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As the meeting:is'tQ'.covne again .o thne 18th inst., you request an ummediat an. swer on that subject, fir tha purpose of Jajing it before those ho may asseebre - an that oceasionr Accordingly, though such an answer must be.veryimperfect, from want of time, and though my gelieral impressions -in re . lation to this'suject were comtnurIicated to the publi iis iber.lsY, yet as. the state of the ues1 Uey appear to some to hae- materially alterdd since, and you .desire further explanatons: I hasten to Live a sketch of iy vieyrs.on ie case, as it now stands before tbtchiiinaity, By a c-areful exaini:2on -of- fars aind *principles, .1 have forpmed a .conscientious convictios thar the imuiediate -annexation of Texas't'o th~e .United States is proper; The reasohn which have had most weight in bringing me to this codelusiotaare as follows: Because the territory of Texas lies so near:the great monarch of the Western isters, and. especially.. the mouth of the 3lississippi on the Gunlf of Mexico, and th'e emporiuw of Western commerce at New Orleans,. as to -be. very important, if not vital to their security, in the eent of war. And .its possession by us would 'at all timies oatribute essentially to protect act exposed frotitier -from the torch and scalping-knife .Of Idian outrage,.enabliang as much more eg-eceually to hold in sheek the aboriginals near, wheiher 'vithiin or without our pre spui boundarie%, wyhenever they may be ti,~rred sa nder thet foreign influence which h~s -too olleb .heretafore stumulatedl :a~irrocious-race t9 dirooch 9r- bgrders esue h ol iinon us. ihs to procure security and tranquility .to the il dustry and trade of the whbole M~ississippi valley, embracing over a million square snil~s and nine millions of people, is na nia aii not sectional, 'and 'deeply in *4v'tinterests as well as the nffec ness of their kindred in the Ke other poriion of out fra -iriali C ~~at. ..It is an 'ohligiion s:trongerndtioem,fpssible, titan Ihat'was half a cen ot rocure the fre'Edom ofibteir tr~etrtg~~ree.na iigationof the Mississii vr4 bect -which; after our ilee iew ev -ei, long agitated~ the an :o'n~ of the fathers of-the Revolutio -.~nt dering its momentoups importan too then, but tlhe-giilg future,. asa ene choplgurchased tthe expense oYn *Ii im ''bnWgI-duisiangeUnd af~t~ cl4ied bgy t tie sacrill if and ~ a~rson the plains of NaeOdui Because-t is annexation would aecure the o Miind' outhivest against othe' vi tcbiss lliions in thoe i .sopai !~ur'r~erm whlis i so a forein Sair a Ipnaiural boa uuii 1liffdcrcnr- p W_ i'Mt erent, if not hos at'' aexposure tofdo gt,,g"~tin ugepropjety and dg adginsti aSoni +o 'iw e thand. tJpmbtliUDnse les,7asucbtaslthbyabre into the Unin: Vib;'nder CIegu antH s s id till' it talygi 'sine .e naeantieiso .4e~ii 6 an :eeptall.,2 rii 181.1: Sorc e o lijtidu re e h arrE cc~l y et'bi11nt tiosa auerhaiezdi'iquifer xas, in..its" ceit 6fitds ,;i oa"ner 'a:Wgsern~ogr o hern; i tl~ca" ,l gr-eat inierestihto eve uy~uar r . eimnf~igncO~tir y- bek trieriC utea Lt . i .d.bs'ry by opening toag re .r e zesail'in4- ;e'uial Ic)tmaes br by t, a wi er bome :nii fo anfstaesorb 1uisiing newelc trn e ;ztd- hewbays. and- ris i. t tee n;uigationof Wes fern itesater/Mg we .coasting nd freighiingWesselsfron tlie ast 4n- finally -beamuse l yibis annetatin we.shold oot only. restbre;to -the Union a territorythtU desirable_ but onebought in 1.803 -by a Awivotreasus-deeuddp .in.n '_1 2by ouwa arims-anboub ceded away in 189.gyeitits con~enaiwgs notasked toqte anesurei an 1Jtherefore at seems still. epiitled bye expressieligatioTaff tle origioaLe y,.be =admitted into the Uioii ad't enjo il~sp rilegas -and rigbis. A setarory'w icbIsa never United w11hwtni lther rou.t ' ; except as apart pfl d ' atdent 'to e in thidtinfedera ejeali ve ,l hjt opessions and isurpa6tio'snf Sata Alma, re iaserted its rte as "t rodepeode't.G velmeni, and. bas since-suciessfully ritaisned those. 