New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-12-09
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From the great mascot documents concerning
our Relations with Mexico and Texas submitted
By President Tyler to Congress along with his
Message, we extract only Mr.. Cslbeun's Instruc-
tons TO Mr. Shannon on the departure of the
latter for Mexico. He who reads this may reaai-
iy infe, the character Of the whole. lie viii
that our Executive ia bent on picking quarrel
with Mexico, on any grounds or on no grounds.
Such string Of unius. fault finding we never
before read. Whatever Mexico does or leaves
undone, Mr.. C. instrucls Mr.. S. to charge on her
Government as offensive q the United States
She has paid all or claims bat the last install
ment, and she is rated fer brief delay IN regaid
to that, as though .he were some loafer who mac
eaten dinner and lodged the payment. Sac has
felt constrained, by considerations OF National
safety, in view OF the means by which Texa'
was wrested from her, to take measures OF pre-
caution against Oar aiveDtuTerS pouring into Cali.
fornia, Sonora, &c. and his Mr. Calhoun ABUSES
her for. Her municipal regulation, limiting the
night Of Foreigners 20 trade within her territory,
is held to bs fragrant of'nce against Us. AM
he, preparations 10 r5cooquer Texas Chougn We
have often complained that She didn't attenPtit
are treated as mos; outrageous Il all. In short
do what she viii, tiessrs. Tyler and Calhoun are
resolved on snaboing her for il, and they tell her
that her remonstrances against orr appropriation
OF Texas are so impsrt;ncat and offensive thai
they will take no notice Of them and she mus
be careful Of repeating them. Sachs the man
ner in which manly rensnstrance against ou'
Incorporating into GU: Union power VII Oh Is al
any rate at syar with her is treated by COR Go
ysrrment And in i special despatch Mr.. Cal
houn instructs Mr. Slsnncn 10 protest against
any invasion OF Texas by Mexico as an mira
ton of our rights! aud certain to bling dcwn o.
Mexico the vengeance OF the United States
All this after the Treaty of Annexation hao
been rejected BY our Senate by tE'o 10 one, ane
when it was legally dcad.l Can abasc and cut
rage on an independent and friendly nation 60
beyond this 2
Mr.. Calhoun writes long despatch 10 Mr
King, our Minister at Paris, ins!Iactlng HIM to
school the French Governmentinto acquiescsnce
in our appropriation Of Texas, on The groun'
that it is measure of hostility to British policy
and ascendsncy, especially with regard to tbs
continuance of Slavery. MIR Calhoun assumes
that without Annexation, British Influence WI.
prevail in Texas, procure the Abolition OF Sd
very there, whereupun Slayary in the Union
will follow, and that in the West ladies
SOON after, so that bondage viii cease through.
out the civilized world. This. Mr.. Calhoun
argues, will be very beneficial 10 England,
which nation has been greatly injured by
her Abolition of Savery, i'll the decrease Of her
production of Sugar and other tropical staples,
but will regain her ascsndancy, through her East
Indian possessions, whenever the Abolition o.
Slavery shall become universal.
We have not patience TO comment on such
atrocious appeals as this. 1t is hard enough TO
bsar the shame OF them in he face Of the civil
lied world LIE: it he no longer denied that An
nexation is pushed for tho avowed purpose OF
terrifying and perpetua,ing Slavery, not in our
own land only, but wherever Man crouches TO
the lash. The essential argument imports that
Sugar and Cotton may be penny deater if the
laborer shall be paid than 1t can be afforded
while his only induccment 10 work is the LASH
And it is to uphold the hoggiug agains. the pay
ing policy that the power of the United States is
to be put forth in the middle of the Nineteenth
Century.
Those who have been babbliug OF peaceful
Annexation have their answer in our news to-day
from Mexico. Mr. Shannon was sent there to
pick quarrel, and he has done it-evidently in
most laundering and disgrscsfuI manner, So
mite. a numbskull was certain to do--No mat.
ter-we have little National character left 10
lose.
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