The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-08-01
MEXICO AND TEXAS.

The New Orleans Bulletin Ga Wing paper,) has
the following speeulations in regard TO the designs OF
President Santa Anna against Texas A severe
thrust is given to the Senators who rejected the
Treaty, and by so doing encourage Santa Anna TO
any procedure, however strongly it may be marked
with cruelty and barbarity:
The fact which we stated some days SINCE that
Santa Annals project for raising money and troops
for an expedition against Texas has passed the Mex
can Congress, and become law, is confirmed by
the adyices received on Sunday by the Uoodtuy-
The law authorizes, as far as ITS provisions have
rsnspred, the levy Of forced loan to the amount OF
t4OOOOOO, and addition OF $4,000 men to the ar
my Of the Republic, the money and the soldiers TO be
taken from the different departments in stated pro-
portions.
Notwithstanding the extensive operations which
would seem, by the passage of such law TO be in
contemplation, II is probable that nothing is further
from Santa Annals mind than to attempt invasion
or conquest Of Texas. The most that he intends 10
do, in all probability, is to revive with increased
marks OF barbarty, the border disturbances with
which he has heretofore kept Texas aud the South
ern frontier of the Union a state of excitement and
anxiety, and which have been fruitful Of victims 10
his malignity and treachery THIS mode of warfare
has served his purpose well that he can have no
occasion to change IT. Besides harassing and (by
preventing emigration thither) inluring the State
against which he is in arms more than would be pos
siole by any other system he could adopt; besides
being more easily maintained, and better suited in
their nature and results TO the disposition Of Santa
Anna and to the capabilities Of those whom
he rules, those predatory and kidnapping incursons
which have made up the sum of Mexican warfare
against Texas since the rout Of San Jacnto, have
received the sanction Of the most distinguished poll
ticians in the United States, and by the verdict OF
the Senate are entitled to rank as legitimate, Chris
tian and civilized warfare. Why then should Mex
leo change a plan of operations which served her
purposes with all the world in protest against it.
at moment when all the world have discovered
their mistake and that foragng expeditions repeated
at intervals of year entirely in conformity
with modern laws and usages and entitled to the con
sideration and respect due to regularly appointed
and sustained war;
The most that Mexico can expect, or indeed de.
sire to do, is to maintain Texas a sort of shadow
| of title. which will do to plead at an emergency
and this she better accomplish since the decision
| OF our Senate that by paper war and an occasional
ioray the title of parent State to revoted member
may be maintained unimpaired for indefinite series
of years, by his old system, than by any new plan
The Mexican Dictator understands too well the Tor
| tunes of war in Texas TO risk title which has beer
suddenly bostered up by foreign support
quental affair, on the issue of serious invasion
| and attempt at conquest. He knows full well thai
| an invasion of Texas undertaken by army within
l the compass of Mexican means could only lead &c
the overthrow Of the invaders, and place Texas in
situation TO dictate the terms of peace. He can have
no inducement, therefore, to expose another Mexican
army to the pers of Texan campaign, and has pro
badly only awaited hmse Ii of popular pretence tc
| raise men and money for the prosecution Of his am
| bilious designs at home. The war against Texas il
very pretty and edying affair it stands, and thu
conduct of IT will only probably be changed far al
TO accord with the instructions already given to thu
division of the army stationed on the Rio Grande
and which contemplate merely the addition Of a few
new rehnemens IN cruelty, wanonness and barbarit.
| to conform to the increasing light of the age.