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He said that this proposition contemplated MI im- pOrtani change in the affairs of the country, which he OppOsedto. He was for the country as il Is, for the constitution IS, and or the Union il ls

 He contended that no power existed tp consum- mate this measure, either by juInt resolution, bill, treaty, or in ay nther way. In every form in which the question was presented il was proposition to be accepted by Texas.

 It was therefore A contract oI bargain wuh for eign power, which the consttut,on did not authorize. Ihis, il had been said, was case sui gtnais and that the power 10 annex Texas WIS seiipreseITing power winch every government possessed He reued mosl fully this argument, and conten- ded that the sepreserving power spoken of was a power whIch the people had, butnot the Government.

 He made some further points, which he argued wiIh considerable ability.

 MT Rrengle also addressed the committee on the same side of the question. He controyerted the po- sitiOn of Mr. Dromgooe that ihe admission of Yer afforded preceden, for the admissi ion of Tex as in the mode provided for in his bill. Vermont, by the Tr raty of l7S3, was brought with in the limits of the Territory of the United States. and was afterwards erected into State. At the time of her incorporation into the Union, she was not as alleged by Mir. Dromgoole, out of the limits of the United States therefore the case nI Vermont did not afford precedent for the proposition of Mir. | Bromgooie.

 He alluded To the position occupied by the dom- nnnt panty in this House, ths question al the last session. Then they were all in favor of the exercis ise of the treaty making power for the purpose o an- nextng Texas. Now they go for elirctns this ob- ject by legislative enactment. Both, however, can not exist. Wh, therefore ihis inconsistency If foreign territory could be acquired, and if the mode of doing ly uct resolution. conten- ded for by the other party, what right have now 10 Louisiana! Those poiions of Territory were acquired by treaty, and Il foreign territory could on- y be aequi'ed +, Legislative enactment, then the acquisition ot Louisiana and Florida unlawful, and We held lhem without ight.

 He p esented many other views and spoke to the end of bis hour.

 Mir. Cary of Maine succeeded Mir. B., and com nenced by administering rebuke to Mir. lancey, of A Alabama, who had minated that all the patriot ism q the country 10 be found south of Mason ana ixon's ne"

 9. iancey explained, and ssid he had been mls- undo st. od, and did not intend to call in question the palnotsm of his 'brUther democrats" in the North

 A,er The concnson of Mr. Cnry's remarks,

 Nr. Sample "f Illinois, got the floor, when the CCnmi,tee rUse.