New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-10-30
Is Anne xation settled:

Is Anne xation seuleds
This is question raised at the Wing County
Meeting by those who chose TO assume that the Ad.
dress presented proposed hopeless resistance TO
an irrevocable decree. Let us consider
bare majority by what atrocious treachery and
unparalleled recrcancy obtained, the world already
knows has been obtained in Congress for Joint
Resolution setting forth that
"Congrcss doth con that the territory properly IN
slided rahn, and rightly belonging TO- thetRepubhc
of Texas may be erected into new state, to be called
the State of Texas in order that the same
,aay be admitted as one ofthc States Of the Union
The foregoing consent is given upon the following con-
di,ions; :" among which is this;
That ia no orcRt said debts and Liabilities those
of Texas to become charge upon the Government OF
the United States
Now in explicit defiance Of this vital condition,
our Envoy, the authority OF Mr. Polk has assured
the Texan Government that ours aW assume and
pay the debts of the latter if she consents to Annex
alton This is one of the well known conditions on
which that consent has been given orr Congress
has thus by the oulesi means been brought 10 bare
ly consent TO Annexation on certain conditions while
Texas has assentcd on the clear understanding that
she is to have very different conditions.-Who
therefore can say tina, Annexation is a settled
matter
But again. We have seen that our Government
has agreed to annex only the righJai aud proper
territory Of Texas. She, on the other hand is deter
mined to be extended to the Rio Grandc del Norte,
which does moi water a single acre Of the rightfM
and proper territory of Texas. Mr. Benton, in his
Speech of May 9th, lsi4, declares that the extension
of Texas to the Rio Grande will wrest from Mex
leo parts of four different departments or States now
and always ruled by Mexican Governors,-namely,
New Mexico, chihuahua, Coahuila and Tamaulipas,
containing the Mexican cities and villages of Taos
Santa Fee Albuquerque, and some forty Others
which never saw a Texan unless as prisoner, and
embracing a strip of Mexico apart from actual or
righful Texas tro thousand males long and sereral
hundred broad. Mr.. Benton pronounced the seizure
by us of the eit bank of the Rio Grandc under pre-
tcncc of Annexing Texas. an act of unparalleled
Outrage and closed with the following resolution:
Resolred That the incorporation of the left bank of
the Rio del Noe into the American Union. by virtue Of
a treaty with Texas cOmprchending. as the said incor
poratiGn would do part cf the Mexican departments
of New Mexico, chihuahua, Coahuila and Tamauhpas
0d be act Of direct aggression on Mtt'oo for all the
consequences of which the United States would stand
responsible
be perpctrated in her behalf and Mr.. I'oik stands
pledged % commit Il. The Union. which 10 all
intcnts and pur poscs, 10 the voice of the Govern
ment, declares that the boundary of the Rio del
Norte shall be maintained at all hazards; and this
is undoubtedly a pas ~ the understanding on
which Texas consentiio annexation. But VIII the
Congress and Pcopc Il tic United States become
partners in this gigantic crime That is the qucs
ton raised in the Address 70 the County Meeting.
Now our Treasury has twice already been bled
in the cause of TeNas-cnce by sam Swarwoui's
entertainments and again by Gen. Gainess war
oolcries and callinG out the South Westem Militia
Swartwou, never n. at to cheat the Government
out of dollar bur fr seduced into lending the
Public Money in lns hands TO the Texans conf!
IDENTITY assured that they would pay him in season TO
save him from exposure. They deceived and ru-
med him. Gen JailCs Hamilton met with similar
treatment at their hagas having pledged his charac
ter to borrow money them in Europe They are
now taking another 3 Of several millions out of us
in the expenses OF OR Army at Corpus Christi and
our Flee, in the G'lt The next load will be the
payment OF their Debt, and still the next good
many millions NOR, to buy off Mexico and peace
fully secure the boundary of the Rio del Norte We
kRo,c that all tht &c ars confidently expected by the
Texans except tina. porton of them who are for war
any how, and will object 10 the buying out Of Mex
leo because they are intent on the plumber OF the
Churches and desecraton of the Converts Of
Mexico. we have their little gold lesuses"
was common beast a. Washington last Winter
among the Texan asd sympaihizng Adventures
there assembled Ii IS this spirit of plumber and
lust which is the mpelling cause OF the whole Texas
business alike on the Brassos the Potomac and the
Hudson And after our People shall have been
robbed Of Thirty 10 Sixty Millions of their hard earn
ings TO pay Texan debts fight Texan battles, or buy
for Texas Mexican territory. the good land will ali
belong 10 a few Spectators, who never paid mill
an acre Tor IT, yet each own tracts equal 10 orth-
ern Siale-ls hes, 10 ,amper and pal,er with this
villany We say. Fish, ii s,ernly, aad TO the end
Then as 10 the Slavery aspect of the case
The Joint Resolution allows aR Tcxus-claim.
ing to be two THOUSAND lilies long BY half rs broad
to come into the Union as one State of which all
but small corner is allowed to be Slave holding.
OF course the rcs,sicion as to tina, corner amounts
to nothing, until a State is formed for il will
necessarily be under the laws and regulations of
Slave. holding State. The Annexing Resoluti,
says:
New Stses Of convenient sixe, not exceeding iot
in number in addition the said state Of Texas may
huea9, BY Tie eosses' 81 SAID ass, b formed out Of