'ghte i with The lives the fortuies, and_ he sacred' honor," of itsi people; ada, by the omm n originuf 'most ofthem .witi oiirseiveh no le han their common ed catio4 Ieligionforur of governtent: and social jasbtution;js. weil as Sa'ozi blood, beside th ir continiou ieiducer;.elahns underfortier1reities they are beteisuiteif to ubite'with us uihai any othe? power. or r alonslike theie, as thaef are. now esirou' of annexatio; i'hikh dilals may endaget if pot defeaf, thto'gh disa'ppoint meat and foteign interference, it obght, in my opinion, to be sanctioned.; and if .ai end is ever to beemade ofpredatory and utcivilled mainauding or of intrigue andl entadgernen;6p other foreign .powers, it would seem wise, .as-well a6- humane, to do it forthwith;.or in~the langruage of-him who -as so loig lived in the. hearis of our jeople,-at the"preseni golden moment:". But I am atkare that several: objections ba.o bien urged against tie .annexation of Texas. and -as some of thehi -come from entlenen long anl..highly 'appreciated, and with whoin a difference of opinion on o interesting a topie is much regretted, it is 'dueto them and the occasion that- I shodld explain my vietysgenerally on such of these o'jecuous as seem to be most prominent.. I ..The annexation is opposed by some, on the ground that will make our territory too.large; but experience has evinced that a representative republic can, with conve nience and efficiency, extend our .limits far wider than from the St. Croix to the Rio del Norte: indeed; by the aid of rail roads and steam; the Union,. with Texas inluded, wvill bie far more accessible in all i~ts parts,teither for business or government, han it was at the -Revolution with only thirteen States, and-those all situated. on the narrow belt'of the eastern declivities of thd Allegbanies.- And this objection, if tenable,. should have been uriged, and pre vailed, before-we purchasedl either Louisi ana orthFord. 2. The annexati' Elas been opposed, as inclining the balance of pohliial power in our system :1oo mutch in favor of :he West and South. But the same course of reasoning would strip us of all our grseat domain on the Pacific ocean-a'eduutry nevert'o be'surrendered whbile an Ameri can whtaler visits its waters, or an Ameri can emigranit chooses in fish, hunt or plant on the bank of the Co3lumbia. It- would also, frdom like apprehensions as -to ithe ba lance of power-in the~ North, prevent any futuro peaceable annexation of the Cana das, so ardently contemnplated by oir fa thers from the commencement ufithe Revo lutio; and it would heretofore .have de feted the purchase of the Floriudas by-Mr sonrdg, and of Luisiana, including Tex byIr. .Jefferson ; and would nut only ast eensQra oi thcem and their venerable coadjutors,'for'ij~ns fleranging the balance of power then, but 'ouM t~dd reproach on M'ssrs. Adamsand Clay 'or ittempting-tr regain' -Texisasn- 1825 and lo2i, and on General- 'Jacksdn anti Mr. Van littred co a like attempt in 1829; and, what ittI worse,- by this-conrse of reasoning, for seeking, as wvas done in 1835 :by General Jackson and Mr. orsyth; to obtain a vant tract of additinale o~ty still farther south and west,:fror: th rty-seod 1degree of latituie to the itsienth .eand strtetch -n towards tle'setting ded that de racrosse the enire cotl et'. -lt, in h the durable interesisi ofthie hole are believed toe'i''-be~fe'ioI6d to ti 8occasionsas-now; and the the6 eti1' ceoT power, if adverted to at all, sb-fer endanger tj e pracical woi-dan;fosstmm. whice ill-always be nhosr attractive, strongest, -ani most flourishing, where freste-unlesa -liberty -and progress are. thie.re phaitoims of rha irigination-aixd will'valways produce greatest harmony ene iast influenced by any sectionaljealaoqiessorslogal'prejudices. -.3. The annexation basheen deprecated by nome as likely ioebutse disuoign, wyhen utilgitiipate objects s to secure.the great iniearests and compromises, of the Union I trust;"forever unless thwarte-d'by'a disre gard ;f plighted'-faitband 1iy fanatical evjoationsof those nlemncpmpromises ' is opposes by othis on ~account of thbtidnifes afert1ef thrfesousssigned I iinas i a ieasri ought-to be zejected ibecause 'nv one may please to urge'some weat reasons" for-it- By others, beeadse a few of its advocates are-suspect ed beli intferested in the .Iuestion; :.as f thatcould inipair the usefulness of jhe. annexation isslf' -or;-was not aliays :an incident to:almost every question of mag itude.. Ai d'byothers still, because the. auspices nder-which the measure is now pirppsedavi.e diiliked as if the necessity A.valae-of a ift:or purchase depended upo the cbarnererof the agent employed. 5 is5resattedbyinany -for the reason that-slavery exists in Texas. . That is an intatiution; to be sure, which most people, born atthe:North -are, like myself, averse to. But those wlo respect the Copstitu tion and tbe Union remember that it is an ifstitution which.ourparent country, before the fevolution, forced upon both the North and Jhe South which, after being more deepy intewoven'.ihrough the social' and political systems of the latter, the'rest of the States did' not hesitate to confederate with her in"-fi htiog the battles of Inde pendenee; nor to-counsel. with her 'he roes patriot's, and statesmen, in forming the presect Constitution; nor to associate with-them in earrying. out its greantdesti uies; nor in guarantering their property and rights in common with the rest, then and during the half century since, in peace and id.war,.and in-weal or wo. However deprecated by many of us, we know that none can legally abolish the in stitutior.but those who possess. it; and that while this has always been done since the Revolution by nearly half of the owl States,. tt may .continue, to be done by Texas herself, as well as others, sooner or latei-; when.their sense of duty and safety maj'permit it, if left tranquilly to the ex eresse'of their own rights. What effect the annexation of Texas will really have on this measure, seems to be doubted by some of its opponents, arong whom the most distinguished thinks it will add more free than slave States. But-'however that may be, the friends of aonexatiion.believe that, while a rejection ofit must leave the institution of slavery just as it is,.without migration, the acceptance of it caiinot add to the whole number of slaves now in Texas and the United States together; and, if dispersing that -number over a- wider space, will gradually tend to make their freedom-less expensive and mabre easy in any one State; or, if coiteentrating tlieri further Scuth than now, will render vof untary emancipation more Northwardly still speedier and safer. Whether such considerations have predonderated before: in ovei'coming this objection with many of our most eminent friends of liberty and philanthropy, I know not ; but certain- it is, that it did not prevent Mr. Jefferson and his Northern Democratic friends from' purchasing Louisiana, including Texas herself, in 1803; nor Florida from being bought liy Messrs. Monroe and Adams in 1819; nor Texas again from being nego tiated for by Messrs. Adams and Clay in 1825 and 1827; and by General Jackson and Mr. Van Buren in the summe'r of 1829-the decree of Miexico for abolish ing slavery in her. posseeaions -nol being issued till September 15, 1826. X will only add, in order to avoid misapprehen sion, that so far from