The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-02-05

+, The United States, they should beinciudsd within the
limits Of the latter. The claims Of the United States,
long and stFenuOusl urged: enoOursgedt the hope.
The recent treaty between Spain and the United
States Of America has ~dissipated an illusion TO long
ondly cherished, and has aroused the citizens Of Tex
las from the torpor into which q fancied security had
llulled them. They have seen themselves, by a con-
yeniou to which they were no party, literally abandon
ed to the dominion Of the Crown Of Spain, and len a
prev not only TO impositons already intolerable, but to
all those exaotiOns which Spanish rapacity are fertile
in deVsing.
1.-The Citizens of Texas would have proved them
selves unworthy of the age in which they live-unwoT-
INV of their ancestry of the kindred republics OF the
American Continent, could they have hesitated IN this
emergency what course to pursue! Spuming the tet-
tiers of colonial salase-uIsuainin 70 submit y ue
most atrocious d~espotism that yerdisgraced the annals
of Europe, they have resolved, under the blessing Of
God, to be E
And from that moment they were free. From
1919 TO 1924 Texas and Mexico presented a
continued scene of revelation aud bloOdshed.-
Texas, although for some time invaded by a for
eign army, never did submit, never was conquer
ed by either the armies of Spain or of Mexico.
She continued TO assert her right to freedom, and
she maintained that right until 1924, when she
was admitted as a free and independent State,
with Coahuila into the Mexican confederacy.--
Thus far, then, they saw that Texas never did
submit 10 Spain, and Texas never had belonged
TO the present government OF Mexico He
would put it to the gentleman from Massachu-
sets, if this confederated government were over
thrown bya military despotand HE constitution
under which we enjoy our were battled
down into the dust, and teNtfal government
were here established by a military Iyrant, if the
people of Massachusetts would feek bound to
submit to such despotism2 Would she not raise
her voice in behalf of the constitution and Of
freedom? And what more had Texas dOne2 p
In lS25--one year before her declaration of in,
observation-disclosures hoisted the banner of the
constitution, and called upon the older Mexican
States TO rally round it in defence of their rights
and their freedom; but she was not regarded, anC
and the Mexican confederacy fell under the pow
er of Santa Anna, with the exception Of the Re
public of Texas.
She alone was true to her kindred; true tC
that spirit which she inherited from her anccs
tors on the plains of st. Jacinto, where they hat
placed her independence SO that the tyrants o
Mexico or any other country could not reach 4 ii
Texas, then, was free and independent ma
ton; she was not only in fact free and indepen
dent, but she was able to maintain and secure
her freedom. She had achieved it by the no
blest patriotism, The most undaunted valor. She
has acquired it by all that is held sacred in gu
revolution. We should be the last people OIL
/, earth to deny the right of revolution-to Gadvo
cate the divine right of kings. IF W c were en-
titled TO our freedom, Texas was entitled to he
freedom; and when gentlemen talked about rob
bling Mexico by the admission Of Texas into thi
Union, he could draw no distinction between
this robbery, as it was called, and declaring tina
we had robbed England of the colonies whicI
she lad owned previously to the declaration q
independence in'I776. If gentlemen who talk
ed about robbing Mexico had lived in the glori
Gus DAYS of our revolution, the universal jo
which p~ervaded the country at the result of the
battle of Yorktown, might perhaps have beer
marred by the hoarse croak,3g of ''robbery" Q
England of her fair possessions.
Thus, while Texas was free and independent
+ and proposed TO come into this Union, its admIs
sion would secure 2 territory CT unparalleled Ter
tjlity; it would secure 10 the southwestern
weakest and most defenceless frontier--a pfotec
ton which neither armies, feels, or military post
could give. When it was seen by reference t
the map that the great valley of the West--tha
the great of the valley of the Missis
sippi, constituting in Itself an empire--that tn
great mart of all our western produce was secu
r red by the admission, he paused TO hear what oh
i~ections there could be TO the measure.