Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-07-19

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the shame Of the New York Courier aud Enquirer, alone
has the tee 70 take the bold ground Of opposition 10 the
course which every American patriot will approve. Let
trace tho true position Of the case. ssaess
In the whole correspondence which has passed between him
and the Texan Government Mr. Donelson has borne himself
with great dignity and ability with great frmnes and yet
moderation. In his letter of June 18th, he takes the follow
ing position in reply TO question propounded to him by Mr.
Allen etH FAX ttH
ssIn answer to the application made for the employ
OF the troops tho United States the frontier Of Tex
as the undersigned is authorized that, 1e er-
isg Government and The Conrenhon II 1sras shall have ae-
the President OF the United States will then conceive Il 70 be
both his rg and his dizzy employ the army in defending the
State against the attacks OF foreign Powers and that this
defence may promptly and ciety given, should the
cpated emergency rendering II necessary the UNDER
signed y 70 say that iorse consisting q three
be prepared without moments delay, within the terri
tory Of Texas circumstances may require so as oesf 10 re-
rhc President Of the United feels all their force,
the obligations which enon upon him. as sacred duty the
defence Texas after she shall have accepted the conditions
which have been submitted for her admission into the Union
with solemn resolution OF Congress- An assault
upon Just rights for this cause and under such cireu
Stances be upon the United States and will
be felt the kseny, because will involve the idea that
the Uned States be made abandon the injuncon Of
good faith from the fear Of the of foreign Power
Although Texas may actually be State OF the Federal
Union until the Constitution she is about to make may be
completed then accepted by the Congress- Of the United
States in the that has been customary with the
States now in the union yet cannot be denied that whilst
part effect this object she possesses the rights OF State
far to be entitled to protection
Sin considering Texas, them State aier she shall have
accepted the conditions under her consideration and
ton, annexng her TO the Unionso far at least as 10 De en-
tleto protection against ne attacks e any tregn nafiot
President OF the United States have assumed ques
oable powers and is CRAFTY know that its exercise
will be acceptable to the Government and people Of Texas
il is consistent with the principles of justice and the high
dictates OF honor and patriotism
The Is reducble the simplest elements The United
States pledge themselves TO admit Texas into the Union on
such and such conditions Texas accepts the terms, both
through her Congress and her Convention. She is about to
form Constitution which reasonably doubt that
our Congress will accept This completes the form Of the
transaction. In the time Texas invaded by foreign
troops She is about to suffer the horrors OF war IN conse-
quence Of her act well Mexico too threatens
deprive her Of territory which substantially belongs to
Can any American doubt whether ought TO assist the
Texans protecting their frontier from threatened invasion
and their territory from advancing devastation And yet
strange tell here Wing editor who would fold his
Texas by the Mexcans until Congress should
meet and declare against Mexico The New York Cou-
e and Enquirer actually complains Of our Executive pedg
ing itself with Mexico all the world If necessary,
without the intervention of Congress- which alone, by the
Constitution has the power Of war" 1t by this circutcus
phaseology that the " New York Courier and Enquirer
would recommend stand quietly by and see Texas
oveun by Mexican troops and at moment when we have
acquired the important interests Texas and her
pie have irresistible claims to protection But even the
New York Commercial scorns to resort openly to THIS argu
although it does attempt, by wind sophsn OF
its own crticise Of Mr. Donesons arguments to
prove the right Texas demand immediate protection and
the duty of the United States to give it," &c.
Our readers must have perceived in what spirit
tits that we, in common with the chief part of
those who have most firmly opposed the project and
the appliances of Annexation, now speak of each
step which is taken towards its approaching con-
summation. The accomplishment of that event,
now plainly at hand, can of course little reconcile
us to either an impending fact, of which we dread
all the consequences, or to the multitude and enor-
nifty of the methods by which it has been thus far
brought about. We long since warned the coun-
try-which seemed to us too supne TO the real dan
ger Of the ultimate success Of these Vaccinations
that period might come when we, in common
with many others like in feeling, might regard il
as our duty to withdraw opposition to what had
become however wrongfully, the law Of the land, a
matter of pledged and ratified public faith. On the
doctrines affirmed by the Texas party itself, in the
case of the Single-district law Of Congress-the
doctrine that no Act, though passed in all the out
ward forms of the Constitution, binds any party
that chooses allege it to have been without const
tutional warrant-we might still maintain, long after
the completed incorporation Of Texas, our resis-
lance TO it: we might aver that schat acas done
against The fundamental laso was absolutely uoid
and of no erisfcnce. This, we might say and
how should the Nullifers of the Single-dstrict
law stigmatze or gainsay us But we need hard
w say that we are as little Nufers as Texas-men;
and that, till such time as a Legislative Act OF the
Nation shall have been set aside as void, by that
branch Of the public power in which alone is lodged
that faculty. we shall ever bend TO it. when put into
effect.
When, therefore, the late Joint Resolution shall
have passed into entire contamination, by the mu-
tua and complete action Of Texas and of this Gov
eminent, this will be position. But, meantime,
our very submission to the fact as legal implies a
new resistance to its accomplishment otherwise than
in real conformity to- the terms provided by the
Joint Resolution itself. The documents just fur
nished by the Executive organ establish beyond the
possibility Of question-especialy when compar-
ed with the late Message Of President JONES to the
Legislature of Texas--tle fact that the Annexation
is, by the Executive action here, shaping itself
into an Executive engagement to Texas, sub
versive of several of the capital provisions and in
tentions of the uery law from which alone the Pre-
sident derives all his power in the premises Of An
nexation.
II is impossible to deny that provision, in any
form, for the payment, by as, OF the existing debt
of Texas, was deliberately excluded, by the An
nexationsts themselves, from that part of the law