The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-13
THE LONDON CENsohs.

The London "Morning Chronicle" is sufficiently
severe against us for the annexation of Texas.
But the "Times" is still more bitter in its denuncia-
tons. II charges with cheating, in the garb of
hypocrisy. 1t admits that there are humbugs and
cheats enough in England; but it contends that
the 'hypocrtes with (them) are reduced to a minor
ity" Yet such, it says, is not the case in our re-
pablo.
that powerful empire among its rivers and its forests
unapproprated continent and prolific peopletherc de.
The language integrity and olence in the absence
of other capital is the great stock IN trade Of the federal
taxed for the sustenation Of public hypocrisy The
fund is though Gas usually happens the people
have been to duo ~ top while the cose
among the nations oil the EARTH the individual American
has ceased to blush That natural act and stamp Of virtue
for which the AngoSaxo race Is honorably disn.
gushed is almost extinct in the Anglo American The
public may safely profess. when its citizens blush
The annex alton OF Texas without prec edent
peculiar the United States to wrest province
from weaker neighbor by force fraud both together
frequent in European story But is pecu.
liar the States to make il virtue Our humber If not
viruous European trunsgressors have generally
thought the less said the better. They have either main
tanned prudent silence justified the act the modest
grounds of impcrous necessity of inevitable progress
excusablc retaliation America alone exa its aggrcs-
into the arduous and gratuous achievements of yr
tue THE reunion that fair country with its parent stem
the name given the conquest Of Texas by army
Anglo American adventurcrs-s an event perhaps nevita
BILE perhaps ultimately beneficial but certainly not heroic
human record An American citizen of the Union and
New Highlander shall describe IL for We quote from
DR. Charming addressing his countrymen on the
ton Of Texas eight years since"
And here it quotes long extract from Dr.
Claiming, who attempts to prove that it was the
American power which colonzed Texas. They
were Americans who defeated the Mexcans ut the
battle of San Jacinto; and il they who established
the independence of Texas II is they (says the
Times) who have now annexed it to she United
States.
Admit that they had principal agency in the
whole transaction;-how would this prove their hy-
.pocrisy or their basenessi They were invited by
Mexico, by large appropriations of land, to set
tie in Texas. They went 10 settle there, bona
fde, as citizens of Texas. But she abused
ihem--tyrannized over them--abolishcd their fed
eral government, and attempted to convert il
into an absolute monarchy by military force.
What were they to dor To submit to be slaves;
That was impossible. They demanded justice from
Mexico. She refused it. They then declared their
independence, and established it the point Of the
sword. They were recognised as independent by
the United States, by France, and by England her
self, from whom the "London Times" halls; and
them in the exercise Of their own free consent, have
united their fortunes with our own. Hence
the "groans Of the Britons" They failed in
establishing commercial or political ascen-