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Boy. PoSittrc :-RALEIGH, April l7lh. u
think 1t far more wise and important TO comps
and harmonic the present Confederacy as E0I
exists, than to Introduce new element of dstM
and distraction into II. True wisdom,
seems to me, points to the duty of rendering y
present members happy, prosperous, and satlsSa
-WHh each other, rather than to attempt 10 lnu'
duce alien members, against the common cOnse5'
and with the certainty Of deep dissatisfaction. W.
Jefferson expressed the opinion, and Others u.
HeVed, that 1t never was in the contemplate 4
the trainers ofthe Constitution to add foreign terD
ry to the ConfederacY, out of which new sac
were to be formed. The acquisition of LousIln
and Florida may be defended upon the pec1.p
ground OF the relation in which they stood oU
States of the Union. After they were admIts,
we might well pause while, people our "a
wastes, deVelope our resources, prepare the ms1D
OF defending what we possess, and augment w "
strength, power and greatness. If hereafter tuIno
territory should be wanted for an increased Pq,
latien, we need entertain no apprehension O1I w. ~
1t viii. be acquired by means, it is to be hoped %
honorable, and constitutional =. In the igII, iIg,
progress OF events, it is probable that there Wia
voluntary or forci6le separation of the Bll'.
North American possessions from the parent cVY " y
Try am strongly inclined to think that 1t VIII llI
best for the happiness of all parties, that ID M n
event, they should be erected into separate D., D.
independent Republic. With the CANADIAN tx ~
pliollc ON the one side, that of Texas on the
and the United States, the friend Of both pew pew
them, each could advance its own hapPne'., ,e
such constitutions, laws and measures as
pest ada ptedt to its peculiar condition Ihey Jadf
De natural allies, ready by co-opration to En
fnropean or foreign attack upon either