The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-08-30

advantages winch she could gain nearly as well II
Texas were part of the Union.
at is true ambition blinds statesmen and ma
lions, but we do not think Great Britain as blind
now as at the commencement of the American
Revolution. II the ambition of pre-eminence
which actuated her then remains, she is far more
enlightened in her mode of achieving it's ends
II Is possible she might go to war with us for
Texas, but very far from being probable. The
great moral and political earthquake of the French
revolutionary war has improved her perceptions
of her real dangers--shown her her own really
vulnerable parts as we'll as those of her adversa-
ries, and loaded her with debt that impedes all
her movements in war; as well as creates some
difficulties in peace. Her policy, as well as ours
is peace but if war with her is to be the price
of asserting our just claim to Texas, with the con-
sent, of course of Texas, the time is not distant
when it will assuredly come. General w addy
Thompson's nerves would we doubt not, grow
hrmer at even the sure prospect of a war with
her than when he wrote his letter in trepidation
at the vision of the two gants-France and Eng
land-bia ndishng their united swords against us,
forgetting all about Europe and Africa and the
rivalry of centuries"
We think we hear the reader exclaim, upon
reading the above remarks, "What does this
mean! Has the Madisonian, the official organ,
abandoned the ground upon which, all along, the
treaty of annexation has been defended, viz: the
Such remark would be very natural to per-
son trained to think and reason in the old-fash-
Toned way; but the learned and ingenious editor,
as we have before limited, is not cramped in his
ratiocinatons by those rules of logic which COM
mon minds are guided by. He sees no reason
In IN, &c a.
question, aege one stale Of facts, as, for instance,
that England is interfering and will further inter-
fere with Texas, and if pressed in another quar-
ter, alIege the contrary, viz: that England is mol
interfering, and dare not interfere with that Re-
public to our prejudice. !
Such in fact, has been the whole course of the
advocates of annexation. They blow hot and
cold alternately. All through the Southern coun-
try, beginning at the Buzzard Roost'' in this
city, las Col. Benton classcally designates the
Executive mansion,) and terminating at the Rio
G,ande, in the western part Of Texas, the avowed
osteasible object Of annexation is to extend and
perpetuate slavery, and strengthen the ant-tarff
interest. In the Northern States the dastardly
dough-faces who have been kicked into the sup
port of annexation against their own convictions
| of duty, (f such creatures can be supposed to
have any, and certainly against their ideas of
utliiy,) put the defence upon the very opposite
ground, that annexation will produce the aboli-
ton Of slavery, and, by increasing the number of
sugar-growers, strengthen the tariff party. Some
times they declare that Texas is in imminent dan
ger of falling into the hands of England, catas-
trophe which can only be prevented by annexa-
ton; and then, if told that war with Mexico and
England will be the consequence, they immedi-
atey deny, "with an OATH that England has
any serious designs upon the independence of
Texas, which she will prosecute at the hazard of
breaking the peace with the United States.
Nothing is clearer to us than that, had the Pre-
sident and his cabinet, instead of engaging in The
clandestine negotiation of dishonorable bargain
with Texas, proceeded openly and fairly to re-
monstrate with Mexico against the continuance
Of the war, and discaiming every latent wish to
annex Texas to the Union, the peace and inde-
pendence Of that Republic would have long since
been established. Such, even now, will be found
to be the only practicable plan of terminating the
affair; but, after the base, knavish means that
have been used to swindle Mexico of half her
territory, we know not if she would take any dis
ciaimer from us as to our future policy. The per-
fdious eectioneering scheme of Tyler and Cal
houn may have forever destroyed all confidence on
the part Of Mexico in our uprghness of intention
There is something amusngly conceited in the
device which the Madisonian has hit upon to in
dicate what the editor terms " our policy" 1t is
very apparent that the benefcent gentleman ap-
prehends that the spheres might be shaken to
their centre should he, the puissant spokesman
of John Tyler, too suddenly announce sour poll
cy' in relat on to Texas; he therefore concludes
the article upon which We have been commenting
with quotation from Byron, descriptive of a
sunny cline to which the poet talks of "going %
We regard it as most Infamous threat of in
vading Mexico the morality of which is attempted