The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-08


ponderance, and making new acquisitions of ter
riory. viii the author of the following letter take
up this new theme, and lay bare the purposes and
consequences Of this new French doctrnei
To the Editor Of the Union;
New YoRK, July S, ls45.
MY DEAR SIR; Though wearied with the business
OF the day. cannot allow myself to retire, without
eongratuating you upon the news from Texas.
The meddlers of Europe, mistaken partisans among
ourselves, and the practical enemies of the human
race, are disappointed. Our constitution, beneath
whose canopy independent States live in peace with
each other, in the enjoyment Of free trade, unre-
strcted intercourse, and much of liberty ever
fell to the lot of man. has been extended, with all
ITS benign influences, over another broad portion OF
the earth's surface. A province has been wrested
from the uries Of war; and placed under the protec-
ton of the angel of peace. Instead of being desc
lated by revolutions, which, as wave follows wave,
sweep over the unhappy States Of Mexico, extin-
gushing the fires Of celestial mind and buryng the
works of honest hands, the fields of Texas are to be
covered with golden haryests, her workshops pro-
lifc in the products of genius and skill her coasts
and rivers lined with towns and cities, and her
praiies and her mountains dotted over with the
abodes OF industry and comfort.
Many gratifying reflections crowd upon the
mind. One of the most important-nay, one that
transcends all othersis the decisive evidence this
event furnishes that our Union is to be perpetual.
1t has been imagined, that large portion of our
southern people are alienated from the Union, and
would avail themselves Of any safe occasion to
break loose from it. Texas is peopled from the
South, and, with one exception, contains more men
of that supposed impression than any Of our States
They were out of the Union; they were subject to
none of its unequal taxation, and other abuses and
yet, so anxious are they to get back under its can
opy, and enjoy its blessings, that they willing
to encounter all the horrors of to accomplish it,
Men who, it was not long since supposed, would
fight to get out of the Union, could noc fight to get
into IL Though avarice and ambition, the mines Of
Mexico, and the power of the Montezumas, entce
them forward to conquest and to glory, they turn
back with longing hearts to the fold from which
they strayed, and beg that its muniments may be
extended around them, to restrain as well as pro-
tect With this evidence before hm--this unequiv-
ocal practical test-who can doubt the perpetuy of
our Union?
Ii is another gratifying reflection, that the first
effort of European intrigue and diplomacy, to inter-
fere in the relations of the United States with their
neighbors on this continent, to fetter their limbs
and restrain their growth has been most sgnally
rebuked. Annexation, both in the United States
and Texas, acquired much additional strength from
the open efforts Of Great Britain and France to pre-
vent it. Ii reused our american SPIRIT which i'll
brooks the least interference of foreign monarchs in
matters purely our own; and, from that moment,
nexation was doubly sure None but few mad
fanatics justified this meddling; the lukewarm be-
came decided, and the hostile were silenced. An
nexaton war no war, became the general feeling;
and had ten thousand British cannon been ready to
pour their iron hail upon our coast, the feeling
would have been stronger, the determination more
infexible. Europe may, if she will, reduce Asia,
Africa and the distant isles Of the ocean, to her do
minion; but she SHALL NOT ensave her own
free children in America; we WILL have our own
way on this continent, without dictation control
from her-especially when we seek glorious ends by
just and peaceful means.
The unanmity of Texas, and the declaration of
France, settle the question Of further British inter-
ference. The only remaining doubt is as to the
course Of Mexico Her present rulers must fall,
war or no war; Their adrersaries ,piL put them doom
If they do moi declare 'on, and the ,oiH put them
do,rn If they do. The interest of Mexico demands
peace her preudices, stimulated by foreign intrigue,
cry out for war. 1t is the duty of those false friends
who have heretofore directed her councils to inter-
pose their kind Offices, and by pacific advice, save
her from the consequences of following their lead
A few days, and ali clouds will pass away, or we
shall witness ''the beginning Of the end.