feeling opposed to the termination of slavery by all legal, safe, and corrstitutional means, none. could i-ejoice imure heartily thtan myself in see it thus ended-the world over; and amnong the whites, as well as :black;, amomg the dis franchised, the serfs 'an'd paupers'of~u rope, and.;een the dark H indoos, as well asetbe sable-sens of Africa ;.not confining my sympaf.hies to .color or.name, but, to real suffering anil degradation bmong the whole human race, and to their relief, 'by introducing gradually a superior. tate'of intelligence, religion and rights; rather than by a'tash'eus'ade against'.lawv and order, and lhe-pubilio peace. 6. The'-annexation is. dis'pfoveti by others, because considered unii'm'isit ution ani. 'But as the provifin fcir iimrouci. oiew States was alteied in its' prgrass thrugh the convention, so as to leaye the language brondh enu noitit:Id'dtititm~y without, as well as -wiihii,'ouroriginal Jimits ; and .as the adomisiba 'ifLufsiarda, 4rkansas, and Missonuri since 'ihto the Union, though not embraced within our o1.l boundaries, beaides th'e purchases of Florida~and Louisiaiatas. 'teriturY'l'a've al~en. plieitha eild.aioiould 6.e~ egar dcad as officially settled~fnfavyor of anoexa I n replly to some objections wbh' have been urged against 'the &diissioni of the whole territory of anytito, raffier'than a' Ipafta'nd of its-sovereignty, as wg asifr; rorj ihe principles involved in tiaiove acciionsandthe 16angonthjCgti thus ,e~a r4iJ~ha~ste - o anft sqg of rc 4u sanction to su misiot r r'.t I der Constiiison, sad' the prineipletiof publi tla edeit 'the consent -of-s hose ceded thea o ih .}in ' n ~ ~ Uo:-ier tbaipiitfongress; by .projefrv'lags 'ant truatiel: And ifthe people and the.idde pen'dent Republic of Texps are, for thi' reasoinot as compelent to- unite with i entirely as they are to cede only a part o theirn tdj that the absurdity wpuld seem fo 4o1ow, that -they, never can be competent ;.fit admission into'the Union, though. releggnized by''Mexico, and no shailovw of ur existing, till they become qualhled h.54bandoning their independence -repudiating.republicanium, and as a ser vile depend idyof reconquest of the mon archs of Spain or Mexico; be sold merely as a portion of their. er itorv to the U.; . Laity1 "ihis ;measure is opposed by some lrom fear that such a step will subject us to a war wiih:Mexido, or-some other _foresgn,power. Butttie rigiht of Teias-ts ced;aiand the righrof lte :United States to accept her territory, aid admit ifinio the Union; with .out producing ay exposure to a Jist war froman y quarter, is, in-myopiaion,.clear. [i tbe puplise of Iouisiani we ob raineditfi.i arjlimita Texas,- as cer tainly; ae w eobtitied "tle island of New Orleans" according. to tho opiuions of such jurists and diplomatist as Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, LiviughionnClay, and. evn .4dams, in 1818 ;-and, as- sinco do velopedpf Doti Onis himself..if not of the Spanisi Govem.ent- But we have-ceded it aay- by a ..treaty .ratified. iu ;1320, the revolution frouhi qtha ear.until 124 break ing out, and ripening. in all- the Spanish provinces west of us,.each actedand made constitutions for. itself, .like ourselves after 1776, as independent-States.,, Texas and Coahula making one.for therodel*oesjoined the. Mexican Confederacy in- 1824 as an. indepeiint State ; remained faithful to it till dissolved ten years after-by the usur pations. of.Santa Anna;.refused, as was their right, to unite in his new consolida ted Governpnent, built upon the ruins of, the former Confederacy; and -has remained and acted since as she began, an indepen dent sovereignty. What duty--then to Mexico has she. violated ? The wrong is on th6 other side. Where is the justice ror Mexico now to hold, or now to rule her? And