It must be confessed that a device better calculated to produce jealousy, suspicion, ill-will and hatred, could not have been contrived.

It is further affirmed that this overture, offensive in itself, was made precisely at the time when a swarm of colonists from these United States, were covering the Mexican border with land-jobbing, and with slaves, introduced in defiance of Mexican laws, by which slavery had been abolished throughout the Republic.

The war now raging in Texas is a Mexican civil war, and a war for the reestablishment of slavery where it was abolished.

It is not a servile war, but a war between slavery and emancipation, and every possible effort has been made to drive us into the war on the side of slavery." "When, in the year 1836, resolutions to recognize the independence of Texas came up in the House of Representatives, Mr.Adams opposed them with great energy and eloquence, and provoked a most ardent and violent debate.
Mr.Waddy Thompson, then a Representative in Congress, and subsequently Minister to Mexico, advocated the passage of the resolutions; and, in doing so, said that Mr.Adams, in negotiating the Florida treaty, actually ceded to Mexico the whole of Texas, a province that was part and parcel of this Union.
"Mr.Adams immediately arrested the speech of Mr.Thompson, and denied the impeachment.

Mr.Thompson rejoined, and, to strengthen his position, quoted some remarks Gen.