The Arkansas banner., 1845-05-28


 document the sentiments of which are re- sponded to by every .4merican feeling, and at which none but British and anti-Americon feelings can reluct.
 Anotherconclusionis obviously 10 be drawn rom these outpourings of the tory press mon MT. Polk, and Texas and Oregon. John Bull has no notion of doing anythino abont It but buster People in earnest never make threats like the following from the London Times:
 "Mr Polk ayers that to enlarge the limits ol the Union is to extend the dominion of peace over additional territories and increas- ing millions; but he will find that when tbev are so lar extended as to include the rightful possessions of the British empire, they will encounter the hostility and the resolution of a people not inferior to the popuace of the onlted States in spirit or in resources.'
 That better thoughts came into the heads oi these editors, after they had blown off the surplus steam upon the firstnews of the Texas annexation, is apparent from the moderate tone of the second days leader in the minis terIal Journal-the Morning Herald. Inreplv to an attack upon the Peel ministry for letting Texas slip through their grasp, the Herald says.
 "Ihat with government tbree tbonsand 1T, rliies OH II could not prevent the votes on the eNas annexation bill. With regard to the alarm that has been created by the prospect oi war with America, from the Texas ques- tlon, the Herald Minks u foo soon 10 get anoyu d0oHt tt, and Hopes Hat ecerg diGculiV wiH yet 6e amicably adjusted.'
 Ihls comes from the cooler heads that nave got to take the responsibility, and shows that all the war about Texas is 10 be carried on with steel pens and long primer.
 Inc only other feature in these forcible leebles of the London tory press is the cool lmpudence with which they talk of the pl,n- oef oi territory by the United States, and her gfasPlhg aYarIce of acquisilionl Here is the roooer nation of the world, with her hands 'ull oi the plunder and red with the blood of oppressed millions in every quarter of the giobe. with her iron heel on Ireland. and her death grasp at the throat of poor India. reading 10 the United States homilies upon ambition ana the lust of territorial aggrandizement!- ne same presses that talk of the atrocity of the United States peacefully annexing Texas oy the consent of its people, and extending Its protection over it's own citizens in it's own territory ot Oregon, contain accounts from the East ol further robberies upon the gallant ndbutchered Anghans, and expeditions fitting out by Sir Charles Napier to suppress revo- luton in the Punjaub, and to chastise the Khan of khelat for allowing his subjects to invade British territory in the Scindel And these empires in India, larger than Texas and Oregon united, have all been pluudered by England from the native sovereigns, by the vllest system of rapine and lawless conquest; and all we know for certain, says the Friend oi India, Is thatthe country has been the scene ot mutinv, famine, disgrace and death. ever since 1t came into the British possession
 What magnificent hypocrites these British are, to whine over Texas and black slavery Tn the United States, while England has her hundred millions of white slaves in IIindostan, her wretched masses at home toiling for pam pered privilege at the point of starvation, and wrong and oppression of her nflicting crying vengeance throughout the habitable globei
 On the whole view of the matter, these temporary ebulltions of the British press show that there is really no collision to be feared from President Folks straightforward policy but war of words; and so far from their structures being censures upon our govern ment, the very ground of complaint is praise of republican institutions, calculated to make every friend of the Union and the rights of the United States proud of his country, and ot her calm, self-assured and truly American chief magistrate