The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-07-09


and we seruple 10 admit such one into our peace
lul and law-abdiDg Union.
Indeed Are our doings blsmeless our
own hands clean Among us, here at home, does
liberty 10 license, nor riot interrupt the
l even tenor Of our national way And what shall We
ssy-yes even OF that grave time-honored state, IA
whose forests the Quaker coIonst once sat down 10
treat for the land which bis conscience forbade MN
| TO seek TO obtain by conquest What oil william
Penns own city Of broherly love Can her citizens
lay their hands their hearts and iit their eyes to
Heaven and say that they are gutess, even oil APP
palling riot guiltiess OF midday arsonf guitess oil
| watching with Vandal-like JOY, while the iiames
arose thai reduced the records of learning aad oil &c
MUS piled up bonfire in her very streets, 10 heap
Of bac ened ashes guiltless OF shout OF savage eA
ultaiion, when the cross-tbat emblem enshflbed AZ
| the hottest 10 the bearts-the honest, II mistaken
| hearts-of thsusa nds among her own people-when
that venerated cross otterng on ats loiiy tower, 10
which the hands of The eriti-sd inoendaTy had APP
piled The torch Of prosecuting veDgeanceiel al last
10 a shower of glitiering sparks and was buried amid
| the burning ruins And we thank God we are not
| as other nations, or this frontier territory
peoped as our self righteousness would have IT, with
pubcans and sinners When we can boast that the
| galaxy on our republican shield shines out, al
| every moment stainless and undimmedi II VIII be
| time enough TO set about registering each huing
cloud, that may have obscured, for brief SEASON. the
| rising brightness of the lone star OF Texas
Until that tlne arrive, let the consciousness Of our
own sins inspire charity for those Of our neghbors
Let regard The abefratlODs OF young Liberty, 10
adopt the senlimen, ofa graceful writer but as the
dashing spray, which the dwelling waves Of freedom
asionally cast beyond its legitimate bound.
These brief remarks contain, am well aware, SIR,
but sketch, and very imperfect one, Of the facts
and the law in this yet they iDbody that which
has convinced my mind, that It is night, with
waiting for the assent Of Mexico to annex Texas
these United States; and that is duty at the
request of Texas herself, TO consummate, without
unnecessary delay, and by such legislative act
| NAV be most rate, that anne alton.
NorE /.
The facts, in this case, very strong and but
sample of the utter disregard Of good faith habn1-
ally evinced by Mexico in her transactions with Tex
| as. The treaties the subject were signed not
alone by Santa Anna, then prisoner, but by Gene
| raj Fsoa, his second in command and at liberty.
Fisola officially atalori-ed thus to negotiate for
the release of the captive President. 1orne the
Mexican minister Of war, on she 18th May (eleyen
days before the ratfcation) in reply to the official
letter of Flisola announcing the defeat at ST Jacin
to, says:
His Excellency the President pro tenn. is in some
measure consoleJ, that General SO experienced a.
your Excellency should be the who obaine4 the
command, The rhieh he expressly confirms. The first
desire which his Excellency has, is that you adore,
the enemy's General, traetng from M, by GcOrous
means, the liberty Of the President Gsneraiin- U.itf
at least, during the time this point be reg "a
ted, the consideration due To hi. high dignity aud
pers on distinguished in the annals Of America
history, and for whose preservation the entire nstio
is interested by gratitude and because he is the Chief
of IT, His Exceency the President counts upon your
Excellency's directing all has Efforts 10 the reiain
der Of the army"
That il was solely by means of this treaty. that
Fillsola's portion Of the army saved is abun-
dainty proved by that officers dispatches I'm
der date Is May he writes to the Mexican govern
ment, that, receipt Of the OF the battle OF
ST. Jacinto:
:" Alarm and encouragement were general amongst
all classes Tor II was believed, that all the prison
ers, the Presiden, included, would have been shot
a rfprisaf for The conduct observed in BcrGr and GOl-
| ad icsib Deirs."
He describes the retreatng army as being in
miserable and helpless condition. He says:
"The morning of the LIST Of May presented 10 my
sight spectacle truly horrible, and which can only
| De believed by those who were witnesses cannons
wagons, mules, ammunition and men, were all buried
In the mud all the provisions which the purveyor Of
the army had consisted of few bushels OF beans
and salt and, To heighten misfortune, there
no other hrewood, previously observed than the
artillery carriages, wagons, &c. la he army The
! dysentery was already commencing, and
without the means Of cure and without physi-
| Clans
| In view Of has condition, he adds
"lf the enemy, under these critical circumstance
should have met US the only road that " as left
nothing soid remain but 10 die, surrender at d,ss
| ton
"On the second day, about three hundred of the
enemy presented themselves 10 the rearkuard of our
scattered pieces and baggage, and opened commuui-
cations with Ampuda, the commander Of the rear.
guard who was scarcely able, in a small space to
| msn9uyre two four Founders the only cannon be
could get out Of the mud, and about one hundred in
iantry bat they appeared 10 hare orders moi % eonl
hOshle', and only 10 srpedte crossing the Colo
/ rado."
In regard to the treaties sgned by himself and
Santa Anna, Filisola says:
"his escellenoy, in my humble opinion. in thc
uesues That he agreed upon, and that had the hon.
or TO send your ksceency, acted uiih enfir, hBers
and had nothing in rieu Than ke interest Of b.
country He was well aware Of the situation Of the
Army" sc.
! Thus appears, from the official testimony of p.
sola himself, that he, duly authorized to treat with
the Texans, and Santa Anna, in view of the bop.-
less condition OF The remaining army, stipulated 81
Their lives and Tor Ia, (Ssnta anna - life the cor.
sderston on the part of Mexico being that She should
acknowledge the Independence Of Texas Te1s.
faithfully performed her part of the contract Santa
Anna was restored to has country four thousand
Mericans, wholly at the mercy of the Te.ian arm,
were permitted 10 depart unframed and Neric0
who talks 20 loudly now about the solemn faith of
treaties, then turned round after value received and
shamelessy VIOLATED on her part the stipulation that
had saved The lives Of her army and its commando
] Morn q
MIR Alerander Everett, who was our minister 10
| Spain fiom ISIS TO 1899, informed me. the Other
Day IN reply 10 my question the subject that dur
ing the whole OF that time when the various nego-
uauons were going on between our government snd
Mexico Tor the purchase OF Texas not syllable of
instruction was sent TO him. TO consult OF ronciats
The Spanish government He added that during aI
that period, Spain stouty and uniformly maintained
her complete right TO reconquer her province OF Me-
The state bed in which the King Of saxony sler,
at hnoe Park, the seat Of Lord Amherst cost e. OD1
and The fittings Of his sleeping room 100000.