting called in Faneu Hall by
the Federaiiss Of Boston; 1t a similar call to
that which now invites the same men, and those who
have followed In their footsteps reassembe in the
same place, and We think It quite likely that 1t will
terminate as that did, In call for convention OF
delegates of New England to meet, if pot at Hart.
ford, at some other convenient point, where the plans
OF the leaders will be again maIured secret session,
and arrangements made for carrying them into eff
feet II is all CANNON to tell that opposition to
slavery moves thel Federaiists They know as do all
men ofIefection that every extension ofour territory
southwark attracts the botch the IIemlies which
might otherwise fasten the heart. The acqui-
sltion OF LOUISIANA, by drawing the slave population
from the older States, into warmer and congo
NAL climate, is rapidly Converting Delaware and Ma
ryIand into free States and has made very percep
tbie impression Virginia, Kentucky, and the
western portions of North Carolina. The acquisi-
ton Of Texas would hasten this change. And yet
the slave question, called, of the chief
burdens of complaint put forth by the Hartford Con-
vention-and next to that the naturalization Of for
eigners How remarkable, that after lapse of 20
many years, the same hobbies should he brought up
on t political course, straddled by the riders of the
same party No, 1t is not for slavery hat these ag
alors care, but is to get up geographical party if
they can, (such as w ashngton, IN his farewell ad-
dress, US agains-and in this way spread their
power over part hen they have failed in Of their
great struggles to fasten it upon the whole. These
agltatIoDs are got up perioLically-they come
round quite regularly, and for the end
Next to the LOUISIANA erment came in it's turn the
Missouri compromise, few years afterwards which
shook the confederacy to its CENTRE and many feared
would bring about what the Hartford Convention
plot had failed to accomplish division of the Union
They then stigmazed those members Of Congress
who voted for that compromise with the most oppr0
brious epithes bestowed upon the offending members.
Many of them burnt In efiigy by Federal bon
fires, and the names of all were hung up in the CO.
lumns Of the Federal newspapers, with black lines
about them as objects of detes,arion for all time to
come; and This done, from holy horror of sla-
very, just such as they feel Let the conduc,
OF the egltators since, show how sincere they were
then. When they thought tina, tn. could best serve
! their parry turn by It, they took one of these same
dough faces, as he was called by them Samuel A..
Foot, and made him Govern.I of Connecticut, and
lately placed him their Electoral ticket the Pre-
sdential contest just over. Another "dough-face
thavr Had him. H..
their Presidential candidate in 1910, and to cap the
climax, in 1874, they selected as the " imbodiment''
of their principles the very who was Il author
OF the Missouri compromise, and whose influence,
when formerly lender of the Democratic party in
Congress, carried il through.
No one now ventures openly to deny that Mr. Jef
frson's policy was, in the main, right however Sc
crey oppnsed-and the hottest of his opposers in the
Louisiana purchase, would not consent to part with
that country now on any terms, less they are for
dividing the Union and had Texas never been stpa-
rated from the original purch Sc they would cling L,
| that the same as the Even Daniel Webster in
his Paichoque speech knowing how strong the uub
hc sentiment Is IN that direction spoke the hp
terms of Jefferson's administration avowed himself
| to be Jefersonian Republican, and said he would
knock any man down who should deny it, within the
length If his arm. Why then moi bring Texas back
to the position where the admin stration of the ps
trlous jefferson left 1t Nearly twenty wears aoo
MI. Adams, seeing the mist ken policy that had ne
gotiat-d 1t away authorized an offer To MEXICO nj
one million Of dollars for the country, when hardly
white man could be found upon il. II it was worth
that SUN then, IT Is worth than ten times ,ba,
now, with an cnserprsng and numerous people spreod
over its fertile soil, and filing up as il u.s. in a rec
tons, with hardy emigronts. 1t would, if brouuh,
BACK 10 our Union, in few years be market for our
northern manufactu ers Of much value as il thai
oiCnns TO the manufacturers Of Great Britain which
she has lately acquired at the expense of so much
blood and treasure, and better than the ba one,s Of
France viii ever find in Aluiers. Ours is the peace
,u' poney Q, scqu ring by friendly purcbase-tbeirs
| by their arms and yet some would ,imdIv bes;,.,.
lest we give offence 10 foreign powers and TINS lose
the golden opportunity" now and forever