The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-06

,he lamentations oil the Mexlchh soso,n"e', -"
Ina has more interest in Mexico making war
r ne limited States than Mexico herself; but II
1Piares that not even with the assistance OF Eng
WI can Mexico maintain long campaign. The
S..si, and other journals entertain similar opinions
TSs Globe, the organ of nj. Guizot, IL the only
assspaper that does not 60 the same length; says
, ,hdngh il does not think Mexico strong enough
" a,svent annexation by force, still il can MAINTAIN
ppsr,ime war which will be "funes,e, "fatale,
10 thelUnted States.
IN rrvale society, the opinionis generally enter
- ,h,t Mexico can do nothing, or almost nothing.
--Wiiiuer & Smith
From the London Morning Chronicle, Aug Is
MEXICO has declared war against the United
c,s,es-at least she proclalme her determination
~, ~ desist from her sovereignty over Texas,
noi I'm endeayors to enforce it, for which her gov
a.nnent ordains the levy OF additional troops, by
'a Of reserve. Tie Times stigmatises this act as
'.s.kness This does not strike US as ITS charac-
ere Ii may be imprudent but 1t certainly is Dig
'' @,r contemporary told us yesterday, that Lord
pamerston was the orator oil oPposition, whose
agorts and attacks during last session were most
.'ceessful against an inert ministry. To-day, the
ssms journal denounces the same statesman as the
san, ,snresenatiye of that restless and ambitious
uni, which ac,uaes the people Of the United Sales
p well as of France and which prompts its states
me" to run with such popular current, and to
ia TSe simtude, as applied to England, is utterly
a.fsc,;ve and at variance with truth. There is no
.onnI,r current here, running towards conquest
Piody of annexation insisting on the maintenance
ef national dignity, or even upon the vigilance re-
,,,;s;,e IN guard national rights. There can be no
interest in Aattering such a spirit, and no danger
La,eyer in fostering it, national spirit, no doubt
sv;s,s n The breasts of Englishmen, as strong and
a. formidable as in the breasts Of any but it is dor
n, reserved for great occasions, unwilling to ex-
a"d or excite itself upon trihes. None be more
terrible, more efectual, more crushing IN war II
has the force Of the lions spring. but the qu'et mag
nanimity Of the lions repose what Is wanting, IS
something TO watch that rcpose, lest It's very
deph be taken advantage Of by the stealthy and the
cunning foe There are few voices in this country,
which crv not for war; but for the necessity OF the
vigilance requisite to prevent 1t; which recommend q
bold and menacing 'front.' to deter the calculating, yet
audacious; and which maxims Of policy are simply
the old ones of not giving up real advantages, with
the vain hope Of conciating foe.
Take, for example, the Ashburton treaty, which
we criticised and censured. We were overrued
with the assertion that even the Withholding an
advanced military post, from whence our commune
cations might be cut off, was wrong; for It angered
the Americans, who were TO be conciiated, and
whose friendship was to be won at all price. what
do the same people, who preached this, inform us
nowl
1.-THE fear Of the arms Of Britain is the only pro-
lection Of the British possessions in North Amer
lea from invasion. The possession OF such a har-
Dor as Halifax, the navigation of the St. Lawrence,
the command of the lakes, are objects of infinitely
greater importance than Texas and Oregon"
What becomes here Of all our conciliationi The
only wise and effective policy with regard to the
United States, is declared to be to operate upon
their fears. And yet the muoh-auded and much
Welding policy of Lord Ashburton and the tories
has been all along, by yielding, to excite their con-
tempt
The spirit which secuted these concessions, and
deprecated the sentiment which 1t would create IN
America, merely enticing its inhabitants to
further encroachment, may indeed have then had
but one representative. But it now counts at least
,wo for the Times has come round-nay, goes far
beyond us in denouncing the Americans, and pro-
claiming the inutiy Of appealing TO any other SEN
iment Than their fears.
For our part we entertain as few hopes, and as
little confidence in the clustering policy Of the to-
RES as in their maneuvres of Cancellation In the
latter, which have occupied them for the last few
years, they have in every case, been outtrcked ana
out-manGuvred. AS to buster, they merely tried
it on the Oregon question, and we dare say they
will be outblustered in that. In the affair Of Texas
the tories tried their hand-and pretty mess the y
have made Of it. One Of the great accusations
against their predecessors, was that OF NEEDING.
But never, surely, did diplomatists NEEDLE more out
Of season and reason, more ignorantly, more AFRO
ganty, more blunderingly, and more disgracefully,
than the English cabinet in this affair of Texas.
Mexico followed their counsels intrusted her cause
to English hands, Texas affected to do the same;
and the result is, that, totally Ignorant of the state
of opinion in Texas meet there the gross afront
of dsavo wal and of all we struggled to prevent be-
ing accomplished in our despite. We have enraged
the Americans by our interference, and jeoparded
even the Oregon question by it, whilst we have be-
trayed poor Mexico into a war, of which our
commerce and her territories will be alike the
victims The blockade of the Mexican ports an
initiates our trade The war gives the Americans
reach to revolt California will be occupied
and Santa Fe; and M. Guizot, who, in concert with
Lord Aberdeen, discovered the balance Of power in
the New World, may fifty preside at its interment
As to the annexation of Texas by the United
States, however unfair, cannot see 1t in SO helm
GUS light the partition Of Poland by Russia, the
seizure of Strasbourg by Louis XIV, or many acts
Of European potentates that we could adduce. Tex
as is not the thickly-peopled province OF an old
monarchy upon whose inhabitants the United
States seek to throw a foreign yoke. On the con.
trary, the Texans men Of the Anglo American
race--adyenturers who came there on Mexican nvi.
aton, and who have settled and cultivated, where
Mexico had neither the power nor the will to peo'
pie or to reclaim. In our wild colonies we lay fine
on the owner of waste lands, who, in certain mum.
Der OF years, brings neither ploughs nor hands TO
their cultivation; and this fine is preparatory to
electment The Americans have acted on this prin-
c'Ple, after kind of public lynch-law, which we
admit to be indefensible, but which is scarcely
worse than the annexation Of Enthusiastically moi
nall so bad or SO treachcrous as that of Algeria.
Our opinion with respect to Texas is, that we
should have prevented the annexation by negoha-
pon and address, if we could; but if there were no
nopes-and we ought to have been aware whether
mere were hopes or not--we should have abstained
rom employing efforts which were TO end merely
IN our modification, and one effect of which was
necessarily to undo all that we had Aaered ourselves
WIN gaming by the Ashburton capitulation.
a. all events, It is poor consolation for our own
weakness and blunders TO accuse the Americans or
'neir democracy of rapacity and ambition. The
periods In which England and France were
most rapacious certainly the despotic or arts
'ocrsuc epochs of history. We were never more
lacnc than since the time when the democratic ele
,nent was most largely introduced into consti.
uuon' Al all events, we must make up our minds
70 meet rapacity and ambition, both eastward and
westward OF the Atlantic and if we are not vigilan
ssTS.ge, able and with reputation for returning
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