The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-06-26
ouR FOREIGN RELATIONS.

ber-are and have been for months trying TO g
create a great bobery alb out Sour claims 10
Oregon''-"annexation of Texas"--and in
some instances they have gone SO far as TO
assert our right to California and Canada
hoping by this course TO make a little pollti-
cal capital for their party by keeping the peo-
pie in a continual fever as respects our TO-
reion relations. 1t is we'll for the honor of
the country, and the safety of such fellows
necks, that the more judicious and leading
members do the thinking for the party, else
we should soon find ourselves in trouble'
from which all the combined 1riSdom OF
these upstairs could not extricate US, and
whose valor would ooze out Of their fingers
ends on the pop of the first gun. The fol-
lowing merited rebuke to these selfimpor
liant democratic organs" we extract from the
New York Ereniag Post, of the 10Th inst,
one of the leading l~ocofoco papers in the I'm
ion, and quoted by all as high authority in all
matters conce ming locofocoism. We hope
they will read it:
WAR.-Some of those journals which, for
a time, were so eager to preserve the bles-
sings Of peace as to close their eyes to the
possibility of a war, now seem Inclined 10 go
over to the other extreme, and are ready to
bring three wars upon US at once-wlth Mex
leo, with England, and with France-to say
nothing of the war prospect with Brazil,
which appeared inevitable, according to the
late British papers. We have only to repeat
what has appeared probable for a long time
to many intelligent merchants in this city-a
war with Mexico is not an impossible event,
, and the country ought 10 be, and we hope is.
! prepared to meet il. By annexing Texas,
; we did, in the opinion of many, declare war
upon Mexico, who had not de iure, although
she certainly had de facto, relinquished her
claim TO that portion of her territory.
1t was then assumed that Mexico was too
weak and contemplate a Power TO resist or
TO meet such a declaration of war by any 9TH
er course than the most quiet submission
; And, proceeding upon this assumption, it was
I argued that the annexation of Texas would
be closed as an important dramatical event,
E by its declaration of assent to the terms of
] annexation proposed 10 it by the United
J States. This is still the received opinion OF
S a great portion of the press, and it is an OPP
e inion sanctioned and approved by a leading
statesman Of the South and his political
friends.
e Still the fact must begin TO make itself evi
E dent to them, as it does to many who hlther
= to have ~partaken of this opinion at the North
that the solution of the problem of our frs
. step towards territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT is no
yet at hand. We may be opening upon
new chanter Of ez 81 ur Ms sI may De on tn
hbly, INTO a new coursA or.aGan .PI.Iep
put TO rest for some years much of the activi
S y and enterprise of peace, and awaken en-.
ergies and instincts natural TO the human
breast, and not wholly foreign to the Anglo.
Saxon race.
, Two years ago we were quite content tc
look around upon our already widely extend.
ed borders; TO view with a feeling of patriot
ic satisfaction the rapid and unexampled pro-
gress of the arts of civilization and of peace
: TO dwell with a natural pride upon the gen
eral diffusion of knowledge and religion un-
der the protection of our institutions; and IL
d limit our anticipations, at least for the pre-.
sent generation, to the admission of Florida.
: Iowa, and Wisconsin into the Confederacy.
and the gradual incorporation of the North
western Territory into the Union. Now we
are too FESTIVE and impatient 10 content our
selves with these narrow limits. We think,
= talk, and write-perhaps dream-ofT Texas.
Texas-Oregon, Oregon-California-and
I sweeping the British from the face of the con-
G %tinent.
In the mean time, if the American people
are determined upon this change of habits
if one of those periodical mutations in hui
/ man affairs, from which the Atlantic world
has been long exempt, is about to take place,
we may as well be prepared for it. If the "a
larm is a true one, it would be objectionable
negligence on our part to meet it unprepar-
q ed; if false, we shall, in preparing ourselves
for war, have only done that which the Faith
er of his Country enjoined upon us, and
which, in our haste TO distribute among the
States the surplus revenue which they never
q should have received, we neglected TO do at
] the proper time.
d The Washington correspondent of morn
ing paper submits two alternatives, either of
which he thinks is likely TO beget war. To
the first of these, which assumes that Great
Britain will 60 the extent Of five millions IN
order to buy a majority in the Texan Con-
q gress, it is perhaps not necessary to pay much
ID attention. Such purchases can never be
made openly. Indignant virtue takes the a.
N larm, and, aiding the natural impulse TO do
n good by a rapid calculation of the greater ad-
n vantages 10 be derived from an honest course
over one so fagrantly dishonest, enables
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