The North-Carolina standard., 1845-10-15
From the Washington Union.

In our leading article Of yesterday, we made
short quotation from recent number OF the Lon
don Times" This powerful journal has won TO
stself a singular and strongly marked renown
Standing confessedly at the head of the journal
ism of Europe, it makes its voice heard and tel
all over the world. A bold, inscriptions, ant
formidable adventurer on the scene OF polltlcs--
with little consistency and less conscience, but al
wavs armed at all points in the gliltering panoply
of diaIectics-it fights, with its whole prodigiou'
mower, first the battle of one party, and then
another, without wearincss, or fear, or mercy
unshackled by any sense of justice, incapable
shame and, we are bound TO add, unmlndful
truth On one point, however, the Time" has
ALWAYS been sterny consistent In its rancoI
against America, it has always been itself 10
wards the rising growth and the expanding destI
nv of this country, it has always shown, IN It's
fixed looked, the malignant grin of derision, OF
the gloomy scowl of hate
Of late the "Times" (and the remark is true
of most of the journalism Of England) RACES a
painst US more fercely than ever. The den0ue
HrcnE of the Texan drama is quite too much for its
philosophy This is not to be wondered at. In
no other recent business has John Bull attempted
" to interfere so wholly without any plausible war
rant In no other has his greedy and rapaclous
spirit fed itself on such false and swelling hopes
and in no other case, as in this of Texas have
SO
q sad and remediless blunder.
Texas with all her noble cotton-lands, has fair
ly escaped the grasp Of English cupidity. Re
cognized independence, settled peace, powerful
protection large pecuniary aid-all were offered
to the young and struggling republic and all
were offered in vain. She was not to be tempted
or inveigled into the meshes of the great British
net She was MOTTO be bought over into British
sympathies or British alliance or British interests.
c,It ~ bor bo,S md bnr here
with us-and now she is Ours. 1t is sad mlshap
to England. Given to England the commercial
monopoly Of Texas, and in a few years the Fight
ing Nabob-the Sir Giles Overreach of the ma
tions-might have stood forth Independent, un-
checked, and lordly among his neighbors. Now.
the contrary, he is 'cabined, cribbcd, confined"
The very thought of rupture with us, makes
him shudder in every nerve Not that he breads
the carnage of the battlefield, or the suiphury
smoke of the battledeck He quails before the
Embargo that war would bring.
Stop to-day the cotton of America at the Allan
tic seaboard on iIs way Eng land, and tomorrow
n mighty multitude of Iaboring men in England
brought at one fell swoop to the deadly verge Of
imminent and sure starvation, cry out and gnash
their teeth for daily bread Before this dread Vi
sion, the iron courage Of the Rulers of England
never more sedate and stubborn than in the crisis
of hard fought and murderous war-iS panic
struck and cowcd. Even whig timidity, in view
of these things, may be of good cheer England
may well hesitate TO go TO war with US, even for
Oregon. Such a war, in the present unprece-
dented and portentous condition of the industrial
and social system of England, would be to that
great power yawaing gulf of ruin. The Brit
ish aristocracy-the "Vcnitian Constitution" as
DIsraeli calls it-has no heart to enter upon
conflict, in which the supernatural sword of
Famine-the grim skeleton warrior that knows
no pity-woud fame balefully in the front ranks
of its foes
1t is this dependence of England on the great
staple product ofhc United States which so rouses
the British resentment against the measure of an
nexation. She seems destined to be foiled in most
of her recent calculations Cotlon-the great sta
pie Of the agriculture of the worId-the main reg
ulator of the exchanges Of commerce-the capital
material of those vast manufactures with which |
the whole air of England rings-this great pro-
duct which even now, spread all the earth
IN ITS various fabrics forms the clothing Of all the
varieties Of the human race-this wonderful oft
of gracious Providence to man-so vitality ne
eessary TO all manufacturing countries, but grown
mainly in mighty monopoly by our own favored
land-the source of our wealth in peace, and of
our strength in war-this great staple has now
become to Great Britain, above all other nations
an object, not of the highest interest only but of
the most imperative necessity. She wishes to be-
come independent OF the United States for its pro-
ductlon. She has looked, therefore, TO the East
for her supplies. She has looked to those extcn-
sVe fields in Hindostan, whose wreched people
she has conquered and ensaved She has looE led
to her East India Company for a successful ex-
pertinent to test the virtues of her eastern soil and
climate. But she has looked in vain She has ,
employed our cultivators TO test the experiment
for her, with our choicest cotton seed and after
hVe years Of unavailing toll and unwearied atten-
ton, she finds herself defeated in her wishes. Ma
ture rejects her solicitations She refuses to raise
h6re IN the East, which can compete with the }
productions of our southern savannahs. No won .
der, then that with the know ge of the probable
result, OF which she was no doubt dulv advised
during the progress ofthe experiment. Great Brit :
am has turned her attention to the fields of Texas
There, she has attempted to obtain possession or
control OF cotton region, which might vie in fer
tilhy with our own. She has tried that expert
ment also too Late She is disappointed and de-
feated also in Texas
But her resentment against annexation is wbct.
ted to yet sharper edge by the great dipIomatic
biunder which she fell into in the calcuation and
conduct of her Texan negotiations The election
OF President Polk struck The British policy like r
thunderbot As soon as that election was known
the whole fabric of her hopes and authorizations
toppled down with a crash England relied Inn
securely on the efforts Of the uhig party to pre.
rent annexation. It so fell out that at the verv
moment when British interference to stop the en-.
trance OF Texas into our Union was most vitaIIy
needed, and might, perchance with due aclivity