l'cSas.
{"character_count": 2690, "word_count": 498, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9761000275611877], "ccnet_perplexity": [1352.300048828125], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
We give on our First Page the opening
chapter of a Historical and Political view of
Texas, By one who is thoroughly familiar with
that country and deeply interested in its welfare
"a strong advocate for Annexation withal. We
should not have mentioned this as the sketch is
exceedingly interesting in the present posture of
affairs, but for the omission Of some facts from
the narrative which would give different color
ing TO much that is inserted. We shall barely
hint at these:


l. Ii is really absurd to talk at this day Of
Texas being rightfully a part Of Louisiana and
not of Mexico. How came it by a Spanish
name, and not French one How is it that
we never thought Of taking possession OF it be-
fore the Treaty of 1919? How is it that there
was a struggle there so late as 1913 between the
Revolutionary [MexicaDl and the Spanish par
tv, without any interference by cur Government?
How came it that in 1917 the Collector at New
Orleans wrote to Washington complaining of a
nest of freebootcrs and smugglers at Galveston
Bay who were the pests of the q ulf, and vet our
| Government never sent even a sloop to raise the
American flag there and assert the rghful supre-
macy of that flag No, 10, this attempt to re-
pudiate our own solemn Treaties, fixing the Sa-
| bne as our South. Western Boundary, will never
| do.


The argument that Texas belongs TO the Val
ley OF the Mississippi, and therefore would be con-
vcnient for us, is just as good with regard TO
| Canada as part Of the basin of the Great Lakes
and the st. Lawrence. The latter would avert
three times as much real danger and shut out ten
lines as much smuggling as the former. We
sHpposc no man ever took what was another $
without clear conviction that il was exceedingly
desirable to him. Ahab clearly thought SO of
Naboth's vineyard, as recorded in the Good Book ;
but that did not justify him in taking it.
We do not wonder that the Texans want to
come into the Union the terms proposed by
Tyler and the Immediate Annexationists; but we
do wonder that Americans can think Of consent
! ing. Texas is deeply in debt and openly at war ;
and her land-proprietors would Ike to have our
People pay the debt and finish the war, max
ing her lands worth millions whe-e they now
are hardly worth thousands, and Will not bring
iaoney at ali. But before Annexation becomes
an endursblc IDEA, Texas must finish her War;
procure from Mexico recognition OF her Inde
pendencc, assess her own debt on he, own lands
so as 10 secure its payment therefrom, (Which


would still leave every landholdera rabob on get
ling into The Union,] and adjust her Slavery to
he satisfaction Of the entire uaion. She Will
not do this vet g while