The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-11
THE DAILY UNION

Il should indeed occur, but because do strongly
desire thai, whenever il should be the fate of this
country TO be involved in war, IL should be war
having an inelligibie object and laudabe purpose.
Inc notion OF going TO war TO Prciee, revolied prov
ince Of Mexico against ITSELF is notion which is
| proper TO men to whom is source OF gain.
Wa, like other games in such case would not be
worth It's candle, 10 say nothing Of its gunpowder.
Il has been said, and it is most likely with truth,
that Lord Aberdeen has declined interfering in this
ALTAR OF Texas IL Lord Palmerston had exhibited
an equal degree of forbearance, his character as
diplomatist would not have greatly suffered. But
this orbearance did not congrue with his busy med
ding, Impairment and interfering policy. Seeking
to create what his French friends love dearly "a
sensation" he has complicated beyond conception
questions in themselves sufficiently complicated.
Let Texas be evidence. When Mr.. Canning
recognised the independence Of the revoted provinces
Of Spain-seeking in the New World the balaiTce
for the power of the Old-cerainly view of his at
all was 1t TO suffer the empire that once had owned
the sway of Montezuma to forfeit one of its choicest
members. 1t was Mr.. Canning's intention, in advi-
sing his sovereign to acknowledge Independent
States these rebel colonies of Spain, that these colo
MES should acquire such an importance and dignity
as that they should be enabled to assume the place
due to their wealth, TO their population, and to
their geographical position Wisely done or un-
wisely done, Mr.. Canning's policy clearly
expounded and resolutely carried out; and with
out offering any opinion as to its wisdom, we
cannot help recognising in Mr.. Cannings course
evidence that he had well considered the position Of
affairs with which he had undertaken to deal. How
does all this affect, it may be asked, the pres
ent Texlan question: Just SO far is the reply, as
this--that, in desiring that the Spanish colonies
should take theiy places amongst the free States of
the world, II was no wish Of Mr. Canning that
new power should be given TO the United States no
wish OF his, that that most overgrown and not most
respectable Of deniocracies, should draw TO itself
territory that should enable il with increased means to
contest with our own country the rule of the
Still agalnas the point is somewhat too important
to permit that, in its consideration, we should alto
gether take as our guide the views of the
most distinguished satesmen--let us inquire, with
what purpose, in what way, Texas became deiach-
ed from Mexico! Abruptly TO speak, what is Tex
as' A band of adventurers from the United States
men of the rifle and the knife-wilng to risk their
lives IN the most precarious pursuits-poured down
upon this unhappy but ill-populated country, and
ultimately made it, TO all ntents and purposes their
own. Amongst them were such as those who dwelt
with the prince Of Israel-"every one that in
distress, and every one that was in debt and every
one that was discontened"-by these, and such as
these was Texas mainly peoped. These constitute
the Texas of our times; and seeing that these Tex
ians--for so now we must call them-are themselves,
by birth adoption citizens Of the United States,
wonder at all that they manifest such an ardor in
favor of annexation to that great republic. Really,
the acquisition Of Texas, II was concocted in
Wall street, must have made Wall street abundant
ly jealous. Something belongs to the scheme that
filings into the shade the sharpest of all our TO say
nothing of New York; money brokers, pure "Cau-
casians" though they be. To traffic in railway shares
is, no doubt, grand thing; but to swndle rcpub-
lie, how much grander! The summit of Judaical
ambition would be, take it, to cheat people out
Of a large territory-and something like this has
been done in Texas.