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eessarg" 10 prepare for war in time Of peace, tc


prepare against adversely in time Of prosperity


and to ward of danger andrain, whilStable anc


ere it be forever too late2 Thus, 4sif, to annex


Texas, becomes necessary and proper" four oul


defence against our eternal enemy, England En-


glands aims, none will derry, are decidedly agains


u.s.. Her desires, none will deny, are, if not IN


bounded, at least for increased territory. Texas


will, if her proposal ous be declined, make offers


to England. This, possibly, may be doubtful


Yet we must await probable dangers. Our course


must be one for safety and security. the trainers


of the Constitution certainly did not intend to for


bid this But should we postpone action until


Texas be annexed to England, we viii then have


postponed forever too long, and have foohshly
thrust ourselves into q danger, which could easily


have been aveFted If we could upIit the dark


curtain Of the future, and be assured that Texas


would not be attached to England, then, sir, our
union with Texas might not be necessary and


proper" On the contraxy, however, when the
circumstances of Texas are such as they are
when she is overpowered with great national
debt, placed in such dangerous relation with


Mexico and in one so precarious with respect to
the rest of the world-a common sense of propri-


ETY. suggests an allinnce with some stronger pow
er, in order to secure its preservation and surely
we will attribute to our Texan brethren ga COM
mon sense of propriety." II appears, then, if we
now refuse the offer from Texas, that her course-
her reasonable course-will be, to seek an annex


alton to England and if the annexation be sought,
Pol IF boro


wards our people, will prompt her to receive
Texas. How then will we stand in regard to
England, our acknowledged enemy-an enemy,
too, ever ready and eager to destroy usa Our
condition then, indeed, would be pitIable. In the
event of being engaged ia war with England, her
navy being so excessively large, and our eastern
and southern boundaries being sea, our northern
and. in the supposed case, our western boundary
also, being contiguous to British territory, we
would thus literally be surrounded by our foes
and bitterest enemies thus incarcerated, we would
be continually subject to frequent and sudden Bri-
tish aggressions, and become easy prey to the
cruel and hateful English: thus bfockaded on
every side by our foes, on the North, South, East
and West, nothing would be easier than, that our
foes should excite our negroes to nsurrection and
our Indians to hcsities, concentrate their hetero-
gcneous forces. and work our ruin Let every
American patriot ponder seriously upon this sub
jrct. Let every one ask himself if he does not
deem the proposed annexation as necessary and
proper" and hence Constitutional especially when
an omission to annex, would more than probably
be fraught with consequences which would prove
fatal and altogether caamitous to our happy
Union. Is any one willing to conntcnance con-
iuct which might cause our fair land to be de-
ugcd in blood, and that liberty bequeathed to us
BY our magnanimous fathers, to be snatched from
is by those very tyrants against whom our ances-
Ors fought trust that none such will be found.
10, not one. According to this view of the sub 1
ect, must confess that the annexation appears to
ne 10 be both expedient and constitutional. IfI q
his communication shall cause a single iudividu-
i to think candidly and deliberately upon the T
pBIect, my object will be attained s.B. j


Chapel Hill, N. c., April 9th, I844