Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-01-18

TO THE EDITORS.

Il
sAs' EDITIONS Kermit me, IN the freedom of demoera
Oh course 'Ae remotest personal disrespect (cau
ing' on the contrary, personal friendship and n
constituent to offer you some plain hasy criticize,
Paiy on the late Texas speech Of the honorable ma
chairman OF the Foreign Afairs Committee Of the Hs
BY an ardent wish to dispersed the mist that rests
counse and all objects presented in their true colos and
aenned ioms little time Cime the parent Of Truh) will
trust convert this gloomy winter Of our discomfort into clear
ana glorious summer and for that time pray as feryeny as
the monarch Of the drama did for horse
me gehtemans admission that annexation is Southern
question Is ats deah-bow Southern Question Il "a s,
ped OF oil nationality with faction and section far n; b
lionai dlshonor and disaster for its crown Do ca,I 4,
southern question II is only so in name and anoeaane
cannot in the nature of things be an affair Of domesc orr
e' regarding any real Southern interest It is an attemnt
IN midnight darknes by foreign Powers to divide
1 1s'os 'he Union and its Friendship to the
u' o 10 mask but cnmty to all at bottom by foreign
''eAs get house against ITSELF and contemplating
p',a'u' ' contest Of sister Republics the eternity of
error, the downfall Of ALL Fs N.
will not takeisspe on the advantages 10 he a.,vsa t,o,
the acquisition oTexas Whatever those a,von,.o.s
even the very ieys of heaven and hell and half ~ -
wealhhey are wholly beneath the notice az Legislation RAJ
'ung Its auho) ON lofty question of Justice Of states
mnnshlP the happiness of the world AWAY with This o,
sacra James -
An arguments drawn from the common law Heaven pre
serve the common law and its admirers y doctrine of en;s
But the foundon Of remtter is rus Droprietafs |, 4;
not proved that we ever had the jus p,ysssss &c exas
and is Proved we had that it has soepy been released
Jus roprieas may be assigned and cxtingushsd there
nothing naienabe about it and any possession acquired
amer such an assignment cannot be connected with the original
hte With all its defects the possession stands crown
less ana baseles and SO will stand just Texas annexed
w 90 Every sovereignty, it is said, has right Of conquest
u congress Is not sovereignty, British Parliament
oep wthm certain iimits-the limits of the Constitution
mere organicay in this country such thing any where
as an absolute sovereignty it resides only in the People II
'enory acquired in war; it is by constitutional act
say mere Is no chance Of war; is to give up the ques-
uoh. IL admits such a chance would be condemnation
Oh the measures But there is every chance Of war and
lot statesmen to decide great question Justice and no
nor with reference to the capacity and disposition Of the party
attacked to assert its rights by war Doesany national e,E
ness want power nsposton to exercise the power
possessed title touch the question in the tribunal Of the
Capitol one of whose detes the blind goddess touches
It only to forbid action. Singular inattenton to all he
ends OF good government to all the lofty ends and PRINCIPLES
of ours
Is not by any clear there power in the Cons
tuition to annex to annhiate nation territory even BY
treaty VIII be contended Congress has power to change
the foun OF our Government Strange indeed that the
eminent friends of strict construction should PROSTATE all or
ganc law the altar of absolute sovereignty-uta coso
dation But the modesty Of honorable gentlemen is almost at
once uer pane ana antoe The plea OF necessity and u-
y, urged by some gentlemen, founded wholly in my hum
BILE apprehension on baseess imagination De non erisen-
bus ct de apparenbus eade est ratio Texas is not in
possession of hostile oe-of Engand-and never will be-
Through the business in form well substance we have
the baseess fabric Of vison-a house without even the fool
ish mans foundation. An honorable gentleman inulged
gloomy supposton will he ON this OCCASION forget the obi
cations of liberty, foreign and domestic and commit greater
enormty-greater by its foreign bearing am willing 10
admit the of Texas is the of liberty standing ON
national law But does it become coafne his
attention to part of the horizon look the of Ii
bey Alone regardless of the dangers il is bese with Are
we to become political Quxoes for the world and liberty
Where is the constitutional power 70 do so Where the
means Of accomplishment see think war--protracted
and extended war, in this distraction al
home, and dishonor and injustice abroad Mexico is re-
public, nation, and neighbour entitled to take her own view
of public law, entitled to the courtesy Of nations see
think the contamination Of the hostile purposes of foreign ma
tons, that have long been peyng vita and would
make food for each other cherish no political hos
tily while expose To all nations breathe political
good will am all things this occasion dispense appre
hended darkness political horizon foreign and domes
tic, and display in the strongest light the fair proportions Of
the six and twenty columns Of our temple
PLURIBUS UNUM
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