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What Do We Want Texas For?

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
October
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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i "The exciting question between the Democrnfs nnd federal Whigs ond abolitioniste, is the annexntion of Texus. The Democracy viewing it as absoJutely necessary to secure Texas to the United Stntes, to slivt out all Brilish and foreign ivflvenct from tampering with the Indiana on our western frontier, and with OUR SLA VES in the Soüthwest and West."- Andrexo Jackmno Cavt. Rusesll, of Arkansa$, Juli 3, 1844. Here ig the object of "the JDemocracy" avowed by the highest authority. Mr. Calhoun, Secretnry of State, had before stated that the security of elavery was the object of the annexation project. Here comes the same atory repeated by the old hero of the Hermitage. Read it again, ye Democratsl (L73 The Democracy, viewing it as altohitely necessary to secure Texas to the United States, to shm out alt British and foreign intluenco frnm tampering with Odr slaves"!!! Hon. Henry A. Wiso, by laf e accounts we learn, has been ascending to the summit of the Peak of Tenerifiè. Probably tolake &pque at annexation. Good news froin Pennsylvania.- Rwsbell Errett, Esq., Chairman of the Liberty Committee of Western Pennsylvania, has just made a tour through the courities west of the mountainsi He staf es that the Liberty cause is everywhere growinff. He soys: "AHer leaving my own county, I went into Butler; I here expected to find none of our men. Bnt I found to my astonishment between two and three hundred, nearly all recent converts, made by tráete, without lecturers. From Butler I went to Venango. Here, thoughl I, I ehall find none. But lo! I found Borne two hundred, who carne ílocking around me, anxions to hear, and lo make others hear. In two hours a large meeting was culled for me, without any previous appointment. This county never gave a Liberty vote. They promise theeb itonbred this fall. Like Paul, on his journey to Rome, when I eaw this, I

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News