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the Gulf Many of her own people are with in the limits of Texas, and its battle fields are watered with the btood of many of her sons

 It was her own intrepid Milan, who headed the brave three hundred who, armed with IT. hes only, captured the fortress of Alamo; de- fended by heavy artillery, and thirteen hun

 dred of the picked troops of Mexico, under one of their best commanders And will Kentucky refuse to re-embrace so many of her own people nor permit them, without leaving Texas, to return to the American Un- ion? And if war should ever again revisit

 our country, Kentucky knows that the sea- dy aim of the western rlllemen, and the brave hearts and stout hands, within the. limits of Texas, are, in the hour of danger, among the surest defenders of the country, and especial ly of the valley of the West. The quston of remuneration, and of the restoration of an-

 cient boundaries, IS much stronger case than that of the purchase of new territory, It is "a stronger case also than the acquisition of

 Louisiana or Florida; not only upon the ground that these were both an acquisition

 of new territory, but that they embraced a foreign people, dissimilar to our own, in lan- guage, laws, and institutions; and transfer

 red without their knowledge or consent, by the act of an European king. More especial lv, in case like this, where the people of Texas occupy a region which was once ex-

 clusively our own; and this people, in whom

 we acknowledge to reside the only sover- eighty over the whole and every portion of Texas, desire the reannexation-that we can

 not re-establish our former boundaries, and

 restore to Ills the whole or any part of the ter

 ritory which was once our own, IS prope-

 sition, the bare statement of which Is its best refutation.