The Arkansas banner., 1845-02-12
-oe ANNEXATION OF TEXAS.

on annexation, is one oi the best we have I r,1pwELL said, during this discus
 sntIemcn had spoken of the great im-
 s ,a of the subject under consideration.
 Ss,leman had said that it was of such
 nortance, that he could scarcely real 1 .bev were engaged in debating it,
 ..onisbment with him, (Mr. C. how
 s.. not that they were actually en-
 o discussing the question, but that
 .sonld be any portion of the states
 G G,Ss country who opposed the annex
 ( Texas to this Union. We present
 ,onishing spectacle to the world of hav-
 Eo,od to us such a boon as had been 1 befoIc to no nation of the earth, and
 ,y were standing there debating wheth- l would accept the proffered boon.-
 o this was the greater matter of won 1 j astonishment.
 [nroposed, before he entered into any
 of the objections which had been
 to this measure, to state briefly that
 was once all our own, with all it's [nd fertile fields, and all it's mighty riv- ERpt we had lost that part of our do-
 By the treaty of 1903 we acquired |1souted right to the territory of Tex 1 by the treaty of 1919, we lost that 1 With deep modification he made the srledgement. It was no part of his 1 Dr purpose to cast censure on any who Eendaged in the formation of the treaty il9. The nation had had that subject Consideration, and the nation had passed Eict on the question. It was sufficient l purpose to know that our greatest |nen-Madison, Jefferson, Monroe, and |nsy, ay, and Clay, and the venerable knan from Massachusetts himself, MT. 1 Es.I had all established the fact that Tex
 as much ours by the treaty of 1903, ! the island of New Orleans.
 Bn 1903 to 1919, the settlements which made in Texas were made under the Mics of that clause of the treaty of (which provided that the citizens of should be incorporated into the Union United States. From 1903 to 1919 | |nnued to hold out assurances to the
 ants of Texas of admission into this All our Presidents-all our accom- statesmen contended that Texas was End all united in declaring that the cit
 fTexas should receive the protection ! flag, and be admitted into this Union
 ens of the United States, according to (ay of 1903. He might refer to the . of the statesmen day after day; he ! point to the letter written when the ban from Massachusetts was Secretary |
 e, declaring-when 1t was expected E
 lescent would be made on Texas by Frnchmen, for the purpose of making |snts there--that this government would l |mit such a thing north of the Rio | |settlements in Texas, then, were made |Fhat were supposed to be the gaarau- |his government to the people of Tex he treaty of 1903. That treaty pro- l hat the inhabitants of the ceded terri |ould be incorporated into the Union United States as soon as possible, ac- to the principles of the federal con ln, and be protected in the enjoyment pights, privileges, and immunities of kens of the United States and, in the |me, they were to have the free enjoy their property, their liberties, and |gon they profess.
 lemen talked about the obligation of l; they prolessed a high regard for I order, and advocated strict obser- |of treaty faith; and he asked them Fas their regard for treaties when they bed the selling into colonial bondage people whom this Union was bound ! Ireaty of 1903 to protect.
 Ed said that by the treaty of 1919 we |zas. That was so true that they lot deny 1t; but he asserted here, and himself responsible to prove the as- that neither Spain nor Mexico ac- Fny right under the treaty of 1879. fne of the fundamental doctrines of |antion of independence that all le- governments derived their rights from Bent of the governed. The people of were part of the United States. We Elth our right to Texas; but Spain Phng by the deed for the people of feyer sanctioned the act. Within |nths after the treaty of 1919 a con- was called in Texas; and the best they had of the population of that was, that in 1879 Texas had l2,000 lais. These inhabitants, by their rep |ves III the convention to which he Fded, formed a declaration of inde- Fe, In which they said
 fe citizens of Texas have long in-, |he hope that, in the adjustment of Pndaries of the Spanish possessions [rca, and of the territories of the Uni EEes' they should be included within us ol the latter. The claims of the oales, long and strenuously urged, EPged the hope.
 
 K e. recent treaty between Spain and the oa'es of America has dissipated an 100 long fondly cherished, and has I 'Ae citizens of Texas from the tor F which a fancied security had lulled
 ihey have seen thems elves, by q 'aIn 'aI to which they were no party, lit ,aoaadoned to the dominion of the o' spain, and left a prey not only to s,ous already intolerable, but to all \ |AaSuons %. which Spanish rapaciiy are a'izens of Texas would have proved E'eS unworthy of the age in which