New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-08-17

J"lsuiCtion vi MS own country, what would MOI
be The fate of a citizen OF Texas, who should at
tempt openly To exercise the same liberty, in op
position 10 the proceedings of those bloody intru
ders and usurpars, who went &c Texas for the
express purpose of sewing rebellion7"
Mr.. Edward, the historian of Texas, amply
confirms the statement of the correspondent o.
the Commercial Advertiser, touching the char.
hcte!, designs aud operations OF The intuders who
came for the purpose Of sowing rebellion " f."
think" ne says, | hear the reader excIaiu1, as
every honest. sober, peaceful, citizen of Texas
did at ,hr time, Gpoo Goo /! what set of deceit
i1l ambitious, and ungrafeiul men have got lntu
our country" 1t was soon after the Accession
Of General Jackson to the Presidency tina, lnis
TIDE Of moral feculence began 10 set INTO Texas.
ih's party" he says iii 1886, has increased
hundred per cent. since 1882, by unlIst slave
holdtr-, who have had two Cages Of negroes
distributed among Them by African kicnappers."
Again he declares that, as late as 1885, those
who opposed this party, and were still a io'i-
tv, called them q" Land bhcfs, ldwiess merch.
ants, Shareholders, Office seekers, and vain gr"g-
dunslng bpasiers," that they were few in com
parison but talented, systcmatzed. closely con.
nected, and interchangeable iii their endcavOrs to
IN use suspicious against the General Govern
ment. and commit the country without the pos
>iohty Of a recail;" that they enlisted the idle
and Vicious" and congregated about Brozpria,
and other places near the seahoard where "they
were joined by their best f,iends-ihe savehold-
ers-wllo SAID their negroes, Cd d-n them,
were on the tptoe OF expectation, ard rcjoicng
that the MeIicans were coming to free them "
that they got possession of the press at Bra
zoria, the only one then in Texas y that "reso-
lutIons and addresses were distributed in every
quarter, by a committee of men appointed for
that express purpose - that they flied the
try with seGl,ous lbels and alarms, threatening
the peaceabe inhabitants, whom they called to-
ries. with their vengeance, if they ventured TO
interrupt them in their hlghhanded proceedings"
Still, says the same historian, Z" the communica-
tons from the people, or farmers, TO the Mexican
authorities, were Of the most friendly and lavora-
bic kind but those from the agitators and would.
DC office or landholders, were of the most threat
ening and dangerous sort. Down with the die
tator Santa Ana-dcath to ali his supporters who
snail enter Tcx4s.'
In this state OF things it was that the ravolu
tionists sent their emissaries all over the United
States, TO excite the sympathy and obtain the as
sistance of the friends of freedom, and especially
Of religious freedom.
The hostile proceedings of citizens Of the
United States against Mexico, throughout her
controversy with the Texan insurgents end
brigands, have been as much in contravention Of
the Law of Nations, as of our Treaty with
Mexico, and of our own Municipal Laws for
maintaining the peace and neutrality OF the
nation. The Government and People are guilty
Of whatever wrong they permit citizens or stran-
gers TO commit within their jurisdiction. The
part which the people of the South Western sec
ton of the Union, and a certain class IN every
section, have been allowed, and, in fact, encour
aged, by faithless and Machiavelian FIX, cutivc,
to take against friendly and pcaceabc neighbor.
does not differ at all from the expeditions which
Genet got up within this country against LOUIS
lana and Florida; or from that which was pre-
pared by Aarcn Burr, Andrew Jackson, Samue!
Swartwout aud others. against Texas III lo0b
In both those cases, Pr0clamatiors, containing
solemn donunc!ations and warnings, were ISSUED
by the different Presidents, in whose times they
happened. The first were the occasion OF the
celebrated Neutrality Proclamation of Washing
ton. Washington ordered Wayne TO take post
on the Ohio, where the adventures must pass
Jefferson gave like orders 10 Wilkinson and other
officers, and was prepared to intercept, and, II
necessary, 10 sink the boats OF the offending
party, at The mouth of the Cumberland, and at
various other points en- the Ono and Mississippi
Rivers. These facts contrast strangely with the
following OF recent date A company OF Rifle
men was raised in Cincinnati, who organized,
armed, paraded and marched, in open day, on
raj d II Steamboat, aud proceeded down the river
ror Texas. Al a meeting held in that city, to
raise men and money Tor this expedition, the
United StnfeS District Attorney. named Reed.
was The principal speaker IN behalf ri the Texans
and symuath'zers. This was all reported III
the newspapers. Reed was not removed, nor
is it known that he was cenSu ed by President
Jackson.