New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-07-10
Annex ation-What are the Termss

The President of Texas in his Message TO Con
gress, recently assembled in extra session. says
THE Executive has much satisfaction IN observing
what no doubt will forcby arrest the attention oi the
COngress-tha although the terms embraced IN me Ieo
buttons of the United States Congress may AZ hrst nave
aptearcd less favorable than desirable for Texas
the very liberal and magnanmOus views entertained hy
the President Of the United States towards Texas, an
the promises made through the representative OF hm
country in regard to the future advantages 10 be .N
tended her che the proposed union render
those terms much acceptable than they would on'
erwise have BEEN
The Washington Union says it has received a
copy of the National Texas Register, Extra, con
tanning the whole correspondence between the
United States and Texas authorities, in which the
promises were made through the representative OF
the United States in regard TO future concessions to
Texas The Union has promised to publish the
documents We demand them wuhom abradge
meak WHY does the Boston Atlas keep them I'M
published if it has acopy sent ii, as its correspondent
at Galveston states We want TO have a full view
of this Annexation intrigue from first TO last thatwe
may exhibit its shrinking lincaments.
Look at it, By attaching Walkers Benionian
amendment to the original House resolution that
very resolution which Benton, Tappan and Niles
said they would not support, and against which
Bagby made violent speech, passed the Senate by
a majority of ffrO one man, II is said, having actu-
ally changed his mind during the calling of the
Yeas and Nays but for which il would have been a
lie, and Annexation lost In the course of a few
hours the President, at whose discretion choice be
tween the two evils was left, with natural Loco
Foco instinct chose the worse, and thus the Housc
Resolution, to which decided maority of the Sen
ate was opposed became the law of the land, by
subjecting the legislative action TO the One Man
power
Yet this was not a Sufficient humiliation for the
Representatives of the States and of the People be.
fore Presidential power. There must be farther
usurpaiion The House Resolution, which could
no, pass the Senate, becoming law contrary to the
will Of one branch of the Legislature has con
ditions attached TO i, by the ma nanimous views
Of our President which if submitted 10 the Repre-
scntatves Of the People, would have absolutely pre-
vented it's passage through the House And this j.
the abominabe combination of fraud chance, usurp
alton and robbery that we now called upon &c
support and cxtol. Do the successful manipula,ions
and cunning si the pickpocke,, or the daring vii
any OF the highway robbor become sanctted by
success or is it incumbent on honest men TO coin
eide in the nquiiy quietly, when the deed is done
No Crime and inquity are the same whether sue
ccssful or not aud he who aids or abeis or cease.
TO condemn and resist becomes pariicpa,or in the
wrong and iniamy. Neither the money gained il
the rise of Texas Scrip, the wealth acquired
from old grants of what are now Texas lands, car
make wrsng right or sanctty the most disgracefu
drama Of fraud and crime on record