The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-16


rumor OF doubtful truth is confirmed by the last advce
from Texas II is said that their object to carry into ef
feet the resolution OF the Mexican government to extenf
their boundary far the There is init
nation in of the Texan papers that application hat
made or would be made to government for troops
The Union" Washington in allusion this ntima
Ion expresses the opinion that 1.-THE Texans themselves
should collect their volunteers and march repe the
Mexicans from their borders What becomes Of the
choaie right over Texas which Mr.. Tyler claimed .,
against Mexico in analogous fothisi When tool
long since 70 inquire OF the official journal
whether the present administration held the view
this point air OF aroned patriotism assumed and
told that American could not condescend
wer such question
But we have the answer now and more in an aspect Of
Humiliation than with look Of condescension;
az the troops of Mexico Says the official journal
have crossed the Rio Grande, would be better foi
Texas to clear her own confines at once, than wait
Tor the movement OF regulars We hazard nothing
in saying that such, too, would be the decided pref
indeed that such was also the determination In Tex
IL the Mexicans should be found lowering In the
try between the Rio Grande and the Neuces We do not
to say that If the Texans should be found wanting
Ito themselves should suffer hostile foot TO tread he
legitimate soil as soon her Congress and her convention
bare ratified proposifions The United States will never
found wanting in what she her high char
acter. or to the best interests Of her ffiends.n
The Boosting the end ofths paragraph does not
wretched grace We will venture here the guess that
annexaon Is not finally defeated, it will be because Eng
with the energy and decision which characterized he
steps thus far in the business Whether she will relax
probabilities that point mornings Baltimore finer
lean,
If the Baltimore American" had done justice te
our statements in the first part of its article, or hat
Expressed itself towards the close of it in the spr
(which became an American, we would have re-
Trained from any commentary on it. We should
have contenled ourselves with simply repeating tn.
points which we took in tie article that j
quotes.
The "Amerioan' well knows that the expression
1of ''inchoaie rights" is its own; and that under
stood him to apply it to every case, in the relations
between Texas and the United States, which wai
short Of the final contamination of the object of an
|nexation as applicable, for example, to the cast
where Texas had approved our resolutions in hei
Congress, and ratified them in her convention, al
though our Congress had not given the last stroke tt
the by sanctioning the which he
convention might propose for sanction. In thi,
Estate ofthe case we understood the Baltimore Amer
|can" to ask us, what our administration would dc
liz Texas were overrun with Mexican troops, backed
|by British force. We did not hesitate to say thai
this was question which no American" would
propose, and none would stoop to answer.
For ourselves, we did not undertake to say whatthe
administration ought to do in another case, where
Texas had nofully assented to propositions, both
10y Congress and convention For that case could
scarcely occur--as her Congress would meet on the
18th June, and before any action which govern
Imen could take in that could possibly be ac-
|complished.
What "humiliation" there is in the article to
(which the "American" refers--wha backing Out
there is in its beginning" passes our wit to con.
|ceiv, We ask the Texans to repel the hostile in
|vader from her own soil. We ask it both for her
sake as well as for own; and the reasons can
not escape any man who has any pretensions to
|the sagacity of statesman. But we repeat, with
the frmness of an american" that if the President
|of Texas fails to do his duty to his country, by
calling out her troops or if from any other cause
the Texans fail to repe the invader, the United
Estates "shoud not suffer hostile foot to tread her
legitimate SOIL her Congress and her con-
peniion hare ratified propositions" We have no
Question that the President ofthe United States will
make good this declaration, by carrying out the
clear principle on which it is founded. What
boasiingn there Is in this, we cannot possibly divinc
land we have no doubt that the Mexicans, the Brit
ish, and the Baltimore American will, all three,
find it is no "boasng" Dragging" but that il
Twill be made good to the utmost letter IL is, In
decd, "wretched grace in the "American" to doubt
what would be course of our government, and wha,
would be the result Of its measures 1t ~ IN still
worse taste for the Baltimore American" by a
|side-wnd suggestion, to encourage Great Britain in
her indicate interference with interest in Tex
las, and to assure her it will be her own fault, it,
|by "her energy and decision" she does not defeat
Jour annexation. Whether this slde-blow at the
people ofTexas, and at the course of our own gov
|ernment-this "giving aid and countenance" to
1.-The designs and interference Of England-is now
compatible with any man who "boasts the name
|of American" il is for others to decide. We hand
the Baltimore American" over TO the Indignant
Judgment Of the enlightened tribunal of the people
MISSION TO LONDON.