The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-09-05
From tile ", O Crescent.
From Texas.

BY the arrival of the steamship Portland
from Galveston, we are placed IN possession
of part of our files of papers from part of
Texas.
The legislature. according to the procla-
nation of the Governor, assembled, in ex
ira session, at Austin on the 18th. On the
| 9Th Gov. Bell commun Gated to the two
Houses his Mes age, for which we have
room only for a few extracts.
After reviewing the causes which have
led to the unfortunate dispute in regard to
the boundary line between Texas and New
Mexico-the subject on account of which
the Legislature had been called together
in extraordinary session. he says:
II am fully sensible that this is ques
ton involving the most serious considera-
ton, and i'll its contemplation there is COM
mingled much of hope and apprehension.
| But who will falter in thr pathway Of duty
though the wrong.dOer be there mighty and
powerful? On the one hand our devotion to
the Union-a devotion manifested in the
cohfding spirit with which we yielded
many of the most i'm )ortant attributes of
sovereignty fol a connection with-renders
us averse to the adoption of measures,
which might seem by possibility TO contem-
! plate a collision with any of It's constituted
authorities; while on the other hand, Just
sense of what is due to ourselves, will not
permit us to submit to outrage and wrong
from any quarter. So long as we were per-
ntted to cherish hope, that there existed
no fixed or premeditated design, to deprive
us of our acknowledged and essential rights,
our language was that Of entreaty and sup
pication-our course that of forbearance
and moderation, but with the undeniable
evidence now before us of a settled deter
mination to despoil us, regardless of COM
pacts and constitutional guarantees, OF at
least one-third of our territory-a conllnu-
ance OF such language and such course
wOnld be degradation and shame
Difficult and embarrassing, then, as the
question undoubtly is, and however fraught
its contemplation with painful sol.citude,
we have left us no choice but to meet it. Ii
must be met boldly, and fearlessly and de-
terminedlv. Not by further supplication
or discussion with the Federal authorities
not by renewed appeals to their generosity
and sympathy; not by longer reliance on
the delusive hope that justice will yet be
extended to us; but by action-manly and
determined action on our part, by prompt
assertion Of our rights and practical main
! tenance of them with all the means we car
command, "at all hazards and to the IaSl
extremity"
After deeply, and l trust maturely, re-
hecting on this subject, with mind guided
by the most anxious desire, to take no s!eI
in it which would not command appro5a
ton of my fellow citizens and the reflect
, ing portion of those of our sister States
whose interest in this matter is strongly as
2 simulated to ours. it is my deliberate anC
firm conviction that there is now left us bu
+ one course consistent with honor, and {
! Just sense of which is due to ourselves as I
r sovereign community: and that is, the i'm
. mediate adoption by your honorable body
> with perfect unanimity, of such measure
as are necessary for the occupation of SAINTS
, Fe, with force equal to quell the arrOgan
nd1rebellious spirit now prevailing there
and to enable us to extend and firmly es
tablish the jurisdiction aud laws of tn
I State over il.
! Should he adoption and nnswerYing en-
forcement Of these measures lead to aeon