The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-20
THE FOLLY OF THE WING PARTY.

THE FOLLY OF THE WING PARTY.
''The gods first madden whom they would de-
stroy." II is the doom of the wings. How else
can be explained that tataiiiy ofJoiiy which urges
the s'Intelgencer" and some other wing presses
(for the honor of the journalists of our country we
are glad that we cannot say all of them) into the
blind and desperate course they pursuing in OPP
position to the administration, in its measures for
the protection of Texas The Texan question is
settled as much question can be settled Be-
fore the annexation resolution passed by the vote
of Congress, they were 6ercely opposed, at every
step, by the whole wing force. Every difficulty
growing out of the unjust claim of Mexico to part
of the Texan territory, was again and again in
sisted on II was urged continually by the wing
press and the wing orators, that, if the annexation
took place, our government would be obliged to de-
Jend TerG up to the Del Norte; and this IL ras said,
1coSd bring on Wiih .Merico. Yet Congress
took the responsibility; and, confident of the JUS
tice Of the claim of Texas, passed the measure
of annexation. The country went into canvass on
the same ISSUE and gave in the presidential election,
the same verdict Then the wings turn right about,
and abuse the administration for doing that very
duty Of defence, which, the showing of the wings
themselves, was imperative and inevitable in the
event of annexation In order to defeat the passage
of certain law, the wings announce that, If passed,
1t will impose certain duty on the Executive.
Congress does not deny that such will be the effect
of the law, and yet passes the law The admins
traton goes faithfully to work to do its duty as con-
tenpatsd and imposed BY The n,o and then straight
way the wing journals fill the whole air with their
''most sweet voices" as they clamor out that
this very Executive action is un,cnTanted by la,c
Why, the annexation law was passed in order tina,
il might give warrant to the Executive to do this
very thing-to protect Texas, that is, in the peace
full possession Of her territory, till final boundary
could be run by the sovereign authority Of gen
eral government. The language of the whole pol
icy Of annexation, both in Congress and out of
Congress, both in debates and in state papers, was
this: ut behooves the interests of public law, Of
humanity, Of the great comm nwealth of nations,
that there should be an end of this marauding be-
tween Mexico and Texas. There is between
them no war which the law of nations can re-
cognise as such. There is no war which pus-
ports to have the conquest of Texian territory, or
the subjugation of Texian independence, for its
object. Texas is in possession of her soil to the
Del Norte, and of her national independence-and
has kept possession of bothuntil NOW the great
ternationd statute of limitations, the common law
of civilization--whch provides that there shall be
end TO the vexatious and predatory hostility Of
country against its revoed province after its indie
pendence is achieved has taken effect. Therefore,
Texas shall come into the Union. We guaranty
her against further war from Mexico Mexico shall
invade her no more. Henceforth negotiation-ne-
EQUATION between the United States and Mexico
shall settle whatever remains to be settled. In this
negotiation, we will treat Mexico as a great free
state should treat weaker neighbor But it. in her
old quarrel with Texas-now for nine years un-
prosecuted-she choose to draw again the sword
ofsubjugaon, of invasion, or of war in any form
then she must meet us too in the field, and the
blood and the wO be on her own head.n n
On this ground the measure of annexation, by
the showing both of its enemies and of its friends,
went through Congress. We believe that in taking
this ground, Congress acted wisely and wel--in ac-
cordance with humanity, with justice, with the we'll
settled principles of PUBLIC LAW. But this is not
now the point The point is, that this ground ,pas
taken--taken by solemn legislative action. On this
ground taken, the present administration was
placed in power; and we congratulate the country,
and the friends Of liberty and of peace throughout
the world, that the administration, so placed, has
known 30 well how to do its whole duty in the
premises do it without faterng and without vo-
Ience--wth frmness, with calmness, with energy,
and with success
The attempt made by the "National Intelligencer
of this morning, to reply 10 argument of Thurs
day evening, is like the struggle of the weak man to
escape from the morass in which he is foundering
What will the reader think Of its attempting to
show that the Texas which we now clam--,he
Texas whose boundaries the same with those
which all our administrations have claimed it to have
under the treaty Of Louisiana-Texas to the Rio
del Norte--was not the Texas as recognised by
the powers of Europe, although abe had solemnly
proclaimed itin the organic law of 1882 Or wha
shall be said Of the sophsm, that, although she SC
proclaimed it to be her western boundary by III,
organic law of 1896, yet il is not her boundary, be-
cause in her of 1884, laying off her congressional
districts, there is no place specified in the law al
lying on the Rio del Norte. There was very it'll
population to the west ofthe Nueces in 1884 Nom
of the districts, though they might have ex
tended to her western river, have been called al
ter the name Of town or village in that ives
tern section. Does it therefore follow, that Tex
as proper does not extend to the rver' Moth
ing was more common in all the old States 10
the United States) for the last county that lie
to tho west, to have particular namc and that nam
covered the whole territory to the western line
As that vacant territory filed up with people an,
villages, new counties were laid out and named. I
might well be argued, that because the erritor,
>was thus vacant, therefore the boundary did not lii
west oft. Such are the feeble sophisms to which
the "National Inteligencer" has to resort.
Several distinguished visiters are now in Wash
ington. Among them, we understand is Mr.. Han
negan, United States Senator from Indiana, an,
Mr.. Robert Smith, member of the House Of Rep