The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-11
Spirit of the Texas Press



Spirit of the Texas Press
ON THE SANTA FEE QUESTION.
From the .Hatngorda Tribune.
Seas Of blood would have to be waded through
before any such project as the use of force to
comnel Texas to surrender her claims and Weld
mn the Santa Fe territory, however feasible it
may appear, could he consummated, even by
the powerful nation Of the United States. Fierce
and angry would be the contest, before Texas
will submit to An invasion Of her rights. Texas
asks nothing more than what the resolutions an
nexing Texas to the Union guarantee to them,
and they will submit to nothing less. Secession
Is more preferable than dishonorable submission
10 an unjust encroachment upon the rights of n
weak power, when attempted to be enforced
by stronger one. The first demonstration
made by the United States to aid few aspi-
rants and insurrectionists to dismember the ter
ritory of Texas, at that very moment, just as
certain, will float upon the battements Of our
country, the Lone Star banner 1t now sleeps,
but when once aroused from its slumber and
once more unfurled to the breeze, no power,
however gigantic in strength, can force the peo
pie over whose heads il waves, to yield, until all
is lost and crushed beneath its folds.
Ten thousand Texan Rangers can be thrown
into the field, who will sustain themselves upon
beef and the wild horse Of the praries, when it
becomes necessary to contend in mortal combat
for their rights. But We never wish to see that
day come when Texas shall be arrayed in war
like attitude against our mother country. Yet
Justice has to be done-the boundary question
has to be settled, and God forbid that it shall
ever be necessary to resort to arms before the
same can be adjusted Nueces Valley.
L. this collision anticipated because the pre-
sent Executive Of the United States has denied
our right of possession, and asserted that he will
consider us intruders, if we attempt to take pos
session! Can it be seriously declared that
President Of the United States will have recourse
to arms, to prevent a sovereign State of this
Union, from enforcing its laws within its own
limits! But even should such an act of tyranny
be deemed possible, can our present Legislature
be deferred from the discharge of their duty BY
the mere apprehension of such an unprecedent
ed outrage? This Legislature is required te
preserve the honor of the State but how will i
be preserved, if. intimated by Executive threats
the members should adjourn and go home with
out taking tho necessary measures to have oul
laws enforced and our rights maintained! But
we will not imagine an event 80 disgraceful TO
our State, and so derogatory to the character
which Texans have always heretofore sustained.
Gal NetCS
Now that the Compromise project--that idol
of the Abolitionists-ha so gloriousy failed to
accomplish the object Of its designers, and it no
longer stands "veiled prophet" before the
vision of the Southern people, Texas can no
longer present the shadow Of an excuse for
procrastination in asserting her just claims and
enforcing them, if need be at all hazards--claims
which none but despotic and unjust power
would dare deny, or attempt to withhold.
a.. p
ing remarks Of the N. 0. Bulletin:
1--WE hope Texas will not be so silly as to
even make threat of marching force to Santa
Re, and still less that she will really attempt
such proceeding. Bayonets and cannon are
not the weapons which the American people are
in the habit of using in settling their domestic
difficulties nor would anything of the kind be
permitted in the present case. Such talk j.
ridiculous and idle, nor do we believe any idea
of the kind prevails in Texas"
The editor of the Bulletin no doubt is honest
in his pacific reIslrks in regard to Texas and
the General Government, but we would remind
him that it is much easier to give advice than to
practise it. Texas has betn most grossly in
suited, most outrageously treated by the Execu-
tive in attempting to wrest from her the terri
tory to which she has an undOubted right II
she should tamely submit, and crouch spaniel
like at the feet of her Oppressor, what guarantee
has she that her rights will be vindicated and
her wrongs redressed Ever faithful to the
General Government, her policy is peaceable
one, long as her constitutional rights are
respected, but touch her liberty and you arouse
the rattlesnake. The great heart of Texas has
been stirred from its depths. If the hand Of
oppression is not soon removed, hundred
thousand bayonets will ere long glsten in the
sunbeams Of freedom, and more than thou
sand cannons will herald to the world, that
Southern rights are sacred things, and must be
respected. Not 80 ridiculous and idle
As regards the course Texas will take there
is but one voice--and that voice will be heard
1t was heard in our own little city on the 2Sth
ult. Its patriotic tones fell upon the great
tympanum of the Texas ear as our worthy
fellow citizens, Mcssrs Frazer, Wigfall and
others, addressed an applauding multitude of
freemen There is but one feeling in Texas
give us our rights, peace--trample upon them,
war. Leonidas may fall, but he will die at the
pass.--Star State Patriot
From the Galveston .ht,rs.
If such a proposal is not dshonorable and in
sulting, we know not what can be So But again,