The Arkansas banner., 1845-04-23
From the Richmond Enqufer. COL= CHESTER ASHLEY,
co,,ator from .frkuRsus.

COI. CI1ES lER ASllLE1,
 . c,.,cs Senator from ,frkaaSaS.
 |. o.,blished during the last week the I've Puob Pob of this new and worthy Senator |s 'Pspo ,pansas. It ought to be read by eve VI a Nna Naian-as presenting many bold and llfsn lows of the annexation of Texas. gaal :,,ics ,ic about the growth of cotton and sal51 ,, of emigration to that country, are 'As l1srIy worthy of notice;
 .'as rors to the designs of Great Britain, le ls.' ..she would not get Texas by the 91'h h,t he would tell gentlemen how Eo9' ,ld I oct it. and more eifectually too gouiT n,a of commerce. So long as Con- aSri S,r";inued to exact the same duties as $ 'ID 1or;ed. Great Britain would make with Ps a ,, treaty which would operate eilectu- ls do.,roy s all our commerce ill the South sa,utbwest Let her admit 'Fexian cot '9a' .,a her dominions free of duty, while l'I T duty on it of 13 per cent; let Tex 1.a ;ao British manufactures into her ports st f Juty. or under mere nominal duty; ~, i" Great Britain covenant to support and rl 1 the independence and safety of Tex 'l4 ,bo ' mower of her navy and army-and
 m0st m0 be the necessary effect upon us !? aJ a at once reduce the value of all our ya l;a inc South and West, and in effect Iestrov the entire cotton-growing re- e of the South. "
 sAo arcumcnt of the Lynchburg Virgin - ."oted in the last National Intelligeneer, te,reely hold water. What, though Sir ss1 Peel has proposed to make all raw Inn mn free of duty? Yet does it follow, .s soon as Texas raise enough to sup .l,rre proportion of the British demand, s,cTimination may not Aen be made in mof Texas cotton
 The gentleman from Virginia, AIr. Rives .o responding to the argument, from eX- Fmcy, in favor of the admission of Tex b,1asked, !" And what was to be done soor old Virginia ," and reproached gen. lso in having made sort of Indian bar win her, in which they meyer had said
 " to her once.' And what had been 5erenee from the whole prospect.before
 The depopulation of Virginia But
 would say to that honorable Senator, bsoher hand, that non annexation would sts to depopulate the whole South. The
 gcoon product of that region had now
 geased in value and importance. that
 e-ollpd inc commerce of the Worid.- inc year I799, we exported to Eng
 only three bales of t; but, since then,
 rodact had risen to two and half mil
 of bales. The product had greatly hun the consumption; and if 1t should
 aae much more 10 increase, the price
 run down, till a last 1t would not pay
 aarest of the money invested. Now,
 aas should make such treaty with
 ad as he had designated, what must the
 ss be driven 10? To employing their
 in producing something that would
 ieir debts; and, as cotton would no
 do this, they would not be able to af-
 3pmaia longer within the U States.
 would have an indueement to the
 mi of l3 per cent. oil the entire value
 .f crop of cotton, 10 leave their com-
 But this was not all. h addition to thirteen per cent on their cotton, which
 could save by removing across the line
 Texas, they would save the average du- \ Ry of forty per cent. which they now
 0oW 0wH government oa British goods aed and, by consequence, the same
 Eaat on our own manufactures. With
 Bso commanding for his removal, no
 acouId or would long stay at home. IEl go to Texas or staIye. That state D. would then have arrived in which, slaves did not run away from their 6, the masters would have 10 run away 3eslaVes This was, in fact, fulfilling week, and that to an extent of which si klae had little imagination.
 9 A. resided at Litde Rock, and there s R of emlgrants for Texas was so great ia ty required a steamboat to ferry them bO the Arkansas river; and their num- ng ad raised the price of corn from twen- II cents 10 two dollais hushel on the lemigration. Then there was anoth- n demgrants which was passing thro' or as, Onthe extreme western border of an aR; third passed near Natchez to rs Aoches; and, in addition, strong cm- as a by the way of Red River; besides s rest who went across the Gulf.
 H. atwould be the natural effect of such O things? Five years would not aI way, before Texas would be able to a' cotton enough to supply the whole Why, little Arkansas, with her pop oI l25,O00, possessed cotton land . 10 supply two such worlds. That pp ae alone could produce double the U: oi all the cotton now raised in the nl s To accomplish this would re- 's @lour millions of acres, and the State %, % @ len to fifteen millions of good land u" Foducton of cotton.n