The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-09-16

, came an American, but have opposed, with
not the less energy and unhnchng hrmness,
his system OF politics In that party have
: many personal friends. whom ! esteem above
all price but differ with them in our opinlons
OF public policy though not, trust, in our love
of country. Such men shall be slow TO be-
Z lieve can ever countenance The despcable accu-
4 satlon OF Disunonlsm against great and a
mighty party either lis people, or the mass OF
It's leaders. IL has been applied 10 the question
, OF Texas falsely and unjustly but il does apply
TO many more OF It's enemies, by The same rule oil
proof They began the cry of Disunon and
!, their friends did wrong not to rebuke them. We
hare rebuked any and all, iadiscrimindiety
who have been Incorporate upon this subject.
We, who are the advocates of Texas, consider
our policy as much the wsest, for the perpetua-
lion of the Union, aud that, therefore, IN our
tendencies, we are lis most devoted friends
But let US see ichdt has been The dnti-Ameri-
can tendency ofMe acts of The enemies 81 re-
anneraiion. That is he practical test
The tone and the argument of the opposition
TO remuneration has inspired the Mexican Gov
eminent Santa Anna has issued his manifesto,
his subordnates and official press have caught
the vely spirit and language-complied with
| the invitation held out TO them-used threats
and preparations of war-swear that lhey
will never yield their pretended title TO rex
as. and HE soLEMNLy PRocLAiMs, that they
will transmit, il, and the obligation OF lis
support, TO their "chidren and grandchildren.
They have followed, TO the very letter, the
counsel which they have received-and those
who made the consent and the acts OF Mexico,
a state of peace with her al least, the condition
upon which they would receive Texas back to
the bosom of our Republic must now blush at
the effects of what they have done They have
reviled Texas, disparaged her rights-argued
against her in every torm-peTverted history to
prove the eminent supremacy OF Mexlco-to
extend her boundaries--tO contract those Of
Texas-and in every possible way, 10 msinter.
! pref, and mlsrepresent the natural order OF
events-their relations with each other-and
their bearing upon the future destinies Of the
Anglo American race. The truth is, Santa
Anna sreaks their words, follows their advice,
and is, side by side with them; THAT SANTA AN
| NA-rHAr BLOODY BUTCHER OF OUR CoUNTRYMEN,
of the brave and noble spirited men at the
Alamo-the cold booded murderer of FIVE hun
dred Texan soldiers at Goliad, men of Ten
| nessee and all the South who laid down their
arms under the promise of life, and the protec-
ton due to prisoners of war; who, as they
were marched off, believed they were in safety,
until platoon after platoon was wheeled and
halted upon the place OF death, where they were
shot down, without the delay of moment-no
thought Of the past-of the future--oi home
of the endeared wife and the lovely child-not
one word aowed-not one to be written there
they stood for dedut-and looked, in their last
moments, upon Their companions as they Tell;
some dead, others wounded, and butchered orer
again; a.. when soldier fell wounded but not
dead he lifted his head nstncvely TO rise, ihis
| Mericdn murderer repeated his fire upon
him land there stood that Santa Annd-he
President of Merico-with his bloody corps
around him, contemplating that scene of butche-
ry No pen can describe il, no pencil can paint
! il. The betrayed heart, hope changed, in an
instant, TO the horrors of such death, language
is too feeble to express and The skill OF the
painter cannot transfer to his canvass. But
there stood The monster, gloating upon the blood
of your counuymen-and there that man stands
noio, side By side, nth the enemies Of I'erds
the opposers OF annexation, and receives at
their hands the weapons they hare taught him
| TO WELD, a second time, against her. A Chris
tlan nation, after that scene, with all like II that
had been enacted, had right and ii lrds heir
duy, by force, to put an end TO that 1rar Of
bdrbdrism and determination forever Such
is the law of nations. Our gallant countrymen,
however, closed il most glorously, without our
aid But they have appealed TO us, after eight
years OF uninterrupted independence, and, in
reply to that appeal the opposers Of annexation
Anna has placed himself repeating their ar
gumentS, and endciing their cOunseii Men of
/ Tennessee-patriots, philanthropists, and Chris
tlans-UiH you, TOO, place yourselves by the
side of me same monster VIII you, bV
your rotes, record your approval of what
he says and does 2 Will you, by your
rotes, approve those who think as he thinks
Who have spurned the appeal of our brethren Of
Texas, and refu.ed their rescue from foreign
domination viii you stand side By side toifh
him? No neverl never We cannot The
very blood of our counlrymen would cry aloud
from the earth The spirits of the dead would
denounce us-and the very stones would speak
beneath our feet, as trod our way TO the
ballot boxes No have no fears my coun-
trymen will redeem, in this great day Of trial.
their country from The grasp Of Federalism
their brethren of Texas from the grasp of Bri-
tdin-and they will not be found, side bu side
NTH the bloody Santa lima as firmly be-
lieve this as do that the sun will rise for they
are the friends of human rights-sophistries will
neither delude nor satisfy them to do an act Of
inhumanity and injustice which they never can
recall They will support Texas and the friends
OF Texas The PRIDE AND PoMP or THE BLOODY
BANDED SANTA ANNA WILL FALL BEFORE THEIR
RIGHTEOUS VERDICT.
| cannot close this letter without noticing the
objections which have been graveIy made TO the
enlargement of our Republic. We were insult
ingly warned upon the floor of the Senate of the
extent Of our possessions, that A" Spain herself
whom we now despise, once held in fee almost
a third of the known world" The Ian
guage used was, that "her thirst for misused
dominion mas as interruptions as ours can
aspire to be; her enterprise as dciire her
military spirit far higher" And the ques-
ton, in the same American tome was
a. insutingly asked, in the words" What
then is TO assure us, treadng the same
career from the same, or yet speeder fate 2"
We were, also, told in the same spirit, by the
same member, that IL is dsunion that beckons
on to this scheme Of rdpacify you are m plum
der, that disunion may possess you are 10 steal,
that it may receipej you are foulIy and faih-