The Morning Star. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 678, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1844 Page: 3 of 4
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Alabama or Georgia.
known to be far superior to Louisiana, auc
near the Gulf
everywhere calcareous, and therefore
being partially exhausted.
with bayous, lakes, and ponds, than Louisiana—is drier,
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tor granted, what the ‘i exians’aesert. 11 n
‘We are authorized to announce j P LOWREY,
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The table fhaltbf supplied with the best the mariet affordyt
the bar with the choicest Liquots—and the large and welt si
ranged siable filled vvith the be t provender and every effort
nsed to sustain the reputation thai the * ( yd Cayitol has alrea-
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Another consequence is, that in buying public lands,
he money paid IS a tubstRule for otherwise unavoidable
taxation ; and it is not, therefore, too much to say, thalche
blic domnin/is the people’s wealth—so much garnered
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ding to local advantages, f this proces, it is difficult to
say that any portion is really injured ; while, in the gen-
eral effect, as a 1
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y V n ■ • t ing the supply of this greaiest of God' boun-
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rapidly, and of course the more cheaply? become an ope- !
rative in a factory.
So far, then sellow-citizens. from wishing to see the
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varled enseriainmsenis
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Eu oj would war , guard the British channel. Boundel already by her sev
LAL mue ask, f how citizens, what would such a country eral extended frontieis of Oregon, the two Canndas, Nova
•wort. to,Eugl 1 I ? In" sun never s< ts on her domin- Scotin, and Ne w Brunsw ek wib the i nirow channt i ol
l’kiUS V MORTIMER.
■ when it returns in the form of imports. This would b
permanent bounty offorty-eightper cent in favor of T
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ann exation Indeed, I am lo.. m amazement, that in the || trade, require un alliance with some otht i governmentsnf
eighteenth.century, after the navies of the civilized world ficiently strong to insure them peace at home and
bite traversed every ocean in voyages of exploration and
discovety, mid push'd theirs arch for new- lands. from the
higher m price thm they now mre ‘With an increase in
the pirace of la nd a I shall expect to witness the invariable
u n of cotton in-many parts of the South would give way
to other pursuits, while tbe price of land in all, iciuding
Texas, would be adjusted on a low level, varying acror
jul < duvni i i
Mansion House,
Forme-riff neny the Sira.it.,.: a dt
1f oust OIL Texas.
capital to lessen the taxation, cheapen the breed, and to
increase the wages of labor. Its effec in increasing the
price of labor ivas admiuted during the administration of
John Qniny Adams, as a reason against the lurthez re-
duction and the more rapid sale of the public lands; and
'he policy was openly advocated of confining the New
Englander to his barren hills, that he might the more
world—but Fngiand, insolent with the drsign of rennci-
ing, on the ci ntut 'it of North Aim rica, that partition of
territory, nd ti t, . lishme nt r1 militar y and commer
rial power, which she h is so succe :sfully imposed on tbe
fl i st Indies and China. Suppose the first object of her
wishes attnined in the ucquisition of Tt xas, and upon this
urteen dollars and fifty cents Here I have received ny favors and kindnesses from the mother country, it is l uvecu,..... ... , ...
h gier intei eat on my land capital as rent — have supplied true; but, in the main, that these favors are to be retire OPFATIS PllLs. . 0 doz Moilan
wheat for one half the price, and have realized almost five than reciproca ted by substantial benefits to the mother
times as much from my labor—and all. Uns is < ffected by country, is also true, or the colony would be a losing con-
being able to boy better Iands at two dollars an acre, than,
I con'd get for two bvndred dollars in some other couh:
Vvor* open nt d, to commence al h i2 o clock
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price of kinds increased in the South, as a landholder, hav-
ing more of my estate in lands than ail other propertv be
+ les, i trust in God I shall never live to see jbem much^
y procers ol deprecir
ay uuy, labor brcomes ft
price of land. If, therefore,
and couvenit ne",
usual, 50 • enis hildreu- half price.
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oi the same magnitude contains a large amount of good
innds, and perhaps no portion so large an amount of the
best kind of land. Considering its fins southern climate,
the agricultural prodactions of no part of the world could
probably exceed it in quantity or value. Through much
the larger portion of its extent, it is undoubtedly the finest
cotton region on the globe I state what I have no doubt
July 4,1841 jul- MH*' A M. RIDGEWAY Ad’mr.
