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MISSISSIPPI DEMOCRAT. "THAT GOVERNMENT IS BEST WHICH GOVERNS LEAST. VOL. I. CARROLLTON, WEDNESDAY.

SEPTEMBER 10. 1845. NO. 39. PUBLISHED WEEKLY f.

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except to those with whom we have regular dealings. $oUtfcat. FROM THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW. ANNEXATION. It is now time for opposition to the Annexation of Texas to cease all further agitation of the waters of bitterness and strife, at least in connexion with this question, even though it may perhaps be required of us as a necessary condition of the freedom of our institutions, that we must live on forever in a state of unpaus-ing struggle and excitement upon some subject of party division or other.

But, in regard to Texas, enough has now been given to Party. It is time for the common duty of Patriotism to the Country to succeed; or if this claim will not be recognized, it is at least time for common sense to acqniesco with decent grace in the inevitable and the irrevocable. Texas is now ours. Already, before these words are written, her Convention has undoubtedly ralified the acceptance, by her Congress, of our proffered invitation into the Union; and made the requisite changes in her already republican form of constitution to adopt it to its future federal relations. Her star and "her stripe may already be said to have taken their place in the glorious blazon of our common nationality; a'nd the sweep of our eagle's wing already includes within its circuit the wide extent of her fair and fertile land.

She is no longer to us a mere geographical space a certain combination of coast, plain, mountain, valley, forest and stream. She is no longer to us a mere country on the map. She comes within the dear and sacred designation of Our Country no longer a "pays" she is part of "la patrie; and that which is at once a sentiment and a virtue, Patriotism, already begins to thrill for her, too, within the national heart. It is time, then, that all should cease to treat her as alien, and oven adverse cease to denounce and vilify all and everything connected with her accession cease to thwart and oppose the remaining steps for its consummation or where such efforts are felt to be unavail ing, at lea9t to embitter the hour of reception by all the most ungracious frowns of aversion and words of unwelcome. There has been enough of all this.

It has had its fitting day during the period when, in common with every other possible que9-tion of practical policy that can arise, it unfortunately became one of the leading topics of party division, of presidential electioneering. But that period has passed, and with it let its prejudices and its passions, its discords and its denunciations, pass away too. The next session of Congress will see the representatives of the new young State in their places in both our halls of national legislation, side by side with those of the old Thirteen. Let their reception into the family" be frank, kindly, and cheerful, as befits such an occasion, as comports not less with our own self-respect than patriotic duty towards them. Ill betide those foul birds that delight to 'file their own nest, and disgust the ear with perpetual discord of ill-omened croak.

Why, were other reasoning wanting in favor of now elevating this question of the reception of Texas into the Union, out of the lower region of our past party dissensions, up to its proper level of a high and broad nationality, it surely is to be found, found abundantly, in the manner in which other nations have undertaken to intrude themselves into it, between us and the proper parlies to the case, in a spirit of hostile interference against us, for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfilment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions. This we have seen done by England, our old rival and enemy; and by trance, strangely coupled with her ngajnst us, under the influence of the Anglicism strongly tinging the policy of her present prime minister, Guizot. The zealous activity with which this effort to defeat us was pushed by the representatives of those governments, together with the character of intrigue accompanying it, fully constituted that case of foreign interference, which Mr. Clay himself decla red should, and would unite us all in maintaining the common cause of our country against the foreigner and the foe. We are only astonished that this effect has not been more fully and strongly produced, and that the burst of indignation against this unauthorized, insolent, hostile interference has not been more general even among the party opposed to Annexation, and has not rallied the national spirit and national pride unanimously upon that policy.

We are very sure that if Mr. Clay himself were now to add another letter to his former Texas correspondence, he would express this sentiment, and carry out the idea already strongly stated in one of them, in a manner which would tax all the powers of blushing belonging to some of his party adherents. It i3 wholly untrue, and unjust to ourselves, the pretence that the Annexation has been a measure of spoliation, unright. ml and unrighteous of military conquest under furms of peace and law of territorial aggrandizement at the expense of jus-lice, and justice due by a double sanctity to the weak. This view of the question is wholly unfounded, and has been before so amply refuted in these pigcs, as well as in a thousand other modes, that we shall not again dwell upon it.

The independence of Texas was complete and ab-solute. It was an independence, not only in fact but of right. No obligation of duty towards Mexico tended in tire least degree to restrain ou. right to effect the desired recovery of the fair province once our own whatever motives of policy might have prompted more deferential consideration of her feelings and her pride, as involved in the question. If Texas became peopled with an American population, it was by no contrivance of our government, but on the express invitation of that of Mexico herself; accompanied with such guaranties of State independence, and the maintenance of a federal system analogous to our own, as constituted a compact fully justifying the strongest measures of redress on the part of those afterwards deceived in this guaranty, and sought to he enslaved under the yoke imposed by irs violation.

