New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-07-26
THE TRIBU N Il
Tbo Texas Negotiation.


could affect only ,heindividuals who have pTinci,
n.uv conducted il on the part OF our insuited and
decrsded country, should deem it not worth my
,n,e or YOUR space to bestow that censure, though
moved toit by almost every sentence OF the pulling
.Dd piratical documents on our side, which the
Drs is daily presenting. But the fate Of the ensu-
;ng election and Of the Republic is involved IN this
e., Polk has been induced TO make probably
with the prerious consent OF the Carolina and
Alabama Nullifiers) declaration touching the
Tariff which will, think, narrow the issue
~ Polk, Texas, and Perpetual Slavery, or Clay,
,he Union, and Liberty. | put no confidence
:. ,be said declaration Of the Loeo.Foco
T,cs .at.s.pinch candidate believe it to be
t.ord. but take it for granted that "the party"
ill believe it and that the leaders if they do not
believe if, will affect 10 do so. cannot find It in
w. heart TO be very severe upon them for this,
suopose it to be strictly true that the altcrna
,;.o with large portion of them is, to cheat and
IN tho people either individually or collectively.
TLs latter as most safe profitable and reputable,
is very naturally preferred
Jassume then that the great points Texas and
the extension and pcrpetuatlon of slavery, &c.
1,bo, WITHOUT rages. For these objects the
Democratic leaders have got to Go battle; for |
take it for granted that Ely Moore and the like of
him will not long be allowed to swagger and bawl
,boupb the wards of this city against doctrines
which tho Loco candidate has himself endorsed.
To, not be said that Wings will silence him
Tbsv have no other weapon than truth, and that
suppose to be powcFess with him. 1t is the
Iocos themselves that will choke him off
find by President Santa Ana's letter giving
an sccoun. of Thompson, the special messengers
visit to him, that said Thompson stated that the
necessi,v of Annexation as preventive OF smMg-
oY,q. was the reason which had induced our
Government to enter ioto the treaty; and DO
mt find that he made the slightest allusion to
Slavery On the contrary Mr.. Calhoun, who in.
st,uc,ed Thompson and sent him to Santa Ana,
has officially and repeatedly assigned the prcser-
walton of the institution Of Siarery in Texas and
the United States as the sole reason, and as con.
s,itu,inq the necessity for the Annexation . This
dn,cmatic canaille, with which we are cursed
and disgraced, have one reason for one person
and one time. ard other reasons for other persons
and other times
The letter addressed by Mr. Calhoun to Mr..
packepham in favor of Slavery III general, was
b,sed on census returns, which had been known
for ten months throughout the country to be
false; and concerning whose falsiiy an inquiry
from the House Of Representative was officially
before Mr.. Calhoun when he wrote that letter.
Yet he did write it, and then TO brazen it out re.
Piled to the inquiry of the House, that no had 10
information of any errors in the Census!
After the full and entire disclaimer by Lord
Aberdeen, of any wish or intention Of Great
Britain to interfere with Texas or Slavery, other
wise than by open and friendly counsel, which
would always be given by the British Government
in favor Of the abolition Of Slavery everywhere,
Mr. Calhoun wrote letter to Mr.. Packenham,
in which he had the faulty or audacity, (perhaps
boh), to say that this is ncp ground never before
disclosed by Great Britain TO our Government,
when in fact Mr. Everett, in his two letters re.
porting his conferences with Lord Aberdeen, and
written sir months before, had informed our
Government that this was the ground assumed by
Lord Aberdeen.
1t will be asked, what was the object Of Mr..
Calhoun's misrepresentation? 1t was this. Up.
shur, his predecessor, had begun the negotiation
upon the strength Of a story told by an qnony.
nous correspondent Of the Government, (such
correspondents seem to have become the main
spring in the political mechanism or Machiarel
ISM that the British ministry had entered into
coalition with the British and American Abol.
tionists to effect the abolition of Slavery in Tex
as by buying up the slaves. and that the British
Government was to guarantee the payment Of the
purchase money or interest thereon. This anony-
NOUS tale was dated in Aug. 1913. Long before
the month Of April 1874, it had been entirely
exploded in all It's branches, and by information
from every source, from which the story was pre-.
tended to have been derived. OF course the rea.
son, on which the negotiation had been begun,
had ceased to have even an imaginary or cOun
tcrfeit existence. But then tho negotiation must
go on, and the object be accomplished; therefore
new pretext was to be sought. The pretext
was found in the false fact that Great Britain had
assumed aen ground, and disclosed a new policy
by avewing tina. she would exert peaceful and
advisory influence everywhere ard at all times in
favor of abolition. The pretext would not have
answered without overlooking The fact that all
this had been avowed and officially communicate
ed SIX months before and assuming that it was
something new, and never heard Of until Mr..
Packenhsm communicated Lord Aberdecn's note
on the 26th Feb. 1874, Mr.. Cahoun's hardi.
hood was equal to the demand Of the occasion,
and ne assumed the desired fact accordingly.
The President informed The Senate that he had
ordered the Navy and Army to move toward
Mexico, IN pursuance of his own conviction of
The right and duty of seeing that there was no In
reference OF any power to obstruct the execution
OF The Treaty in it should be ratified by the
Senate or in the interval before. 1t afterwa,d
turned out that this very disnosition nj tho rmv