WANTED
Ordinars, . «
Middling, • ■
Afiddling Fair.
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(oodFair,,:
rMHE ondersigned most respectfully infotm ihe public that
1 they have liken the above < Aablishmr nt, and havesoalc r
cd, renvied and replenished it, as to make i susceptible I
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whole, thepeople are benefitted by increas- the Southerp coumiry. It is a house ezprholy for the s< < oin
ing the extent, and improving the quality, of the ir lands. . me da ion of pexmanen and transiept Hrmder; and
It..। ennn.. w.. i... nli.. .7.,. n.i,. p, an. Jong experience it > eundersigned m has Im
. . . • , 5 . . - . ihev feelcnfiden tobeabletoatlordfollaati slacflen. AN
nex it to, and make it a part of, hnghnd, ns we would rulook and other waiters have been < htaincd, and every en
Itetalarrangomenjofihe Hotel i pchuaig cunno -ill
please. The terms will be mo U rate. ’
A Subic isnitacbed tthe House, Hurt", ~Fh lor safe 05
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1 number of ho ses al ways on hand, and a few at
1,1. command, fos de ar « ommzodation ol thosc v.
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1 he only argument, fellow-citizens, which has or can firm fulcruu ishe haspland the lever which is strong
•in । •. to countervail the pecuniary advantages of an- enough to movethe world, we have only to compare our
means of compiling with the production of cotton in Brit-
ish Texas, to the means of competitio if both countries
ties lo keep an e tablishment
ol i i- kind need no eulogy
. xerrion it aid ban in V nder
ing lds guesis comfortable.
world Its soil is
v iupuls of । be u rre i condition, might raise cotton
sough to cl Ah' the world in reference to this single
tple us ti w • ■ much of her manufacturing wealth
and ascend ncy isbns d Texas would be mre valuable to
were our own to judge of the < «ect which me two results
would haveon the price ofourlanahd the value of la-
A great bor Iiranyevent,Texas,withth ■ natural advan-
. >i is chuaprned by it a bwodance , and in the Lages 1 have attributed toheras a cotton growing country.
n to a standard twill'll all must be our compe titor in the pro duct ion of 1 h at staple. I
hatci 4 in value to nn Amount trice no note of u r in he r preren condrion, as it is one in 1
which she cumot long remain Sho must either be an-
nexedto th is country, or sobstantinlly belong to Great Bri-
tain. If she w re nnnexed to the Lnned Slate?, I have
your own information will confirm, that with lands and
negroe s it the same price, a planter on the Brazos, Caney,
or the Colorad, can afford to make cotton a cent a pound
cheaper than-it can be made in the best cotton sections of
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ions, y i the globe cannot furnish her with a country sup- the Gui ol Mexico, the outie f r two thirds of our foreign
p ying s omuy of n r actu al necessities. Here would be commeii e,. command d by the guns which reach, from
a . m ■ in t octupation to the starving nillions, who, un-
her heavy nrmamentsinthe West indies, almost to the
Keys ol Forid a — it requin s nothmg but the a equisition
of Texas by Great Britain, to liin t.inAr of Onttid
with which sht has arfully ♦ nvivoud us..
id ol iny labor is threc dollars But if the same land But, suppose England acquires the conntry.
hi i cost me but two dollars per acre, and produced thirty
bushels of wheat, worthfifty cents a bushed, my gross re- make it a part of the United States, is impossible.
pt would be’thc same as before—fillet n dollars. Sup- therefore can never be on any other footing than a Govern-
ment tributary to nnothe r. aud, in this instance, a di?stunt.
That, in this situation, it may receive ma-
t e value, and of course the rent qf lands, in any
rt r, invites labor to co or from all other quarters, and
tries And all this is the effect of a large public domain.
