The North-Carolina standard., 1845-04-02
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ofsovsro, nrominsnr members of tFe Senate had
suffered in reference TO the annexation measure
ksimple narrative of the circumstances, rs we
understand them, will pu. The public impressions
right upon This subject - z s ,. s. -.
I'VE have shown the state Of facts in relation to
the defeat Of tie Tyler treaty and origin, at the
same SESSION of Mr. Bptltons Legislative measure
There were features in the latter in its first form
that precIuded tS adoption MIR. Hayypoods bin
was introduced to avoid the objections which
grew out OF the difference among the democratic
members as to The mode OF acquisition. Some
held that the realy-making power must cooper
ale in its accomplishments others tthe majority
Insisting that the interpositen Of this power was
unnecessary, and, if invoked, would render the
effort abortiv;e Mr. Haywood's proposition, was
intended asa preliminary position, on which both
parties in favor of The main object could stand
al the cshod In stating the scope OF his pro
.iect, Mr.. Haywood said ..., -.
- q THAT il was The aim of this bilfto settle by
legislative enactment, first and separately, the one
single but important point whether majority
were willing 10 crtcnd tie lao Of Me United
.Slates over Texas whenever it could be acquired,
though Of necessity that decision involved de-
termination of the conditions If there acere Gny.
which were deemed Indispensable to our aecep'
tance of the territory, and therefore such condt
tions were specified" 81 s..
- This bill did not prescribe how Texas was TO
get into the Union alrr settling the preliminares
but left the act of admission, 10 the competent
authorities, aer providing such Indispensable con-
ditions as would prevent all CONT st i'll Congress,
when the acquisition was secured by treaty or by
legislative compact 1t differed from both the
schemes combined into one, as the law passed, in
this: that il settled beforehand all that may be-
come insuperable difficulties by being inserted or
omitted in the treaty or compact of Union.
: In adjusting these prcliminarirs, Mr. Haywood,
as a Southern man, took great responsibility IN
throwing the two degrees, now covered by, our
removed Indians, (whose lands arc guaranteed to
them forever.) on the North side of what is called
the black line This drew down the Missouri
compromise line 10 thirtv-lour instead Of leaving
ut thirty-six and half degrees Of nofth atitudc
yet it was, in fact, little concession on the
palt of the South 1t only, in effect, secured 10
the Indians their homes, and immunity from The
introduction of slavery in the region which, un
der compact with the United States, they are to
occupy forever. Arr- Haywood hazardcd the
proposal of this arrangement because he ascer-
tanned that it would certainly pass the bill, if a.
dopted by The southern interest, and that it would
be lost without it., He has been denounced by
portion of his brethren of the South as an enemy
Of annexation, on this sing lie feature o his scheme
Reconciliation. 1t will, in time. be discovered
that it shows him to have been its trurs friend.
But we pass on in eur narrative. This eproPo- !
sition supplanted by that OF Messrs. Foster and
Milton Brown, Of Tennessee. This act, on reach
ing the Senate, could not be carried, because it en-
coantered the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES which Mr.. !
Bagby, of Alabama, could not surrender without
Surrender of his conscience. Jealous in the cx- +
treme for the recovery of Texas, Mr.. Bagby
wonId not abandon his convictions touching the
Constitution TO effict it. His vote was indispensa-
bic to the success Of the measure This consid-
Grafton, and the decisive preference felt by some
ten senator's for Mr.. Brnton's BILL rendered COL
lision between the latter and the House resolu-
tions inevitable. Mr.. Brnton's bill would certain
" have been substituted, by vote Of considera-
bic majority, for the joint resolutions of the House
but for the arrangement made between the friends
Of each to blend them. The probability is that
MIR. Bcnton's measure, thus substituted, would
then have been defeated, by portion of the south
ern friends OF annexation voling against it. In
this attitude Of heSanta gonist plans MIR. Walker
Of Mississippi, proposed to Mr. Allen, of Ohio, TO
unite them-rnaking Mr.. BentoH's the alternative,
and to be acted on in case Texas rejected the
terms of the joint resolution as inadmissible.
Mr.. Allen, who preferred Mr.. Benton's BILL ne
verthcieSs obtained from its author permission to
propose this modification but Messrs. Haywood,
Bagby, Dix, and several other senator's, consid
cred it inadmissi5le to transfer to the executive
of Texas discretion over n measure which
they could not support without knowledge and I
control over its execution and therefore insisted
that the right of deciding which OF The saherna.
tire propositions should be acted on belonged
TO our own executive on whom the consumma-
ton depended. Mr.. Haywood drew up the COM
promise plan, and submitted it 10 Mr. Walker
who obtained the consent of all the friends of
annexation who had opposed Mr.. Benton's bill :;
and, through his instrumentality, as the mover !
Of the compromise plan. the first idea of which
he Suggested, it became law l.
Mr. Walker is entitled to our thanks for the
kindness which, from the threshold of the impor. |
tant movement for the restoration Of Texas induc-
ed him from time TO time to confer with the edi.
tor OF this print in regard to the mode of advanc
ing 1t He read to us in manuscript his celebra.
ted pamphlet, and consulted US in regard TO some
ofthe views taken in it. Although favorable to
the rejected treaty. ascertaining that it could not
pass, he suggested the propricty of making annex
alton a legislative art He supported the treaty,
however, IN all its stages but, when it failed c
declared to us the hope Of modifying Mr.. Ben !
tons first bill SO 10 render its passage prac.
tcable. When MIR. Benton's final proposition
wns presented, in the first hour after its submis-
sion. (aItbough Mr.. Walker was committed to
the House resolutions,) he declared he would
support it. no matter who opposed, in case the
plan of The House failed; and finally he sug-
gested the blending Of the conflicting proposi. ,
tions, and contributed essentially to carry them
through: to which it is now very evident we
must owe the recovery of the beautiful realm
which lies between the Sabine and Del Norte-
h. Dbl a.