The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1945 Page: 2 of 23
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Slavery Issue Obstructs
Annexation Century Ago
By DR. E. C. BARKER,
Profeaaor of American History
University of Texaa
<OTtis is another in a aeries of articles on events having to do with
toe annexation of Texas to the Union. Texas this year is observing the
Centennial of Statehood.) *
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Eyes on Grand Saline
The Centennial of Statehood for Texas will be cele-
brated next year.
Texas already is stepping out with a design for at-
tracting further attention to the nation’s largest state,
where the climate of Southern California and Florida
can be found in driving distance of the climate of the
Adirondacks.
The Lone Star State is planning statewide observ-
ance of the 100th anniversary of statehood that may
outstrip the 1936 celebration so far there will be no com-
parison.
That will be Grand Saline’s cue. Situated on one of
the state’s greatest attractions—the mining and produc-
tion of salt—Grand Saline is going to find itself host
to hundreds of tourists seeking a glimpse of this great
industry. Wisely have leaders here chosen 1946 as the
year to hold the big celeb- tion, thus joining the entire
state in an universal Centennial of Texas Statehood.
It is not too early for all of us to start becoming
conscious of the Centennial of Texas Statehood. It is
a golden opportunity and one that will not come for
another hundred years.
Flowers To The Living
So many testimonials are being given nowadays to
“the living” that we think it is about time that the
metropolis of Dallas be awarded a bouquet for its long-
range and far-sighted improvement program.
Only last Saturday Dallas stepped out with a $40,-
000,000 bond issue for funds to congeal into actuality
one of the greatest civic improvement programs in the
nation.
Approval of the bond issue by Dallas voters defini-
tely insures that metropolis as the leading city in the
Southwest for years to come. Already Dallas has made
great strides, but with the money in hand she can better
talk the language of progress.
So, it is without any reluctance that we proffer
“flowers to the living.” For Dallas most assuredly is
“living” in these times, and exhibiting vitality undream-
ed of by even the most loyal admirers.
Phantoms of National Opera Named
We were beginning to think that it would be “till
the end of 'time” before those phantoms of the national
diplomatic opera—the “career boys”— would be named
by some courageous American.
Maj. Gen. Patrick J. (Pat) Hurley, former ambas-
smdor to China, whose Indian blood probably become
heated too much, had the guts to put the finger on the
“career boys.”
“The career boys” have been known as such for so
many years that the reading public had begun 'to accept
them without reservation as one of those sanctum sanc-
torium secrets of the diplomatic drawing rooms. Now
those secrets are the knowledge of every American.
All the public needs now to make the picture com-
plete will be for some equally courageous American to
put the finger on the “brass hats” in the War and Navy
Departments. This seems to be open season on someone
calling someone names, anyway. Why not go whole hog
or throw in the sponge?
It seems likely now that abolition-
ist sentiment was the chief obstacle
to annexation rather than opposition
to territorial expansion. In April,
1842, a New York congressman, Linn,
offered in the House a motion to strike
from an appropriation bill the^salary
of the minister of Mexico. No doubt
his purpose was sinvply to create an
occasion for a speech. “Recent events,”
he said, ‘toave satisfied me that new
and serious attempts will be made
to accomplish the annexation of Tex-
as,” an event which he could regard
“only as the annexation of a wen to
an otherwise sound body.” Annexa-
tion would cause war with Mexico,
he said, and England, for commercial
and other reasons, would join Mexico.
In Sept., 1842, John Quincy Adams
addressed his constituents at Brain-
tree, Mass. He repeated many of the
assertions that he had made in his
long speech during June and July
of 1838, and warned them that an-
nexation was again an issue. As he
represented it, the colonists had gone
to Texas to take it away from Mex-
ico; they had revolted because Mexico
tried to abolish slavery; and now toe
southern states were striving for
annexation in order to win new ter-
ritory to be divided into slave states.
