The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-07-02

en- 70 establish ssss and liberal sys,ss. tus The
public lands, BY which emigrsnts will ts greatly en-
eoursged 10 settle on them.
9Th TO detsrmine cheap GSpsrssssst, of which
costly army or navy should form no part. 1t would
be better 10 have none.
Let thess things bs done, and Texas in ten years
will hold 00o, 900 Of inhabitants, with rapid ratio
OF increase enjoying free trade with all the world,
and other political and social advantages Of which
the world has example
Ia establishing the harbor Of Galveston with twen-
ty feet water, if Texas and Mexico could be- they
ought 10 be, at peace, II would be made the entrspo
Of the schoe .Nsrican coast. II the cotton of Texas
taken in England, France, and Germany, at a
nominal duty, the cotton Of louisiana would be sent
to Galveston to be shipped. Very soon railway
communication would be established, on short line
between Red river and the Sabine, making thus the
merous other advantages would result, which the lin
its Of this paper will not permit TO be stated.
Every right-thinkng man in the United States
must feel the deepest solctude that Texas may yet
be but the strongest fears entertained that
false policy has defeated the project forever If
SO, the blame and an awful responsibility lies with
the Senate.
The patriots Of the United States, with the chief
of them at their head, welcomed the Treaty of An
nexatlon with reclamation. That chief, always true
to his country, in the proceeding nothing that
wrong, but every thing that was honorable and
just. TEXAS and the United States have embraced
only again to part, fear, forever. There was JOY
in the embrace, however, though it was quickly
oh.L liz. IA, c,,I
foolish thinkers.
My Lord Aberdeen may well have expressed him
self, that the Texas treaty was an extraordinary
event in the affairs of nations. Annexation, through
all time, has resulted, in almost every instance, from
the exertion of brute forcethe annexatrs standing
knee-deep in blood Witness the partitio' and triple
annexation Of unhappy Poland-witness ne Russian
and bGyon.sd efforts for the annexation q Circassa
witness province after province Of East India an
nexation to the British empire-witness the disas-
trous attempts at annexation in AHghahistan-and
last though not least, in the bloody catalogue, wit
ness the brute force demonstration against China in
which portion of its soil was annexed to the Brit
sh rule Contrast these acts of blood with the acts
of anne ration In which the United States have been
participants. Louisiana, which could have been
conquered by the avaanchng population OF the West
in one month, almost without bloodshed was peace
fully, though protractedy, negotiated for, purchased
and annexed to the United States. Florida, by SIM
liar MEANS became ours: But it was left for the
Texan treaty TO elicit from my Lord Aberdeen the
declaration Of an extraordinary event Extraord-
nary, indeed, 10 see nation in all honor liberaty
and straghtforwardness stand up in its sovereignty
and Offering to lay it aside in order to participate in
the advantages which the institutions of neighbor-
ing republic afforded This was not the light, how
ever, in which my Lord Aberdeen viewed the ertra-
ordinary event. But my Lord Aberdeen will soon be
informed Of more extraordinary event,-he rejec-
ton cfthe cGer'