The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-05-21

.Dsass hs Will .hs ooapiain Of aggrcs.ions con-
United ny Tsxaos1 We will permit such az
erosion ansr the territory subSeen occupied BY us.
We will render pro.apt satisfaction for them.
What, then. will DO her plea That the coaniIy
b,lonss To her But our Government and the Gov
eInmen,s Of Europe have acknowledged The iadspe~-
dsnes of Texas, and what does the Independence Of
nation mean, but that il has right To exercise
every act Of national sovereignty, 10 make
and peace, form treaties and in tho chances Of war,
to subject itself to conquest' Great Britain might
go TO war with Texas, conquer the country and OBJ
tain possession of it, Would She after having war
rcd with. and conquered IL, as an independent ma
ton consider herself bound to surrender il 10 Mexi
CO upon the plea Of her title to 1t And IL Great
Britain, any other nation, might obtain title to
Texas by war, without any aggression upon the ma
tonaI right Of Mexico, cannot obtain good H.
tie by peaceabe cession from Texas II We cannot,
then we had better carry mock with Tex
as, and obtain possession Of the country in that
way.
Suppose that we had question Of boundary with
Texas which should render il highly expedient to OBJ
tain portion Of her territory the frontier
not cess ion by Texas be good against Mexico p
Aud II cession of part would be good, would not
cession Of any part, or of the whole
The independence of Texas rendered Mexico un.
able to comply with the stpulations Of the 33d arti-
Gle of the Treaty, which is now pleaded against u.s.
She unable to restrain the Indians in Texas from
annoying If we were to receive any Injury or
annoyance now, from the population of Tex as, which
would be responsible, the Government of Texas, or
that of Mexico' Surely the latter would not as
sume the responsibility Mexico then, under her de
jme claim TO Texas entitled TO the benefits of pro-
pr'etorship without the responsibilities. 1t would
be taxing even sentimental friendship too Highly to
require us to permit Texas to continue a source of
injury or imminent danger TO US, because Mexico
mas doubtful claim TO the SOIL which she cannot
settle herself by an appeal to arms, and which there
Is no tribunal Of nations to settle for her.
We contend that the period has arrived when
Texas is likely TO DO source of imminent danger 10
us that if the opportunity which we now have of
acquiring permitted to escape the welfare of our
country Will be seriously perled; that Texas must
have some proprietor authorized TO cede the terrific
ry, or any portion Of it, TO that the proprietor is
either the Government of Mexico, or that Texas
and that we are precluded by the recognition of the
independence of Tie xas, from considering the Gov
eminent of Mexico the proprietor of the soil of
Texas.
II MIR. Clay and MIR. Van Buren, in their eager ef-
forts to prevent Mr. Tyler from disturbing their
comfortable schemes of personal aggrandizement,
merely stulihed themselves, without compromising
the honor and welfare of the nation, we should be
perfectly content. But when, in order to promote
their purely selfish and individual purposes, they
show willingness not only TO destroy measure
which all agree would advance the nation al welfare
but 10 traduce and yily the past acts of their Co
vernment-acts in which they were respectively the
immediate and willing instrument,-we have a right
to call upon them in the of the People, 10 make
good their assertions. They are bound to prove,
even II 1t should compel them to " be writing book
why the annexation Of TeXa. now would be more n
violation Of national faith and honor, than il would
have been when they respectively used their u,mos,
exertions to effect the same measure. We call upon
the editors OF the National Integencer and Globe
the organs Of this worthy pair of ex-Secretares of
State and woud-be Presden,s-to confer together,
ana concert some plausible mode Of demons tratng
that Mr. Clay was ready instrument in helping Mr.
Adams TO tsrnsh the national honor in 1877 and that
MIR. Van Buren, did his best TO aid General jackson
in disgracing his country in 1929. Nero assertion
without proof will not do the Intel igcncer is bound
TO show, by sufficient argument and evidence, that
MIR. Adams and Mr. Clay conspired 10 commit an ao,
Of national fraud and violence" in 1927 and the
the same thing in 1929.