The Arkansas banner., 1845-07-16
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,NNryATION =CoNsUNMATED!

iui e&ultduol; Nltu Nlli'h NS dlSs "s i0bStH, enabled to head column with the exclama- ton--'' ANNEXATION CoNsu uMMATED!" We have written for it--talked for it-prayed for it; and have been willing and ready, God knows! to fight for il, if necessary, even to the expenditure of the last drop of blood in our veins. But the time for words, and for prayers, has passed by. Ii only remains for us to be thankful that our prayers have been bountilnlly answered, and our efforts crown ed with success. lis the opinion of some that the fghting is to come yet. This we do not believe. But should il be so, we have only to say, and 10 express the feelings and determination of our people, that oar egeS are to1oard he selling snt. ''Westward the star of Empire takes it's way"
 Comment of ours would add nothing to the interest ot inc subject, nor increase the qualification of the people thatth great effort of patriotism has been, as it must ever be, succesgful, in ''eXtending the area Of free dom22-that another noble sister has been incorporated into our conIedcrated family that star of the ''filst magnitude and the purcst lusuc, has been added to our glorious Constellation
 For the particulars of the Annexation mea- sure, in the Texan Congress, we refer to our extract, in another column, from the New Orleans Tropc of the 2nd July.
 "A FELLOW FEELING :n-In order, it is fair to suppose, to illustrate his own griels, and enforce his manifold complaints, against the Supreme Court-not to try his cases at it's Bar, the editor of the Gazette cites the case of GEO. w. IIuGuEs, and sheds over him all ocean of tears. Alas poor son of Niobe But, Mythology aside, who is Hughes, and what was lis case A few words will serve to tell and if they do not crimson the cheek of the editor of the Ga zcue, he cannot blush, because, like the man who went naked, he has lost all sense of shame.
 Il IS well remembered, by the citizens of Little Rock, that, during the last year, this man Hughes, while employed, as an under keeper of the Penitentiary, joined the con- victs in concerting plot to mHrder the Su- perintendentand his assistants, and effect the escape of the convieis The keen vigilance and bold energy, of Mr. McNicar, discovered this plot, and detected all its agents, in time to prevent its atrocious consummaiion but not until it had progressed SO far, that the murderous weapons had been prepared, and placed, for the convenient use of the con sprators \ searching investigation was promptly instituted and the result satisfied every mind that HRgheS had been the active agent, the medium of communication be- tween the conycts, in concerting aud matur- ing their plot. Without going unnecessarily into particulars, which are well known 10 the whole Gazette establishment, we assert that, in substance, this was the plot, and this the crime of HUgheS-to murder the keepers of the Pententiary, and let loose, upon the community, moro than forty as desperate rogues as the world has ever known. And, among them, TroWbfjdge himself, at the bare idea, of whose peaceable and legal re- lease some two years hence, the editor of the Gazette went into spasms of horror, last summer For this, Hughes was arrested, .,ol tr;oJ in tbo .;re,,it coYrt. ouJ a1fbouOI convict testimony was not admissible in court, and the crcumstantial evidence was not of sufficient technical precision, to con yict him of every charge; yet enough was proven 10 sentence him to imprisonment for twelve months; while every one was satisfi- ed that his real guilt merited imprisonment for life, if not the death punishment itself- Every one believed him guilty of crime the most hemous-involying unprovoked mur- der by wholesale, and every other felony known 10 the Law; and every one regretted the impereeaon of the Law, in failing to cover this case. Yet the counsel of Hughes appealed to the Supreme Court, upon a tech nicality, not at all affecting the merits of the case, nor exciting doubt of his guilt. Upon tlls appeal, it was decided in his favor; not, however, until his term of Imprisonment had expired. and he was at liberty. The failure of the Law to cover this case, and subiec; this atroeious criminal to eondign punish- ment, may, in truth, be aseubed to a caats oaissaS, wherein the peculiar crime had not been provided against, doubtless because no one had imagined its probable perpetration. The only regret we have heard expressed, by honest men, in this couaexion, has beeh, not that Hughes had suilered too much, bui that he has escaped so lightly. It-remained for the editor of the Gazette to be the chron- icler of his 'croags, and to bewail the hard fate of this aatoriunafe young man If he have in the store house of his malice, any more such hard cases of complaint against