The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-16

included within and rightniy belonging TO- The republic
Of Texas may be state " he called the
State Of Texas with republican form Of government TO
adopted BY the people q SAID epsee ~ deputies IN con-
In order that the same may be admitted as one OF
the States OF the Union"
Here follows the second resolution of the Con-
gress of the United States, declaring shat the fore
going consent Of Congress is given upon the follow
ing conditions, and with the following guarantees,
to wit" There are three of these conditions or
guarantees. The third runs thus;
Third New States ofconvenen size not exceeding four
in number In addition said State OF Texas, and having
sufficient population may hereafter by consent OF said
State be the territory thereof which shall be
entitled to admission under the provisions o. the federal
constitution And such states as may he formed out OF
grees thirty minutes north latitude commonly known as
the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the
Union with or without slavery the people OF each State
asking admission desire And IN such state or States
sour compromise line slavery or involuntary servitude
Except for crime) shall be prohibited"
The ordinance then proceeds:
Now in order TO manifest the assent OF the people of
this republic required in the ahoyerected portions Of
the said resolutions;
"we the deputies Of The people of Texas convention
assembled their and by their authority do ordain
and declare that we and accept the proposals
conditions contained in the first and second
the resolution Of the Congress Of the United
States aforesaid.
| "THOs. j. RUsK, President"
These two SECTIONS of the resolution of the
Congress Of the United States, las the preamble of
the ordinance calls them in fact the two first res
olutions passed by our Congress. They were the
House resolutions, or Milton Brown's--so called.
The third resolution Cor section, the ordinance
might have called it,) was added by the Senate of
the United States. The two first resolutions pro-
t. he bird
resolution proposed another mode The President
had to propose one or the other mode to Texas.
The former embracing the two first resolutions Tor
sections as the ordinance calls them) were proposed
by our Executive. The second mode Gas embraced
in the third resolution section of our Congress)
was never offered and could never, therefore, have
been ''rejected" by Texas. The convention of Tex
as accepted these tco sections, (or resoluhons,)
with the conditions and guarantees which they en-
braced, on which she to come into the Union;
and one Of these is the third clause which the "Ms-
sourian" is pleased to call "sec,ion, . like the other
two clauses Using the word "section" in this sense
that is to say considering it to apply to the hrst
and second clauses (or conditions or guarantees) of
the second resolution of our Congress-the Missou-
rian argues that Texas has accepted the two first
clauses only, and therefore rejected" the third,
which provided for the establishment of new States
out of her territory. In this consists the error Of
the "Mssourian." The resolutions of our own
| Congress do not use the word 'section'' at all
The ordinance of Texas does the expression, but
uses il in the that is equivalent to our word
resolution The ordinance declares, in the preamble
that the convention 'assents to the proposals thus
| Nh e a.
declares its assent and acceptance Of the pro-
posas, conditions, and guarantees contained in
the first and second sections of the resolution Of
the Congress of the United States aforesad;"-
meaning, of course the ,chole Of the two resou-
tons of our Congress- and Of course, excluding the
third resolution of Congress Thus, the Missourian,
by considering and calling the clauses parts of the
Cd resolution as sections, regards Texas as having
rejected the 3d. about the establishment Of other
States. But, we repeat, the resolutions of
our ewn Congress do not use the word sections"
at all. The ordinance Of Texas does use the ex-
presson but applies it the two first resolutions of
our Congress- which il recites. 1t is the "Missou-
rian" who is pleased 10 use the word section in
new sense, and who applies it to the three clauses of
the ID resolution. Hence its misake In fact, every
thing proves that Texas has fully accepted all that
the United States offered to her, and that is contain
ed in the House Tor frs resolutions, embracing
the establishment of States which constitutes the
great stumbling-block of the "Missourian. Every
one has so considered the meaning and spirit of the
whole transaction The dispatches of the Secretary
of State 1--WE are advsed) consider it. 1t is so
considered in the correspondence between Major
Donelson and the government of Texas. 1t has
been SO considered, from the 4th July to this mo-
ment, by every newspaper and politician in the
United States, as far as we are advised-with the
exception of the Missourian, who, appears is the
| first to stumble upon the-Eureka Let its gratfca-
ton then be renewed. Let it fall into our 'glorifsa
ton" Let persuade itself that the measure of an
nexaton is "consummated" with all its formalities,
except the sanction of our Congress to the new
constitution of Texas Let it, in one word, be sat
sfed and let further be satisfied that the "Union"
has as little inducement to deceive the people, or
"make them believe" what is not the truth, as even
the Missourian itself.