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CONNECTICUT THE FIRST STATE TO AGKNOW LEDGE

 HER INDEPENDENCE.

 The Texas question is one of great inte- rest at the present moment, and we are hap fy to perceive aa elevated public sentiment in regard to it. It is gratifying at all times 10 witness a high and correct tone as regards our foreign relations Our government has for some years failed more in tais particular than any other.

 Texas was formerly part of our territory, and 3Ir Jefferson, on the acquisition of the Louisiana territory, of which Texas was a part, euaraHtied 10 1t liberty and the protec- ton of our government. This guaranty and this article of Mir. Jeliersou's treaty was vio- lated, and Texas was transferred to Old Spain. Instead of protecting OUT country men as we had agreed, by treaty stipulation, we alienated them. Shortly after this alen- alton, Texas, resolving to maintain her li- bertes, became one of the sovereign states of the Mexican republic. When the consti- tution of Mexico was overthrown in 1894 and 1885, Texas refused to part with her constitutional and inherent rights, and raised the 6ag on which was emblazoned the lone star-she would not consent te be part ef t 

 Spanish crown, she refused to be governed by foreign tyrants-when the Mexican go- vernment was overthrown, she would no -1ouger remain connected with it. Alone she achieved and established her independence, and having established it, she now asks to be admitted into our confederation. Shall we refuse? and for what? Our union of States is chiefly for the purpose of common de- fence. Locally, each separate sovereignty controls it's own affairs. Texas can, as she has, take care of hers, but Ii would be for ourmutual beneGtto have her one of our com monwealths, united with Us for our common defence and for commercial advantages. She has shown that she can take care of herself, and repel aggression and wrong.

 The State of Connecticut has always ta- ken high and just ground as regards Texas. Our State was the first to recognise and ac- knowledge her independence. Hence, in 1886, within weeks after the celebrated battle of San .Jacinto, our legislature passed resolutions instructing our representatives to vote in favor of acknowledging her indepen- dence. These resolutions and the preamble, we re-publish. They were introduced by Thaddeus Welles, Esq, at that time mem Der of the legislature, and passed, we believe, by nearly unanimous vote. The position which Connecticut then took, she will proud ly maintain, and continue, as she began, the friend of Texas.

 RESOLUTIONS or 1886.

 Uhcreas, The people of Connecticut, one of the free and sovereign States of~this Re- public have witnessed with feelings of sym patby the struggle of the people of Texas to secure to themselves independence and free dom-and whereas, in maintaining their just and unalienable rights, thatpeople have been compelled to resist the powerand oppose the dominion of vastly superior numbers, who have exhibited more than savage feroeity and barbarity-deyastating their country with the ayowed object of either exterminating them, or reducing them to state of absolute de- pendence and subjugaton-and whereas, in this unequal contest, the TeXians have exhi- bited degree of wisdom and irmness, mo- iteration and bravery, that commands the sympathy of every friend of liberty and of his race-contending as they are for their rights, against barbarians, who have violated promises, broken faith, and murdered in cool blood delenceless and conliding personsl and whereas, the people of Texas, through their representatives,, have declared themselves in dependent-organized their form of govern ment, and published to the world their in- tention 10 become a free, sovereign, and in- dependent nation, distinct and independent of Mexico; and whereas, appreciating the high resolve and nalterable determination Of this gallant people to live free or die-be- lieving from what has already transpired, that their independence can and will be sustained: t becomes matter of duty and justice on the part of this Government 10 acknowledge their independence, and to recognise them as helonging to the family of Nations. There fore,

 Resofred, By the members Of the Senate and IIousn of Representatives in General As- sembly convened, That tue Senators from 