The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-11-23
the United States and in favor of Great Britain,
the writer makes the following statement:

tne writer makes the lOlloWlng statement
"The United States Government has repeatedly
during the last year, notified Mexico that the wal
against Texas must be conducted upon the mosl
strict rules observed by civilized nations especially
as the taking and treatment Of prisoners.
After this solemn declaration, the town of Antonio
was entered, and private citizens, both Of Texas and
the United States, carried away and reduced to sla-
very. Yet what action has been taken on the mat
ter by the United States None, SO far as the pub
lie may be allowed to Judge from circumstances -
Would such declarations have been allowed to sleep
IN this manner by France or Eng land A nation
which is so slow and unwilling to redress wrongs
and insults TO itself the United States is not likely
to be more prompt in requiring that justice shall be
done to others.'5 aaiTuIEa 6Na $4,000 3b
We subjon an editorial article of the same
character from /" the Citizen" paper recently
established at Houston, in support of the Ad-
mnislration. We have marked the allusion OF
the writer 10 the 'long and extended frontier
both on the East and West" of Texas as indi-
eating one of the temptations likely to be strong
" presented 10 the people and Government OF
THAT country. Some wceks since were ia
formed by a gentleman recently from Texas,
and having extensive business and other con-
neclions in the country, that arrangements had
already been made by individuals for carrying
on extensively the illicit trade into the United
States through the eastern border of Texas at
which the writer of this article hints. If the
people, as well as the Government of Texas,
should once be seduced by the profits of such
trade flowing through their country, and at the
same time be assured of the protection of Great
Britain against M xico or any other enemy, to-
gether with promise of ample indemnify for
any concessions which they may make on the
subject Of slavery, the large majority which, &C
cording to one of their papers, (rhe Telegraph
is now in favor of annexation to the United
States, will soon dwindle to powerless minor
ty; and Texas will speedily become not only
foreign, but hostile nation, to be reached only
through Great Britain:
From the Houston Tsras) "Citisen of Sept 10, 1873
THE UNITED STATES-TEXAS-GR
BRITAIN.
If ever we could be brought to bear even with toll
Grafton the idea Of monarchy, it would be in con
templatng the difference of conduct towards Texas
by England, with her monarchica features, and the
United States Boosting her great democratic prnci-
Piles. republic, our, motto is that glorious one,
PERSISTENCE to tyants is obedience to God This being
the sentiment of all republicans, the supposton is
natural that the ties between two free governments
would be so strong and sympathetic that they would
readily extend mutual protection to each other. Is
this the case To the people Of the United States we
owe much-every thing. From them came our he
roes who have made battle fields scenes of glory
and to them we indebted for those statesmen that
have and are now placing the policy of Texas upon
such basis as shall render country prosperous and
independent. To the Government of the United
States -vacillating undecided, and blind to every
thing but President making-we owe nothing. True
she was among the first to recognise us-could she
do less Was she not in equal haste to recognise
the little undergraduates of South American But
would that acknowledgment even then have taken
place, had not the fates conspired that Andrew Jack
son should be the President Of the one, and Sam
Houston, his companion and pupil, the hero Of the
otheri France, Great Britain and the Netherlands,
however, have performed the same They are mo-
marches, and are now friends and espect our
rights The United States, content with an act that
costs her little, does nothing more for our benefit
She insults flag; abuses public officers
breaks up our expeditions; disarms soldiers;
abuses us in her presses req cts treaties Of com
merce and exhibits towards US all the conduct of an
enemy. With the power and the right TO control
the governments OF this continent, and play among
her neighbors the same game Great Britain does in
Europe yet she troubles herself but little in our con-
test for the establishment of institutions similar TO
her own. She threatens and promises but her
promises valueless, and her threats broken thun
der. Capt Cooke with his dragons, can be bribed
to disarm soldiers and give the protection Of the
u. S. flag to our enemies and old Granny Gaines, in
his dispatches pronounces high eulogy this most
unwarrantable and unofiicer-ke conduct and all this
receives rebuke, and Texas redress because we
have not the troops and navies Of Great Britain, OF
even OF Mexico. The English Government promis-
es TO mediate between Mexico and Texas and of
work she goes. Although disappointed and bafiled,
still she peIseyeres to success. With her interference
shall have both peace and independence. Z" Yes
but" exclaim the numerous blind, ignorant or pre-
JUDGED panc-makers, "Texas will pay dearly for
this interference" And what will it be Why,
either the abolition of slavery, the loss of the
country between the Nueces and the Rio Grande "
Now this is the height Of she will not at
tempt either The Government of Great Britain is
a Government of policy. Her statesmen are keen
and long sighted men, looking out for the extension
of British commerce, and increased market for
British manufactures. Whilst the statesmen Cor
those who from their elevated position should be
statesmen Of the United States are infected with the
monomana of eecting the successors of Presidents,
the statesmen of England pursue steadily their plans
tor the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of their truly great nation.
The politicians of the United States fight about in
ternal matters, and struggle to what amount the
tarlh shall be on imports, without ever thinking of
the necessity of building up schemes by which trade
shall be induced to their ports and forming channels
through which their own commerce shall find other
and extended fields. They feel Indifferent to Texas
mareat her affairs reject her treaties virtually
with no efficiency TO give us peace. Great Britain
with an eye ever on the alert, beholds in Texas at
peace-her resources developed-hcr ports either
free or comparatively so, when contrased with those
of Mexico and the United States-and long and en-
tended frontier both the rest and the east the one open
ing no nerico and the other into the United Sfafts-
a mart for her goods and wares which will amply
compensate for all her anxiety and exertons to settle
our revolutionary difficulties with Government
which, under no circumstances at her control can
from inIe
enough for her interterence-for that interference
which so much alarms certain gentlemen so rabid on
the subject of British influence. You cannot men
ton the armistice-the opening Of a commission on
the Rio Grande for the settlement Of our aairs-the
respect of the Executive for Captain EIliott-but
they about the British influence and British in
reference as likely, or destined to unsete our fixed
policy a nation, and render us a colony of Great
Britain And yet these gentlemen are ever ready to
glorrfy the Government of the United States, with
their knowledge of the outrapes unon Collecor Ror