more.especially on the princi ples now set up by Mexico, when twelve years before the latter was recognized by Spain as independent, Texas had' estab lished he 'own- Constitution, ana " two years-befui-e that event had separated eg irely from. the Mexican Confederacy. But if thi ;view, of the case should ap pear in any respect objectionable. thereis snother, which. shows the . ataexgltioo to be proper and just. - Aso. purchased Tedas in 1603; -within th'limnits-of Louisiana, and then engaged b-tresty to admit her into, the Union,,-!as iootias possible.'consistent with the prin ei ples of-the Constitution, and to.allow to br;in inhabitants all the rights and immu ntities of citizens, how could we rid our selves of that engagement,. without first getting the consent of France, with whom. the treaty was made, or of Texas,.-which was the party more immediatol to 'njoy those benefits ? Yet, without askiing the consentof either, we unadvisedly 'in-1819,. undertook to cede Texas to Spaid. This cession, being without authority, seems in law to have been-imperfect or inoperative, and Texas to remain still possesed of a right, which she now. vii tuilly asks, to en ter the Union, and to have conferred on her people all the privileges :vbich the original treaty promised. In tbisaspect of the case, if we would retpioilaj9 good faith and the sancti:y of treaueswe ought to execute the stipulation 'frsrtmade. by now admitting ler; and if any infury should result therefror to Spain or Mexi co, und'er. the provisions of subsequent t(reaties nat being-able to be longer-fulfill ed, the amount of damage ought to-be paid to-those who suffer. But-tvhen it is rec-. ollected that we have.. tgr- guaranried' the integrity of the teri'stories of either of thiem, and the very' defective title, if any. which either retains over Texas, th'erei could be no great diflculty in estimalting this damaage. . -So far as'regards wvar on this ifecirntf, t6e jsm cause fdr one siems to be on tlie part of France or Texas, if wvedo-.nro annex-'the-latter1 rather. nharrit~jhepart of Mexico if we do. - The. soleinuittand -inviolability- of -the-treaty of 1803 must be quite as great as that of eithrerl8t8,1828, oir any other mdre recent; . - But, finally, soipposingtahht both these views of .tbe subjects- ~a~rntenable(~and for the sake of argum'ent, indulging a ino( mont in the idea that Texas wasr no; em* braced iihin tiie limitts ofLoisiana, or if so, uvaiegally cd<q pain and asf terwards became an -isniegrajzpo le Mexican .empre--.badshe''or, wieAi teritns of her codfed$r$twh3bl.Q3 .verutmett became wantonl ts ae e citizens imprisoned, ,an'd be' pa~ es outraged-had she'n'ota rights bId maintaitn her itndep'endence 2i1E.h not have been false to her America loid not to bnve .done it on thge~A or Sa *acinto, -as well as down 9 b preses1 tmonieuit ? - -- ~ ~ -' *She has done.it, tog; in suc - noera forn, no less tha substance a'nqd j prebension justifies othdr actostt' Ong her as arde reas* wellia est ic ernanou*LIlai obmtshlt I ~6ede~tOFito tounie her-g)~l mtetinoan t~. out gtvvlng just cb :--Whi eNr~ttcornn sense tests o?-ull 1sub~ e. tf'iidmf .Territbry,ibishesa bigs daiian~ad italirge-as efour adi our orn~ 'St ates. If ponulation, she ha otiss agng- d&eiet deszatosfrom twin to three: hundred thousand people.of laU kind if'a regular cons'"iaiti ot g t'go met and code of lawsusi hkibot6- fl a 'niforin administratiorn of uslj'ajd tbe righis of conscience aecur. air tiper than tile poieeutn of the Q thidbirpdgion. alone, as in Mexico she-eaj64sboth has troops and ships of-war. She Jias had her indepenednce ackinowledged'by .the Uniied States,.by GreaB~itairAi Fratice. and,- indeed, -alireargoiq a ofChris teddom, not under .the .sway o ;the Holy Alliance and she has. reties of ,con merce and international a ents with most of them, Scarca Hostile foot, oven from Mexico, irofaned-her oil from'1836, when Santa AnntpubIlcly dsuted 'witt her to end the war, to 1840. ; nd the preda tory.ineurpions- since, in breach of bis sol-' emn compact, and in a manner. violaiug the riules of civilized warfare; have never secured a lodgment withiti hei boundaries for a single month at a-time: . 