She was released, rightfully and absolutely released, from all Mexican allegiance, or duty of cohesion to the Mexican political body, by the acts and fault of Mexico herself, and Mexico alone. There never was a clearer case. It was not revolution; it was resistance to revolution and resistance under such circumstances as left independence the necessary resulting state, caused by the abandonment of those with whom her former federal association had existed. What then can be more preposterous than all this clamor by Mexico and the Mexican interest against Annexation, as a violation of any lights of hers, any dutb 3I ours? We would not be understood as approving in all its features the expediency or propriety of the mode in which the measure, rightful and wise as it is in itself, has been carried into effect. Its historv has been a sad tissue of diplomatic blundeiing.

How much belter it might have been managed how much more smoothly, satisfactorily, and successfully Instead of our present relations with iVJexico instead of the serious risks which have been run, and those plausibilities of opprobrium which we have had to combat, not without great difficulty, nor with entire success instead of the difficulties which now throng the path to a satisfactory settlement of all our unsettled questions with Mexico, Texas might, by a more judicious and conciliatory diplomacy, have been as securely in the Union as she is now her boundaries defined California probably ours and Mexico and ourselves united by closer lies than ever, of mutual friendship and mutual support in resistance to the intrusion of European interference in the affairs of the American republics. All this might have been, we little doubt, already secured, had counsels less violent, less rude, less one-sided, less eager in precipitation from motives widely foreign, to the national question, presided over the earlier stages of its history. We cannot too deeply regret the mismanagement which has disfigured the history of this question and especially the neglect of the means which would have been so easy, of satisfying even the unreasonable pretensions, and the excited pride and passion of Mexico. The singular result has been produced, that while our neighbor has, in truth, no real right to blame or complain when all the wrong is on her side, and there has been on ours a degree of delay and forbearance, in deference to her pretensions, which is to be paralleled by few precedents in the history of other nations we have yet laid ourselves open to a great deal of denunciation hard to and impossible to silence and all history will carry it down as a certain fact, that Mexico would have declared war a-gainat us, and would have waged it sen oualy, if she had not been prevented by that very weakness which ehould have constituted her best defence. We plead guilty to a degree of sensitive annoyance for the sake of the honor of our country, and its estimation in the lie opinion of the world which docs not find even in satisfied'eonscience full conso- lation for the very necessity of seeking consolation there.

And it is for this state of things that we hold responsible that gratuitous mismanagement, wholly apart from the main substantial rights and meiits of the question, to which alone it is to be ascribed; and which had its origin in its earlier 6tages, before the accession of Mr. Calhoun to the department of State. Nor is there any just foundation for the charge that Annexation is a ureat pro-Slavery measure calculated to increase and perpetuate that institution. Slavery had nothing to do with it. Opinions were and are greatly divided, both at the north and south, as to the influence to be exerted by it on slavery and the slave States.

That it will tend to facilitate and hasten the disappearance of slavery from all the northern tier of the present slave States, cannot surely admit of serious question. itie greater value in lexas ot ttie slave labor now employed in those States, must soon produce the effect of draining off that labor southwardly, by the same unvarying law that bids water descend the slope that invites it. Every new slave Siatc in Texas will make at least one free State from among those in which that institution now to say nothing of those portions of Texas on which slavery cannot spring and grow to say nothing of toe far more rapid growth of new States in the free West and Northwest, as these fine regions are! overspread by the emigration fast fl ving ovei them from Europe, as well as from the and Eastern States of the Union as it exists. On the other hand.it is undeniably much gained for the cause of the eventual volontary abolition of slavery. that it should have been thus drained off towards the only outlet which appeared I to furnish much probability ol the ultimate disappearance of the negro race from our borders.

The Spanish-Indian-American populations 01 oie.ico, central America and oouin America, attorn the only receptacle capable of absorbing ihar, ever we sh all be prepared to slouU it off to emancipate it from slavery, and (si-mukaoeonsly necessary) to remove it from the midst ol our own. Thcms dves already of mixed and confused blood, and free (mm which among us so insuperably forbid the social amalgamation which can alone elevate the Negro race out of a virtually servile degradation, even legally free, the regions occupied by those populations must strongly attract the black race in that direction and as soon as the destined hour of emancipation shall arrive, will relieve the question of one of its worst difficulties, if not absolutely the greatest. No Mr. Clay was right when lie declared that Annexation was a question with which Slavery had nothing to do. The country which was the subject of Annexation in this case, from its geographi-cal position and relations, happens to be or rather the portion of it now actually settled happens to be a slave, country.

