Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-09-10

been more fully and strongly produced,
and that the burst OF indignation against this
Unauthorized, insolent, hostile interference
has not been more general even among
the party opposed to Annexation, and has
not rallied the national spirit and national
pride unanimously upon that policy. We
are very sure that if Mr.. Clay himself
were now to add another letter to his for
mer Texas correspondence, he would ex-1
press this sentiment, and carry out the
idea already strongly stated in one of them,
IN manner which would tax all the pow
ers of blushing belonging to some of his
party adherents.
1t is wholly untrue, and unjust to our
selves, the pretence that the Annexation
has been measure of spoliation, unright.
ful and unrighteous-o military conquest
under forms of peace and law-of terrific
rial grandzement at the expense of JUS
flee, and justice due by double sanctity
TO the weak. This view of the question
is wholly unfounded, and has been before
so amply refuted in these pages, as well
as in thousand other modes, that we
shall not again dwell upon it. The indie
pendence of Texas was complete and alb.
soute. 1t was an independence, not on
ly in fact but of right. No obligation of
duty towards Mexico tended in The least
degree TO restrain oue right to effect the
desired recovery of the fair province once
our own-whateyer motives of policy
might have prompted q more defcrential
consideration Of her feelings and her pride,
as involved in the question. If Texas
became peopled with an American popu-
lation, it was by no contrivance of our 90.
vernment, but on the express invitation of
that of Mexico herself; accompanied with
such guarantees of State independence,
and the maintenance of federal system
analogous 10 our own, as constituted a com
pact fully justifying the strongest measures
of redress on the part Of those afterwards
deceived in this guaranty, and sought to be
enslaved under the yoke imposed by its vi
olation. She was released, rightfuily and
absolutely released, from all Mexican ALE
glance, or duty of cohesion to the Mexican
political body, by the acts and fault of
Mexico herself, and Mexico alone. There
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volution; it was resistance to revolution
and resistance under such circumstances
as left independence the necessary result
ing state, caused by the abandonment OF
those with whom her former federal asso.
citation had existed. What then can be
more preposterous than all this clamor by
Mexico and the Mexican interest against
Annexation, as violation of any rights
of hers, any duti, f ours?
We would not be understood as APPROX.
ing in all its features the expediency OF
propriety of the mode in which the mea.
sure, rightful and wise as il is in itself, has
been carried into effect. It's history ha:
been sad tissue Of diplomatic laundering
How much better it might have been ma
naged-how much more smoothly, salts
factorily, and successfully! Instead of oul
present relations with Mexco-instead Of
the serious risks which have been run, anC
those plausibllities of opprobrium which
we have had to combat, not without greai
dimculty, nor with entire success-insteaC
of the difficulties which now throng The
path to a satisfactory settlement of al
our unsettled questions with Mexico,-
Texas might, by more judicious anc
conclllatory diplomacy, have been as Sc
curely in the Union as she is now-hel
boundaries -defined-California probably
ours-and Mexico and ourselves united By
closer lies than ever, of mutual friendship
and mutual support in resistance to thu
intrusion of European interference in th,
affairs of the American republics. AL
this might have been, we little doubt, al
ready secured, had counsels less violent
less rude, less one-sided, less eager in pre-
cipitation from motives widely foreign t
the national question, presided over thu
earlier stages of its history. We canno
4 TOO deeply regret the mismanagemen
which has dsfgured the history of thi
question and especially the neglect 0
the means which would have been so easy
of satisfying even the unreasonable pre-
tensions, and The excited pride and passion
Of Mexico. The singular result has beer
1 produced, that while our neighbor has, il
truth, no real right to blame or complain
when all the wrong is on her side, an
there has been on ours degree of della
and forbearance, in Difference to her pre-
tensions, which is to be paralleled by fe'
precedents in the history of other nation
I've have yet laid ourselves open to
great deal of denunciation' hard to repe
and impossible to silence; and all histo
Try will carry it down as ceEtain fac
that Mexico would have declared war q
gainst us, and would have waged it ser
ousIy, if she had not been prevented b
that very weakness which should have cor
sliiuted her best defence.
We plead guilty to degree Of sensitiv
anHoyance--Ior the sake Of the honor Q