There is but one feeling in Texas, in my opinion, and that is, to establish the independence of Texas, and TO BE ATTACHED TO THE UNITED STATES! * * * * * March as speedily as possible, with all the aid you can bring, and I doubt not but you will be gratified with your reception and situation." The whole plan succeeded beyond the anticipation of its most sanguine projectors.

Aided by men and means from the United States, Texas established its independence--organized a government--incorporated slavery into its constitution so thoroughly as to guard against the remotest attempt ever to remove it--and by a process unsurpassed in the annals of political intrigue, in due time became annexed to the North American Union.

In this accession of a territory from which several large States will eventually be carved out, the slave power of the United States obtained a signal advantage, of which it will not be backward to avail itself in the time of its need.

A faithful history of this entire movement is yet to be written.
Mr.Adams, with his well-known and long-tried sagacity, saw at a glance the whole design of the originators of the Texas insurrection.

While most people were averse to the belief that a project was seriously on foot to sever a large and free province from the Mexican Republic and annex it to the Union as slave territory, he read the design in legible characters from the beginning.