The North-Carolina standard., 1845-10-15

ginale. After announcing tnat Mexlco reluseu "
negotiate with Texas (as England urged) until II
was too late to make good terms-thl the anti
annexation party in Texas had been so wholly
annhilaed as not to command a sing lie vote IN the
Texan conventian-so that the proposals present
ed to Mexico under the mediation" OF England
were crushed by unanimous vote OF reJecuon-
after adding. that Mexico can make no war, be-
cause the +" loan OF an effective sum OF l5,OOOOUv
of dollars must create more than As, 900 OOO dol
lars of Stock even at the present price OF the actVe
Mexican debt"-the Times" proceeds to say
sThe projectors of the annexation Of Texas,
:. like the crot0ned robbers aoho Effected the PGrts-
tion of Poland, qcere nell a,cGrc that The success
0fkbeir schemes insured By The decTepatde OF
! Tie poacer they ATTACKED; and Mexico would not
have been thus audaciously assaied and lnsulted
if the cabinet of Washington had not relied on
the supreme impotence of its victim. The poll
ticians who have inoculated their county with
territorial ambition, and the va1nglorous passion
for military enterprise, are not displeased to md
that such powerful causes are operating in favor
/ of their designs; and, however brilliant the
| prizes ofa war between Mexico and the United
States might be, even Mr.. Polk would probably
be glad to avoid precptating his country into so
vast career of of uncertain events.
"These considerations tend to render actual
| war between the two republics extremely lmprob-
I able and if Mexico was unable to put down
Texas annexed to one of the most powerful states
! in the world But if the termination OF this al
fair be pacific it establishes, in the most potent
and indubitabe manner, the superiority OF the
| Anglo American race, and of the United States
government, over their neighors. These advan-
Itaces the Americans will as infallibiy assert III
is nom prored, that no consideration Of prudence
justice, or good faith ca" restrain them from
seizing or acquiring the possessions of contiguous
states Thus much may been foreseen-that
these excuses and encroachmcnts will only be
limited by opportunity and public caprice until 1t
become the interest of some great European
power TO oppose them But what is not foreseen,
either BY the Americans or by ourselves is, the
effect of these acts of violence or fraud, leading
to immense extension ofterritory, upon their own
political and social condition. Thus much on
y we do venture confidently 10 predlct-that
these changes involve the creation OF, such con-
Aicting Interests the existence of such opposite
characters and designs, the prevalence OF such
formidable passions and the growth OF such an
enormous and incongruous people, that the feeble
federal government of America will eventually for
felt its preearous authority and the contests which
the neighboring states TO the south OF the Union
are too weak to wage will at last break out in
its own bosom We in our time, have seen the gi
gantic growth of the American democracy, as
rapid and enormous in its internal corruption
and its external crimes as in the progress OF Its
population and its productive powers; but unless
the eternal laws of public morality and of hlstory
be suspended, these same phenomena announce
the certain approach of period of anarchy and
retribution L is not more possible that such |
system should be carried on without leading to |
disastrous consequences, than that society should
continue to subsist without government or law !;
and the reaction of the same principles which
have now been allowed to assail Mexico and ap-
propriate Texas, will one day be felt in the heart
of fthe Union"
Any front less brazcn than that of the Times"
would mantle with bIushes-any tongue less ven
omous, would stammer at this allusion to the Par
tnion of Poland, in connexion with the annexa-
ton of Texas. In that great crime it did indeed
so happen that England took no direct part, be-
cause out of it she could get no gain. But, not
far back in British history lies another event of
too much the same complexion, in which Eng
land bore a leading hand. Has the "Times"
forgotten the Congress of Vienna, and the British
policy Of 1859 How was it then, under the
lictation of Caslereagh, with the fair lands on the
left bank of the Rhine? The world remembers,
f the "Times" chooses TO forget the day when
he smiling fields and the busy Free Cities ofthat
1opulous region became as another Poland in the
grasp of the spoiler, and were parceled out, and
and transferred under British I" "medi-
ltlon without look at national lineage, or
lftinlty, or sympathy, or one thought of justice,
" law, or mercy, or the love of man, or the
ear Of God-till the very name of mediatised
prince" became provcrb of pity to the compass
ionate, and byword of soothing to the hard of
leart And is it now for England-the Eng
and of this recent atrocity-to liken the sponta-
leous aggregation Of two kindred nations into J
me, under the action Of common impulses and
principles of freedom, to the end that such
oluntary confederation might secure to both the
peasure of peace and prosperity-is it for Eng
and to liken such a union of-two such nations,
10Th recognised by herself as free and sovereign,
o the robbery of PoIand2
But the &c Times" consoles ITSELF The expan-
ion of our federative system is in the view, and,
ccording to the hope of that journal, to work its
wn ruin Let England lay no such flatering q
motion to her SOUL The confederative system t
N this continent-extending federal relations, c
instead of diplomatic relations, over this whole s
ranch of the Anglo-Saxon races the system of
peace taking the place of the system
# contingent scGr. ltisthe system of free trade
md common benefits to take the place of guarded f
boundaries where the custom house officer meets c
vou on the borders, to lay his restrictions upon
'ou, and to levy his heavy tai if acquisitions upon I
rour commerce louisiana is partly French a
nd Canada is partly French. Is it.on the eoter- /
ninous banks of the Sabine, or the cotcrminous G
,anks of the St. Lawrence, that the peace of the n
peaceful is most in peril2 Sagacious men haye4 I
ong been pondering these things. England has d
ret to learn the value of the representative system
that rule-of three system as she is wont sneer 9