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Texas
plumed
itself
upon
its
330,000
natives
;
Florida
,
with
a
far
smaller
territory
,
boasted
of
being
much
more
densely
populated
with
56,000
.
The
Texans
,
through
the
columns
of
the
Herald
claimed
that
some
regard
should
be
had
to
a
State
which
grew
the
best
cotton
in
all
America
,
produced
the
best
green
oak
for
the
service
of
the
navy
,
and
contained
the
finest
oil
,
besides
iron
mines
,
in
which
the
yield
was
fifty
per
cent
.
of
pure
metal
.
To
this
the
American
Review
replied
that
the
soil
of
Florida
,
although
not
equally
rich
,
afforded
the
best
conditions
for
the
moulding
and
casting
of
the
Columbiad
,
consisting
as
it
did
of
sand
and
argillaceous
earth
.
"
That
may
be
all
very
well
,
"
replied
the
Texans
;
"
but
you
must
first
get
to
this
country
.
Now
the
communications
with
Florida
are
difficult
,
while
the
coast
of
Texas
offers
the
bay
of
Galveston
,
which
possesses
a
circumference
of
fourteen
leagues
,
and
is
capable
of
containing
the
navies
of
the
entire
world
!
"
"
A
pretty
notion
truly
,
"
replied
the
papers
in
the
interest
of
Florida
,
"
that
of
Galveston
bay
below
the
29th
parallel
!
Have
we
not
got
the
bay
of
Espiritu
Santo
,
opening
precisely
upon
the
28th
degree
,
and
by
which
ships
can
reach
Tampa
Town
by
direct
route
?
"
"
A
fine
bay
;
half
choked
with
sand
!
"
"
Choked
yourselves
!
"
returned
the
others
.
Thus
the
war
went
on
for
several
days
,
when
Florida
endeavored
to
draw
her
adversary
away
on
to
fresh
ground
;
and
one
morning
the
Times
hinted
that
,
the
enterprise
being
essentially
American
,
it
ought
not
to
be
attempted
upon
other
than
purely
American
territory
.
To
these
words
Texas
retorted
,
"
American
!
are
we
not
as
much
so
as
you
?
Were
not
Texas
and
Florida
both
incorporated
into
the
Union
in
1845
?
"
