Hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1843-1845, 1844-04-04
Astounding Intelligence,

ing. If true, it is fraught with more
serious consequences to our whole
country than any transaction that has
taken place since we were a nation.
1t seems almost incredible, that the
President and his Cabinet could have
carried on private negotiations with
the Texan government. in so secret a
manner, and TO such an extent, as to
commit the United States on so i'm.
portant question as completing all
The arrangements in making Texas a
part and parcel Of this Union, without
its being once publicly mooted or even
whispered into the peoples ear. But
incredible as i! appears, the authenti-
Gated articles on the subject in the Ma.
'ional In,elligencer, and Baltimore and
New York papers, force the belief
that this has been done.
1t seems as if those papers that come
10 US with the news, are so astonished
aud petrifed, as to have los. all pow
er in giving an opinion on the subject.
They express surprise, and one Them
goes SO far as to say tina. "the rati-
tication of that treaty is the dissolution
of the Union!" but leading journals as
they are, it was to have been expected
that the bare anticipation of such an
awful result, would have led them to
express their opinions fully and freely
in denunciation of the course of the
double traitor Tyler, and thus give
tone to healthy public sentiment on
the subject.
But we see no such declaration Of
opinion; and it seems to US as if the
genius Of evil was pervading the ave.
nues of thought. and stopping the free
egress of full expression of feeling
and opinion on this momentous ques-
ton. It looks as if they were so ap.
palled at the development OF this plot.
as to be utterly incapacitated from CIV
ing vent to their feelings-like person
on whom some great calamity has sud-
denly fallen,-the very greatness and
unexpectedness Of the calamity deprives
him Of the power Of u,terance.
On most exciting subjects the feel.
ings will we'll up in the heart and
gush out at the mou,h-but when men
find themselves suddenly on the verge
of dangerous precipice, their very
danger makes them mute;-so it seems
to be in this case. A threatened dis.
solution of this fair Union which re-
quired the best blood and most costly
treasure Of the purest patriots to cement
and rear--involving in that dissolution
the dismemberment Of the nearest and
dearest ties-arraying father against son
and son against father-causing aliena-
ton of feeling, where love and affec-
ton before made their demonstrating
distrust where confidence had always
dwelt-turning love into hate, peace
into war, joy into sorrow, prosperity
into adversely, and what is far worse,
destroying the last and loveliest fabric
OF Republican;sm that has ever We!
been reared, and making the very idea
Of the peoples capability Of self.govern-
ment mockery and reproach-such
dissolution, or the fear of it, is enough
TO make men stand aghas, and be mute.
They are so, and Of right ought to be.
Whatever action the Senate may
take upon this misunderstanding mid
night treaty, will be subject of future
comment. We have now to do with
its conception and its birth. We are
willing to believe that it is the sole pro.
ducsion Of John Tyler, although there
are around him ambitious, aspiring
men. more talented than himself, and
whose political hopes are blasted as
far as all honorable aspirations can
reach, and these may have given their
advice on the occasion.
And who is John Tyler! The
accidental occupier Of the Presiden-
tial. chair. using the power confer.
red on him by mere accident, to
defeat the measures Of the party ,ha,
made him what he is. Although none
but a traitor would do such deed-.and
base and dishonorable as it has been
considered in John Tyler to besray
and Illustrate the measures OF his own