The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1845-08-30
From the Richmond Enquirer,

RoPEI--l The Antwerp correspondent
of the Philadelphia United States Ga
zette gives the following emphatic de-
nial to all speculative fears on this sub
ject. 1t will be seen that our safety
lies in the union of the States; and will
there be found single American who
will, by d;sal1ection TO the Government,
or GOODNESS towards the Union, encoul-
age the crowned heads of Europe in
their last struggle to stretch their iron
power over this country? Even the
northern fanatics will shrink within
their shells, and suffer the annexation
of Texas to pass by unresisted, bitter
though the dose may be. They will
not be able to stand the whitening in
Auence Of popular indignation;
81 can only re-assure you, that neith-
erOregon nor Texas will give the Uni
ted States the least trouble, provided
they remain united. The only and
last hope Of the monarchists Of Europe,
and their only consolation as regards
the loss Of Texas. or, as it ought to be
called, "the defeat OF European di plo-
macy in its attempt to regulate Ameri-
can affairs" is, that the Union may yet
be severed; that slavery and the tariff
will destroy the conncxion between
the South and the North, and thereby
turn the power now pressing on Eng
land on one sile, and Mexico on the
other, against itself. But if we remain
unmolested by Europe, it is not from
any good-wiH towards US. but simply
from the impossibilIty for Europeans
to do us any harm, without running
themselves. The journals on both
sides of the channel are now perfectly
resigned. They speak of Texas as an
unavoidable, fixed, uncontrovertable
tact-and of the emigration to Oregon
as thing which cannot very well be
prevented. In the end, they will be
reconciled to the loss Of Oregon as
something not woth talking about; and
perhaps to the abandonment of Ameri-
ca generally, as ''a continent unworthy
of the guiding ngis of civilized Europe"
The London Evening Mail has already
forth this ''heroic resolve'
of Great Britain, in these very sensible,
terms:
"European powers are no longer
sufficiently interested in the fate Of
those vastregions, TO include them with
in the strict limits on which the balance
of power depends"
sit is impossible to have more tact,
more common sense, or more profound
craftsmanship, than is expressed in
these few lines" ....... 81
This modest plea Of not being "sutfi-
ciently interested," comes with bad
grace at this late period. Fooled in
their game of intrigue and commercial
ambition, they are forced to abandon
the field, make virtue of necessity,
and sneak off, on the ground that they
''are no longer sufficiently interested"
We are willing to give them this little
consolation for their defeat; though
they are far from deserving it. We
presume that Capt. Elliot, when he
reaches the shores of England, will
represent Texas as a poor country,
unworthy of all the efforts Of European
monarchs to control it; and as for Or
egon, it is utterly worthless, and Eng.
land will make good bargain in get
ting rid of it.
We have gained one great advan-
tage; and that is, that European pow
ers cannot, with impunity, triAe with
our rights or impede our progress
The failure of British intrgues in Tex
as will give fatal blow to the hither-
to unchecked march of Great Britain
in territorial aggrandizement. The
East, she may subdue to her oppres-
sive measures. In the We>t, she has
found a rival strong enough to support
her own rights.