The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-29

history teaches now Se60Strel and SIENNA
cherib, and the Pharaohs, Zerxes, Cyrus. and
Alexander, C1sar, Antony, and Hannibal,
Ferdinand and Elizabeth, enlarged the boun-
dares of their own Kingdoms by the subjnga
ton Of others. We read Of conquest and OF
spoils, OF RACED cities, of captive trains and
triumphal arches then follows the treachery ;,
oppression, and revolt Of Satraps, with the
extinction of dynasties by the sword, cord, OF
bowl; then succeeds The disintegralion of an en-
pire like the waste of some magnificent estate.
This process of usurpation, conquest, annexa
ton, is subsequently, repeated until the people,
extermnated by wrong, disappears from the
scene. Centuries after, new race wander
around massive and monumental palaces, tenn
pies, and tombs, surrounded by fertile waste,
and gain great repute by deciphering inscrip
tons like those on an Indian buffalo robe,
and explaining that many jackdaws. ia solemn
procession, with few eats and snakes at in
tervals, by way Of punctuation. being inter
preted according to the rule the lri liogua in
scriptions, explain how Nimrod founded the
city in commemoration OF an Abysnnan tn
umph, and how 1t perfectly corroborates scrip
tural history.
Gentlemen who obtain their ideas of gov
eminent from reading HUME and GIBBoN with
an eye-glass, say such are the fruits of "annex-
alton" Extension of territory brings weakness
and diffusion of power. Then follows des-
potism, anarchy, depopulation; and they close
the book upon the axiom as established. To
those who commit the error of anticipating
similar consequences from the acquisition Of
territory by the United States, we have only
to say. "read the Texan newspapers" Ii
will be there seen that the mere fact of annexa-
ton has brought no evil, but good to the whole
human race. If, like the nations referred to, our
country should ever make her strength the rule
gifts action, and take by violence the property Of
others, the results of annexation will be totally
different The pernicious motipe will infuse
itself into the political system, and disso-
aution must follow to us as it has done to
Others. That the fact of annexing new ter
ritory has brought no mischief, but an increase
of strength, to the Union, requires no essay
The mere mention of Florida, Texas, and Cal
ifornia will be sufficient. But it is the rapid
progress and astonishing prosperity of Texas
which attracts our attention, because that State
relies en- agricultural industry alone, and has
none Of the adventurous advantages which has
made her gold endowed sister cynosure with
IN the few years that she has shone under the
auspices of American enterprise.
The newspapers of Texas are numerous, and
edited with as much ability and propriety as
elsewhere. Their advertising columns describe
valuable sugar estates and cotton plantations
The mineral resources of the country seem to
be remarkable. They consist not only of the
precious metals Of iron, gold, and silver, but of
marbles of every variety, some of them pecu-
liar-as uni Colorado, variegated, "madeporic,
containing animal remains, with regularly dis
posed dots, or circles of white, about seven
eighths of an inch in diameter, with perfectly
described five pointed stars in the centre 1.-The
body of the stone being black as jet. To
the population of Texas all the comforts Of
civilization seem TO be accessible; schools,
churches, and other social improvements ex
list and are rapidly spreading; The wild law
of selfprotectIon, which with the Anglo
Saxon is always preliminary to consti
tuition, has been superseded by statutes and
courts of justice, and from appearances every
Notwithstanding those of the State ITSELF
will be enforced. In word, region which
was fs~v years since regarded as wilderness
and refuge for wrong doors, is rapidly becom-
ing in every sense of the word a valuable and
worthy member of The American Union
Amongst The evidences of physical improve
ment in Texas and the just appreciation of her
interests, we note the determination to correct
the principal natural disadvantage TO which she
is subject: the want of sufficient means Of inter
communication. The rivers of Texas are OIL
that interesting class to which the upper Ohio
belong. just at the time they are most need
ed they stop payment. The interior of Texas
is therefore naturally vaueless for agricultural
purposes. 1t would cost bale of cotton or
hogshead of sugar to get either to market from
some sections of the State. Even now plan
ter often divides the proceeds of his crop in
equitable proportions between the wagon, the
steamboat, and the commission merchant. We
believe it costs the United States fifty dollars
a barrel TO deliver -four little beyond the
frontier Of Texas; and freights throughout the
State are proportionate. To obviate this dis
advantage, then, system of roads has been
organized which will bring immense sections of
healthy and fertile lands into culture and pro-
mote the rapid settlement of the State. As sig
nificant evidence of popular interest on this sub
ject, we observe that allof the Congressional and
Gubernatorial candidates, without rega I'd to par
ty, agree upon the Importance Of such system.
They are, besides. particularly intent upon
the prosecution of a route from FL Paso to the
Pacific. Messrs. GREELEY and CLARK ofNew
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