Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-03-30
From the Emancipation
Texas Admitted,

Texas Admitted,
The papers of this city and of other cities, esq
pecially of the Wings, have been Regularly astoun-
ded by the news that a treaty is actually negotlat-
ed, and probably already submitted to the Senate
by which Texas is made an integral part of the
United States of America. The Boston Atlas of
Feb. %, while the Texas resolutions were pend
ing in the Legislature of Massachusetts, had a
long article respecting the manner that Texas was
to be admitted by treaty, treating the story with
open contempt. We copy a Sequence or two, to
show t~hespirit of the article:
"Wc have the most heartfelt pity for the weak
brain of any individual who could allow so shall
low a report to maintain a Judgement in that brain
for a moment. So many improbable agreements
would be necessary to the full fruition of such a
plan as this, that no reasonable man can entertain
Il momentary supposition of its probability-and
least probable of all that the Senate of the United
StateS-Me Wing Senate of the United StGtes-
should so irremedia5Iy disgrace Itself as even to
entertain the idea Of negotiating t0ih a foreign in
dependent Stale 10 anneG another Independent
STATE politically and territoFiaHy 10 these United
StateS."
And again, on the Goth, in reply to a correspon-
dent, the same oracle hits q base charge against
all who doubt IFS infalhbility:
"We fear the excitement is gotten up, in sonfB
quarters, for the purpose of attracting attention
from other important matters, and of attempting
to prejudice the chances Of Mr.. Clay for the press
idency." .
" Many of the Southern Wings are opbosed I'd
the annexation. The South will not unite on the
question, The Calhoun men will not support
Van Buren,, even if they could carry this project
of annexation by doing so. Mr.. Clay's friends id
the South and West-we speak it with the utmost
confdcnce-will be prompt enough to put down
such a project, whenever the contingency occurs"
Here is, then, the sagacity and the honor of the
Boston Atlas, pledged to the people of New Eng
land, only three weeks ago, that there was no
danger, that the scheme was preposteroGs, that
the southern friends of Henry Clay iii the South
and West will promptly put down the project
Let us test the competency of this proud and over-
bearing oracle. Let the people understand how
far the Atlas is to be relied on as a vigilant senti-
mel on the walls, to warn US of the dangers to the
public liberty. Read the following editorials from
leading Wing papers:
GIVE hear to-day, directly, and in such shape
as to command our belief that 4 treaty for the an
nexation of Texas, unfinished at Mr.. Upshur's
death, between him and the TeXian minister; has
been hurried to a conclusion by the acting secre-
tary, Mr.. Nelson, and signed, and that tomorrow
or Monday it will 90 to the Senate, where noses
have been counted-cnough, it is said, to ensure
its ratifcation.-N Y. .a'nerican, March 15."
$50 far as the President of the United States
ana the President OF texas are concerneu, tne
treaty is all but made.
"This information has, we confess; filed our
minds with humiliation and apprehension-hu-
initiation at the Unauthorized and almost clandess
tine manner in which, after having heretofore SOL
EMMY rejected for unanswerable reasons, u propo=
sition for annexation, when sought by thegovern-
ment of Texas, our own government has done d
wooing to that of Texas, and solicited its favors;
and approximations of the consequences of the con-
summation of the treaty, which the President at
least has been made to believe will be promptly
ratified by a constitutional majority of the Senate
of the United States. 1t is a question of peace or
war-of self reservation-of national existence
in comparison with which the ordinary topics of
party controversy dwindle into absolute insighif1
canoe.
While speaking thus, we know and feel that we
are not expressing sentiments III accordance with
those of some of our political friends. We sins
cereIy regret it, on our account and on theirs. -
Nat. INTEL, March 16.
eft is stated in the Philadelphia North Ameris
can of Thursday morning, on the authority of d
gentleman who assures the editors Of the accuracy
Of his information, that Mr.. Tyler has signed a
treaty for the annexation of Texas to the United
States. Should-this be true, the monstrous act re-
quires still to be endorsed by two-thirds of the
Senatej before it becomes possessed Of vitality and
the power to do mischief."-BoS Atlas, March
18th.
"There is a great breeze in Washington about
the annexation Of Texas. 1t is said that the Pres
ident has already signed a treaty for this purpose;
and that it is Immediately to he submitted TO the
STANDARDIZATION Post, March IS.
Mr.. Calhoun, the new Secretary Of State, it is
understood, is in favor of annexation, and a ma-
jority Of the cabinet. Indeed, only one of the
heads of Department, Mr.. Spencer, is a citizen Of
Il free State, On this subject, in Massachusetts,
and indeed in all the free States, especially those
of New England, there will be bu. one opinion.-
Party.lines will be thrown aside, and the people,
the admission Of Texas into the Union. "-.Mercaas
tile Journal, March 10.
We had hoped, and we still hope, that such $