The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-25

less extensive in surface and la climate and In produe
tons not less desirable tbansh choicest city Of Europe
pscty Tor mnistern to the exquisite enJoyments Of
man they cersAiy do not excel that region whose pol
whose rich savannahs, whose healthy upland plains
whose unknown mineral wealth whose harhom and whose
now thrown open the conceptions and the prompt
actions Of great new people compounded Of all
We Irish stand in need Of objects which to
our greatest ympathes and in the American States find
friendship for ourselves and people. to suffer those
sympahies TO expaate there In Europe we have
tryor the country which bors US is not yet hut
the strangers There is nag whose glory Is our
no empire reflects TO great image OF ourselves To
the sggrandzement Of empire il fate TO contrib
ute; but feel its greatness only humiaton
and IN our fatal ronnexcn with we are denied that which
dealzes the existence even OF the slaysympahy in the
fortune of his master II is in to live this sui
zen ex'enceno TO triumph with no greatness 10
be great with, lofty hopes rise with Our higher
sympathies sometimes rass beyond the circle Of
caiames and having place for them In our own for
stow them. And where should we be prone be.
SLOW them than here blood runs feest and rues
the fountain OF It's CURRENT Shall we not freely pride us In
the victories Of Jackson must wait till we admit
ted into partnership in those Of Wellington Shall
we not triumph in the successful satesmanship Of Polk
or Buchanan TOR they both OF bloody must
suppress every ideal emotion till can triumph with
Palmerstoni Shall glow with admiration at the
contribute to- and pasIe I'M Iii were only TO relieve tie
feelings with which forced to view the growth Of
that other empire whose weight already overays and
| presses
But the annexation Of the territory commonly designated
as Texas Is not the sole significance of the event that has
Just taken place Texas has hitherto suggested the notion
OF country lying the Gulf Of Mexco but we
iorci6y reminded that the ildefned limits OF that region
must extend to the pacihc and must make the people
o. the United States much neighbors Of the Caor
mans than they could have claimed TO be by right Of Ore
gon The government OF the United States have passed
their arm down TO the waist OF the continent and that
they have got 1t there they certainly will not hesitate to
pass round Again: when settlers from the United States
swarm upon the borders Of California Gas Of necessity they
soon Will be doubted but the people Of California
consisting they do OF the inhabitants of few trading
villages separated by wdernesses from the distracted
state to which they pay nominal allegiancewil find
abundant Inducements TO fall into the body of that vast
coniederacy whose happy constitution coners all the pro-
lection and all the pride of imperial greatness without dero
eating particle from local Independence We regard the
annexation Of Texas therefore, step that at opens
to the Americans the horizon Of California Such prospects
must Tor obvious reasons confer the Oregon question
great additional importance in the eyes of Amecans and
we can well believe, with New York correspondent,
that people would now reject with dsdan the boundary
which, in early negotiations they themselves proposed
compromise Of their claimshe a9th degree OF latitude