The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-02

for the purpose Of deliberatng on the propositions
of our government relative 10 the admission Of Tex
as into the Union. MIR. Jones received those prop
ositisns ON the 10Th March; his proclamation for
the meeting Of Congress was issued only ON the 18th
| April, and he has fixed the day Of assembling ON
the 10th June. The Despatch says;
THE public feeling forced 10 its utmost tension to toll
erate,hs delay This dstaeiu and nausaatng duty has
been wiring from him by the united voice Of all Texas he
discharged amid The mtmtrs OF public discomfort;
indebted for 10 LOFTY impuso noble sentiment
Of patriotism Is the UNIV ng tribute OF cra4tn spirit
| and a coward heart"
The Despatch contains also letter from Mr..
Richard Roman senator from the Maiagorda dis
trict, the Annexation Corresponding Committee,
which expresses saws the Despatch, the senumeiits
of nineteenth-twentIeth of the people Of western
Texas. In this letter, Mr. Roman declares that ever
since the commencement Of the Texian revolution,
he had can abiding hope that annexation TO the
United States was the ultimate destiny Of Texas.
Such was then, and has since been, the general
conviction of the people," He goes on to state that
the hope of its contamination was strong in 1885,
that the existing government at that time submitted
| the question to the people simultaneously with the
constitution. The people were unanimously in ia
yor OF the plan. He says the present government
Texas was instituted for temporary purposes only.
Mr. Roman concludes with expressing firm reso-
luton to promote the measure of annex alton on ev-
cry occasonand If it fail, he will think that Texas
has struck blow for liberty in vain, and he will
feel the humiliation of defeat.
II is plain that the PEOPLE Of Texas, the real
people, are full of enthusiasm for the contamination
off measure which they contemplated ever since the
battle of San Jacinto the reward of their tolls in
the settlement and defence of the territory against
the Mexicans. II will be an exceedingly dangerous
experiment for Mr. Jones and his advisers to under
take by open violence or secret intrigue to disar-
point the wishes of the public. Not only will the
experiment be dangerous, but it cannot succeed. Its
success is impossible. The moment Mr.. Jones and
his co-intrguers attempt, by an open act TO coun-
eract the measure, the whole republic will be in
fiame-there will be a simultaneous rising Of the
people from Nacogdoches to the Rio del Norte.
Nothing will be able to Withstand thcm--they will
demand annexation rifle in hand-the present gov
eminent will be abolished and they will call con-
vention, who will order the measure to be carried
into effect without moments delay.
The people of Texas were indignant when they
heard that President Jones had despatched Ashbel
Smith as minister at the courts of Paris and Lon
don, for the purpose OF completing his private Sc
cret, dirty negotiation, to prevent if possible, the
republic Of Texas from joining our confederacy. 1t
turns out that Smith, instead of going to Europe,
went to Vera Cruz, end is now in the city of Mex-
co. with Elliott, the British minister to the republic
Of Texas. This fact is positively asserted by the
Pcayune of this morning, and the assertion is based
on information undoubtedly authentic, transmitted
to the editors of that paper by their correspondents
in Mexico. These two individuals it was, unques-
aohopiyp wiz Hiouo tho pfuPOSuis " inc McAlCon
government which induced It to acknowledge the
Independence Of Texas. This recognition, as the
Picayune justly observes, is conducted ''under the
auspices of England, its object being to check the
progress of this country, cripple her influence, and
battle the will of the American people.n
Whatever may be the determination of our gov
eminent under the state of things that now presents
itself, we have no apprehension but that they are
prepared and ready to defeat, by force of arms any
conspiracy of foreign enemies with domestic traitors
that has for its object TO dsappont the wishes of the
people of the United States and of Texas for the
junction of the latter to our confederacy. We en-
tirely coincide with the Picayune that our govern
ment is bound, by regard to the honor and safety
of the country, and by the sacred obligation of good
faith to the people of Texas, interpose its whole
power in order to save them from falling under the
dominion of traitors whom they abhor, or of Eng
land, which from their infancy they have been taught
to look upon as the sworn enemy of those free and
liberal institutions under which they desire to live,
or not to live at all.