The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-08-12
From the Washington Union.
THE ADMINISTRATION---ITS PRO-
GRESS AND ITS POLICY.


GRESS AND ITS POLICY.
1t is now four months, since Mr.. Polk as
sumed the seat of office, and entered upon
the discharge of the weighty responsible
ties 10 which he was called by his country
men.
II being in the recess of Congress, the
duty Of the President has been mainly to
see that the laws, as he found them, were
faithfully executed. To this duty he has,
with great labor, devoted his whole time and
talents. We doubt whether any Of his pre-
decessors ever devoted more labor--if so
much--in giving his personal attention to all
the details of the various branches of the
public service. No part of that service, as
far as we are enabled TO Judge, has
escaped his vigilant attention. Our foreign
relations have occupied no inconsiderable
portion of his time. He is, emphatically, a
working President, and he has been most
fortunate in having around him a talented,
harmonious, and working Cabinet. To his
energy, wisdom, and forecaste, is the country,
in great measure, indebted for the speedy,
harmonious, and glorious consummation of
the annexation of Texas 10 the United
States, according TO the terms prescribed by
the resolutions of Congress- A strong ma
val force was promptly placed in the Gulf of
Mexico, and the army in the South West con-
centrated ON the Sabine; thus giving assu-
rance to the Texian people that, so soon as
annexation was accepted by them, they
would be under the protection of our flag
The naval force displayed off Vera Cruz
gave distinct and significant indication to
Mexico, that at the same time our desire was
peace, and the strict observance of our trea-
ty obligations with that power, we were
prepared to resist the aggressive measures
which Mexico threatened in the event Of
Texas accepting the terms of annexation
proposed by our Congress.
II is difficult to estimate the influence
which these energetic measures of the Ad-
mnistration produced in deterring Mexico
from making any hostile movement, as well
as in giving confidence to Texas that she
would be protected and defended in giving
her assent to the Union. These measures
have, undoubtedly, essentially aided our
charge d'affaires, Mr.. Donelson, in thwart-
ing and defeating the intrigues and officious
intermeddling Of the British minister, who
labored, with a zeal worthy of a better
cause, to defeat annexation. Every move
ment of the British and French ministers,
especially the former; the sudden and unex-
planned departure of the Texian Secretary
of State (Mr. Ashbel Smith) on his mysteri-
GUS mission to England, was watched by the
government at Washington. The insruc>
- ..:..a.. - M nonalson and tho ck III
and ability of that minister, have completely
frustrated and destroyed all the intrigues OF
the enemies of annexation, whether foreign
or domestic.
1t was most fortunate that President Polk
and our minister, Mr.. Donelson, were known
in Texas to have held, during their whole
lives, the most intimate relations with the
sage and patriot of the Hermitage, who had
manifested SO much solicitude for the re-
union of Texas with the parent county,
The people of Texas were inspired with the
most undoubting confidence that the stars
and stripes of the Union, which they saw
on their borders by land and sea, gave full
assurance that the " Young Hickory was
prepared and ready to repel the foreign ag-
gression upon them, with which they were
threatened, in the event of their acceptance
of the terms of annexation proposed by the
United States. They had full confidence
that Mr.. Folks administration would not
only defend them against their foreign enc
mics, but would be ready to do full justice
to the young State as soon as she attached
herself to our Union.
This is the only question, foreign or do
mestic, which has been brought to its con-
clusion during the four months of the Ad-
ministration which have elapsed.
We may, however, confidently assure the
public, that the same vigilance has been OBJ
served in all our foreign relations with other
countries. Mr.. Polk acts upon the maxim
of Gen. jackson, which he adopted and en-
bodied into sentiment forwarded TO COM
mittee at Philadelphia, by whom he has been
invited to attend the late national anniver-
sary of findependence-"T To ask nothing that
isnot right, and submit TO nothing that is
wrong"
Until the meeting of Congress in Decem-
ber, no appropriate opportunity will be aft
orded to Mr.. Polk to declare his whole po-
Icy, foreign and domestic. The public,
however, are not left to vague conjecture as
, to what it will be. His political principles
and opinions are not of yesterday, and are
we'll known to the country. The path of
principle and public policy is plainly marked
before him; and the history of his past pub
Ec life is guarantee that he will undeviat-
ingIy pursue il, without turning to the right
or to tile left. His principles and his policy
are known to be shadowed forth and plainly
laid down in the political creed embodied in
the admirable resolutions passed by the De-
mocratic Convention at Baltimore, in May,
1874. by whom he was nominated as can