The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-08
Communicated.
FEDERAL MISREPRESENTATION.

Wednesday mornings 'sNationa Integencer'
contains an article from the "New Orleans Tropic,"
relative to "the annexation of California" in which
many oft-refuted msstatements upon the subject of
Texas are again repeated, with little higher color
ing than usual 1t says:
SIT is useless now to inquire how the annexation
of Texas has been brought about; the modts operan-
di is familiar to all. few adventurous spirits,
weary Of the restraints of civilized society, and
thirsting for the daring excitement of wild border
life, emigrated a few years since to Texas, then a
province of Mexico. Their reports of delightful
climate and fertile soil (greatly exaggerated, no
doubD soon induced others to follow than. Find
ing themselves among strange people, of whose
language they were ignorant, with habits, customs,
and laws different from their own, it is not remark
able that they became dissatisfied with the gov
eminent whose protection they had sought( and the
laws under which they had voluntarily placed them
selves. Their numbers had grown with their dis
satisfaction, until finally, from the governed they
determined to become the governors The stand
ard of rebelon--or revolution--if you please, was
raised, and the province of Texas, wrested from the
parent government, became an independent State"
Upon this text follows homily, ending in quasi
spirit of prophecy, that the United States, at some
day, are to lunch on California, dine on South
America, and finish off by getting fuddled on the
Indian ocean-tucked under our belt at swal-
low. Sufficient to the day be the evil good
thereof! Such speculatons can have no weight
not he noticed. But the above quotation contains
the gist of all upon which the opponents of annexa-
ton rely to manufacture sympathy for what they
are pleased to denominate ''the outraged rights Of
Mexico"
| There are two sides to every story; and the
"Tropic," in this instance, has unfortunately hit
| upon the wrong one The Americans emigrated to
Texas and Tamaulipas at the invitation of the Mex
lean government, (who were unable TO afford eff
cient protection to the inhabitants of the Rio Grande
country,) and became barrier between the native
Mexcans and the wandering tribes of savages bor-
dering on their northeastern frontier. So long as
the contract between Mexico and her adopted citi-
zens was respected, the latter true TO their al
| legance in all respects. But when Santa Anna vio
lently subverted the government destroying the COM
pact between the confcderated Mexican States as
well as the solemny guaranteed rights of both ma
1 tive and adopted citizens of Mexico, the people of
the State of Texas refused to give their consent to
the new form OF government. They declared that
the abrogation of the constitution of 1924 at the
point of the bayone RENTED Texas back to all her
rights State, and that she was justified in re-
/ fusing to become party to any new compact be-
tween the States Of Mexico; or rather in resisting
the will of the dictator, whose usurped authority
they disowned wherever that authority was brought
to bear against their natural rights men, against
the national rights of the independent conederatng
State of Texas. The legal soundmess of that posi-
ton need not be reargued; for it proven, time
4 and again, during the last winter Those who dis
pute il must also deny that the individual States Of
this Union have reserved rights; for the fundament-
al principles upon which the Mexican constitution
of 1924 was based, are identical with those of the
constitution of the United States. In the contest
between Texas and Santa Anna, the former estab-
i lished her independence, and has been acknowl-
edged as one of the nations of the earth by the
leading powers Of Europe, well as by the gov
eminent of the United States A large majority of
the legislators of Texas and our country have
declared annexation to be perfectly constitutional
under the charters by which both countries are gov
erned; and, having determined that the measure is
for the best interests Of EACH it is about to be
summated. This is plain and true synopsis Of
the history of the annexation question. Though
this subject has been exhausted time and again. il is
perhaps best to meet reiterated misstaements upon
81 il by simple statement of the facts of the case.