-----------+------+-----------+
Y 1807Y 80,000,000Y 1822Y210,000,000Y
+-----+-----------+------+-----------+
Y 1808Y 75,000,003Y 1823Y185,000,000Y
+-----+-----------+------+-----------+
Y 1809Y 82,000,000Y 1824Y215,000,000Y
+-----+-----------+------+-----------+
Y 1810Y 86,000,000Y 1825Y256,000,000Y
+-----+-----------+------+-----------+
Y 1811Y 80,000,000Y 1826Y300,000,000Y
+-----+-----------+------+-----------+
Y 1812Y 75,000,006Y 1827Y270,000,000Y
+-----+-----------+------+-----------+
Y 1813Y 75,000,000Y 1828Y325,000,000Y
+-----+-----------+------+-----------+
Y 1814Y 70,000,000Y 1829Y365,000,000Y
+-----+-----------+------+-----------+
Y 1815Y100,000,000Y 1830Y360,000,000Y
+-----+-----------+------+-----------+
Y 1816Y124,000,000Y 1831Y385,000,000Y
+=====+===========+======+===========+

It may be asked: how is it, as Texas is so far south, that a white
population can labour there? It is because Texas is a prairie country,
and situated at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. A sea-breeze always
blows across the whole of the country, rendering it cool, and refreshing
it notwithstanding the power of the sun's rays. This breeze is
apparently a continuation of the trade-winds following the course of the
sun.

From circumstances, therefore, Texas, which but a few years since was
hardly known as a country, becomes a state of the greatest importance to
the civilised and moral world.

I am not in this chapter about to raise the question how Texas has been
ravished from Mexico. Miss Martineau, with all her admiration of
democracy, admits it to have been "the most _high-handed_ theft of
modern times;" and the letter of the celebrated Dr Charming to Mr Clay
has laid bare to the world the whole nefarious transaction. In this
letter Dr Charming points out the cause of the seizure of Texas, and
the wish to enrol it among the federal states.

"Mexico, at the moment of throwing off the Spanish yoke, gave a noble
testimony of her loyalty to free principles, by decreeing `That no
person thereafter should be born a slave, or introduced as such into the
Mexican states; that all slaves then held should receive stipulated
wages, and be subject to no punishment but on trial and judgment by the
magistrate.' The subsequent acts of the government fully carried out
these constitutional provisions. It is matter of deep grief and
humiliation, that the emigrants from this country, while boasting of
superior civilisatio