But a similar process might have taken place in proximity to a different section of our Union; and indeed there i3 a great deal of Annexation yet to take place within the life of the present generation alonnr the whole line oPour northern border. Texas has been absorbed into the Union in the inevitable fulfilment of the general law which is rolling our population westward the connexion of which with that ratio of growth in population which is destined within a hundred years to swell our numbers to the enormous population of two hundred and fifty millions (if not more), is too evident to leave us in doubt of the manifest design of Providence in regard to the occupation" of this continent. It was disintegrated from Mexico in the natural course of events, by a process perfectly, legitimate cn is own part, blameless o. and in which all the censures due to wrong, perfidy and folly, rest on Mexico alone. And possessed ns it was by a population which was in truth but a colonial detachment from our own, and which was still bound by myriad ties of the very heart-strings to its old relations, domestic arid political, their incorporation into the Union was not only inevitable, but the most natural, rijrht and proper thing in the world and it is only astonishing that there should be any among ourselves to say it nav.

California will, probably, next fall away from the loose adhesion which, in such a country as Mexico, holds a remote province in a slight equivocal kind of depend-ance on the metropolis. Imbecile and distracted, Mexico never can exert any re al governmental authority over such a country. The impotence of the one, and the distance of the other, must make the relation one of virtual independence; un less, by stunting the province of all natural growth, and forbidding that immigration which can alone develope its capabilities, and fulfil the purposes of its creation, tyranny may retain a military dominion which is np government in tho legitimate sense of the term. In the case of California this is now impossible. The Anglo.

Saxon foot is nlready on its borders. Already the advanced guard of the invincible army of Anglo-Saxon emigration has ha Lgun to pour down upon inarmed with the plough and the rifle, and marking its trail with schools and colleges, courts an I re presentative halls, mills and meeiinir- 1 houses. A population will soon be in ac- tual Los-ession of Mexico, over which it 1 will be idle for Mexico, to dream of do- minion. 1 bey will necessarily becQM m. I independent.

All this without, the ages- a cy 01 our government wunoui tne ol luat fltr sibility of our people in the natural flow I therefore, of events, the spontaneous working of orin-! r.dvocas 0 tuples, and the adaptation of the tendon a here, thit cies and wants of the bum in race to th. paed. elemental circumstances iu the midst of hive trcatiei which they find themselves placed. Aad I manv are they will have a right to independence to few." The self government to the of tbei vitem nw homes conquered from the wild ernes byi iacdeaMtat their own labors and dangers, sufferings The Con and sicrifi-e? a better and truer for Comoro than the artificial title of sovereignty in aM ihi 1 Civ in 1 Mexico a thousand miles distant, inheriting on. Pr fromBpain a title good only against tho who love none better.

Their rijht to independence will be the natural right of self government bcl nging to anv com no a. nity -trong enough tomoin'ain it in ncsition, origin and character, an! Ire Mm' 1 -trtv. imitiifil nlit I I Inn. mA.n.. ship a common political bo binding it to oilers by the duty of loyalty and com 1 I I I till.

Ml ItU'll l. ft.l 1 I I pact publk faith. 'D will be their n- tie to independence 1 by this therecan be BO doubt now ast str.mini upon talttrnia, will lolh a-s-rt an I ib in th it in i Whether they 'ill iitin-h selves to otir Unin or i not to be with anv certainty. Unless the pro- railroad across the continent to the Pacific be carried into cffeci, perhaps they ma not though even in thai is not distant when the Empire of the At lantic and Pacific would ajain flow tlier into one, as soon as their inland bor ur should appro ich cacti tner. is at th it 1 great work, colossal as appears too an on nrT suestion.

cannot remain 1 (, lf ft unbuilt. Its this very purpose of binding and hiding- to-trr in i's iron clasp our fa-t sett'ing P.icific region with th it of the Mi-si-sippi val lb natur i facility of th route the f.i-e with which any amount ol labor for the natrtiction can be drawn in from the overcrowded population-- of irope, to he paid in the I mds mod' viluiblehy the pri gres-5 01 ine it-esi ana its nifnse utiii iv 10 tne commerce ol tne wor. with the wh do weforn st Aii. nl aim st sufficient the support ot' surh roao tnrs 3 consi ns give hU cau0 fca awwrssit that the day cannot be ditatit which shsJIMin.rv tnA tb I -I wi ness tne atives from Ureon and Calilornia vVidungton within less time than a fe ugu ucvoicu io a similar journey I by those Irom umo while the magnetic win cuuoit; iiiu Conors 01 me ran Francisco the Astoria Evening Po-t." or the Nootka vs' to set up in type the hrst Inlf 4 the President's inaugural, before the ecboe ot me latter nan sua 1 mss sses away te .1,,. i 1 .1 nu.uii mc iu po.Ln iipuoi, spoken trom bw Hps.

