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Pennsylvania and the Independen ce of Texas
lation, a statement which few would be prone to deny. The inde-
pendence of Texas would result in a fine country being opened
up to emigrants and an added desideratum would be the paving of
the way for the abolition of slavery in the border slave states of
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri.42
Far different was the attitude of the Philadelphia National
Gazette to the events then happening in Texas. While the editor
avowed his intention to manifest perfect impartiality and not to
withhold his sympathy from any who were battling for their rights,
yet it was only at intervals that the story of the exciting events
happening beyond the Sabine stirred the enthusiasm of the editor
of the Gazette and caused him to forget his pose of lofty impar-
tiality. It was some consolation to the friends of Texas to know
that this journal subscribed to the sentiments of the National
Intelligencer to the effect that it was a. very laudable thing to
apply the money raised by popular subscription to the sufferers
in Texas,-that is, to the widows and orphans of those who had
fallen while resisting the Mexicans. The Intelligencer even pro-
posed that Congress should appropriate funds for the personal
relief of the sufferers.43 Column after column in the Gazette was
taken up with a series of essays entitled "Texas Insurrection,"
signed by one styling himself "Columbus."" To the writer the
struggle going on in Texas was nothing but a grand scheme of
iniquity concocted for the purpose of re-establishing slavery in the
Texas country. In a succeeding article the writer essayed to
"Trace the subject of the Texian revolt through the whole con-
catenation of its primary causes and objects," and to set forth the
"motives of personal aggrandizement, avaricious adventure, and
unlimited, enduring oppression" actuating the vast combination of
interests that was behind the Texas revolt.45 But such articles
42United States Gazette, May 2, 1836. Cf also Ibid., May 26, June 7,
16, 1836.
43Philadelphia National Gazette, April 13, May 3, 1836.
"4These articles were republished in a pamphlet entitled, The Origin
and True Causes of the Texas Insurrection, Commenced in the Year 1885.
Cf. Bancroft, North Mexican States and Texas, II, 159, note.
"Philadelphia National Gazette, May 17, 21, 1836. The main object.
of the writer was to prove that the revolt was not so much the deed of
the actual settlers as of the land speculators and slaveholders in the
United States.277
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