Mobile register and journal. [volume] (Mobile, Ala.) 1841-1849, 1845-04-03
Fl.m the wa.hlns!oa Globe Of March IS.

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AIlusion was made IN late paragraph OF the
Globe 10 the msconstruclion which The conduct OF
several monument members OF The Senate had suffer
ed in reference TO the annexation measure sim
pie narrative Of the circumstances Ms we understand
them, will put the public impressions right upon this
subject.
We have shown the state of facts IN relation 10
the defeat oil the Tyler treaty, and the origin, the
same session, Of Mr.. Benton's legislative measure
There we're features in the latter. in its frs, form
that precluded its adoption. Mr. Haywood's bill was
introduced TO avoid the objertons which grew ont of
the difference among the democratic members as 10
the mode Of acquisition. Some held that The treaty.
making power must co operate in ills accomplishment
-nthers(the majority insisting that the inierposi-
ton OF this power Was unnecessary, and, if invoked
would render the effort aborlive Mr. Haywood,.
proposition was intended as preliminary position,
on which both parties in favor of the main object
could stand at the Threshold In stating the scnLe
OF his project, Mr.. Haywood said:
"Ihat it the aim Of this bill TO settle by leeis-
la'e enactment, first and separately, the one single
bu, Important point wheher majority were viii.
ling 10 eTtend the laS Of The United States ,uer Tsros
whenever il could be acquired, though of necessitv
That decision involved determination of the cond;
tions. il there ,tne any, which were deemed ndisnen.
sable TO our acceptance Of the territory, and there.
fore such conditions specified ="
This bill did not prescribe hpw Texas was to GET
into The Union, after SETTLING the prelimnar;es but
LETT the act Of admission to the competent author
Ties. after providing such Indispensable conditions AZ
would prevent all contest IN Congress, when the ac
QUESTION was secured by treaty or by legislative
compact IL differed from both the schemes co,nbin-
ed into one the law passed, Ia thls; that i, SET
lied beforehand all that may become ihsuperable diff
hcuies b, being inserted or omitted IN the treaty or
compaci Of Union.
la adjusting these prelimnaries, Mr. HAYWOOD.
MS southern man, took great responsibility in TIN
ing the Two degrees covered by our removed
Indians, twhose lands guaranteed To Their for
eyer0 on the north side of what is called the black
line This drew down the Missouri compromise
line TO hirIyiOur instead nf leaving il at thirty six
and a half degrees Of north latitude; yet it was, in
Tact, little or no concession the part Of the South.
1t only, in effect, secured the India ms tn, IT. homes
and immunity from the introduction Of sa, cry in the
/ region which, under compact with the United States
| they are TO occupy forever. Mr. HAYWOOD ha zarded
the proposal OF THIS arrangement because he ascer-
tanned that it would certainly pass the bill. If adopt
ed by the southern interest, and that II would he lost
without it, He has been denounced by portion of
his brethren Of the South MS enemy of annexa lion
on this single feature Of his scheme of conciliaan.
1t will, in lime, be discovered that il shows him
have been its truest friend
But we pass on in our narrative. This proposition
was supplaned by that Of Messfs Foster aud Mil
ton Brown, CT Tennessee. This act, reaching the
Senate. could not be carried, because il encountered
the constitutional objection which Mr. Bagby, Of AL
ALBANIA, cDuld not surrender without IA surrender OF
his conscience. Jealous in the extreme for the
very OF Texas Mr. Bagby would not abandon his
convictions touching the constitution TO effect it,
| His vote was Indispensable to The success of The
measure This consideration, and the decisive pre-
ference felt by some ten senators for Mr.. Bentons
bill, rendered COLI. ions between The latter and the
House resolutions inevitable Mr. Bentons bill
would certainly have been substituted by vote III
considerable majority, for the joint resolutions oIh-
House, hut for the arrangement made between the
friends oil each blend them. The probability is
that Mr. Benton's measure, thus substituted. would
then have been defeated, bv portion Of the southern
friends Of annexation voting against it. In this aiii
Jude oi the antagonist plans, Mr. Walker, OF Missis
sppi proposed to Mr.. Allen, of Ohio, to unite them
| making Mr. Benton's the alternative, and to BE-
acted on case Texas rejected the Of the joint
resolution nadmissible. Mr. Allen, who prefer
red MIR. Ben,on's bill, nevertheless obtained from lis
author permission To propose this modification; but
Messrs. Haywood, Bagby, Dix, and several other
senators, considered it nadmissibie TO ira ,sltr
the executive of Texas discretion over II measure
which they could not support without a knowledge
and control over It's execution. and therefore insist
ed that the light Of deciding which of the allerna
tive propositions should he acted ON belonged TO our
own executive. on whom the consunmalon de pend
ed. Mr.. Ha, wood drew up the compromise plan and
submitted it TO Mr. Weker, who Obtained the con-
sent OF NIL the friends OF annexation who had oppos
ed Mr.. Benton's bill; and. through his instrumental
ny, as the mover of the compromise plan, The first
idea of which he suggested, Il became a hw
MIR. Walker is emitted TO our thanks for the kind
ness which, from the Threshold Of the important
movement for the restoration Of Texas, induced HIM
from time To time TO confer with the editor Of this
print in regard the mode of advancing it. He read
to us in manuscript his celebrated pamphlet, and
consulted in regard to OF the views taken in
II Although favorable to the rejected treaty, ascer-
tanning that il could not pass, he suggested the pro
priely Of making annexation leg islative act. He
supported the treaty, however, in all its stages; hut
when j, failed. declared TO the nope OF modifying
Mr. Benton's first bill so 10 render its pa ssage
practicable. When Mr.. Benton's final propos ition
presented, in the first hour after its Submission
(although Mr.. Walker was committed to the House
resolutons) he declared he would support it, no
ter who opposed in the plan Of the House fail
ed; and finally he suggested the blending of The con-
fleeing propos tions, and contributed essentially 10
carry them through: to which it is now very evident
we must owe the recovery Of the beautiful calm
which lies between the Sabine and Del Norte-the
| Red River and the sea-