The New York herald., 1845-09-22


powerful United States fleet Is IN the Gun OF Mexi-
co, in preparation for the emergency OF war Look
ing at the relative strength Of the two powers, there
can be no doubt that, whatever may be DECIDED IN
the councils Of Mexico, the annexation OF Texas 10
the Republic OF the stars and stripes is now, once
for all, a fat dccomfii.
Such is the consummation of one of the most ne
farlous transactions recorded in modern history
The United states government has now completed
a series Of aroclous International frauds and IN
juries ever veed uader the names and
forms Of diplomatic legality. Il has all been done
quite regularly" United States citizens "emgra-
ted" to Texas, and there became Texan citizens and
subjects Of Mexico; and, as Texan citizens and
Mexican subjects, they picked quarrel with the
Mexican government, got up an lnsurrectonary
war, and carried on that war by the all of bands of
United States volunteers" whose equipment the
United States government proclaimed, IN good sci
phrase, TO be illegal. They made themselves "inde-
pendent" and, as independent State, they were
OF course, at liberty To enter into any arrangements
with an independent nei2hbor which they might
think proper All perfectly regular, and all lnia-
mous'y base and treaenefous. The reality shows
through AL the dsguses and pretences with which
il is gossed over gang OF United States land
sharks and ruians, supported by the sympahies and
alliance of slave owners and slave breeders, who
want new market for their de,rstabe treibc, and
by the well understood countenance OF their own
government have robbed neighborng and friend
" power OF valuable province. Two significant
facts sufficiently explain the true character OF the
whole business. The nsurgent force which struck
the blow that finally severed Texas from Mexico,
contained only ftiy real Texan citizens; and of the
sixty one delegates OF the convention OF the AIN Ju
w, sixty were natives OF the United States.
The ratification which the United States Govern
men has now finally affixed ofsthe successful crime
of a lawless h.rde OF ils own citizens, IS an aci
which must have very Important consequences.
We do not pretend 10 predict these IN any sort OF
detail but there can be no difficulty oruncerialnty
in that general prognos,s, which IS based on The ma
tural and necessary laws OF moral and political eau
rt,aT lttNp
barked in the career of aggression and robbery,
and they will-sooner or later. IN one shape ano-
ther-have TO pay the penalty which nature and
Providence award 10 the crimes oil nations The
SEIZURE Of Texas" il was long ago predicted by
Charming, 6 will not stand alone will darken our
future history ii will be linked by an iron necessl-
ly to ong-continued deeds OF raninc and blood"
Oi the seizure OF Texas VIII not stand alone.
The spirit which has prompted the seizure OF Texas
will not be contentcd with Texas. California Is an
nexcd already, in purpose and Intention" the ac-
QUESTION of California Is IN contemplate as The
New York Morning Herald phrases IT,. Andby and
By it will be the central provinces OF Mexico. Ore
gon, of course-why not Canada though, 10 be
sure, the same Nep York Morning I!eraid does sug.
gest reasons why ii would be unwisc 80 at present,
10 6 talk of the annexation ot Canada"
The seizure of Texas will indeed "not stano
| alone" 1t will react with terribly retrlbutlvt
| force on the character and Institutions OF the Anne
| rican people In becoming an aggressive, robbel
| power, the United States must take care to be al
| So
that is the United States must become a great mill
| tary power. If the Americans positively must and
will have "glory," they will have to pay the price
which glory costs in the old world; They VIII be
driven to maintain an immense and costly military
establishment, on a scale utterly at variance with
the spirit and, eventually destructive OF the forms
of liberty. The free institutions OF the country Of
Washington and Franklin are fit only for Pc ople
whose policy and habit is peace.
This guilty success may have consequences us re-
CARDS the Union itself, little contemplated by the
zeaos of annexation and territorial aggrandisement
1t will bring North and South into political and moral
collision. BY giving new development and power to
the most vicious and dangerous OF the peculiar do
nestle institutions" of America, 1t will widen "A
schlsm, which has long been known to exist be-
tween different sections Of the TTninn II has always
been cardinal point OF policy with the North to
maintain, In Congress, an equilibrium OF free and
slave States. That equilibrium is now destroyed :
The character, the policy, the 'glory" OF the entire
! Union is now identified with institution utterly
abhoren to the deepest feelings OF the best POI tion
of the population in the older States. New England
is copher-a political and moral nonentity. The de
scendants Of the pilgrim fathers are out.voted ano
overruled-bound up with policy which they de-
test. Whether the union OF such States as Massa.
chusets with such States Texas could long stand
the strain and stress OF any serious political casualty
policy to which the Republic has now committed
itself-is question which we think it would be rash
to answer in the affirmative.
The natural consequences OF this public crime
:,
even, that the recent triumph of the and slavery
party may produce reaction sufficiently strong to
enforce pause for the present But there can, we
conceive, be little doubt as to lts tendences-though
other and counter tendencies may operate to modify
their action. If America has made up her mind to
"glory," conquest, and territorial aggrandizement
extension OF the area OF freedom," as the Ncr
York Morning Herald calls lt-she may get the
glory, she may not but she will lnfalliby have to
get rid of some OF those political and civil liberties
which are so troublesome clog on the movements
of military executive II the Americans indulge
The war spirit, and preserve their own domestic
tory that ever succeeded in combining the enjoy.
ment of just and good government at home, with
tyranny and lawlessness abroad.
The accounts from Mexico, via New Orleans. re-
ceived by the Cambria, from which we have given
coplous extracts elsewhere are sufficiently warlke
though it does not appear that formal declaration
of war, on the part Of Mexico, had been actually
issued up to the time OF the latest advices from Vera
Cruz. That Mexico has most unanswerable cos,ts
beH against the United States, Gf fraud, violence,
and robbery, be any justification OF warfare between
natons,) we have shown above; but whether she
will really 60 to war with her powerful and unscri-
pulous neighbor must depend upon other consdera-
tons wholly apart from the justice OF her cause.
We think it unlikely that any formal declaration Of
war has been Issued, and also that 1t a war sho uld
really take place, it will be forced on by further and
still more aggressive proceedings on the part OF the
United States, which may render il necessary tor
other nations to Interfere.
tFrom the Liverpool Mail, August %
We anxious to learn what part the governments OF
England and France will take in the proposed anneya
ton Of Texas to the United States of America.
We not of those who would dispute the right of
nation united people, to choose their own form of
government to prefer the protection of neghbor
ing power before another. Still there limits to the
rule well known to the erudite and international law
For instances the people and territory Of Belgium
incorporated with the Kingdom of Holland by the great
treaty of Vienna concluded at the termination Of the
French war Under this treaty, King William was re-
cognzed the sovereign Of the United Netherlands In
1880 however, thereabouts, the people of Belgium
volted and raised the standard of Independence This
independence instantly recognized by Franco, then
also in transition and revolutionary state. II
ly at the time recognized by the government oi
England, then in the hands Of the wings.
Now, strikes that Texas in sl5, is precisely in
the position that Belgium in 1890. The former is, at
this moment the latter fifteen years ago-a
volted province. Mexico the mother country, has not
yet consented to the separation Holland, the mother
country in the other had not assented to the sepa
ration, hen the Independence of Belgium recogni.
scd by England and France What these two last named
did Belrlum havo also lone Texas.