The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-05

The resolutions of our Congress fixing the terms OF
annexation, and the full compliance with those
terms by the "exislng government" and by the
people of Texas, is nothing, in the opinion OF that
paper, without some specific legislation lad hoej;''
and it denies that any such legislation has been ODD
tanned
This cannot be the correct view of the matter. In
accepting the terms of annexation held out to them
by our Congress, the people of Texas have COM
piled with the conditions upon which Congress
sconsented" that Texas should become part and
parcel of the United States. She is now annexed to
the Union, and territory thereof When she shall
have complied with the condition of the resolutions
of annexation so far to have adopted republican
constitution, she will then have completed her duty
under those resolutions, and may and will demand
the performance of pledge to admit her into the
Union as separate State The further action of
our Congress will indeed be necessary before our
revenue laws, our post office regulations, or our Ju-
dietary system, can be extended the new terri
tory Her own policy must be pursued until then;
but as an independent nation she exists no longer.
Her national sovereignty is merged IN that OF the
United States She has the same claim to our pro-
lection that is possessed by any other Territory;
and it is as much our right and duty 10 afford that
protection her, as to the inhabitants OF any other
acre of American soil Shall we leave her, unaided,
to battle with The Mexican hawk, after having IN
yed her to take shelter under the wing OF our gal
liant eagle' Never
Intending to discuss this subject more at length In
few days, if necessary, we only add to this hasty
declaration Of our rights few words, by way of adj
vice and remonstrance to such of our wing friends
as follow the lead of the Courier and Enquirer. In
deed the wing party, as party, has yet one great
lesson TO learn and practise before its members can
hope to obtain and preserve an ascendency in the
councils of the nation. Their fate after the acqusi-
ton of Louisiana the long political Punishment to
which they were doomed after the brilliant close OF
the war of 1912; the result of their course when
France demanded an apology from Old Hickory
and, more recently, the vote of the people on this
very Texas queslion,-all these examples seem to
have failed to teach the leaders of the wing party
that, when there are two sides to question, it is
their interest, as well as their duty, to take the
AMERICAN SIDE.
In regard to the final, speedy, and peaceful settle
ment of this Texas question: we entertain no doubt
In the prudence and discretion, as well as the firm
ness and stern resolve of the Executive, in whose
hands, until the meeting Of Congress, the matter
rests, we repose unyielding confidence. We
caution our wing friends to beware how they trfe
with the spirit which has proclaimed Texas ours,
which has already folded her gallant people IN fra
ternal embrace and extended to their grasp millions
of hands warmed with the purest blood of Ameri-
can hearts. The peaceful contamination of the
great measure of annexation will cover them with
confusion; and, should the worst come to the worst,
and war follow, they will find, as they did in 1912,
domestic treason rebuked by the Unborn patriotism
of our people; and, in spite of all their arts, the
masses everywhere will be found on the side of their
country, and rallyng beneath the folds of that flag
which waves defiance to her foes.