Six months later, in March, 1843,
Adams and a score of other congres-
smen issued from Washington an
address to “The People of the Free
States of the Union.” The signers
admitted that slavery was not the
only question involved in annexation,
but they insisted that it was the most
important issue, and declared that the
object of the South was "to add new
weight to her end of the lever.” They
said, in effect that annexation would
be unconstitutional and would justify
‘‘dissolution of the Union” by the
free states.
A typical paragraph said: “Wig
hesitate not to say that annexation
. . . .would be identical and dissolu-
tion. It would be a violation of our
national compact, its objects, designs
. . . and we not only assert that the
people of the free states ought not
to submit to it, but we say with con-
fidence, they would not submit to it.”
“To prevent the success of this nefar-,
ious project, to preserve from such
violation the Constitution of our
country,” etc., etc., annexation must
he defeated.
The legislatures of Alabama, Miss-
issippi, Tennessee, and other southern
states adopted resolutions arguing th?
right of the United States to annex
| Texas and declaring annexation nee-
lessary in order to prevent England
from gaining control of the province
and using it as a (base from which to
work against slavery in the United
States. Indiana, Massachusetts, and
other northern legislatures protested
emphatically against annexation.
The Whig State Convention of Con-
necticut adopted a resolution in tha
fall of 1043 that gave great offense
in the South. It resolved, “that the
annexation of the Republic of Texas,
a foreign and independent state, to
our union will be a most palpable and
flagrant infraction of the Constitu-
tion of the United States, alike incon-
sistent with the healthful administra-
tion of the government and dangerous
to our liberties, and must inevitably
break up and destroy our glorious
union.”
These and many other declarations
were addressed to Congress and found
their way into the newspapers. No
action was taken bv Congress, but
the agitation affected the question of
annexation.
The Grand Saline Sun welcomes
and encourages letters to the
editor from subscribers and oth-
er friends. Plea/se try to keep them
short and to the point. Maximum
length should not exceed 300
wordo—one typewritten page
single spaced lines; two typewrit-
ten pages double spaced lines;
or, three pages in longhand.
Dear Editor:
This is in reply to your “Snuffy’s
Corner, editorial of recent date. In
principle, it is my opinion that you
are substantially correct in advocat-
ing the repair of the side-walk ex-
tending northward from the widely
famed Snuffy’s Corner, but there are
considerations which were not includ-
ed in the editorial published.
May we point out, after years of
intimacy with the object of your edi-
torial, that it would be a pity to de-
face Snuffy’s Corner in any appreci-
able way. The main consideration is
that, more than anything else, there
have been more battles fought on
Snuffy’s Corner than ever on Tarawa,
I wo Jima, Okinawa, Tunisia, in Italy,
Fiance Belgium, or in Germany, and
that the portent of these battles has
been profoundly more far-reaching
than any engagement in which the
United States’ official armed forces
ever participated. It would be a shame
to deprive these Snuffy Corner Sol-
diers of their dug-outs and shell
holes, and thus to take from them
the only protection they have from
the ack-ack flack, from the mortars,
from the artillery fire, from the V-
bombs, and from other dangers which
so dangerously have faced them.
Surely, the complete renovation of
tha city n.-k in question would add
materially! o tho attractiveness of
this lovelf ity. But. why tha elabo-
rate concqw for the beautification of
an environ »nt in which the ravaging
effects ofljar-fare are only a stone’s
throw aw $ After such material
contributiil to this country’s welfare,
to the pM'yrvation of liberty and
justice anl freedom, it would be an
everlasting-pic of ingratitude to take
from thea valiant Snuffy Cornar
Soldiers tftir one avenue of escape
from the emgers of war—the fox-
holes in wtrh to protect themselves
Or in whig) to HIDE!
Yours espectfully,
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Buzbee, Byron B. The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1945, newspaper, December 13, 1945; Grand Saline, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1003985/m1/2/?q=wichita+falls: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.