The North-Carolina standard., 1844-04-24

Iportunity presents. Such is the iSf1nence which
Fits thus peoved by official docdusents, Great
lBrtaia has already obtaihed in 1exas- It is here
proved that Great Britain ''offeFed her tnediaton''
Ito Texas TO. obtain peace With Mexico and tha:
fshe has already induced Texas to assume, condi-
tionatly, one million pobrs sterling Of the debt
which Mexico owes in England with all the &C.
cumgl Hating fnteIest fteul the.1st of January 1885
a patton so feeble as Texas, which should owe SO
heavy debt ip England, with the payments Sc
cured by tteaty, would Be<as completely within
British influence as though already British Co
lqny, especially WHEN weeonsider the other most
IextraoTdlpaFy privileges which she has already
graptedto England, inclading the right Of ssarch
In the official proclamation of June Is, 1543,
President Houston says; can officiaf eornfinhi-
teaton has. been received at the department of
State, s4Sem her Brst0naie Majeaty's charge DAT
faires pear this government founded upen.a des-
patch he had Seceiyed from her Maiesty's charge
d'afaires in Mexico announcing to This govern
nent the fact that the President of Mexico would
foEthwih order q Cessation Of Aostiiities on his
part; therefore, /, Sar> Houston, President of the
Republic Of Texas do hereby declare and pro-
claim that an armstice is established, to continue
during the pendebcy Of negotiations bstweeh t6e
ftVo oountfies, and until due notice of m inteiien
to resume hostilhies- .tsheuld such an intention
hereafter be entertainedbY either party shaA have
Ueen tolhSily aHHoQ1cet LlfoHgn NIT tI1t%14fc
MajeSfyS, change daffaires at the respective gov
efnuients. NJ IS not TEXAS daaeedy dspendGnt upon
Ehgtdmd, wheif England obtainssfor her an at
mistice. and the President of Fexss.anuounces
that this wilt continue .nnh1 its termination be an
nounced By England?
In the massage of the President Of Texas Of the
18th Of December, 1s43, be speaks Of the gene
rops and fiandy ydisposition and active and friend
iy officers Of England" He-spsales, also, Of in
jufics and indignties inflicted by this government
upon Texas, and declares nthat reparatioR has
been demanded" Such is the. wonderful advance
in:Texas 6fthe influence of England, that she has
succeeded in having 1t announced in an executive
message 1.-THE people Of Texas that England. IS
their friend, and that are are their enemies. II
all this Had been predicted three. years since, If
would have been deemed incFedble; and II Texas.
is not, TeanRexed, she is certain, within q. few
years mare. 10 become first a commercial depen-
dency, and then colony, in fact t. Rot. in name,
of England. When we regard the consequences
which have already followed the mere aPpfehen-
siea Of the refusal Of Remuneration, what will be
the res6ltu Texas when seannexation IS positively
and forever reiected2 When this is done, and
Texas is repulsed with ceHtempt er indifference,
when her people are told, The flag Of the Union
shall never wave over you, got-go where you
may, to England, if you please,-I~tin can doubt
the resuft2 To doubt. is wilful, blindness; and
whilst we will have lost a most importants,errito-
ry, and an Indispensable portion of the valley Of
the West, Englan will have gained a dependen-
cy first, aad then colony; and we shall awake
and the sound Of Brilish cannon the flag of Eng
land shalt wave.npen the coast and throughout
the limits Of Texas; and a nonatchy rises up on
our own continent and on our own borders, upon
the grass Of republic Yes,this is not ones
tion merely between us and Texas, but a Question
between the advance, of British or American pow
er and that too, within the very heart ofthe val
ley of the West. It is question also 'betweeRthe |
advance Of monarchy and fepublicanism through
out the fsirest and most fertile portion ofthe Amef
ian contineat, and is one of the mighty movements
ia deciding the great question between monarchy
and repubhcanism, >wch of the two forms OF gov
afnmens shall preponderate throughout the world, |
In the North, the flag Of England waves from the t
Atlantic to the Pacific over a region much more
our, own and i II must float also |
for several thousand miles upon the banks of the |
tributaries of the great Mississippi and along the
gulf, from the Sabine to the. Del NoEte we will |
be surroundedAon all sides by England in Ameri-
"a: In the guH, her supremacy would be clear
Ind dabsolute; and in the great interior, she would
hang on the rear of'Louisiana and Arkansas; and
within Two days. march of the Mississippi, while
her forts would stand and her flag would wave,
5or more, than thousand miles, on the banks of
he ATkansas, the Sabine, and Red river, and in /
contact with sixty thousand Indian
warriors Of our own, and half as many more Of
what would then be- British Indians, within the
present limits of Fexas Ifany doubt her course
Is to the Indians, let them refer to- her policy IN
his respect during the revolution and the last war
ind they viii find that the savage has afwaySbeen
her favorae ally, and that she has shed more
American blood, blythe aid ofthe tonahawk and
than she ever did iBthe field offair
md open conflict. And has she become ,morel
friendly TO the American peOple2 Look at her
orts and her traders, occupying our own undoubt-
ID territory of Oregon fookiat her press IN Eng
and aud Canada, teemmg with abuse of our peo-
pie, government, and lawsj lookat her authors [
Ind tourists, from the more powerful and insidi-
BUS assaults of Allison, descending in the scale to
he aIsehoods and arrogance of Hall and Hamit
on, and down yet lower to the kennel jests and
psl gar abuse of Marryat and Dickens, ndusfri-1
ously circulated throughout all Europe; and ney
pr s'her hostility so deep and biIter and never
haye her efforts been so great TO render us odious
% All the world. The government Of England is I
controlled by her afistocracy the avowed eneHhies
Of republican governaIent5 wherever it may exist. |
And never was England endea vering to advance I
more rapidly'te almost universal empire, on the T
pecan and9he; land. Her steamers, commanded !
By naval officers traverse nearly every coast ard
sea, whilst her empire extends UPON TIE land In
hs East, the greatand popalous empfresaf Scinde
aud AHghanistan have been virtually Subjected tof
her sway, whilst yet another provfnce new bleedst