Indiana State sentinel., 1845-04-03
Texns. Englnnd. nnd Francc.

The following is an extract from the Paris Com
nlerce giving the French view of the English designs
upon Texas:
s'We have often recorded our suspicion of the
selfish tendency Of English philanthropy. We know
too well, and from experience, that there Is always
some speculation other concealed behind her finest
sentiments, and that injury to her competitors enters,
for at least moety, into the good which she pretends
TO effect Such Is at present the in reference to
Texas, where she would fan excite that frenzy for
slave abolition, from which she cOntrived to deduce
the right Of search, with all its consequences her
future projects and maritime supremacy Situated,
as the reader Is aware, between Mexico and the
United States and separated from the last mentioned
country the North, by the Red River, and the
East by the Sabine Texas possesses about 200 leagues
of Coast the Gulf Of Mexico. Its population is
$4,000, Of which 1900 are black negroes In
September 1885, Texas offered to incorporate itself
with the United States. The Cabinet at Washington
declined the offer, either TO please England and Mex
leo, rather perhaps because the independence of
Texas accelerates more the work of decomposition of
the Mexican Empire, which is being silently and
gradually oYerrun by these indefatgabe pioneers and
ouposts of the United States, in the direction Of the
Pacific Ocean and the Isthmus of Panama.
In 1910, England in her turn, recognized the indie
pendence of Texas. Ii was apparently, blunder in
policy The English, too, lay their pretensions TO
the future monopoly Of the Isthmus of Panama. They
are consequently interested IN upholding the power
and territorial integrity of Mexico which lie between
the Americans, and that important point. But tie
cabinet of St James had larger and deeper views
IL first OF all stipulated the price of its recognition
that Texas should assume a portion of the Mexican
debt due to England ITSELF and amounting to So j000
coo. From that moment, British diplomacy, and its
Phanthropic societies, which it turns to such great
account, directed their aim at Texas Its position
was of immense importance. If slave emancipation,
the English scale, could only be carried there, the
system Of slave labor in the South of the Union would
simultaneously receive rude shock, and be seriously
compromised. Texas would become an easy and
refuge for all tie runaway slaves, and there
IN any given circumstances, might be organized and
drilled, those black battallons with which England
has often menaced the United States. Finally, an
imPediment to be created to the cultivation of
sugar Cd and cotton, in which, as is well known,
several millions Of negroes employed in the United
States.
Cotton, moreover, constitutes the staple of the
coastng trade between the South and the North of the
the Atlantic. To ruin, even lessen the cultiya
to diminish at blow the riches of the soil and
cripple that naval force which England so greatly
breads
The United States take the lead in energetic resist
ance to British ambition and cupidity, well in
that serious competition which Brazil. Cuba and the
Union itself offer to Great Britain. To destroy labor
In the West Indies and with their spoil enrich the
East Indies, where England reigns onnipotent; in
other words to substitute the labor of white (coored
slaves for that of black slaves to monopOlze tropical
produce and thus become once more the carriers and
sole exclusive commercial agents between words
may, doubtless appear to an Englishman praise
worthy and magnificent project but it were neither
prudent nor patriotic for Frenchman to aid in its
achievement.