Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1846-05-28

Texas--A Running Account.

General James Hamilton fjrmery chivaric Nul-
LITER and Governor of South Carolina, more recently a
Texas Spectator, Foreign ambassador aud money
borrower in Europe, has been attending the session Of
the Texan State Legislature at Austin. and on leaving
wrote letter to Gen. T.. Bureson, President Of the
Senate, setting forth his views, his services to Texas,
and his desire to her public debt paid, not only
lar as II - coming 10 him, but also the much larger
amount she owes Europeans, who lent on his argent
and positive representations. lie closes;
"Ihat Texas has both the willingness and ability
to pay every debt, which by fair and equitable exami-
nation can be justly brought sgainst her, cannot be
doubted by those who have any knowledge of her in
cileent population end Of her public resources and
ns the best means Of meeting the legitimate demands
Of her creditors permit me (who like yourselves am
land holder, ff,e holder and tax payer in Texas) to
suggest the policy Of transferring your pablo lands to
the Government Of the United States upon such terms
as would place the character and credit Ut youT State
upon uily grounds, and secure TO her an immediate
prosperity. The public domain, now an ined mass,
far too unweldly for your STATE Government 10 han
die, would become, under such arrangement, source
Of value and henetcient Usefulness 10 yourselves and
the whole Union. Their purchase by tbs Sated
States il great measure Of national policy, which has
no more 10 do with the assumption NJ her State Dehis
than the purchase OF Louisiana from France necessar-
y involved an assumption OF her revolutionary assig
mats.
II IS ,choiy immaierial chat ordinances Of lssoe-
alton tie United States may hare passed, they cannot
take your Custom House, appropriate To Themselves
lis revenues, with all the attributes which belong n
the sovereign faculty Of Indirect tsxation trifhoui
propiding for debts for Which these rcry revenues
mere pledged when therefore, yun propose TO sur
render your public domain for the purpose Of paying
your public debt, you make gratuitous concession TO
the sacred object u your public faith equally creditabe
to youf honor and integrity.
With a renewed assurance of my gratitude 10 your
honorable body for the distinguished compliment they
have paidl am, with great respect, your obi servi,
JAMES HANILT0S."
Here the catastrophe Of the annexation drama be-
gins to make itself manifest. True, Congress was
barely driven, coaxed brbed, bought and buied into
consentng TO annexation on the solemn aud tcasona-
bic stipulation that part Of the debt of Texas should
ever become chargeabe upon or should be paid BY the
United States. But that IS mOonshne, says Hamil-
ton We have iaken the 'daTk-hairra sister IN bed
and board, ani must pay her debts IN defiance Of the
marriage settlement Aud not this only, but we are
TO take her land bbng into hands, and thus enOf
mousy extend the power and patronage oi our federal
Government. We fear all this is inevitably yel il
has rDnr 7sftScJ anh7d1cd nth lortirs CintHt; uut
her nd-obbing yet clear OIL and cannot be I'M
picaled in II without farther struggle. When the
question up, the nghnuness, wisdom, policy Of
a governments selling a rich man monopoly ol one
million acres of Gods earth, and declaring doarless
man from the nl any land at all, will certainly he
inquired into We think the Texas lunllobbers wall
haidy DO better than TO club together and pay then
own debt instead Of attempting to saddle II upon the
American people. They have Teaped the entire hene'
fit Of lis expenditures let them pay il and keep thei
dirty acres to do il with We very much doubt Tho
existence OF fifth part Of the public land ~ Texas
after all the prirafe claims shall have bren SATISFIED
that is pretended but, much or little, The Untec
States want 10 enter upon no new land spteulauohs
Keen away from Congress all brides and threats ane
the assumption Of the Texas debt can never be carried