The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-10-03

reused, | say, You Mr.. Miller, and your boys, are
ungrsteful dogs-you were originally KIND OF
loafer, and strayed away and squatted on land
where you had no business to go. You picked
quarrel with the landholder, and involved me In
the quarrel, much to my disgrace and loss owe
you nothing but good Will AS for you Mr.
Money lender, you are a shark-a land shark ;
you never lent quarter of the money you claim /;
it is all a shaving, gambling transaction; and |
have strong reasons TO believe that much OF the
money YOU did lend was stoleu-Swartwouted
from me IL you want my money or my mill, you
must come and take them. don't care ig for
your threats; but if you commit any vlolence-if
YOU come on 70 nv premises with the design } on
have expressed shall defend my premises, and
put you under bonds to keep the peace
The equity is all clearly the other way. BY
right the limited States should retain the sover-
eighty and own the soil of all that territory be-
tween the Nueces and the Rio Grande, as some
small indemnity for the expenses OF the war, the
lives it cost and the pensions 1t has entaied upon
US. will PROFOUND one question to those who
insist that we are eauitaby bound 10 pay TINS
$40 100000 IL is a searching question, ana the
honest answer will show whether 1t IS under
profound sense of Justice or a less noble motive
that we pay this debt Suppose Texas was quiet,
pesceable made no disloyal threats was as quiet
as the claimants for French spoliatiOns are would
any man think still less would any Senator or
Representative dare to propose to give TO lexas
$40 600 600 for equity only-for justice! That man
is not to be found viii Congress yield, then, TO
the threats of Texas TO her disioyal and treason
able bluster, what you would not think of yield
ing to Justice and equity? Will you be fright
ened from your propriety, because Texas threat
ems to take her way of arriving at what she calls
justice-Texas, that could not furnish Major
Neighbors with spending money when be went to
run out the new countes-Texas, that cannot
prevent the Indians from scalping her frontier In
babitants7 Nothing is further from Texas than
the desire TO have any collision with the United
States. No State in this Union is more anxious
to remain in the Union. The first nulliher re-
mains to be found. She has no affinity with trail
tors; her women and children would cry them
selves blind and her brave men would run mad,
if division should begin. The story is all gam
mon; it is an invention of the bulls and the
bears"-propagated by their hired penny-a'liners
and terrible-accident writers"
In whose behalf is it that we are called on to pay
ten millions? Texas AYERS that she don't ask IT.
We have right to take her at her word, though
we know her mouth waters for the money and
when she has got it she will, like the lewd woman
named in Scripture, wipe her lips, and say, 81
Sxpe ssgne nv As.yss, - '.. -..s,.t.e~ - 81.
Sir, will venture to predict that before we get
through these bills, we shall have proof of what |
say Let these bills rub hard-let their passage
De 1~chtssl, and we shsn see the ReN@senfapve
from Texas MIR. Howard come TO their rescue
Sir, | doubt not that Representative, who for
months has been "crammiDg our ears against the
stomach of our sense,n that Texas claims and in
sists upon the Rio Grande from its source to its
mouth as her boundary, that she will not barter
away her rghts-that she despises our goodwill
whip in with amazing alacrity when he discovers
that these bills cannot be passed without his vote.
Is there any particular goodwill or kindness
resulting from benefits conferred that we should
give TO Texas. and of course to hopeless slavery,
10 900 square miles Of territory, and SlO,0OO000
in money? Our connection with that country
has been one continued source of unmixed mis-
chief Almost the first official act which the Sens-
tors and Representatives from that State did, was
to repeal the tariff 1912, and inhct on us that OF
lS48-a tariff that has brought the manufacture
ing interests to the verge of ruin. In our folly
we conferred upon that State-then not as rich,
populous, or powerful, as some of the single Con-
gressional districts in the State of New York
two votes in the Senate, and two in this House,
and those votes struck down the tariff of 1912
The toling millions then learned-learned too
late-what confidence they ought to have reposed
on the notices emblazoned on the banners of the
unterrifed Democracy" Polk, Dallas, victory,
and the tariff of 1912"
The war in which she has involved us
has filled the land with mourning, lamentation
and woe Does the spirit that she affects now,
entitle her to our special regard "a State that
threatens the foullest treason, and robs her
children of the means of education, to enable
her to raise her parricidal arm against her
indulgent parent2 have not much affection for
this species of revolutionary claim. 1t is perfect
ly understood that our people were prompted to
90 to Texas With arms in their hands "to fight
for their rights to conquer the territory of
nation with whom we were at peace. They wen
singly and in pairs, and whole companies o
American armed men with American arms anC
Observation-Disclosures uniforms-marched at thu
sound of American music, under the glorious
American banner, to the conquest of Texas. /
is with shame and confusion of face that ADM
that our Government countenanced, nay, covert,
encouraged all these aggressions, with the mean
ing and intention Of acquiring slave territory
Had this Government taken half the pains Il
suppress this invasion Of Texas, that it did to pu
down the popular excitement at the North in pa
triot times or the invasion Of Cuba during THU
session, we should have had no battle of San ia
cinto, no Texan independence, no annexation, m
Mexican war. Our people are prone to such
forays we need to use all reasonable restraints
and especially it should be understood that Mt
money lender will be safe that advances money
for such revolutionary purposes. We are nov
looking with more eagerness towards Cuba thar
we once did towards Texas. How long before
General Lopez will issue his scrip How Ions
before the American Congress will be called OF
to redeem it2 When will there be an end o
these claimsl What guarantee have We that ter
all honp nd 10 ha labs
of Texas, are we not by virtue Of the same prn
ciple bound to pay the debts of Mexico2 w,
appropriated her revenues for year; We appro
priated her territory that was pledged for the
payment of her debts; We have already removed
from her mines over thirty tons of gold Have
care the creditors of Mexico will be upon you.
protest against the payment Of this money
for the reason that it is done under the false pre-
tence that we are buying land of Texas-undel
the false pretence that we are equitably bound tc
pay her gambling debts. Admit this principle
tolerate this pretence, and it will be Immediately
claimed that all the territory which we have con.
quered or bought Of Mexico east Of the Rio
Grande is slave territory, because it once belonged
to Texas; and if we assert the fact to be other
wise, we shall then be told, as we are now, that
we are estopped from alleging that it did not be-
long to Texas, because we admitted that it did
by buying it Of Texas and paying ten millions
for it.
la whose behalf is it that we are called on tc
pav these ten millions2 Not those who earned
it-not those who fought and bled, nor the de-
scendants of those who died to achieve the indie.
pendence of Texas. Doubtful, very doubtful
whether dollar Of it finds its way into the peck
cts of those who fought the battle of San Jacin
to, or the survivors of those who were massacred
at the Alamo No! no no 1t is going to the
silk stocking and rutled-shirt gentry-those who
are clothed in purple and fine linen, and who fare
sumptuously every day; to those who have paid
for these Texas bonds, perhaps a shilling on a
dollar they are the bulls and the bears of the
stock market, who toll not, neither do they spin
and yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed
like one of these. If not the lineal descendants
they are of the same craft, occupation, and bust
ness, of those who were whipped out of certain