New-York daily tribune., 1844-03-18
BY This Mornings Mail,
The Question Of annexing Texas 10 the
United states.
From our s.eclsl Correspondent
W .-,,,>-c-o. March Il.

nexation Of Texas Now this statement IS OF
grea; Importance for several reasons. The Cor
respondent Of the North American IS a Mr. I
Johnson an assistant editor of the National In
telligencer," the same gentleman who acted as
bearer of the challenge from ShTiver to Weller
the (" "Entelligencer'' is always earliest and most
accurately informed here Of all affairs concerning
Mexico through the Mexican Officials here
and Mr. Johnson IS also intimate with many
Senators and official characters who might
have furnished him with the information
But on the other hand, let me ask, is it like
" that the President has already signed d
Treaty for the Annexation of Texas, when the
fact IS that Gen. Henderson is now on his way
from Texas to this country for the purpose Of com
pleting the Treaty for the Annexation of Texas
which Mr. Upshar begun and it is supposed that
! in less than month after his arrival the Treaty
will be signed on the part of both Governments
and sent to the Senate.
Ofall the ugly questions that have allsen lately
this Texas question looks likely to be the most
troublesome. During this week it has been intro
duced into both branches of Congress IN tangl-
! bic form, for the first time In the Senate, on
! Tuesday, Mr.. Buchanan TO the astonlshment OF
every body, said that he would not express his
views on the annexation of Texas nop but that
he considered the Almighty had given to the peo-
pie ofthe United States direct tmisSon 20 goon and
take possession Of all Texas, Mexico, California,
and Oregon that they might carry civilization,
Christianity and Republican form Of Govern
,pent there-and that all this would pc done
within the next 80 or 40 years and perhaps
| earlier.
In the House, several times during the session,
the Southern Members, Georgia, Alabama, Mis-
sissipp Louisiana and South Carona,) have eX-
pressed openly their determination to have Texas
annexed to the Union during this Session. They
have again and again declared to the Western
men that they could not get and should not have
bill passed to settle Oregon, unless one to annex
Texas was coupled with it; and the day before
Yesterday, Mr.. GARRETT DAVIS, in advocating the
continuance of West Point Academy, declared
that as it was now the settled policy Of this G0u-
ernment to annex Texas, he thought that as be-
yond doubt this would involve IN war with
one or two countries, we ought to strengthen the
Army as much as possible. Again, Mr.. HOLMES,
the particular and personal friend of Calhoun,
| and a fair exponent of his vcws) declared on the
same day on the same question, that he was will
ling to risk r0r with Mexico, but that the South
would have Texas, and therefore 1t was neccs-
sary to train officers at West Point To DC ready to
drill the militia Of the country whom Il war would
cali into active servlce-glvlng as a reason that
! England would not 20 10 W,r with dS on that
ground, but that she would do all the trading IN
her vessels: therefore, the sooner we got through
the war with Mexico the better for our commerce
Now, is not all this cool
On the strength of ali this Mr. WINTHROP,
who declared his belief that the people Of this
| IN bo ken bU on IpS-
as question, yesterday offered his proposition to
suspend the rules that he might present resolu-
ton declaring that no proposition to annex Texas
ought to be made or aSsentcd to by this Govern
n,cnt, and fixing next Wednesday as the day to
consider this The Ayes and Noes on this showed
40 for suspcndng the rules, and l22 against IT,
Here is the list:
YEA.M-s,rs Abbot. Adams, jeremiah Brown. BplIas
idSs Cd GrnneIl' erper, Hudson, v HUT Joseph T.
iGgesoll lryn Ienks Z Johnson John Kennedy Ds.
Psttisoa l,'I Es6 r Pot,ef Ramsey Rockwell Rogers
pie, achenck. Severance. oummsfs lyler VntoH White
and. Andsrfoq s, shf & htnson % BscHSs5
Bower BOYD, Jacob Rri@kerho Brodhs4J, Aa% Brown
Vim. J. Burke, Burt Caldwell Catn Causin lea
Ssa as stFne tFae i5S" b5n Day iaS " Da' 5S@ b@s
Isi PieS?>g p9mg9'iT NJ. D"'ein L;l p"ap a!a
an H,.29 bi25 s hbb Gg smi Hum F2%
Charles j. l4Ssrioi Jameson 'tt Johnson AadTew J9hn
George W on-s, Andrew heunedy Preston hlng, hfk
patrick Labauce Leonard Le.sis, Lucas Lunpkin you.
AIacay, AlcC LELAND, McCIeraanl, McDowe, AlcKay,
i1Sl @el PdsI %lS af Rshba TT 5s Ryas baSd Red
ieding ltzlit Rett Ritter Roberts Robinson Russell ST.
son, alil-l, Join I. Smith, rhos. Smith Robert Smith,
stsenrod STEPHENS, Stetson John SteTat Stone, sykes
! Wheaton, Williams Yost-l22.
Now this list requires some little explanation.
OF course it was by no means a test vote, as to
who is and who is not IN favor Of Texas except
as far as the Ayes are concerned. Many who
voted No" told me afterwards that they were
opposed TO taking the measure up out OF order;
Willis Green OF Ky. gave this as his reason,
Dunlap Of Maine, Fish, Sykes, and others
While at the same time, several Southern men
after the vote was taken declared that they now
considered Texas as good as annexed to the
United States - that SO large majority was
somewhat indicative of the final result; and that
out of the l22 there were not 40 who would vote
against it at the right time. At any rate, it will
be no harm for the constituents of the Northern
gentlemen who voted Aye" to drop them line
indicative of their desires on this most vitally
important matter.
One thing, in conclusion, can assure you of.
The President, Mr.. Calhoun the members OF the
House from all the States have named above
all the Southern Senators nearly to man, have
been, are, and will be doing their utmost to effect
the annexation of Texas. A society has been
formed here of Southern men for that purpose
who are not members of Congressmen) but who
act in concert with Congress; the head and front
and leader of this party is Mr.. Senator Walkcr-a
fund has been raised by rich Southern men to de-
fray all the expenses of printing publishing, docu-
Inents speeches, &c. on the subject; and no
feasible means is 10 be left untried to effect their
object. JUNlUs JR.
Pcnnsylvanta Elections, &C.