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take great pleasure i'm stating III effects OF
"WHITCoAB's REMEDY The ASTHMA" on NV VIII.
She has suffered for years mo than my pen can DE-
SCRIBE with tine spasnDdic form OF thai terrib disease
consulted numerous ply sclsns OF The highest Lfy
TO rule or no purpose. As often twelve tmee
IN year she was brought 10 the gate death
curing Two or three watchers sometimes, trr several
Gays and nights IN es>ion. time. for hour,
would seem az AZ every bTeah Ii the last;
lged 10 open doors and wIudo mid yylnicr and
resosi 10 every expcdien that affection could devise
keep her aiive At she was so far gone thar
heard Of Whcomb's Remedy - acted ike chtr.-
u enabled her 10 sleep gu city IN few minutes
nearly broke up the disease. | keep constantly
hind--and though II has MOI cured IL mas d7n.
stationed here. shall be happy 10 answer any ir,H
ries Iespt citing her case and you liberty MAKE
any use OF the foregoing facts IhG WI ben b. the gi
ed Yours. truly, klMBALL HADLEl.
Mr.. BURNETT
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ASTHMA

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wchl ioI Tue annexation OF texas. i did SO In
the most perfect good faith. did so because ]
believed that Texas was an Independent State;
its independence had been acknowledged by
Great Britain and by France; because its peo-
pie went out from among US, and were of US, and
desired with one voice to be reannexed to the
Union. went for the annexation of Texas also
for another reason. That reason / now feel
called upon to state. 1t was a reason which
was proclaimed through the whole length and
breadth of the land. Every man in Congress
who spoke on that subject mentioned it. Every
man from the North or the South who spoke Of
the annexation of Texas, and in its relations to
the existence of Slavery in this country. adyo-
Gated the same idea or kept silence. refer to
the reason advanced by Mr.. Walker in his eel.
ebrated letter in favor of the annexation of
Texas. Irefer to the speech of the present Chief
Executive Magistrate, Mr.. Buchanan. l refer
to the speech of General Ashley of Arkansas.
Mr.. Tibbatta, Of Kentucky, and will not say
hundreds ofothers, but many other persons upon
the same subject in the Congress of the United
States. What ground did they put forward :?
Upon what ground was the annexation of Texas
accepted by the American people 1t was upon
the express understanding, which was lust as
much a part of the compromise between the
people of the North and the South, on the sub.
ject the annexation of Texas, as if it had been
drawn ont and sealed and signed and delivered,
What was it? 1 beg to read very few words
from the declarations of these eminent men.
They speak for themselves. And, first, will
read from the letter of Mr.. Walker, who subse
quently became the Secretary of the Treasury
under the Administration which came into
power. Mr.. Walker said:
"Nor can it be disguised, that by the rean-
nexation, as the number Of free blacks aug.
mented in the slaveholding States, they would
be diffused gradually through Texas, into Mex
leo, and Central and Southern America, where
nine-tenths OF their present population are al
ready of the colored races, and where. from
their vast preponderance in number, thew are
not degraded caste, but upon a footing, not
merely of legal, but, what is far more import.
ant, of actual equality with the rest of the pop-
ulation. Here, then, if Texas is annexed,
throughout the vast region and salubrious and
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port, in order to maintain the integrity Of the
Spanish dominions."
Again, on the 4th of January. the Minister
of Foreign Affairs repeated these declarations
in form, relating to the island of Cuba. He
declared that
"If representative of foreign Power came
to make me an offer for the alienation of Cuba,
1 should at once interrupt him in his first
phrase, as soon as his first words caused me
to guess his purpose or notion, and would
tell him the effect produced by such intima-
tons on all Spanish minds. The retention OF
the island Of Cuba is not for US a question OF
interest or convenience-it is a question OF
dignity and honor. No advantage which
might accrue from it, no money or price that
could be heaped up before US, would be suff-
cient to determine Spain to sacrifice that glo-
rious relic of the precious discoveries and
magnificent conquests of our forefathers. The
alienation of Cubal Why, that ia q wild, pre-
posterous idea, which could not present itself
to any other than persons who do not know
Spain-who had never fathomed her deepest
! feelings"
Mr.. President, confess that il was with yery
great surprise that listened to the report OF
the honorable Senator from Louisiana. from the
Committee on Foreign Relations. When this
information was received direct from the Gov
eminent of Spain, showing that the Grown, the
Ministry, every member of both branches of the
Cortes, had rejected it, was still more sur.
prised that it should have been pressed on the
consideration of the American Congress. / do
not profess to be diplomatist; but consider
this mode of reaching Spain, for the purpose Of
inducing her to enter into negotiation to cede
to us the island of Cuba, is, to say the least OF
it, most egregious blunder.
If Spain should voluntarily cede the island o.
Cuba to the Government of the United States
it would be right for us to accept it; and if we
determined to accept it, neither England MOI
France, nor the world in arms, would deter me
for one moment in the course which / should
pursue. But, so long as Spain is in the right
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New York, Mr.. Dean of Ohio, General Ashley
of Arkansas, Mr.. Tibbatts of kentucky, and
very many other gentlemen, both from the
North and the South, took this same view :;
but will call especial attention to the language
of the present Chief Magistrate, Mr.. Buchanan,
then Senator on this floor. He said:
"After mature reflection, now believe that
the acquisition of Texas will be the means of
limiting, not enlarging, the dominion of Sla-
very. In the government Of the world, Provi-
dence generally produces great changes by
gradual means. There is nothing rash in the
councils of the Almighty. May not, then, the
acquisition of Texas be the means of drawing
the slaves far to the South, to climate more
congenial to their nature; and may they not
finally pass off into Mexico, and there mingle
with a race where no prejudice exists against
their color?"
"Texas will open an outlet, and Slavery itself
may thus finally pass the Del Norte, and be
lost in Mexico"
Mr.. President, l shall not take up the time
of the Senate now, by speaking on the various
compromises which, from time to time, have
been made in good faith between the North
and the South. shall not speak of the com
promise of 1920, nor of its violation in 1854. l
call especial attention to this understanding, by
whatever name it may be denominated. 1t was
the general conviction of the American people.
The very ground on which you asked to annex
Texas to the Union, was this most solemn as
sertion to the people of this country, that there
should never be any attempt to carry Slavery
beyond the Rio Grande; but that all free color
ed persons of African descent in the States of
this Union, who should desire to do SO, should
have the privilege of migrating into those re-
gions; and that those who hereafter should
become emancipated by the voluntary act Of
the master, or in any other way, would there
find homes among a people of their own raoe,
and an outlet by which they could be gradually
withdrawn from the States of this Republic,
and thus avert that calamity-of all other ca
lamities the most to be dreaded-the scenes of
ST. Domingo re-enacted within the Gulf States
of our own Confederacy.