Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-04-07
FROM TEXAS.

olution had been received, and the Texas
newspapers had come out in full cry against
il.
The Galveston News Of the lst Of March
hints, says the New Orleans Picayune,
that the present administration is adverse 10
the measure Of annexation.
The rumored reconciliation between
Duff Green and tn, Texan government
never, il seems, took place. The Calves
ton Civilian, Of the lst instant, says:
awe are informed Tint no adjustment Of
any kind, further than appears from the
proclamation, has ever been made Of the
mater unless remark Of The President that
he regretted the necessity that compelled
him to take the course he did, may be SO
considered. Neither ho nor his friends be-
lieve that the proclamation was predicaled
on any nisapprehenson or insufficient
cause whatever. The American Minister.
We have understood, enter,ains similar
views"
The Galveston National Register. after
quoting the terms Of Milton Browns joint
resolution, proceeds thus:
"Such is the language of the first sec
lion Of the resolution which has passed the
lower House Of the American Congress-
What is its import?
The answer is, tina, W. must lay aside
our national name, abandon our constitu-
ton, erect ourselves into new State, adopt
the appella,ive of Estate Of Texas" ,an-
lie new government Of republican, form.
by means o. deputies assembled in conven-
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prescribed revo'ulion-aller we have thus
voluntarily deprived ourselves Of every
feature and iineamcnt OF the nationality
under uhich our independence has been re-
cognizcd by foreign powors-alter we have
in fact. annhilaled our identity as COM,
rnuniiy, aud repudiated even our name, so
that we can neither know or be known in
tho rank and seat among the nations which
we have hitherto occupied al least without
dishonor, and with The consent Of the old
world aud the new. After all these sac
rifces and all this degradation, what shall
we have accomplished? Annex lton 10
the American Union! No, not even the
promise of il.
Under such circumstances, all our con-
sectlons with foreign nations would be dis
solved, our relations towards them changed;
all advantages Rccrulng from past uegolia-
tons cease, Tor no one can pretend that the
great European powers will continue their
amicabls Intercourse with our government
as the Republic o: Texas, undet the name
of the Estate Of Texas" hahiled in the
gnrb of suPp!iant for admission into the
family OF American slates-ihe very cut
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and fashion of which have been prescribed
by their Congress. Why, in such guise
we should not know ourselves! In such a
state of national obeyance and limbo, we
could neither assert separate indepen-
dence for ourselves, nor claim any spe-
cies OF alliance or connection ever known
by any name 'given under heaven or
among men" with any other government.
In such an attitude Of Notifying and hu
initiating indefnileness, we may well be
disavowed as distinct nation,
SPY all our kind and kin, whom they
Compare our day and yesterday
And having assumed this cquvocal pos
ture, by the consent o! the American Con-
gress, in ORDER" as the resolution declares
"that we may be admitted as one of he
States Of the Union"-then wo are bound
unto them, but they are not bound unto US.
We are yet again, and for the fourth time,
TO knock At their door for admission, ''on
or belo:e the first day of January next"
with our new Constitution in our hand,
when that Congress wall tnke their final ac-
ton tor or agains', ms the case may be)
on the subject Of our application
This IS the substance and extent Of their
guarantees" paraded asthe expression is,
in the resolution under he imposing gram
malcal torm of The plural number Have
wo any pledge tina! we shall then be an
nexedi Np-they only promise that hey
will once more consider the proposition,
and take what they are pleased to denomi-
maize their final action upon ii. And judg-
ing from The language they now hold, we
have nothing more or less to expect, than
that they will then "spurn them as before,
for they can do so without violating any
pledge.
But if we adopt the course Indicated by
the resolution, we do So under the lorma.
sanclion and color of thrir express cen
sent. This would be tact adm ssion on
the part OF the government and people OF
Texas, OF tho authority of that consent,n nd
would imply at least that We could not law
fully act Ia the prescribed mode without it.
No doubt we should be forced to borrow
largely from the Efficiency Of that same
consent, 10 carry us through the conspic-
uous part assigned TO US in the ridcu lous
farce thus prepared Tor exhibition.
Ii The people Of Texas choose 10 revo.
lu,ionze their government, and institute
some new aud different republican organi
cation, they may do so without the leave
Of u foreign government ''firs, had and OBJ
iaino T." But the United Stutes have oc
knowledged our lille to be recognized III
an independent nation, both dc titcto ana
de jTe. Should we adopt the course drs.
ignated by their resolutions, We at encC
lose the benefit OF tha, acknowledgment. -
We pass into state OF mbcciie. hopeless
dependence upon that power to be annexed
certainly never until their aspiring part
sans shall cease to need the material we
now furnish them for the manufacture OF
political capital. Our relations with othe
governments dissolved, aad our own ma
iionality renounced, the United States may
consent 10 hold las they sh. II have conSsn