The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-13
From the Richmond Enquirer
SHALL WE HAVE WAR WITH EUROPE

The Antwerp correspondent of the Philadelphia
United States Gazette gives the following emphatic
denial to all speculative fears this subject. Ii
will be seen that safety lies in the union Of the
States; and will there be found single American
who WILL by disaffecton to the government or cold
ness towards the Union, encourage the crowned
heads Of Europe in their last struggle to stretch their
iron power over this country? Even the Northern
fanatics will shrink within their Shells and suffer the
annexation of Texas to pass by unresisted, bitter
though the dose may be. They will not be able to
stand the whitening influence of popular indignation;
81 can only re-assure you, that neither Oregon nor
Texas will give the United States the least trouble,
provided they remain united. The only and last
nope of the monarchists Of Europe, and their only
consolation as regards the loss of Texas, or es It
ought to be called, the defeat of European dpome-
cy in its attempt to regulate American affairs, is,
that the Union may yet be severed that slavery and
the tariff will destroy the connexion between the
South and the North, and thereby turn the power
now pressing on England on one side, and Mexico
the other, against itself. But if we remain unmo-
Tested by Europe, it is not from any goodsciH to-
wards u.s. but simply from the impossbility for Eu-
ropeans to do us any harm, without running them
selves. The journals on both sides of the channel
now perfectly resigned. They speak of Texas
as an unavoidable, fxed uncontrovertibe fact--and
of the emigration to Oregon, thing which can
not very well DO prevented. In the end, they will be
reconciled to the loss of Oregon as something not
worth talking ABOUT; ana perhaps 10 the abandon
ment of America generally, "a continent unworthy
of the guiding egis of civilized Europe The Lon
don Evening Mail has already Swallowed forth this
heroic resolve of Great Britain in these very sensi-
ble statesmanslike terms:
European powers no longer sufficiently in
tercsted in the fate of those vast regions to include
them within the strict limits on which the balance
ofpower depends
at is impossible to have more tact more common
sense, or more profound craftsmanship, than is ex-
pressed in those few lines"
This modest plea of not being Sufficiently inter-
ested,'' comes with bad grace at this late period.
Fooled in their game of intrigue and commercial am
bition, they are forced to abandon the field, make
virtue of necessity, and sneak of, on the ground
that they are longer sufficiently Interested" We
willing to give them this little consolation for
their defeat; though they far from deserving it.
We presume that Capt. Elliott, when he reaches the
shores of England, will represent Texas as a poor
country, unworthy Of all the efforts of European
monarchs to control it, and for Oregon, it is ut
terly worthless, and England will make good bar
gain in getting rid oft
We have gained one great advantage; and that is,
that European powers cannot, with impunity, trAe
with our rights or impede progress. The fail
ure of British intrigues nTexas will give fatal
blow to the hitherto unchecked march Of Great Bril-
tain in territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. The East, she
may subdue to her oppressive measures In the
West she has found rival strong enough to sup
port its own rights.