The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-06-13
From the London Times of May Q.
OREGON, TEXAS, AND ENGLAND.

The discussions now going on in the Re-
public of Texas between the American par
ty, which seeks to be absorbed in the Fe-
dera, Union of the American States, and
the national Texan party, which upholds the
independent interest Of the new State, are
matters Of the deepest interest, not only to
the annexation question of the present day,
but to the future destinies Of the continent
OF North America. If Texas at once
filings away hernational existence, and makes
herself subservient to the policy Of the
United States, it is highly improbable that
any other new State will attain to indepen-
dence in the Southern regions Of North
America, and the progress Of the dominions
Of the Cabinet Of Washington will be as
rapid as the decay Of its defenceless and
ungoverned Southern neighbors.
More than twenty years have elapsed
since Mexico threw off her allegiance to
Spain, and during the whole Of that period
the decline of the nation has been incon-
ceivably great and rapid. The result is now
pitiable. The country is stated by recent
observer to be as defenceless as it was in the
days of Montezuma. Another Certez might
march with a few hundred men upon the
Capital; and as for the northern and western
provinces, more especially the magnificent
territory of California, since the sequestra-
ton Of the missions and presidos, they are
without even the semblance of a govern
ment.
The whole white population Of California
is hardly more than 5000, scattered over
200o square leagues of territoryj the Mex
ican administration does not even commun-
icate with the province; and 10 conquer the
whole of II twould not be more difficult than
to take possession of desert island. In
those thinly peopled regions the inhabitants
are manifestly unable to defend their terri
torial rights; and when they have lost the
protection of great power, whose policy is
interests of its subjects, they fall an easy
prey to sort Of retail invasion, until the
sovereignty Of the country is flched away,
before an effort has been made to challenge
the assailant.
The eager, gain-seekihg, and rowing pop
ulation of the Western States of the Union
are fitted, beyond all the rest of mankind,
to carry on this kind of surreptitious warfare.
They conquer provinces as the cuckoo steals
nest; and if their regular enterprises be
allowed to carry with them all the political
consequences Of lawful war, it is evident
that at no very distant period they will have
made themselves masters of all such parts
of the North American continent as are not
defended by the forces and the resolution of
Great Britain. But the conduct of Texas,
in the present emergency, will determine
whether these political consequences are to
be realized or not.
1t depends on the acceptance or rejection
Of the proposed measure Of annexation by
the people and government of Texas,
whether every fresh step of the Anglo-Ame-
rican race is to add citizens and land to the
Union; or whether the new States which
may be formed in tho course Of time on
either shore of that vast continent may not
uphold an Independent flag, Independent in
terests and an independent policy.
When we take into consideration the po-
sition of Texas, the decline Of Mexico, and
the future condition of the unappropriated
lands and regions lying between the coast
Of Upper California on the Pacific Ocean
and Rio del Norte, it is impossible to doubt
that such country ought to possess an orig
inal character and an independent existence.
Its annexation to be United States, if that
measure be consummated at the present
time, would only lead the more surely to
the eventual disruption of that wide and i'm
perfectly united confederacy, and to strug-
gle which would prove injurious to the best
interest of the whole continent
But Texas independent is peculiarly quail
flied to intsrpose, as it were, the keystone
Of an arch between the United States and
Mexico, on the one hand, and between the
maritime interests of European and Ameri-
car nations on the other. These views are
SO clear and evident that they will probably
have decisive influence on the Executive
Government of Texas, provided the Mexi-
cans can be brought to recognize in libe-
raj spirit an arrangement which is tine sole
guarantee Of their national existence.
Nor can we believe that this policy will
be defeated by the popular emissaries of the
United States in Texas, who are avowedly
engaged in promoting the work Of annexa-
tion solely with reference to the interests of
their own party in the United States, and to
the cause Of slavery with which that party is
identified.
The part taken by England and France in
4 question-for we are happy to find that
most entire concurrence prevails between
wo great powers by which Texas was
ecognizsd in Europe--has been dicta-
yno such selfish or exclusive objects.