6o tow6i1 castles, or counties, have there'been- Jeld by her old enemy in doub'fulor dvided empire. lIei-rivoluiion is notuin eibiyo but full grown. Not going on by'prepat atory.steps,-but finished-stable.: 1otdre tracted by rival constirations; rival ciefiF tians, and rival armies, such as iobtdeso lated ifany gpanisli prayincesi-bit doinef tic harmony and peace reign'throdghot. Their-prisons are not filled -with poliucal victim.; Ordpr, add law, and:the rights of -property are resp' 'and neither tast,.duor. education, nor syr iathies :of iny kind .re lingering rpudd their former government, and smoothing the' way to;, the remotest thought at 'reconciliation. Under this condition of things; how'prap-' erly ' have the -Udited States, --tr-forne years,.orged on Mexido, that the- inde pendence of Texas ought to be' ecognized by her, and no further Iostilities waged ? France and England have done the same; and the ltter seinceI840,.and'boundher self, by treaty of mediation, to try' td- ro cure an abandohmeac of the 'claims 'of Mexico. ' What fears, then. ought -d;bo entertained; after such advice sfom'such nations, of our being involved in. any jis. ifiable war, by means of'tie annexation'? But-Texas has other qualities aindcharic tenstics of a nation, showing. b.prcomp& tent to enter into'any contraet dr.Zaetange ment with other -nations,-asefilly at4g oldest powers of. Europe.- eidssbWt. iug been for-several years admitzed,uf all; - respects,-into - the great-family: oE'nitidns, she is liable for her own- wrongs to tiem, and is held so, and not ieico, as .appears by' her treaty of iidemnity-to join us'r . She is authorized to seek redress forinjnu ries to, herself, and not .lexico fr~ sei and-she has, in this way; and by treaties; binding her cominmerce,.limits, soil, and ja risdiction, been mueh'wider acknow edget and longer in the independent goveramei, of herself, than ad Bounapart iii Jrauee when he sold. Louisiana to us., Such,.1 admit, was not the pqsition of affairs when annexation wes pr opd- andfe cliied in 1837, but their affairstafwe made great istrides since .and one unfortunate mistake with soine, in thereoaideration'of this topic, appears: o be in not fefleyug enough on the.changes in herirelaions an'd national maturity and stabilitymade [ry the progress of time andevents auring thb past seven years. It.is manifest, iut-zta. people have, bysound.principles,. "a.ighf to seft-overnm'enst and when opiressed, can, like the Jnited States, properipeyv from England, or .Mexico from, pa o Texas from Nexiconud .having d'elard their, iidependeqee, do'maintain; it:;noiti.1 they give as this case all .itbea.isnel nd' cations among nationsbfomanb'dd s cretion, power, justice; indfoidelb <juestion:of their de''*# idvek~ihi becomes' air clearly etzlediie aiz~~il thuid pernsa's their difctle ~ r~n ty.:. .h6 :assent orack nowl~~tio their oldinastr doad o ~~tii~s right,.butb lVadrnits~ or apprentices, chpm3igtoti .tre apd acting as suce4~i* frore-the facets ofte~ cddiwleged-orno b tho suci and dd reflsii or prxdi. the hu Tei,3iI 'quished d~h,7'. qestio~ai~d a t k~~u6a we. -ga ia@4as~-s stgl a d, orf ety ' -old usi us ' iecttoer'- ~sse ong xa o~l~lough Spain was - tileug ti~j.fk litfee wiilife~ ansofi s onsidered Oi 14 siolMeico ?indthog Sipain never reonised hier indepe~siis~ tilleien yea after? 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