What is the value ol this coutry to us? How can we
mpo-n 4 moneve I mute on the vuine of this broad r x
' nt of tertile land, already pur ially -ubdied from its lor-
.. ite by the indusiry ui those, w ho, speaking the same
i". j ing the same God. veared under the
u inst itukions re the mo an if he d to our com-
mon mmtry b a. of att mpirary i uangtim nt from
lis prutection
RICHEY as । candidate for County Surveyor nt the c ■
, - • . . Isecur lectimn in September. May 25 d&pide 442 *
ty abroad lu whatever manner this m y be iincud. • —------- —---tggyj;N(rp "
must result in the loss of her indepenedence, endin the p p—pA,
permanent substitution of some other sovereignty than her ’ * 2 " J 1
ingenuity of man is taxed to dispoe of the starving mill-1, own. It is nee dless to inch arnund fin h ‘‘ ' 1 ’
1, is who crowd the world--when in the most civilized with which, next to our own. she is most, likely to ally T H E A TRE«
• antri the’great problem of the age is to “xttbuisr the herself. Eogland, in this as in most othe, cases, i oir Ia5 WYMAN the Maziciqu, will in rodme the
utabi r of human beings on the smalle st spot of. j formidable rival. With the strongest i.mm on . ,. .. 11 wenuderful Disappaarann iu addhiou 0 ibe usual
• - I ' I m lost in maz mentthat a single objec- quickened by the power ot steain, und sheltered by n ■
■ on should b m ide to s -cure a boon so widely spread stations encircling ourcoust, and extedingon the enst and
with od s choice st bounties, and so freely exte ndied to us | west far beyond it, she can concentvate at Mill a military
e brave h in s and generous hearts cd those who have and naval force on Texg, which will bling the weak, st
I ' • it title to the soil with their blood. (me title of j section of the Union more in contaet with British power
. ■ is, in quantity or value, would bi a stake for which linin' Frunce itse It —sheltered by the fortificutions which
‘f'HEwodersigned having been appoinied adminiurator up-
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deceafed, give uoticeu al havug i :laim agajus i the । tatet
: exhibit ihci for approval, within ine time prescribe . by law
i li ev will noi be alf I
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esponding tothi induced
S ii eru planter -omplams of the depreciation of his
cheapened by its abundaces, Ishould gristly r gm td
A? a sugar country, much of it is it lessen d in value by a calamity which would Irs-n
d near the Gulf returns which it would give to labor. That is spen s
quill to any lands in the of depreci itien cuh tesnlt from the annexation ol 1exasto
i the United Stalrs, no one cin suppse, 'I hat 11 tf/st ri •
contams within itself the chief element of restoration, after soh from the future of annixation, nece kavily u tnm.m ? {
The country is less covered intheuequisitou qf the ci ontry by Ghat Britiin, I t
a,close atention to fact g w
growth of cotton in the United States, as soon ns this high
bounty con l>| rail togther the labor necessary to make
cotton enough in Texas to clothe the world. The effect
ofthis would be, not to diminish, but to dertroy, the value
of I md in the South It would at once bring the South
tpthutcondinenof degradd pove rty described by John
Randolph, whi n the slave would am run from his master,
but the master would be coropr 11« d to run oway from the
'I've. Fngland would thus < fleet her abolition purposes
in he nmuial way. by redneing th value of slave labor to
" h 0 exunt, ihitthe press ■ || | mgier on the mas-
| tti ' ban on the slave.
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cern to the Crown. It will be governed as two thirds of
the tributary world is now governed -in refere ne e to the
interest of England This consideration would keep back
emigrants from the United States, and cause tbe in to prefer ;
competing with England in the production of cotton, to
entrusting all they hold dear to a foreigh Government.
Under any circumstatces, we should find this competi-
tion in the production of cotton A diff rult mater , but if
j England should discriminate in favor of Texas cotton, by ,
taking off the dty whih our cotton now pays in her ports* t
and if she should, in a still more important mailer, dis-
criminate in favor of the Texian planter,hy taking the
doties from gooda imported mio Texn —I usk how Li -
should we pretend to compete with Texas in raising cot-
ion I We should raise it, sbjeet to a dduction of about
; eight cents upon the export, in the shape of a duty, when it
■ lands in England, and an avi rage of 40 per cent in duties
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ufby suh'ii iti tn of many f iends. the subscriber is
i indindtuplce his name L the public of Harris
■ ' ' ' ff , ' .■ election for Re
prnnativeinih Hill <4 the Legislature
Eng nd -seeking ourta e, ..i, . . ( , ud ut i. ii us to । the
rr HIS f.....
1 t 0 li shui i, •
A nd ie ower int v .... orl an i . nbra e we hall
to feed labor wih cheaper bread, while it employs it at
pric , which high priced land cannot aford to give. The
valie of fabor isthe profits left on production, after pay-
S ippose to cre of land, which cost me two
' mind dollats, raises fifteenbushels of wheat, worth fif-
t n doHars Aft r deducting six par cent, on the price
o iny land, as a fair rent for it, the prolits left as the re-
Eogland thauall her Ckina and Lit India possessions. thus surrender ours in
piete orler, 'i
Old Capitol.
