Democratic banner., 1845-02-08
Volume L.
THE BANNER.
"wednesday, February, e, fsa'.
ANNEXATION.

we know not. \ lnoosaho N'"os
have reached us from the Capitol as TO
SHAT will be the action of Congress up
On this all absorbing subject.
From all that we can learn, we fear
that on account Of the multiplicity Of
hills presented in various forms, non
s.iil be adopted. Speech making has
s~ure:ceded action, and we fear that the
Golden Moment" will be lost. We
do not make this statement public with
out some ground 10 60 upon. France
and Englal.d have both been treating
With Texas for some length Of time,
from some cause (and we cannot sepa-
rate the idea Of English influence from
Ike discharge Ct Gen. Duff Green, i'll
our Own minds) Gen. Duff Green the
accredited American minister TO the he
public Of Texas, has teen dismissed by
tia; Government; and has perhaps by
this time returned. The causes which
gave rise 10 this rupture we can only
saYrnise. Us the whole TRANSACTION as yet,
seem. wrapped IN mystery.
But this one thing Is certain, that those
Representatives who have violated the
known will of their constituents, en-
pressed in 4 VIZ not 10 lie m~isun3cr-
stood, willie compelled 10 meet The an
cry fr9w:s Il those whom they have
lot:ared-to hear TIE thunder tones Of
popr!.r Indignation, Which viii come
sep an! loud, anil bitter from an out
ragged and insul;ed constituency.
Tia; mar who contends ,il.t tie Anne
1:yan people have not s%pulcn Upon tits
4g-.l4., "wot be Li:rd 50 shr crcnts
PASSING around HIN. In the last heated
as.I excited calnnaign, i. absorbed and
Swallowed NJ every other suhject-from
the headlands Of Maine TO the extreme
paint of Loui-iana-ir from the sandy
teach Of The Atlantic 10 tie fAr west,
'!e AH,cican geayie through the ballot
Evz, haze ~deinaHi2l. tie return Of the
"iy>t Plead 20 the An e-icau cpns,ei!a-
t!a:,, aa4 wsc ho'iae ih-t Representative
who wo"ll b. word or deed palsy the
viii IF Ii. constituents. Viewing this
eue,iion OF annexation in every light,
II becomes one 0! immense magnitude
ii may DC necessary for our defence as 4
!.=.iun. We know that Great Britain
has ever regarded orr rising glory with
an eye Of jealousy and distrust. She
waits only for tie favourable moment TO
strike, and what may be our condition
then with English possessions Oh the
North, Texas a British colony or the
South, and a fuotLold Cor England in
Oregon, then We shall lie completely en-
compassed by foe ever willing to rcck
her bloody vengeance upo. US, for our
fo--Ier triumphs ovcr hcr-with Eng
land surrounding US almost entirely, mis-
tFcss Of the ocean, and nearly four hun
@Ted thousand Indians settled upon our
western border, whom England in her
tiger hatrcdfor US, has never failed TO
employ, that she might the letter carry
Ga 4 war Of unmittigated atrccity. Yet
soiae Of our citizens and Honestly too
We doubt not have spoken Of trust
ing to English faith.
For ourselves, we think that cur
hands are already filed with her faith;
q territory disnantled of a part Of lis
far prOpor,ions-our steamers set on
fire AID sent over TIE falls of Niagara
our country swerming with English in
eeneiaries, with a bible in one hand and
a dagger il the other, prepared with the
aid Of the passive and obedient slave of
the South, 10 commence a scene of mid
"ight assassination, conAagration and
murder, TO which the h~eartrendinp
scenes Of st. Domingo would be a triae,
ut least bear testimony to her good faith.
trust England indeed! better trust our
heads in the lions month yUh.
h been known to respect a treaty,
1t was her policy to violate if?
Tier whole history from the Heptarchy
down to the present moment, has been
but a history of wrong, outrage. and
l'ea'!ery towards those who confded in
her. India lying beneath the burp;no
'un Of The tropic, has been deso!ated bv