Annexation of the Texas a Case of War Between England And the United States
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She watched them with the most jealous eye, she most sedulously excluded them from in- tercourse with other countries, nor was it enough to deal with her own territories in a manner which should take from other nations, all interest for her sovereignty, and OF THE TEXAS. 33 inspire them with sympathy for rebellion against it. Her restrictive system was directed offensively and in- juriously against Great Britain, interrupting her trade and navigation with her own Colonies. Thence had arisen dee...p animosity between the two nations. Under such circumstances it was to be expected, that the insurrection of the Spanish Colonies would have been hailed in England with delight ; that seeing therein the gratification of treasured up bitterness the opening of new fields to commerce, united to that great attraction of modern Europe, the breaking up of empires and the overthrow of states and laws we should have rushed headlong to their support, poured forth as England has done in Greece, blood and treasure, or prepared cheap profits by en- couragement and protection, as the United States in Texas.
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