Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-03-28
Texas.

Texas,
f The division of Texas into three States
is said to be measure resolved upon in
Congress Some Of the papers speak
of it as Few idea, and charge that 1t is
another "Radical outrage" They for
get, OF do,not choose to state, that when
the annexation of the Texas was first ag-
itated by the Col. Benton, who claimed
that he was the father of, the measure,
the plan was to divide the new territory
nearly equally between the slaveholding
and non-slaveholding sectionsTthat is,
the principles of the Missouri Comprom-
ise were to be extended, with the neces-
sary notifications of boundary, to the
then nearly empty, wastes Of the young
Republic.
Texas has nearly 275, ,OC0 square miles
she is equal in surface to about 2lo
Rhode Islands, 1870 Delewares, % Mary
lands, s South Carolinas, I Ohies, 6 New
Yorks. She is, moreover, naturally di-
vided into coast and interior, river and
prairie regions; her seacoast line is near
ly as long as that of all New-England !;
a line from Ell Paso, on the Rio Grande,
TO the louisiana boundary, will measure
more than 700 miles, while transverse
line from the mouth OF the Rio Grande
20 the New-MeKico corner would he con-
siderably longer The material interests
of such an immense territory are natur-
ally diverse The seacoast and the adj
joining upland region Is favorable to sug-
ar and cotton. Away in the west, the
raising OF cattle and sheepis more profit
able, and Texan beet and wool are known
the country for abundance
and excellence. IN the east and south
the old style plantation system is rot
' ct extinct, and III these sections the
colored population principally reside. In
the central and northern portions there
are few negroes, but a great many Ger
man immigrants and adventures from
the Northern States. In the west, along
the Rio Grande, there is a predominance
of the original Mexican population, with
their peculiar customs and their intoler-
able laziness. In the northwest there is
an immense expanse Of territory not yet
settled by clFiiiZed men.
Texas suffered less during the war
than any other Southern States indeed,
her people found in the demands of the
Rebel army tor beef and grain an excel
lent opportunity for filling their pock-
cts, and came out in 1865 probably bet
ter off than they went in. just at this
time her people are voting for ConYen-
ton, to revise their constitution and re
sume their relations with the General
and ole of the incidental
questions discussed in their newspapers
IS this OF dividing the State. We pre-
sumo the Democrats there and in Con-
5ress will oppose the project; it certain
y is not pleasent to be hoist with ones
own petard; but now that Slavery IS
forever gone, we do not see any good
reason to oppose the division, while the
size OF the present State, the
liycrse habits and interests of the peo-
pie, and the additional enterprise which
would be infused by the creation of new
,enters of trade, capitals, officers and
legislatures, more than warrant the
;hange. Aside from these reasons, it
nay be argued that one OF the most et-
eetual means of breaking down the lin
serirg spirit of hostility to the General
Governments to divert and dissipate,
1y new political combinations, that spir-
t of State pride which clings SO power
uIly to the feelings and traditions Of the
,eople. e,.n.l 1ri66ne-
JOHN BULL's IGNoRNcE OF AMERICA
An American tourist, in communica-
ion to lie London Standard says
Ignorance is power with you. hon
,red your letter of introduction, and on
to your friend at the Bunker
Hill Monument, "There is where the
great Warren FELL" with eyeglass balan-
ed, he said, "Hurt him ?" A bystander
lisgusted, said, "Hell l.! it killed him.
Your junior editor at the Reform Club
'aid to me one day, "Yor may know a
brother of mine in America" AS he
gave me no locality, said, ~ was ac-
Iuainted at Washington, Philadelphia,
New York and Boston. In what part
of America is your brotherr' "ln Wio
Janeiro." | told him | did not rcmem-
Der him, and that he must have remov-
ed
This will do to rank with the intelli-
gence contained in an article in one OF
the London periodicals in the first part of
the war. Abiding to Burnsidn's capture
Of Newbern, North Carolina, it informed
It's readers that the Union Gen. Burnside
had landed his army at the head of the
and marching through Ken
lucky had taken by assault Newbern the
capital of Western Virginia!