The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-02-27
ANNExATIoN-A MINE sPRUNG!

ANNEXATION-A MINE SPRUNG!,
IL is expected the vote will, to-day, be takei
on the propositions before the Senate. II suci
should be the case, we hope il will be In 'im'
for us to announce the result in this afternoon
paper What the result will be, OF course W.
cannot knoio in advance. Our readers VIII d
likely to know il soon enough.
Last evening Mr.. Bagby displayed himself
Never did we, for moment, suppose ihere was
a more consistent, conscientious, hohest anS
unpurchasable advocate in the Senate. what
then, was our establishment last night TO ieart
that he was making speech against the JOIN
Resolution The People Of the United State:
of all parties, have considered this gentleman a:
one of the most certain aud incoruptible advo'
Gates of the measure. He had fought brayely
shoulder to shoulder with the Republican patrl
OTIS of the Senate-ay, as brayely as ever Arnold
had fought against the Britsh-and no one
could have supposed it was in the power OF any
polentate on earth, by whatever appliances he
might see proper to employ. to swerve him from
the path Of duty.
IfMr. Bagby does indeed possess honest con-
stitutional scruples, why did he not say so a
month ago, when his friends (Col Benton's)
bill was introduced ? Why did he not inform
the friends Of Annexation--hlmself being one,
having voted for the reaty-thatshe measure
adopted in the House Of Representatives was
defective, and warn and beseech them TO modify
il? Why did he glide along like a hidden
snake, with his hostile purpose impenetrably
hidden, even from his colleague, and all his i'm
mediate friends, until the last day of the discus
sion7 IL his objections TO the measure were
we'll founded in his opinion, and he really de-
sired the Annexation Of Texas, would he have
kept could he have kept, the important fact Of
his purpose TO oppose the measure, hidden in
his own breast like an instrument Of death be-
hind masked battery, until the friends Of An
nexation, until his friends, had unwttingly, and
unsuspiciously, advanced so far that retreat and
escape were alike impossble2
We hope Mr.. Bagby's conscience will not
torment him hereafter. If, indeed, he has been
the victim of deIusion if he has not delib-
erately and rreyocably embraced the wrong
we should think, in his moments Of calm rehec-
ton, he will forever bitterly regret the false and
fatal step he has been induced to take. Even
his friend, on his left, whom this movement was
so well calculated (if it was not designed) 10
serve, does not occupy so hopeless position as
the Senator from Alabama. The Missouri Sen
ator unquestionably has the merit of possessing
advance his meditated hostility to measure
that is generally supported by his party. He
never fires from an ambuscade at his friends
He has ''no concealments," as was truly said on
a former occasion. When he is about to dis
charge his double shotted artillery, he has the
humanity to give warning beforehand, so that
his friends, at least, may have an opportunity
TO escape. And although he may profit by the
havoc aud slaughter perpeuated by another, yet
he will never give occasion for the epithets of
political incendlary and assassin to be branded
on his brow.
But enough of this. The advocates of I'm
mediate Annexation flight the more bravely
for such deiections in their ranks. New fire,
HeN Ledl, ihust ihsPIe theuh W oFeICouie the
effects of this treason in the camp. True, they
would rather mourn hundred comrades dead
honorably slain by front-wounds from the en-
envy, than witness the desertion of General
upon whose truth and fidelity they implicitly
relied. But they must bear all things, endure
all things, and never lay down their arms until
the victory be won.