The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-26
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TEXAS ANNExED.--It will be seen from the pro.
ceedmgs, which we publish to-day, of the Texan
Congress, that the annexation of that country to the
American Union, as part and parcel of it, is now
liked fact" The deed is done. A majority Of the
people Of the Union decided in favor of it in the
election OF last November-it was the Texas a,les-
ton that decided, mainly, the choice of the demo-
cratic convention at Baltimore, that selected our
bearer IN the last presidential contests it was
that, that gave life and animation and enthusiasm to
that canvass it was the omnipotence Of the Texas
question, It's irresistible weight, that forced it
through wing Senate, against the most rigid party
drill, and that filed with fear and TREMBLING those
VINO, IN their party servility, were driven against
their predictions and their better Judgment 10 OBJ
pose II; 1t is the proprety and justice of this ques
ton that has kept alive the hopes of its friends
amidst the fierces denuncations of northern fanati
cism, and the vilest assaults of political malienity
and personal ridcule, and at last enabled them to
triumph over all opposition
The hery ordeal is past. The deed is done. The
question now presents itself, what is our duty az
good American patriots' especially, what is our
DUTY as iennesseans protesting to be the friends Of
the South AS far as the democratic party is con-
ccerned, the question is easily answered. They
have been its friends from the beginning, and
they rejoice that the zeal, energy, activity and
promptitude which Mr.. Polk has manifested
In this matter, give strong assurance of the sim
certify of his professions, and glorious promise of his
which he was brought into power. What will our
whig friends doi We know that while we assured
them, in the last presidential canvass, that the an
nexaton of Texas was thing real and practicable,
they professed TO look upon il as something ideal,
existing only in imagination. That while we urged
its propricty with all the ability we could command,
and all the zeal the importance of the question de.
manded, dreadlng II element of controIlino
power in the presidential election, they declared
1t "vile humbug." While the democrats pon,ed
to the advantages Of the remuneration of Texas.
IN our national defensive arrangements in our oer,
cultural and commercial interests, in the diffusion of
the blessings of republican liberty, and the extern
son of the area of freedom, they met us with the
ghosts OF violated constitution, of violated national
faith, and of broken treaties; with the dangers of
war, not only from Mexico, but from the combined
powers OF Christendom, TO frghten us from our no.
sltion In their devotion and zeal for their great
leader, the wing party have taxed their talent
ava Their ingenuity to the utmost to devise some plan
oy which to xiii oG'" the Texas question. Against
AL thls-aSainst the strongest appeals to human Gu
Pdlty and human vanity and the treachery of false
friends here and in Texas-against the arts and in
trlgues Of French and British diplomacy, the ques
uOn Of remuneration, borne up and sustained by