The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-01-20

10 the measure lie held that the were bound not
only violate nous OF tho GUARANTEES given 10 that
institution by the constitution but TO take ell Tie
steps necessary " guaranty TO them the undsurbsd
enjoyment II II. IL became necessary TO annex
portion OF the territory north of the United States TO
tho Union for the purpose Of securing 10 Vermont
and New Hampshire the undisturbed enjoyment OF
their rights under the constitution, he would not hosi-
tate To anUex Even now, II il true that The an
nexation OF Texas 10 the UDon was for the purpose
OF securing 10 the South the enoymen Of her con
stuonal rights, he declared TO the world he would
no, hesitate for moment TO vote for IT, They were
much bound 10 guaranty the undisturbcd posses
sion OF that hight as OF any other right under the con
stiulion.
The objection Of the gentleman from Pennsyiva-
via, Mr. J. X. lngcrsoll for whom he had high
regard, was that this measure calculated 10 ex-
tend our territory, and thereby weaken the chains
which bind us together Would the experience u
this country sustain the gentleman in his conclusion
that such would be the eheoti Al the time Of the
adoption Of the federal constitution thirteen
States. We had gone on adding ones until now We
bad twenty-sn States and the Union less strong
to-day than at that timer Would any gentleman tell
him that the Dew States OF the Union less at
taehed TO the Union than the old Ststesi no sec
ton Of the country were the Inhabitants more de-
voiedly attached 10 the Union than In the Far West
Mo- the extension Of our territory would produce no
such elect These were the Arguments which were
used here in 1893 when IL proposed to send out
Gen. Wayne (ismiliary called {" Mad Anihony,") 10
give protection To the Tree white settlers north Of the
Ohio river. Gentlemen had then said as the gentle
man from Pennsy did that the extension Of
territory SO lar from The centre, would weaken the
bands that bound US together and they said more ;
they SAID, as the gentleman from Pennsy lvana had
done with reference 10 Texas that our lands 10 that
region were poor and unproductive. Even In 1902
when his native Stale admitted into the Union, II
had been said Of Ohio that II an unproductive
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ing place OF the red man But little more than forty
years had elapsed, and the last red man had disap-
peared from the limits OF that State and before the
industry and energy Of their fathers the wilderness
had been made to bud and blossom the rose; and
IN all that elevated man In the scale Of social being
Ohio stood foremost Extend your Institutions TO
Iexas-bring them back into the American family
let them sit down under your vino and 6g-tree, and
who shall estimate the might and power Of the States
TO be made out OF her territory in few years hence
Mo- there was no danger to be apprebended from the
extension OF our territory; on the contrary, new
States being added, would but increase and strength
en- tho Union.
But it had often been said by gentlemen from the
North that the annexation Of Texas to the Union
would dissolve the Union; and that this was the OBJ
ject OF those who first started the question that
the Democratic party OF this couDtry-the men uho
had always been found foremost 10 the fight when the
honor OF the country at stake that these men
their head, prominent among them, advocating the
annexation oil Texas, which was 10 be attended with
SO fearful consequence IL was the man of the
Hermitage, The hero of New Orleans the man who
had served his country long and faithfully in the field
OF battle and IN the councils Of the nation-the old
man now standing on the verge OF the grave, and
about TO pass to that bourne whence traveller re-
turns,-that he was seeking To dissolve The Union
There stands that old cheitain, with brand 10 bis
hand, and about TO burn down the beautiful temple
OF liberty erected upon the blood Of our fathers and
who stayed his arm Why, Daniel Webster, Of Mas.
sachusets' he who had sat in this ball OF legisa-
Ton IN the second war Of Independence, 1.-THE war Of
1872 and voted against appropriations for the pro.
secuuon OF that war--who could vote against the re-
building of this Capitol after it had been burned
down by the British,-that man had become the de-
fender of the Union! God save this republic if it
had fallen into the keeping of such hands!
But we we're told again, if we annexed Texas to
this Union, we would be involved in a war, and that
We were irampling on the rights of Mexico. The
gentleman from Indiana Mr.. C. b. Smith had said
1t was true that every administration, from 1919 to
the present, had been attempting to purchase Texas
Out That this was the first attempt that had been
made to {" rob" Mexico. What claim, he asked, had
Mexico upon this territory? The people of Texas
had declared their independence, and established
Tree constitution the Mexican republic of 1894 had
adopted constitution guarantyng 10 all the nineteen
States OF that coDederacy the undisurbed ment
OIL their rights and under that constitution induce
ments being held out to the people of our country
they went there and settled having the written pro-
mise OF the constitution that they should enjoy the
same liberties there as in their native land. Instead
oil taat constitution of 1924 being administered San.
"a Anna's heel was on the imperial purple; he de-
clared himself DICTATOR with his unhallowed feet he
trampled on the constitution of 1924; this gallant
people OF Texas raised the flag of resistance and on
the bloody plains of st. Jacinto they proved them
selves worthy of their iulustrous ancestry Now,
alter having resisted and defeated all the efforts of
the bloody tyrant-after having broken the chain
win whlch Santa Anna had attempted TO bind them
now, after being recognised by almost every 60
vernment OF the world free and independent
state, to annex it to the Union in the estimation of
the gentleman from Indiana, was robbery cold
FLOODED, highway robbery So did our ancestors rob
Great Britain OF her rich possessions in North Anne.
RIGA. Was the declaration of independence, which
was promulgated to the world on the 4th Of July,
il the gentleman had lived in that day he would have
resisted TINS attempt to rob Great Britain of these
colonies in America!
But we wero to have a war with Mexico as con-
sequence OF this annexation, ii was alleged. Mexico
now torn by intestine discussions, her bloody tyrant
driven into exile, was to engage in war with the
United States and to be backed in that war by
England, because England did not choose to stand by
lndIferently while that war was raging He desired
no war but war, with all horrors was far prefer
able to disgraceiul peace. l would rather (said
MI w. see this country involved in all the horrors
OF blood, and the American soil drenched in the
blood of our own people, than to see the national
honor furnished by tamely submitting to the dcta,ion
OF any foreign power No: if we are involved in a
war IN attempting TO bring back TO the American
family those who have been unfortunately exilcd
from tiff this is to bring into war, for one
say let that war come ay, let il we will have
right and justice on our side and the God Of our ia
Tiers will go with us and help us anew. We have
met Great Britain in times past, when our number
was few and our resources scaDty, and we have tri.
umphed; we have proved the truth that
freedoms battle once begun,
Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son,
Though batted oft, is ever wonr
And now take that American flag, those stars and
stripes which float over this Capilol-that flag that
has never been disgraced by an inglorious sarren-
der plant 1t on the eastern bank of the Rio del Nor,e
and II foreign foe come to attack it, the hardy sons
OF the West, and of the Southwest nursed in dan