The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-09-13
W ASHIN GTON.
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPT. 10, 1874.
PROFOUND VIEWS OF THE TEXAS
QUESTION.

QUESTION.
So long as the erudite editor of the Madisonian
confined himself, in the discussion of the Texas
question, to events merely human, and to periods
of time near the present, we felt in some degree
qualified to bring his analogies in question, and
combat the force Of his reasoning but when he
traces it's latent bearings beyond the Deluge, and
even beyond the era of Creation showing how it
stands affected by the various theories of cosmog
onists, we shrink from the unequal conflict, and
turn over the discussion to the venerable Mr..
Jenkinson and his authorities Sanconiathon and
Berosus.
The following profound observations, which
would make remarkably fine exordium for one
of Father Mler's sermons, is the commence
ment of an article in late Madisonian upon the
annexation of Texas:
"Theologans and philosophers have often argued
from the analoges of the physical world to those Of
the moral and political Under Governor inf
nitely wise and good, it might well be expected
that such analogies would very strkngly exist
And it may further be expected that if the mind
shall find satisfaction in the contemplation of the
material structure of the earth, that it will also
be enabled to discover grounds for satisfaction in
its moral and political arrangements albeit it is
finite and imperfect being. contemplating the
vast and complicated movements of Him who
was, who is, and who is to come.
''The liability of human affairs to great and won
derful changes has been for thousands of years
an observation Of human sagacity. That great
and active monarch Nebuchadnezzar, turned his
attention to these changes, led probably to its
consideration by the numerous and strange mu-
tations which he had Witnessed: "thoughts came
into his mind, upon his bed, what should come to
pass hereafter" Dan. chap ii, Y. 90 And it is
very natural for considerate minds to indulge in
similar meditations, both in regard to the physical
and political world"
Perhaps the astute reader may be able to dis
cover something in the above paragraph bearing
upon the Texas question-we confess that we do
not, and therefore will not attempt reply
We acknowledge equal obtusi,y in relation to
the pertinency of the facts and reflections drawn
from French and English history. They doubt
less display great learning and philosophical
vein of thought, but then plain people are unable
to connect events SO remote and dissimilar as the
divine right of French Kings in the Middle Ages
with the annexation of Texas to the United
States
But if it can ever be shown that the visions Of
Daniel. (for the editor quotes Daniel,) the dreams
of Nebuchadnezzar, and the organic changes
which nature underwent prior to the creation
were all subsidiary TO the annexation of Texas
we will cheerfully admit the rest; and certainly
no one will find any difficulty, after that, in apply
ing the cases Of Clovis, Pepin, and Hugo Capet,
who belong to comparatively modern era. 1t
follows, of COURSE fortiori, that if the annexa-
ton of Texas is one of those great events which
must necessarily result from the organic law of
the material world, that all subsequent events
must conduce to the same end-hence the rele-
vancy of the Meroringian and Carloringian dy-
nasties, to say nothing of the Bourbons, Stuarts,
and Guelfs, and the family of Savoy.