The North-Carolina standard., 1844-05-08

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Nothing is either more true or more extensive,
Hly known than sslla1 Texas yfsas wrested ffoFA
MexiG, and her independ 5ace-esAabiishe through
the -instrpmentatty Of 1sizanA e6the United States
Equally true is it that this NRs done not only
against theswishcs butSh direct contEayention o.
tGee6est eerts.of otrs kn4henf to prevent our
citizens flop engagtRg ip. the entsSprze. E1egtss
have, neverthelesS not been wanting on the pan.
of those who are not ovHranxioss for ahecredit of
republican goyeruments, TO risrepfesent she views
that our. efforts to pNevent npIsFfaep particiP Paten
by our sciizens ia that Struggle 4wee. ipsiaeefe
that we coveted ibis portion OE lhe. tefT4efy Oh
Mexico ard having failed. to- obtains At by talf
purekasessoF BY negotiption, we sawln this move
Iment . preliminary step, which would, intbe ead,
be equa1ly y,sabseryieht TO our views upon 4 exas.
No. one can have had better oppefthBties Of know
ing bow unfoundea these injariolss >n1rrutatlcns
were dian Rysr4f As early as Whens President
HoustOn! first went to Tezas believe ia do%9,
was consulted 6y Gen. Jaekson .upen the subject
Of private 4etter addEessad BY 1imt6 eshoaRra-
bic Mr. Etlton, senator of the United Statesr
thea Secretary Of the Territory Of rkapsns re-
[d1estng him to eaVee- the mogementso of GeneTal'
Houston to be watched, and to apprize the PresI-
dent Of thR'frst tsdicaton on BIS part OF am IN.
tentio to violate the Ians Of the United States by
an armed incaTsion iRto Mexico. >FTomthat PEI
ri6d to the end of General yackson's term Of of.
fee am as welhsa1sGed asI can be of apy fact
thai he was. sincerely desiro0s to5perforIn his.
whofe. duty AS chief magistrate of the .eoantrys
and to hreTeat inthis respect, the slightest VIOLA
Ftioa of the laws, with the e&eeuion,of Of which he
%as.charoed. He mo doubt; sincerely believed
that the incoEporatioR. of Hexas into the federal
Union would be .ahke advantageous Ia hef, 70
Mexico. ..and to the United States !; and was ever
ready 70 adopt all proper neasoEes feS the 8ccotn-
plistment of that object Bat they know very
little OF General Iacksen's true eharacter, who
can Tor a moment perraits themselves to believe
him capable of efdoing, coantenaRcing. or advising,
single ACT. ushich he believed, or had even rea-
sen to apprehend, weufd violate eahe' iighted faith
of his couptrY sr infringe apen the daty which il
owes to the great IA 19ily CT nati0ns. To prevent
oar peoale ffofn going To- Texas, and smbaPking
[in de war, xyas an neesSbaiy which neither he
sper.any other chief magistrate could have ACCOM-
bptiShed If they went there without military or
sanization. or arnaments,s and choose to'Piace
themselves beyond the profession Of this govern
ment, We had no right 10 control heiFaciions, nor
do otheE-goverRrAents exefeise any such right In
similar cases For the suppression Of military
enterPrizes, Organized and armed here against a
nation with which are at peace the provisions
of our laws are ample+ ,Bat of the difEcplG$ OF
! enforcing them with a,frontier ndseabeaFd like
! those which open our communication with Texas,
mo sensible and well informed mind can be igRor-
| ant.
For the voluntary action of our government in
regard-to the subject of annexation,- we can have
] no such explanation to4give The acquisition el
so valuable a territory by means which are CT
questionable propFiety,would be departure from
those just principles upon which this government
has eve. acted, and which have excited the admi-
raton and seemed the respect of the dispa$Slonde
and enlightened friends of freedom throIghoih
the world Bua ath very sure that weI shall all
in the end so act upon this subject as to- put out
of hespoweF Of The natural -enemies of fepubli-
Ecan institutions 10 make any plausible change Of
lin6delity to our avowed principles in respect tot
No oae was more deeply sensible of the. aecessi
tF of-the greatest prUdenSe in tbs particular, qF
mose anxious to secure its>obseryanGe, than Gem
jackson. AS late as Dvcembsr,- las6@-enig a
1 few months before the ogniion--he thus-ex
presses himseE ia a special message to The Sen,
fate: t But there are circ9HashHces. in the re4a-
tion of the two conHtFies which require us to act
on this occasion, with even more than our wonted
! caution Texas was once elaifned rs pan of DuE
property; and thereaFe these amohg our citizens
who always reluctant to eaaden that.cIaiua, can;
tnot.but regard with sotGuude the prospect OF the
treunio9' Of the territory to this country large
-psr1isn of its civilized inhabitants are emigrants
from the United States, speak the same language
with ouFselves,c S&He principles, political
and religious and are bound to many Of our eIti-
zens by the ties of friendship and kindred blood
land, more than all, it is known that the peoE1e oI
that country have instituted the same form ofgov-
4 ernment with our own, apd have, since the close
of YOUR last session. openly. resolved .op the ac-
4 acknowledgement by as of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to
seek admission into the Un;on as one of the fed,
erat States Fhis last circamstapce is matter oi
i peculiar delicaey, aad forces upon US asnsidera.
lions Of the. graVest character. The title of Tex
as to theteprory she claims, is identified with her
! independence. She asks uS1q acknowledge that
title 70 the. terrtoFy, with an aEowed design to
threat itamediqtely of ts +Fansfer to the.United
States. 1t becomes as to beware of too early
movement, as it might subjectsuss however unjust
lily, to the 1mpntatioa of seeking tosestabhsh the
\ ciaims, of our neighbors- to "a +erritory, with
view to its sQbsequeat-acauisnion by ourselves"
f It has been urged, -fLOn a quafter entitled tc
great respects and reasoned, tees with no+incon
siderable degree of cegeney, that tie acquisition
l.of Texas now, IN the mode proposed, would b
4 Liable to no greater objectioA>than the accomplish
4 ment Of the same object would have been ethics
in 1927 OF 1929, when it-was attempted by tws
lfsuccessive administrations 10 purchase it from
; tNEe4ico. IF were ta go intp a. discussoa q
this question and the facts necessarily connSete
; with Il, Kshouh be writing book iastead Of |
letter; nor is it necessary that Il should Il vii
therefore content myself with saying. that wifi