
Ri Hon Richard Pakeaham, &c. -

Letter from senator benton,
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Tothe members of the Texan Congress, in answerto


their Communication TO him expressing the wish OF


Texas TO be admitted into the American Union.
WASHINGTON CITY, April 80, 1S44.
GENTLEMEN: have seen in the newspapers
the, published copy of yanr Communication to me,
intended for the infdrmaionof the American Con-,
grrss, and expressing the desire of Texas to be-
admitted into the American Union, and shall take,
pleasure ir usire the original whenever it shah
arrive, accordingto yeur wishes Is,ywhen ilshall
arrive; for this original has not yet come TO mV
hands and therefore, cannot now be eonnmupi,
Gated to Congress-; and the copy being published
during my brief absence from tRescity, feel my
self laid under the necessity of giving public an
swer to yosr letter, in order TO avoid the aP-
pearance of.a dsrespcctfui inattenon to your
reqnest.


You have judged rightly, gentlemen, in address
ing your communication to me, and proposing TO
malte me the organ of your wishes to the Amer
can Congress. being, as am, the first opponrnt OF
the tEeaty wlfich dismembered your territory from
ouF Union the first advocate for Its recovery
the Supporter Of all prudent measures for that
purpose the enemy of all movements which
would involve the question insectional or partisan
politics and the firm believer in the speedy and
happy recovery of thr dismembered territory and
the nuiilated rivers, if'the question could be KEEP.
free from improper connexions, and con6r al
to the patriotic basis of nationality and honor.


/ was member Of the bar in ST. Louis in The
then Territory of Missouri, in the year 1918,
when the newspapers announced the progress OF
the treaty, which was signed in the February
following, and which threw away Texas dismem-
bered theRalley Of the Mississippi, mutiiated two
of our noblest rivers, brought foreign boundary
to the neighbOrhood of New Orleans, and estab-s
lished desart %barrier between Missouri and
Mexico to Interrupt their trade, and shelter the
depredators npon the lives md property of their
citizens. was not then in politics and had moth
ing to do with public affairs; hutI saw andfrIt OF
once the whole enormhy Of this gratuitous and
unaccounable sacrifice, and Instantly rsIlsed nv
voice aganst it in articles published inthe ST. Loua
papers, and IN which were given IN advance, ALI
the National reasons against throwing away the
country, which are now, after lapse Of twenty.s
five years, given BY, others for getting il back
E-was young and ardent then, and had some 1jFe
in me, and notsoaly wrote against the treaty, but
against IFS authors, and their motives and even
iHprecatrd acoe npon the heads ofthe Statesmen
who should continue to favor it." Mr. Adama the
negotiator aad the ostensible author of the tredty
was the etatemah against whom all my censare
was directed, and / was crrtainIy sincere in nv
then belief of MS gYest culpabIliy; hut the dec
Iatation which he has lately made eAo6rof ma
House of Representatives, absoIves him from aH
blame on the maiaEifyo of Dir. Mouroes cabinet,
town opinions, id esLabfishing The boundary WHICH
Il so much condemned


The voice of mere indiyiddal net Ia any pub
lie station, and thousand miles fom the seat OF


.sThs magnificent valley 6ffhe AisssAippi surs.