A s (II E A P AS rli E UH H * PESTI
One Ihdim Bourdn aii Lokgin
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hire on the in mst na sonable terms . „
. A. BENECHAL & Ce , Pxoprieti
June 2,181___________ffiz L
OPFATI SPILs.—30 doz. aiomsai ■- Pills, justjre
I ceivedby b GROFSBECK,,
' NTOME i- hereby givep that an skction will be heldA
1% Redmon , Ceder Bayou, dor l* 4 lusw e» ol the 11 ace
.... Beat N. T,on‘Fhursdav,dth Juty n KI .
, A P FHOMPSON: Chief Jostice, H <
ku ■' D eo h Tune, 1944 ne
A / 50 ozs,justreceivedandRov al ’ owby,c,
2 fet2id&wif-430 J n GRoEBEEik-
I TgaunivSAMPSUN has been admtied h purnerirthe
IV| firna heretofore condncted nder the name nud sl¥Is M.a
■ gXcMSSRBTamsga"
Helon, Ian,27.1846....n.-bn3dewu2.
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REVIEW OFTHI ORLEANS MARKET
obrrfdfrom thie fhtllrtin of 26,01844.
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more healthy, and generally requires tittle or nodraining 7 -____
to prepare it for cultivation ; while, with a scarcity oi tim- feel as a people too muchl waknees ami mot inity
many places objectionable, <hn.bororcler.rng b minlouger inihei vresen l" ' ■ • ■ E q. as , candidut, tor R ....... county
............................. .,able to maintuin themselves wih in . ............. inseptember janvidwtde445
in view of such aivantag's, I confess, fellow-citiaens, I against Mexico, thrir hwrmnenst ly vahuobi errimni bou
astonished that a single objection should be urged 10 |j sessions, and theit veced ily latge and « owiwg forei 6 n --we nre nut non zed to annminc. BENJAMIN .
HFADofSoek HO8 far Cash App
•MII HEPARD A O
IlOPSON & CAIN,
I louxton
ace mpainmnebts oi more rags, wretchedness, und hunger; li
morejails, gibbets, andboor-homses; poor rates and high- '
er taxation. If it were poasible lor lndt, co account ol its i
abundance, lo be worih nothing, which I knoi canuot
long be the Vase with civilized mm, this very abundi e»
would completely release labor from tin t'ihmc which it* j
necessarily pays to capital.
But, fellow citizens, while I um willing to ♦. < vod.
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n 1 , ie, that so ! arge an u - ssion of cotton and sugar
li ds would dip the price of such lands in the South-
ern States Li, however, it has this alleged effect, u is on
tucedvalu oi hr lav «, it hehns any and, if yone, before shownthat the < IF ct would be to diminish the price
re v.: it'he ed’.ct df an abMiidunt and cheap public domain of lands, but to raise the price of labor. Slaves, at high '
■ onlined to the laboi cd the Soush. The fine labor of the prices, would be exchanged most advantageously with the
N th is not stationary ut I ravers our wide extent of cheap and fertile lands ofTexas; while cheapened lands
y in i i ol ' gL r ward Wiiiiever dimin- in the South would be onve tu d into still cb< aper lands -'jv
in Texas and the proceeds f a ye i labor would buy a
better homestead for a family, than if annexation had nev-
un place Alabauna, M ishssippi, and Louisiana, J
would occupy the same relation to Texas, sea cotton court-
of M.n/i and Finnklin Strcrtf, Houxlon, Tutu
, a r’ilisweli known Hous is now in or
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tg154.Travellerk. ‘The 1 ‘able w I atullmes he 1;22:42a
i28 upplie 1 with thebestithe market nf rds. 49083832
Tf erberwillgis us perm eh ""**
tiontothosr who may favor him with a rail. |
Haiti nJ Fart Redur- d '
Agbd Stble ntmhchelt the Honsc. Horses, Cartingeh,
-nlcorhreonruemnablesenne. ...... ,
mill 2 dJtvr!t-4.<t H: RAlD.WIN, * rovnel
1 ! lit ghtinthis v iew; ami enlaiement of the pub- try, that Georgia, South Carolina, nod North Carolina
lic d n iin b omes a?i etrgeient of that fund which is now occupy to thethreefirs named States Phecultiva- I
e enviches herse f and clothes the
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