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ever, as Wharton, writing to Austin in December, 1836, pointed
out, there were friends of Texas in Louisiana and in Mississippi
who opposed annexation on the grounds that a brighter destiny
awaited Texas as a happy and prosperous nation if it remained
independent. He also believed that an independent Texas would
be a formidable rival to the cotton growing and sugar raising
interests of Louisiana and of other southern states.48 Not a trace
of this argument has been observed in the editorial columns of any
of the New Orleans journals of this period. On the contrary the
Bee, as early as September, 1835, in discussing the feasibility of a
railroad from New Orleans to the Gulf of California by way of
Natchez and Natchitoches, exclaimed: "0 that Texas belonged
to the United States !"49 A little later southern journals in Louis-
iana and in Mississippi were pointing out the advantages to the
South of the acquisition of Texas. Thus the New Orleans Courier
expressed the hope that the gaining of Texas "will emblematically
adorn the brow of the chief who avowedly models his policy after
that of the great Father of American Democracy." More sig-
nificant was the statement that at least three new states could be
carved, out of the territory of Texas, thereby affording a "complete
balance between the two great divisions of the North and South."
The great province was too contiguous and too important to remain
long a member of the Mexican confederacy. The existence of the
Union would be trebly strengthened by thus adding to it.60 Here-
in the sectional implications of the incorporation of Texas into the
Union were 'explicitly set forth. The following summer, when the
question of recognition was absorbing the attention of the members
of Congress, the Washington correspondent of the Bee predicted
the South and West would favor annexation, while the North as a
matter of policy would oppose it.51 In July there appeared in the
,Bee one of the editorials which had called forth the protests of
"George P. Garrison, Diplomatic Correspondence, I, 152, 170; Cf. Justin
'H. Smith, The Annexation of Texas, 314-315.
"Issue of September 4, 1835.
"Issue of November 3, 1836. The full title of this journal, the most
famous perhaps of the old New Orleans newspapers, was La Courier de la
Louisiane. The first number appeared October 14, 1807, under the man-
agement of Thierry and Company. J. C. de St. Romes, "probably the
most distinguished journalist of his time," took control of it in 1815,
remaining as editor until 1843. Like the Bee, it was a bi-lingual journal.
"Issue of June 14, 1836.122 .
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, July 1932 - April, 1933, periodical, 1933; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101093/m1/136/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.