The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-19
rrxAs AND THE ADMINISTRATION.

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caught to darken the minds of its readers IN re-
-,;oo 10 the measures Of the administration IN de-
os Texas. We cannot but feel, at each step
= onr argument, that we are contending with an
sa,.,ssry vanquished beforehand by the inevitable
n.., and discredt of his opinions. We have al
'sv nl.ced the policy of the administration, in re-
,.,oo 10 Texas, upon grounds of defence which we
I.. altogether impregnabe. But in fact, that pol
:. ,.sds no defence. II has already commended
..f 10 the heart Of the country, as apolicy ofjust
"a .,,esmanlike precaution--demanded alike by
4. ;r,erests Of humanity, and by the national hon
:. towards Texas, it is simply the policy Of
s.oa faith Towards Mexico, it is the only
s,r,v Of peace Had the United States wa
- FIR one moment, Mexico, weak and mis-
.;,.d a. she is would have forced us into war.
III, neace has been so long preserved that the
.ho,es of the Del Norte are not now stained will,
LI.od is due, under Providence, to the foresight
IA ,be enefgy with which the administration has
assumed and maintained its attitude OF preparation
Co. war. That the Intelligencer should have ven
,,,.d n s,iematze the course Of the administration
:. noicv of war-seeking and bloodshed, is an ex-
rsmily of disingenuousness which shows but too
clearly the perous straits into which a bad cause
can force an unsklu and desperate advocate.
pu, this instance is of piece with the whole
course of the Intelligencers reasoning on the sub
;ec, In the very front of its article, that journal
,,,. down proposition, fundamental TO its entire
,ra,ment which is in broad and glaring contradic-
ion n established and well-known fact. II says:
"Texas, then, upon all her own allegations is, fun
a.r,eu,allv. the ex-Mexican State Of that name,
o,sioaly formed of territory constituted by Mex
;cap laws, upon soil of limits defined, too, by
Mexico lust as much as those of Iowa or Wiscon-
sin mus, be by the United States, which erected
them into Territories In a word, Texas is, upon
her own showing, not mere casual political forma-
,iou lately sprung up out of various conserving re-
pons and populations before separate, but public,
lesa being, continued from thai ,chch ,cas member Of
n. riean federation, and, truly TO speak, NOT changed
but chirh refused 10 change, when its associates of
that compact allowed themselves to be sunk, by
Santa Ana, out of separate States into departments
and dependencies of central government. These
are, beyond any possibility Of question, her own
solemn and uniform suppostions, the very basis on
which she places all that entities her to the name of
legitimate civil existence--a nation, not accide1-
tai herd of men, Her declaration Of independence, her
constitution the ,cho series Of her public acts and an
mails, say this and say nothing else wito impeach-
ing themselves"
The republic of Texas claiming to be only de-
| partment Of the Mexican federation, and refusing
| to appear anything else Why, every man who
knows anything of the Texian history, knows that
Texas broke off negotiations for an extended truce
with Mexico, rather than submit to be styled even,
/ in Mexican state paper, the department of Tex
as" "The whole series Of Texan public acts and
annals, saying that Texas is the ex-Mexican State
of that name, formed Of territory constituted by
Mexican laws, upon soil Of limits defined by .Mer-
co % What foo-hardness Of misstatemcnt is this !!
Does the Integencer assume that its readers know
absolutely nothing the subject, when it thus at
temps TO mslead themi Why, the very first act Of The
Tsrian Congress assembled under the Terian const,-
iion then just adopted in 1885, was solemn legsla
tive declaration that the republic Texas, which
declaration of independence, and free constitution
emanatng from the will of the people, had just be-
fore brought into organized political being was ter
rory bounded the res by the river Del Norte. The
close Of the Intelligencers article far forgets ito
commencement to quote and oquote correctly too,
this very statute-this first organic law Of the new
republic; and even gives the exact date OF 1.-THE
18th of December, 1886. The force of selfcontra-
diction can go no farther.
But the same strain continues. We quote the
very words of the lntegencer: "She (Texas) stood
out she says, upon her rights as one Of the Mexican
States" When or where did Texas ever cay this,
or anything like it, The mexican rights" of any
portion of Mexico, were, from 1924 to 1886, a
foundation altogether too insecure and unsubstanal
on which to build the edifce Of freedom. Texas
ddnot build upon the sand. The PEOPLE, as we
name them-the "herd of men," as the Intelligencer
Chooses to style population Of our own blood,
rising up together TO constitute free government,
IN emulation of our own freedom--rHE PEOPLE,
dwelling between the Sabine and the Del Norte,
stood out" as they had the warranty Of our ex-
ample for doing, on their innate and indestructble
rights of men, against the despotism Of Santa Ana
aieroclous and cowardly despotism of yesterday,
with neither prescription, nor legitimacy, nor popu-
lar consent in its favor-a despotism without one
eredental of rghtful authority-a despotism which
ability enough to lie, and just power enough to
plumber! And twas upon Mexican rights and "Mex-
lean laws, forsooth as they stood under such sys-
tenn, that Texas planted the foundations Of liberty
NO The Anglo-Saxon instinct of freedom, and the
great Anglo-Saxon example Of freedom, had taught
the herd Of men" between the Sabine and the Del
Nor'e better lessen. Owing nothing to a govern
ment that had set at nought every highest obliga-
uon, and again and again violated every sacred
pedge, the Texans constituted themselves an inde-
pendent republic, with the Del Norte and the Sabine
LOT boundaries thenceforth to be kept by the sword
ny the sword, the Texans have kept these boun-
oaries for nine years. And now the protecting eye
Of our country is on them, and the protecting arm
OF our country is round them-and kept thew ,ciu be
forever.
Having made such sad work with the 6,ndnnent-
@poposition Of its argument, the lntegencer now
PUSHES bndly on to yet more desperate iHusira-
ton. We quote the whole paragraph: