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The Affairs Of Texas Seem To Be Approaching A Crisis. A Cor...

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Day
12
Month
December
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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CThe afiairsof Texas seem to bo npproach ing a crisis. A correspondent of the Mobile Ad vertiser writrs from Galveston that they have bankrupt treasury, a feeble Executive, disunion, ond general stngnation of business, nnil concludes with saying, that on the whole it would be dillicult to imagine a more crit'cal and inuuËpieious state of things. Santa Anna is preparing an invasión by sea and land, and the alternativo may soon be presented to the Texansof annexaiion to the United States, or destruction. President TyIer iesupposed to be in favor of their admission to to the Union, and "tho natural allies" will doubtlese bc ready to second his suggestions. QDickens' new work on America, containing a choice selection of slave advertisementa, slavehokling afTitys--} assaults, murriers, ícc. is having an extensivo run in Europe. - The Paris correspondent of the National Intelligencor predicts that the book will be a great injury to onr national character. No i doubt we shail be hissed and sneercd al just ír proportion as our shameful defection from f reedom becomes known anxorig the nations of the eartb. fXTGov. Hubbard, of New Hampshire, ín his Message to the Legislature, recommends that a ccrtain nmount of property, both rral and personal, belonging to females, shoultl be exempt from taxation, because their wages are very smal], and there is no (langer of iJieir bccoming rich, and because such taxalion is inconsistent with the foundation principie of onr government - 'the consent of the governed.' - According to these principies, Gov. Hubbard ought to be an ultra abolitionist.

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