The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-13

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the national rights and honor Let the ''truth be
fdy and firmly spoken" let every man defy the
menaces of England, and declare his determination
to sustain the government, peace should unhappiy
be broken and our word for it, war will never en-
sue. The contrary course will but encourage that
ambitious power in her design to plant her heavy
foot upon the American continent, and subjugate us
to her tyranny.
From the New Orleans rsonian Republican
RIOTISM-FIDELTTY TO THE COUN-
TRY.
When the project of making Texas part and
parcel of the American Union was first suggested,
and up to the period, through all the stages of the
transaction, when il received the sanction of the
American government, differences of opinion among
ourselves upon the constitutionalty or the expe-
diency of the measure, were not only allowable and
justifable, but were, perhaps, to be expected. 1t
would, indeed, be chimerical to suppose that ques-
| ton so important, and one involving SO many
weighty considerations, would be viewed alike by
the whole people, and the plan adopted upon the in
slant, with great cordially and entire unanimity.
No such thing was expected; nor will it ever hap
pen, probably, if the republic have an endless ex-
istence, that proposition so momentous and capa-
bic of assuming so many phases in reducing it to an
accurate solution, will commend itself at once to
universal support and appreciation. In its bearing
and operation upon the United States-in its con.
nection with Mexico, her rights and our obligations
respecting them, and if war were TO with her
arising from any improper or passionate action Of
her own-in any proceedings, indeed, the United
States, Mexico and Texas alone being parties,-the
people of this country, it appears to us, had most
undoubted right-perhaps we may say it was duty
incumbent upon them as the sovereign power-to
form opinions as TO those proceedings in all their
possible contingencies, their legality and propriety;
and not only TO form, but to act those opinions
80 far as they could constitutonally do 80. Here,
however, it seems to us, were the outposts of our
peaceful, legal, political action, beyond which
patriotism and due regard to national
honor and security imperatively forbid us to go.
Whenever, IN question SO purely and exclu-
sively American, involving territory in the i'm
mediate neighborhood of two powers, and the dis
position of which could affect only those powers,
governments far removed, existing indeed upon
another continent, and regulated by civil polity
in no-wise comfortable if not Numerically hostile
| to our own, sought TO interfere, by diplomacy or
otherwise, in such way to give the whole thing
particular turn and direction, without reference to
the interests feelings ofthe United States or Mex
ico-the two powers, exclusively, really interested in
the matter-there should, we think, have been an
emphatic declaration and protest, approved by epery
American citizen, that such interference was ndei-
icate and illegal; and that if it went so far as to be-
come hurtful to our safety or commercial interests,
or came in contact with any deliberate purpose of
the United States-a purpose resolved on one of
right or of national securty-it would be resisted,
at the disposal ofthe country, and let the consequent
ces be what they might This would have been
the proper and the lawful course; and with such a
declaration and protest, backed by the undivided
and enthusiastic public sentiment of the country,
England nor France--lf indeed the latter be actil-
ally embarked in the enterprise-would never have
dreamed of putting in their fuger to prevent annex
alton, except, perhaps, at the capitol of Mexico,
and then in manner the most indirect and covert;
and such demonstration on our part, if it could
have been made at the proper moment, and sustained
by the achole moral pooer Of the United Saies would
have been of more service in suppressng foreign in
trgues on this continent, and in securing for due
respect by the principal nations of the world, than
any event recorded in American annals since the rev.
olution which severed us from g. Britain. The most
decided ant-annexationists could have sustained
such protest. on american ground, and for cogent
.4merican reasons, without compromising his posi-
ton. II would have dealt simply with the abstract
question of the supremacy of American policy on
this continent, of the incorrectness and inadmssi
bility of unfriendly European diplomacy here, and
Of our determination TO resist borders the es
adjustment of an antagonist policy. For, we ina
gne it will scarcely be urged that American and Eu
ropean policy are one and the same thing, or that
when they come in contact one or the other must
not give way-any more than that American and
European governments are similar, and operate
Concurrence in this view was not inseparable with
annexation, or in any way connected with it, al
though the design or attempt to plant such antago-
mist policy in Texas, or as regards Texas, might
have prompted the declaration.
But, 1t may be asked, if such a protest would
sued in all solemnity, and at the suspicious mo-
menf For the very plain reason thai the essen
tial requisite TO give it this magical operation and
solemn effect was wanting--he cordial unani,-
'fy Of the people, and the exhibition of a dtter,ni-
naiion on he's. part, one aud ALL 10 sfand On ,,eh
protest, regardless Of consequences, Issued I'M
der other auspices, or unless sustained in the
manner indicated, it would have been useless.
and worse than useless--a mere br,.i,,m fufmen.
the sport and ridicule Of those upon whom il was
expected to operate, and whose improper action il
was designed to expose and suppress. Every sane
man, blessed with particle Of perception, knows
that such a movement by the American govern
ment, when the subject of British interference with
the affairs Of Texas first to its ears, and was
openly proclaimed, with the circumstances then ex-
listing, Of the warm opposition in the United States
70 every thing having any affinity or relation to
Texas, carried so far in some instances, as to
amount almost TO treason, encouraged too, by some
Of the eminent and influential men Of the country;
that moyementof this kind, at that particular mo-
ment, would have been the acme of folly and stupid
ty on the part Of the administration il not of crime
Failing in its design, as it would probably baye done
from the divided state of public opinion upon the
Texas question: il would have invited, or been made
the Pretext of hostile aggression or il not so pre-
our claims TO sagacity and wisdom, in the estima-
ton Of the world. And here is one Of the fruits of
the prevalence offs disposition to dispute with our
own government in its intercourse with foreigners.
and proclaim that its action is reprehensible and
,ciu not be sustained By the people.
What has been The result of this division, or,
rather what has grown out of the existence Of such
state Of things in the United States, as to render
the government powerless in any effort il might
wish to make to proclaim and maintain the ascen-
dency ofAmerican policy on this continent and to
suppress European interference-in this instance
selfish and hostile--not merely in this hemisphere,
but in our neghborhood, directly upon our Dor.
ders, almost in our very midst What has trans
pired within the last eighteen months, and what is
now Transporting, not in Mexico and Texas only, but
in our own scaports and harbors and upon our own
inent American statesman, but an American sea-
Not only this, but vessels known to be employed in
this service Of thwmting American policy, and Of