Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-07-24
ANNEX ATIoN-WHAT ARE THE TERMS:

AMEN AliON-WHAT ARE THE TERMS:
The President of Texas in his Message to Con-
gress, recently assembled in extra session. saws:
"The Executive has much satisfaction in obser.
vlng-what, no doubt, will forcbly arrest the at.
tention of the Congress that although the terms
embraced In the resolutions Of the United States
Congress may at first have appeared less favorable
than was desirable for Texas the very liberal and
Uagnanmous views entertained by the President
OF the United States towards Texas, and the PROM
lses made through the representative of that coun-
try in regard 10 the future advantages TO be extern
ded to her if she consent to the proposed union.
render those terms much more acceptable than thew
would otherwise have BEEN"
The Washington Union says it has received n
copy of the National Texas Register, Extra con-
tanning the whole correspondence between the u.
n!ted States and Texas authorities in which the
promises were made, through the representative of
the United States, in regard to future concessions
to Texas. The Union has promised to publish the
documents. We demand them ,rithom abridge-
ment. Why does the Boston Atlas keep them ur,
published, it it has copy sent it, as its correspon-
dent at Galveston states? We want to have full
view OF this Annexation intrigue from first to last,
that we may exhibit its shrinking lincaments.
Look at it By attaching Walkers Bentonian
amendment TO the original House resolution TINT
very resolution which Benton, Tappan and Niles
SAID they would not support, and against which
Bagby made violent SPEECH passed the Senate
by majority OF two; one man it is said HAVING
changed his mind during the calling of the Yeas
and Nays, but for which it would have been n tie
and Annexation lost. In the course of few hours
the President, at whose discretion choice between
the two evils was left, with natural Loco Foco IN
stlnc chose the worse, and thus the House resolu
ton, TO which decided majority of the Senate
was opposed, became the law of the land. bv sub
jecting the legislative action to the One Man
power.
Yet this was not sufficient humiliation for the
Representatives Of the States and of the people
before Presidential power. There must be farther
usurpation. The House Resolution, which could
not pass the Senate, becoming law contrary to the
will of one branch of the Legislature, has new
conditions attached TO it by the mas nanimous
views" of our President, which if submitted to the
Representatives of the People, would have abso-
lutely prevented its passage through the House,
And this is the abominabe combination of fraud.
chance, usurpation, and robbery that we are now
called upon TO support and extol. Do the success.
ful manipuatons and cunning of the pickpocket,
Or the daring villany of the highway robber become
sancuhed by success? or is 1t incumbent on hon
est men to coincide in the iniquity quietly, when
the deed is done? No Crime and iniouitv are
the same, whether successful or not and he who
aids, or abets or ceases to condemn and resist be-
comes participation in the wrong and infamy.-|
Neither the money gained in the rise of Texas
Scrip nor the wealth acquired from old grants of
what are now Texas lands, can make wrong right,
or sanc:iy the most dsgraceful drama of fraud and
crime on record.-.N y. Tribune.