The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1845-05-17
From the New Orleans Bee, May l.
ANNEXATION-TEXAS.

letter addressed by one oil the most IN
fuential and respectable citizens o
Galveston, to q friend in this city. lis
statements may be relied upon:
81 am most happy to assure you tina,
the demonstrations throughout the
country have been most unanimous
warm and decided, in favor of closing
at once with the propositions now be.
fore the country without further delay,
and apprehensive as many men in diff
ferent counties were, that our executive
and most of his immediate partisans
would do every thing they dared to do,
to postpone and ultimately defeat the
measure, meetings were held in sever
al counties proposing that the people
should at once move, in the matter, by
requesting THEN respective members of
Congress to assemble about the middle
of May, to advise and deliberate on
the matter. Our President, however,
at length issued his proclamation to con-
vene Congress in June, with which we
are content; although most of us be-
lieve 1t was made so late in order to
give the British intriguers time to ma
ture all their plans for its defeat. But
as public sentiment is so entirel y over
whelming, we were satisfied that there
was no chance for the success Of their
Vaccinations, and consequently acqui-
escc in the late day fixed by the Pres
ident, rather than throw the country
in a state Of anarchy and confusion.
If there had been the least fear that
the enemies of annexation could have
succeeded, we should have gotten up n
revolution instanter. Yours, &c."
In connection with this subject it is
worthy of remark, that although the
few opponents of annexation in Texas
base their opposition upon the belief
that Mexico is prepared to offer Texas
formal recognition of her independ-
ence, on condition she declines the prof
fered union with this country, we find
nothing, either IN the tone of the Mex
lean press or in the action of the Mex
lean Congress, to justify the opinion
that Mexico will abate one jot or little
of her spurious claims upon Texas
On the contrary, the entire scope and
tenor of the late advices lead irresist-
bly, to the conclusion that Mexico is
determined to assert and maintain, by
all the resources in her power, her pre-
tended rights over the territory which
she terms "the department of Texas"
The solitary documentupon which rests
the impression that Mexico might be
to acknowledge Texian nde-
if coupled with the condition
of a refusal of annexation, is the memo
rial of Senor Cuevas TO the Chamber
of Deputies, in which that measure is
extremely hinted at as preferable to the
absolute certainty of annexation. Yet
it seems that such sentiment is Who'll
Iy repugnant to the feelings and preju-
dices of the Mexican Congress; for the
joint commission which reported, on
the 9TH instant, the two projects pub
Iished in Wednesdays paper. make no
allusion whatever to the independence
of Texas, but declare, in the most pos
tive and unreserved manner, that Mex
leo "wiIl maintain her rights to that de-
partment."
We know something of the Mexican
character. 1t is deeply impregnated
with the steadlast pride and indomita-
bic obstinacy derived from its Spanish
source. Mexico may be unable to vim
dicate her claims 10 Texas by an ap-
peal to arms; she may be doomed, in
sullen silence and conscious impotence.
to witness the incorporation of that
young and fourshing republic in the
American confederacy; but she will not
yield one particle of her assumed SOW
ereignty over the country. What for
eign influence may be enabled to ef-
feet, what the i'm 2udent tampering of
Great Britain may bring forth, it is diff
ficult to say; but left to herself and to
her imperturbable hauteur, Mexico
would rather see her dominions dismem-
bered piece meal than make the small
lest concession injurious, in her opinion
to her pride, dignity, and rights.
Sir GEORGE SIMPsoN.-A paragraph
is published in many Of our journals,
said to have been copied from Hall
fax paper, announcing that Sir George
Simpson, who came out in the steamer
had been appointed Govern
or of Oregon. This is not all probable.
Sir George has been for many years
governor Of the Hudson Bay company
and in that capacity frequently makes
a trip to England and returns early in
the spring to avail himself Of express
canoes which leave Montreal on the
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