.1... .11 jv ij, 1m.11, wail a. 1 iuic i srni.i 11 i of balances of jwtrer on the Anien continent. There is no growth in BaajusS America! Whatever progress of popuit. tion there may be in the British Cam o.

is only for their own early severance lln n.ncn nl i a I rnl-i I ir.n ft I. l.tll. I.ILiI IMLCLIIk I i I I ItillllUII ftW ftftlC lll-tt ft. 11 ear. ov a course at island three thousand miles across the Atlantic; soon to be followed by Annexa tion, and destined to swell the still accumu lating momentum of our progress.

A whosoever may hold the bal ince, though they should cast into the opposite scale all the bayonets and cannon, not only of France and England, but of Europe entire, how would it kick the beam agninsi the simple solid weight of the two hundred and fifty, or three hundred millions destined to gather beneath the fl uier the stripes and stars, in the fast hastening vear of the Lord 114 An Italian Colohv. We understand that a scheme is on foot for bringing an association of Italians from their native country, to settle in the new-born St te of Texas. They are men of liberal political principles, wiio wish to breathe the air of a free country, to enjoy her blessings, and to advance her interests. Most of them have capitals of from $1,000 to $10,000. They wdl bring their families with them, and introduce into their new homes the arts of Italy, the cultivation of the vine and the olive, the manufactureo wine and of oil, and, if fou id suthcieutly profitablc, the raising of the silkworm and the manufacture of silk.

The scheme is not yet matured, and the arrangements are not reduced to detail. But an Ameri can, of energetic character and of a liberal mind, is concerned in the plan, and we wish him the most ample success in its ac cjmphshment. Washington Uio. Genuine guano has ieen discovered at the Pelican islands, Tomoco river, Florida Tho Floridian says it is plenty, and good quality. I promise the tmii TWe fricaoti aad ad ties duties bii aw th Government he iT to nr mmH kn mad first the da-v-, rn: to the tic it laeir A people.

I acJ ,4 33 jmk at As The mm te people for Sfowwfl of a svstetu tated nud the driviiij the reassl war t. mmtau their at lat 1 0 iv to a which justice wi to he daw by be-no int timet, and at the ec tea moderate tut nerawweat aeacd rWl9 ad opted. Wei, sew yww the people had 1 tirSd 0lif. They brnfcs u.d the pi-si rss VI. 1 I Mi t-d.

utter which enabled to daohla hear caattal his been lbs made by the kv nol r.n ke awSjahaj 1 wiri.i to sett the n. The true way to tt down the tariff in such a oiert nrotect.d br r-r but ao saw rev on re aj; other Uanulacturimr, whch fauly LA imT "iMtt bv the kmk lBe 1 lhere WIj hoth bnn QO ts th taral 1 in aaeh a wav a aBj naUT I n-'-- bititMi politician, who aim en i uits ot" the pcpl It dorr to lr. Poih. ahaald hs Kl4 llIP in 1 "II I ifLSMr 9M I Tun SotTH I thnil tjf pride and burst upon election news from Tnaawa aad Carolina. The South is awaed? has pro-i'ievd this wvid and serried raaks ot the A coram ranger aajf a saaassaa CP The ANNKXATfsat af Tax aad Kas I'radb, are the ens ami bas call e.i the bound them tag steel." See ho array! VltClNIl, NoajH-UAKo tOLTU CA Gkoeoia, Alabama, There is ms tcouJd be there, ah aiton and embrace her Spoildcb.id of zmta.

and nurtured an i reared hood Keutuck. bts worsa tas pal at his genius around her, aai I mm Mm mi li tfi il Not while Henry C.av tire. ah return to thus reat -te Rigbas prase. p'ss -r oan tv the Vtrsinia platf'Mrm, upon wtucb. Kentucky ex IF 1 (Us.) A g-d book aad a food cedent thing to th of! Tatna them, of both only by their coy THE TARIFF NO The Washington excellent article Nip It is a be? ti csaaaewtMV eat the to fi mi mbi elbe htceftsd pfasctaaw which waa gowa hy tartcsel fears by Vhsl at per rwt Ha ssfwtf fra t- taw vn nf etval 1 aad and aches 1 Hhi Easterns.

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