Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-07-03
SPEECH OF SAMUEL BROOKE.

~ bIICIl vi III
The Village Register contains a sketch of
an address delivered by Samuel Brooke at
Youngstown. Our limits will not permit us
to copy it entire. After some Introductory re-
marks, he says:
Wilson Shannon, your Minister cxtraordi@
nary, and a most extraordinary minister he
was, gravely informed the Mexican govern
mcnt that it had been the settled policy of
every administration for the last twenty years,
to obtain Texas, and well have the people of
this country seconded the designs OF the adj
miniStratlon. 70
| well remember, some ten or eleven years
since, when the mania for speculation spread
over this country and ievered tho public
mind when utopian dreams of wealth excl
ted the imaginations of half your people -
when fortunes were made in a day and lost
in an hour; when the public lands in the
States were rapidly purchased up, but failed
to satisfy the c%upidity and avarice of the spec
%ulator, who hurried on to Texas to monopo-
lie the lands of that fruitful region; that
when this rage for speculation was at its
greatest height, | passed up the Ohio river,
on a boat, with Thomas III. Benton, James
X. Polk, and some other functionaries of the
Government, and heard among them, for the
first time, that the Americans in Texas had
rebelled against the Mexican authorities, and
that DR.. B. II. Archer, Of Va. who had gain
ed some celebrity by killing his brothor-in in
law, Mr.. Crump, IN a duel, and who after
wards settled in Texas, had published an ar
ticle calling on the people Of Texas to arm
themselves for the fight.
This call upon them was soon followed by
appeals to the people of the States for assist
ance in the contest, and oilers, the most tempt
ing to a~varice, were held out as inducements
to embark in a war for plumber and for spoil.
The people from the States had engaged in
these speculations in TfXas lands, and some
of them had obtained large tracts, and many
of these believed it NECESSARY to introduce
slaves to cultivate the {oil, in order to make
their lands valuable ana productive.
Mexico had abolished Slavery by the fol
lowing decree:
las our friends are probably familiar witt
the decree of President Guerrero, by which
in 1929, slavery was declared abolished il
the Mexican Republic, we omit it.-EnRs.
That people from the States ~smugglet
slaves into Texas previous to the rebellion,
can affirm upon the testimony Of Mr.. Archie
himself. He stated to me that a number o
them were engaged one night in landing
some slaves from a vessel, and as they pass
ed in their boats, to and fro, between th'
shore and the vessel, they sang a tune tina
had Just been sung within our hearing.
Yes, sir, they carried slaves there in oppo
sition to the Mexican laws, and, becaus
t Mexico had decrecd that slavery should no
exist within her territories, these men drov
out the MeXicans, and established SLAYER
there under the preteXt of establishing Liber
ty, and the Mexican, who would not tolerat
slavery, was called a tyrant. Thus darknes
was called light, and light darkness.
= | said that the people Of this country we
called upon to assist these TeXian marauders
g From The New York Sun.
= Extract from General Houston's letter
c General Dunlap of Nashville
e :" For a portion Of This force zoe must looh
II the United States. II cannot reach us t.
soon. There is but one feeling in Texas,
my opinion, and that is to establish the ind
pendence of Texas, and 10 be atiachea to 4
k United Sates."
10 Volunteers flocked to the Texian standa
IT from various parts Of the Union, but prime
/ pally from the Southern States, provisions
and sustained in part by these land spocuI
ID tors. In Virginia, great eNertions were ma
t. 10 arm and equip troops; contributions We
5. obtained for this purpose, and theatres ga
\. Texan benefits, and, drawn along with I
Mt current, he who is now addressing you,
at tended one of these benefits, and in that W
ly contributed two dollars to aid in this inilmo
en- crusade; and unless the tears OF repentan
shed, has washed out the record Of this gul
m act. and an after life devoted to the right, /
n obliterated it from the archives of Heaven,
ed remains there still, to meet Inc in Iudgmi
It. on the final day.
he The Virginians had engaged largely
ed these speculations the late Secretary [
he mer, who was killed on board the Prince
10 by the explosion of the peacemaker, IN;
two trips to Texas, as an agent of these Ia
CHI Spectators, and public rumor states that
tn. realized foGty-fvo thousands dollars as
of profits Of one of these trips. The efforts m
nat in that quarter were commensurate with
to interests al stake.
,r- In this way armed bands were c~ollecte,
hit Texas, but the MeXicans advanced u
SO them, and with some OF the results you n
Use be familiar as they have become records
IN history.
2es The Alamo fell after a desperate strua
the aud 4 great slaughter on both sides-t