The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-12-27

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The London Times, alarmed al the cleo
fion Of Mr.. Polk. proposes Intervention ofthe
Great Poipers Of Europe 10 make Te.ras
uholly Independent, and declares the Ter.
an purpose of Annexation "a base transfer
Of their national rights 10 others"
In the New York Commercial Advertiser of
the 23d inst. is a letter from correspondent OF
that paper, dated London, December 3. lS4i.
and signed A Yankee in London" The
Commercial, be it remembered, is thorough
Wing paper. The letter writer says: "rhe
people of this country, as well as the American
residents, are both surprised and disappointed
at the result of the Presidential election. The
English are NOT only sorry to see annexation.
reputation, and an armed occupation of the
Oregon, avowed as leading principles of the
successful candidate. but they are both sorry and
surprised TO see a man whose character and tai
ents they have long respected, thrown aside for
aman comparatively Insignificant"
Why should not The American People have
let Mother Britain go on in her old way-but
without the ancient expense TO her, incident TO
her appontments-and name for US governors,
treasurers and secretaries; or al least the Chief
Magistrate of the whole Union 1t would have
saved US world of thought, and some consid-
cradle expenditure, which we now must bear.
Fatal days Of Saratoga, Monmouth, and York
town, which wresled the appointing power out
of the hands of britannia, ruler of the seas"
as Hon. John Quincy Adams styled her, and
placed them in the gift of the Anglo
and their kindred brethren Of the North Amefi-
can States 1t is even so, however, and must
be borne for lime, until Mother Britain can
get a lever under the rebellious States aud prize
out the propensity which her transatlantic chill
dren of this Union have to choose President
acceptable 10 themselves, and not one dictated
at st. James's, and favorable 10 most of her
magnificent projects of rule and protection in
the western hemisphere. Meantime there is a
crumb of comfort left, and Messrs. Clay and
Webster may be assigned to position where
they can stand up for the British side of these
great American questions, which the letter to
the Commercial announces as the ardent hope
of the British arisocracy, in words following
everywhere that have uttered it, il has been cheer
fully responded to, both by EnglIshmen and Ameri-
cans. We hope that both Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Web
ster will give the world the advantage of their pro-
sence in the Senate"
Thus far from the letter TO the Commercial
Advertiser-that stereotyped Federal print
Now we will attend a moment 10 the London
Times.
IL declares for protectordte, or, in other
words, guarantee of The independence of T exas
noio, when by the action of the People of the
United States, in the Presidential election, il
no longer hopes the abolition Of slavery in Tex
as with such efectual guarantee, can be obtain
ed. The British Government has evidently
been holding of from efectire action in favor
OF Texas, (as easy TO 1t, almost, as to write a
single page on Lord Aberdeen's best perfumed
letter paper,) in the hope that, by the rejection
Of the Annexation candidate for the Presidency.
Texas would be soon driven or teazed into the
abolition OF slavery, as preliminary TO the pro-
tec'orate, guarantee, or friendly guardianship,
whichever II might be termed, of herself The
Times is the most widely circulated journal in
the world; It's polite. are moderate Tory, and
It's supporters chiefly among the Tories. On
this great question II would not speak dversely
to the existing Administration, nor i, il at all
probable that 1t would speak without advise
ment.
The Times plainly announces what the De-
mocrallc organs said in the late canvass, that
England wants Texas for herself. and therefore
m her
States. IL wants her "as a useful ally.n We
VIII quote its words exactly. ave, g.. Great
Bniain,) In common with other States of I'm.
rope, should resist the annexation of Te.a, to
the United States, as calculated TO perpetuat,
slavery" and "to create a rival maritime nowe,
In the Gulf Of Mexico.n One reason. Thor,
lore, why England will resist Annexation, il,
that she will brook no rival maritime bower
IN the Gull oil Merico"-that Gulf which. in
one OF his speeches, Mr.. Benton designated ne
mare nostTum" our seattle term applied by
the Romans to the Adriatic Gulf, and norton
of the adjacent sea. Mr.. Benton and Gre.,
Britain ought to be, and we hope are now, at
open rupture on this point at Ieast-,hat we
have as much right, quite, as Great Britain
10 pohd up maritime power on the
Coll OF Mexico. And, by the way, the
editor OF the lntegencer is bound now TO
prove his wisdom superior to his brother of the
Times and Lord Aberdeen, hi. prompter, in as
sertng, as he did recently in one o. his immense
articles on annexation, that the annexation Of
Texas would add no new facilities to the Uni.
ted States in defend ngor controlling the Gulf
oil Mexico. in this point Of view he affirmed
At just as useless, in others it was perniciou.
very Arabia desert, If in our hands, of hot
suns, burning sands, and venomoos serpents
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