The Whig standard., 1844-05-17

following remarks from the IntelllgencQ Of yes.
terday, penned before the injunction OF secrecy
was removed, and even before the information
was communicated by the President to the Sem
ate.
We have only to add the expression Of our ear
nest hope that this subject will undergo the most
thorough and searching exposition and debate in
the Senate with open doors. Let the people
know all. -
From the National Intelligencer
1t came to our knowledge, rather indstinctly,
sometime ago, that even after the sort of defiance
to war which the President, in his Message to
Congress, delivered to the world in answer to the
remonstrances of the Government of Mexico, the
President of Texas could not be induced to yield
his assent to the conclusion of the Treaty OF san
nexaton" until this Government entered into GER
tain stipulations with him, to protect him and his
countrymen from the consequences which he very
well knew would be likely to follow his conclu-
sion of Treaty OF Annexation to the United
States, whilst he had, at the same moment, Com
missoners employed in negotiating for an arms-
tice with Mexico. Recently it has come more
particularly to our knowledge, through channel
entirely private but confded in, that there was
entered into, between the authorities OF the Uni-
ted States and the authorities of Texas, previous
to the signing of the Treaty, an understanding,
which, though not embodied in the Treaty, is as
much of the essence if not of equal consequence,
any provision of that Treaty, and was, with
the President of Texas, sine qua non No. Z, If
not No l, in the negotiation. BY this under
standing, # we not misnormed, the Execu-
tive of the United States bound this Government
to station on near the Texas boundary line
force of something like thousand infantry and
| several hundred cavalry, and to maintain IN the
Gulf of Mexico naval force superior to any ma
val force that Mexico has at her disposition.
That President Houston should require such
a disposition of the United States military and
naval forces, whilst that requirement indicated
any thing but consciousness of such national in
dependence as qualified Texas to become par
ty to Treaty of annexation to the United States
was with him doubtless a measure of wise pre-
caution. But what shall we say of the conduct
of our Executive, if it shall appear that he en-
tered into such secret stipulations, and executed
them, too, without condescendng to consult the
treaty making power, and still less the war-mak-
ing power! We say the war-making power
for, if the President agreed to place the land and
naval forces of the United States on the land and
naval frontiers of Texas, it would be for no pur-
pose but of offence or of defence for no purpose
but to fight the battles of Texas, foreign
power.
Be that as it may, without waiting for the rati-
icaton Of the written Treaty, and even before
transmitting it to the Senate, the President is
putting in execution his understanding with the
President of Texas The troops of the United
States are already in notion On the 9th of
last month the Sd regiment of United States in
fantry left Jefferson barracks, near st. Louis, for
Fort Jesup, on the Texan line; and on the first
day of this month the 4th regiment of infantry
received orders also to depart for Fort Jesup the
two regiments numbering eight hundred or
thousand men. Of the cavalry, several compa-
MES (late riae) are already on the ground, Cat
Fort Jesup) The stipulated amount of naval
force is also under orders. The amount of force
thus ordered to "rendezvous in the Gulf of Mex.
leo" is stated in the New Orleans Bulletin of the
third OF this month at seventeen SalL to be under
the command of Commodore Conner. These
movements all corroborate the information which
we have received of the stipulations into which
the Executive of the United States entered with
President Houston preliminary to or contempora-
neousy with the Treaty.
The knowledge of the existence of such stipu-
atons is, however, not needed to give interest to
the movements of these troops and ships of war in
the direction which they are taking. In the abb
| sence of any such stipulations these movements
would yet serve to prove that the President and
his advisers aware that they have taken
step, without the least necessity, or Justification
or excuse-for no better purpose, if for any other
| than that proclaimed the other day by the Tyler
Central Committee, of presenting " new issues y
to the People at the Presidential Electon-which
they kno,o must, if they are borne out in it, bring
about war with Mexico, unless they can succeed
in overawing her by show of force, or appeasing
her wounded feelings by apologies and bribes of
money, such as are said to have been in advance
rendered to her.
| We trust that among our readers there is not
one who is capable of regarding with unconcern
the deliberate violation by his Government of the
existing treaty of amily, OF boundary, and of CON-
merce between the United States and Mexico !;
nor one who does not shudder at the thought of
wantonly involving the nation in war for an OBJ
ject not only not essential to the national honor
or welfare, but actually in itself of expedency SO
doubtful that many of the wsest and best of our
citizens are opposed to it under any circumstances
If there be one such, however, we earnestly re.
commend to him to ponder well the suggestions
contained in the following brief but comprehen-
sive " communication" which caught our eye in
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