The Arkansas banner., 1845-10-29

the very moment when British interference to stop the entrance of Texas into our Union was most vitally needed, and might, per- chance, with due activity and urgency, have been most etlectual--at this most critical mo- ment, the whig party, chuchling over the course of events which deprived Mr. Van Bnren of the Baltimore nomination, was most basuticd with an arrogant confidence of suc- cess. Sharing this confidence, and sure of the sympathy of the whig party when it should come into power, British diplomacy rested on is oars. The golden hour of op- fortanity passed away, never to return-the paaderoHs vote of New ! ork, nobly true to her ancient democratic faith and allegiance. made the whig scale kick the beam, and the Texan game of England was up. l. was a grievous stroke of i'll luck for Sir Giles, and he has lostbs temper In his tuy, he calls Us and the Texans by very hard names.- The best of the business is. hard words are not dagecrs. They do not kill. We must use philosophy. The loser is entitled 10 his lale cancellations of abuse,
 But we have been drawn aside from the statements and views of the ''Tmes7 by this consideration ol the causes and spirit in which they originate After announcing that Mexico refused to negotiate with Texas (0s England mged) uutll il was too late to make good tems-tiil the anti-anueXaiou party in Texas had been so wholly annihilated as not to command q single vote n the Texan con vcnaion-so that the proposals presented to Mexico "under the mediatonn of England We're crushed by q unanimous vote of re- iection-atter adding, that Mexico caH make 10 war, because the 'loan of an effective sum of l5.000,G eco of dollars must create more than 45,0J9,a00 of dollars of stock. even at the present price of the active Mex iean debl9-the '.Fimes" proceeds 10 say:
 '.The projectors of the annexation of Tex as Hfc he crowHed fobberS qh9 e6eeied Mc partition of folH4, 1ecre @eH d1eare hai 6ic sacceSs of HieifSeteme aeas insured 5y Me deerepitsas of Ate Poleer Aey dHac&ed and Mexico woald not have been thus au5acious- ly assaled and insaled if the cabinet of Washington had Hot relied on the creme impotence Of is victim The politicians who have inoccuiatcd thcjr country with ter ritorial ambition, and the yling,orioas pas sion loymilitaly enterprise. are not displeased 10 find that such powerful causes are opera ting in favor Of their designs and, however brilliant the prizes of war between AeXi- co and thn United SIates might be, even Mr.. Polk would pcobabiY be glad 10 avoid pre- cipilatiag his country into So ras. a career ot uncertain events.
 These considerations tend 10 render actual war between the two republics extremely
 improbable; and if Mexico was unable to put down Texas in rebellion, still less can she conquer Texas annexed 10 one of the most powerful states in the world. But if the termination of this affair be pacific, il es- tablishes, in the most patent and indubilable manner, the superiority of lhe Anglo-Amer- iean race, and of the United States govern ment, over their ueighbors. These adyan- tages the AmeaeaHs will inlallibly asserl.- 4 Is a0ls pfoecd, Hat no consideration ot prudence, justice, or good tdiH, can reStrau dism from sei@Hg or ac4ajriag Lhe posses sioas oj contiguous Sides Thus much may be fDreseen-that these eXcesses and en- croachments will only be limited by oppor- tunity and public caprice, until t become the interest of some great European power to oppose them. But what is not loreseen, e- ther by the Americans or by ourselves, is, the effect of these acts of violence or fraud, leading to immense extension of territory, upon their own political and social condition. Thus much only we do venture confidently 10 prcdict-that these changes involve the creation of such conflicting interests, the eX- i3tence of such opposite characters and de- signs, the prevalence of such formidable pas sioas, and the growth of such an enormous and iHcongraous people, that the feeble fed efal government of America will eventually forfeit its precarlous authority, and the con tests which the neighboring states to the south ot the Union are too weak to wage will at last break out in its own bosom. We, of our lime, have seen the gigantic growth Of the American democracy, as rapid and enormous in It's internal corruption and its external crimes as i'll the progress of it's pop ulalon and it's productive powers; but, un- less the eternal laws of public morality and of history be suspended, these same phenom- eaa announce the certain approach of pe- riod of anarcy and retributlon lt IS not more possible that such q system should be carried on without leading to disastrous con- sequences, than that society should continue to subsist without government or law; and the reaction of the same principles which have now been allowed to assail Mexico and appropriate Texas, will one day be felt in the heart of the Union."
 Any front less brazen than that of the s,Timesn would mantle with bushes-any tongue less yenomous, would stammeF at this allusion to the Partition of Poland, in con nexion with the annexation of Texas. In that crime 1t did indeed so happen that Eng land took no direct part, because out of itshe could get no gain But, not far back in British history lies another event of too much tAe same complexion, in which i,ngIQad bore ] d leading hand Has the Hines" forgotten the Congress of Vienna, and the British pol icy of l8I53 How was it then, under the dictation of Castlereagh, with the fair lands on the left bank of the Rhine The world remembers, if the ''Times" chooses to lot- get, the day when the smiling fields and the busy Free Cities of that populous region be- came as another Poland in the grasp of the spoiler, and were parcelled ont, and partition ed, and transferred, under British 'mediation,' ,
 without one look a, national lineage, or afli- nlty, or sympathy, or one thought of justice
 Or law, or mercy, or the love of man, or tht fear of God-tilI the very name of s'media