The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-12-27

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oyerthrown by Santa Ana at the point Of the bayo-
net and TO enforce the restitution OF their political
rights under il, speaks 'trumpet-tongned" against
the foul and guilty Islander which would represent
them as nation of swindlers, who were ready to
coin their blood for drachms !" and who thus be-
came willing martyrs IN the prosecution ola scheme
of-ihrVh Surely the ashes of those who fell at Co
lad and the Alamo must kndle at the atrocious in
suit, and glow again into fame which, could 1t
4 reach this daring traducer of their consecrated menu
cries, would blast him where he sits, with the con-
scous I've still whitening upon his lips, and the cow
ard hand still trembling beneath the villains act that
| recorded it. Having, however, To his own entire
satisfaction, and that, doubtless, of his English read
ers, disposed of the differences which led TO the
separation of Texas from Mexico, the reviewer
then goes on to state another Of those facts, which,
though having existence nowhere but in his vera
cious pages, were, nevertheless, well calculated
TO give authority to the article he was employed to
prepare. "The whole people who call themselves
Texans We are accordingly told, 'are neither more
nor less than Anglo American Adventures, of whom
very few have even colorado settlement in Texas,
or any pfetension whatever to the name OF Texans,
much ess any right erect the country, which they
have illegally occupied, into independent State"
i Now, what is the fact The Anglo American set
tiers in Texas became, by adoption, Mexican citi-
zens, and for twelve years continued to demean
themselves as such. They were citizens, then, Of
the republic of Mexico, under the federal constitu.
ton of 1924. When that constitution was over
thrown, they ceased to DO protected, and from that
moment, also, they ceased 10 owe alegance--for
the one cannot exist without the other. Ii was in
defence, then, Of the constitution, and with view
to It's possible restoration, that the people of Texas
4 first took up arms. The trebels" were those who
had pulled down the pillars Of that constitution
not those who sought to uphold them. This, in
few words is the true history of the origin of that
memorable struggle which resulted in separating
/ Texas from her sister States. He who would give
to it any other character, falsfes history; if pur-
posely, 1--WE know not" in the words of Lord BY.
| ron, "what he is fit for; but we know what would
be fit for him." We have said that the motive lying
at the bottom of this attack upon the republic
can institutions Of Texas, and the character of
her people, does not require to be searched for; it
rises to the surface in almost every page Of the ar-
Gle before us, and sufficiently betrays itself in pas
sages like the following; The true system by which
Texas has been severed from Mexico affords case
exactly similar in its principles to the attack once
threaiened upon our Canada frontier by Generals
Van Rensselaer, and Sutherland and their followers. !"
Again: important as the question of the independ-
ence of Texas is to our West India possessions and
to the existing balance Of pocer in those regions Of The
uortd, II becomes infinitely more in relation to
| Canada and New Brunswick" The reviewer goes
on TO observe: "The ministry must be aware Of
what has been going on in Texas and they must
see in the whole of those proceedings precedent
pregnant with danger to our own frontier" 'Such
encroachments on the MEXICAN provinces" the wr-
l
by her Majesty's government, would afford not
merely precedent, but an nducement to similar
attempts on the British colones'' This apparent
socitude for the security of the British Colonial pos
sessions on the North American continent is with
out any real foundation il we look to the facts
Along the whole extent Of her southern border on
this continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific Eng
land may be said to be assured, by virtue of the ma
ture OF the American population south of that line
present and to come. The predominance of po-
thaV Init Sfafao h.
to North and Northwest. Free labor is in the
| ascendent in this country, and will probably conn-
ne From Maine to the Columbia--all above the
parallel of 800 30'-the sympathies or that labor will
be on the side Of England, guarantying to her, SO
far as those sympathies are concerned the integrity
Of her northern possessions 1t is in the South that
her fears awakened. The abolition of slavery
IN her West India islands, and its non.existence in
Mexico give to their respective population, In that
view of the subject homogeneousness Of charac-
ter and pursuits, with which The existence of Texas
rs saveholding Stale, would, it is unprecedented Sc
riousy interfere. II is in this aspect of the matter
that Great Britain has much to dread in the
permanent separation of Texas from Mexico; while
as we have said the moral force Of the example is
what she fears and deprecates in relation to her en-
tire colonial possessions in this hemisphere It's for
this reason that she would have had the Texan reb
els" dealt with those of Canada have been
hanged and quartered! The precedent, she fears
may prove fatal to the farther acceptance of that
be the law Of her ax-ridden subjects. The right of
the people to abolish governments, to choose their
own rulers, to ''set up for themselves" it would
be suicidal In her arstoeracy to concede. What,
were that right recognised In Canada, for instance
would become of my lord ''Governor Generals"
stop and round of majesty at this moment. Nay,
were the great mass Of her people not hoodwinked
duped out of their prerogatives," their nalienable
rights, in the first instance, and afterward erslaved
by laws framed out Of their own weak concessions
where, we ask, but for this, would the simple An
glo- Belgic girl Of six-and-twenty, who now rules
two hundred millions of human beings! where
did one-half of this host, "a fifth of the whole
world, deserve anything better where, we repeat,
would that scion of female royalty at this mo.
ment be- Where all discreet matrons should be-
plying the needle under the domestic roof, and
there studying, not how to govern men, but how to
make good wives. No; 'the fault is in ourselves,
and not our stars, that we are thus, thus" "Let
the people oiH it, and what becomes of the pre-
posterous mummings and mockeries. the degrading
spectacle of "coronation''--the deectable myste-
ries and moraies in Short of constitutional mon
archy!" Scattered to the four winds of heaven, and
resolved into their original nothngness But to re-
turn to the article before II is characterized by
certain other views, in connexion with republican
institutions, which it becomes us not TO overlook
but to expose-and the more go as they would seem
to challenge refutaton. We have said that it is to
Engand's jealousy of the United States, that we are
to ascribe the oboquy sought to be cast upon by
the British press. We have not forgotten the speech
delivered by Mr.. H. G. Ward, in the British
House of Commons, on the subject of the war then
going on between Texas and the country west of
her. Mr.. Ward is the author of work on Next
CO.. to which country he sent as minister some
years ago. In the course of that speech Mr. Ward
remarked, that "durng his residence in Mexico,
america proceeded to encourage the settlement of
Texas by the refuse population of her southern
States; and took possession Of the county"(a fact
quite new to us)-"without title, or pretension to
any title" To what but spirit of determined hos
tlity, made up of large infusion of malice, are we
to ascribe fasehoods like the above for assured
ly no one, either in Texas or the United States,
requires to be told, that neither of the fore
going statements have any color Of truth to
give them countenancc. They do not require to
be told, at this time of day, that it Mexico her
self, and not the United States, who proceeded to
encourage the settlement Of Texas,'-no as Mr..
Ward is pleased to say, "by the refuse population
of the southern States,' but by colonsts from all
parts of the American Union Nor ia Mr. Wards