Mobile register and journal. [volume] (Mobile, Ala.) 1841-1849, 1845-05-06

un'onicts here. really believed what they pretend to
assume, that the union of Texas will dissolve the
union Of the states they would rejoice The acces
sion ol Texas with exceeding Joy, The anficpa.
ted ruin of the republic and the establishment oil
northern confederation that could be ruled bv wings
and abOlitiOnsts, without the interference OF south
ern democrats
lf there were any sound philosophy in the British
tory press. il would not wonder finding these SORT
OF opinions Of American affairs made the rayine
points of political pprlies in this country The hole
spirit Of their censure of American statesmen and :
merican measures, is hatred Of republican instiiu.
lions, deiestaton Of Our Union and earnest desires
for its dissolution; eagerness 10 ian the incendar-
ism Of abolition among Tor the purnose of free
dom, hut 10 check freedom BY destroying its only
powerful living example in government, and greedy
ayarce Of territorial acquisition upon cont nent
Hence when the British press applaud such states
men Webster aud Clay who a,e always read, TO
surrender American rights and censure such as Jack
son, Van Buren, and Polk, for the opposite policy,
need it wonder as the London Examiner Silly does
that unfortunately f. John Bull the political capital
always created on the Of the election of Presi-
dent consists OF hatred to England, and jealousy OF
England"
Il is neither hatred nor jealousy, hut it is an in
sinctve aversion the policy and the institutions
OF country from whose opp essions our fathers fled
Ia found ihG republic, and patriotic and wholesome
fear of the tendencies Of federal and conservative
politicians give British Influences an ascendancy
The Brush tory press therefore. in assauting
President Polk they do for prefarring America 10
England only fix him fmer in The affections of The
people. The two Presidents best abused by the tory
press on both sides the water were Jefferson and
jackson, and their hold is the ongest on the hearts
OF their counirymen
But this British abuse of the President is moi real
II is only an incident To the Texas and Oregon qnes-
tions, about which The press feels bound TO buster
and talk big. The whnle Of il is mere rtalkng
horse for the paiie in England. The wing outs as
sail the tory for losing Texas and Icing about 10
lose Oregon. This makes the threaten indie ma
tlOn and war 10 brighten Jonathan abroad and keep
up their character al home, hut each party thinks
more OF its effects upon their relative positions than
upon the two countries. Thus while The tory prees
affects 10 treat the President and his inaugural with
censure and -neers, The Morning Chronicle, of The
opposition, speaks of President Folks address as a
dign he'd and able American document that must be
gratifying to the feelings Of every American.
Tile Chronicle says precisely right. II is docu-
ment the sentiments Of which are responded 10 hy
every American feeling, and at which rome but Brit
ish and anti American feelings reluct.
Another CONCLUSION is obviously TO be drawn from
these ouipourings ofihe tory press upon Mr.. Polk
and Texas and Oregon. John Bull has no notion Of
doingany thing about il but buster People in ear
nest make threats like the following from The
London Times;
"Mr Polk avers, that 10 enlarge the limits Of the
Union Is TO extend the dominion Of peace addi-
onaI te'rIfn les and increasing millions; hut he will
find that when they far extended as 10 include
the riglniu possessions of the british empire, they
will encounter the hostility and the resolution of a
people aot inferior to the popuace Of the U. States
| in spirit or in resources
| That better thoughts came INTO the heads of these
editors after they had blown off The surplus steam up.
on the frsl of the Texas annexation, is appa.
rent from the moderated tone of the second DAYS lea
der in the Ministerial journal, the Morning Herald
In reilly 10 AN attack upon the Peel ministry for let
ing Texas slip through their grasp, the Herald say,
"Thni with government three thousand miles Of
il could not prevent the votes the Texas anne xa
ton bill With regard To the alarm that has beer
created by the prospect of war witt, America. from
the Texas question, The Herald thinks ii too soon To
ea angry about ii. and hopes that every difficulty wil
: yet be amicsbiy adjustsd."
This comes from the cooler heads that have got tc
take he responsibility, and shows that all The wal
ab 'u Texas is to be carried with steel pens anc
long primer.
The only other feature in these forcible feebles
| The London tory piess, is the cool impuience with
which they talk of The plumber of territory by the U
States, aud her grasping ayarice of acquisition mi
Here is the rohber nation of the world, with he
hands full Of the plumber and red with the blood %
| oppressed millions in every quai ter of the globe
with her iron heel on lreland and her death grasp
the throat opooI India, reading to the u. States hoTi
lies upon ambition and the lust OF territorial aggran
dizemtn The same presses that talk u The atrUcit,
the Of its people, and extending its protection
over its citizens in its territory Of Oh egrn
contain accounts from the east of further robberes
upon the gallant and hutchered Afghans, and expedi
tons fitting ont by Sir Charles Napier To suppress,
revolution in the Punjaub, and 10 chastse The Khal
of KheIat allowing his subec,s to invade Britisj
territory in the Scnde! And these empires in India
larger than Texas and Oregon united, have all beer
plundered by England from the native sosereigns, b,
the vlest system ofranne and lawless conquest; AM
all we know for certain says the Friend of India j:
that The country has been The Of nuiny famine
disgrace and death since il into the BRITISH
| posse ssion!
What magnificent hypocrites these British are, tc
whine Texas and black slavery in the United
States, while England has her hundred millions o
white slaves in Hndostan. her wretched masses al
home toiling fer PAM cred privilege AT The point Of
starvation, and wrong and oppression of her inAct
ing crying for vengence throughout The habitable
globe!
On the whole view of The matter, these Temporal,
ebu llitons Of the British press show that there is
really collision he feared from President Polk's
straightforward policy but war of words: and sc
| far from their structures being censures upon our
| government, the very ground of complaint is praise
Of republican Institutions calculated TO make ever,
! friend ofihe Union and the rights of the United
States proud of his country and of her calm, self
assured and truly American chief magistrate.