The Arkansas banner., 1845-10-15
From He UHi0n. THE LONDON CENSORS.


 cheating, in the garb of hypocrisy. Itadmits that there are humbugs and cheats enough Tn England; but 1t contends that the ''hypo- crltes with (them1 are reduced to minority" ct such, it says, is not the case in our republic.
 Among the many resources (says the polite "Iimes') of that powerful empire among its rivers and its forests, it's unappro- prlated continent and prolific people-there deserves to be reckoned its inexhaustible power of profession The language of in- tegrIty and beneyolence, in the absence of other capital, Is the great stock in trade of the federal Union. The credulity or the shamelessness of the citizen Is taxed for the sustenation of public hypocrisy. The fund IS enormous, though (as usually happens the people have been impoverished to pro duce 1t; for while the collective State is the greatest hero, and saint, and phihnthropst among the nations of the earth, the individual American has ceased to blush That natural act, and stamp of virtue, for which the Anglo Saxon race IS so honorably distinguished, Is almost extinct in the Anglo-AmerIcan. The republic may safely profess, when its citizens cannot blush for it's impudence.
 'The annexation of Texas is an act not without precedent It is not peculiar to the United States to wrest province from a weaker neighbor by force or fraud, or both together. Such acts are frequent in Euro pean story. But 1t is peculiar to the States to make 1t virtue. Our humber, if not more virtuous. European transgressors have gene rally thought the less said the better. They have either maintained prudent silence, or justified the act on the modest grounds of imperious necessity, of inevitable progress, or eXcusable retaliation. America alone can eXalt its aggressions into the arduous and gratuitous achievements of virtue. .The re- union of that fair country with its parent stem'-the name given to the conquest of Texas by an army of Anglo-American adven- turers-is an event perhaps inevitable, per haps ultimately beneficial, but certainly not heroic. Certainly the ways and means were among the basest on human record. An American, citizen of the Union, and New Englander, shall describe 1t forus. We quote from Dr. Charming, addressing his country men .on the annexation of Texas eight years since'1
 
 Charming, who attempts to prove that it was the American power which coIonized Texas. They were Americans who defeated the Mex jeans at the battle of San Jacinto; and it was they (says the Times who have now an nexed it to the United States.
 Admit that they had principal agency in the whole transaction ;-how would this prove their hypocrisy or their baseness ?- They were invited by Mexico, by large ap- propriations oi land, to settle in Texas. They went to settle there, bona fde, as citizens ol Texas. But she abused them-tyrannized over them-abolished their federal govern- ment, and attempted to convert it into an absolute monarchy by military force. What were they to do? To submit to be slaves :: That was impossible They demanded justice from Mexico She refused 1t. They then declared their independence, and established 1t at the point of the sword They were recognized as independent by the United States, by France, and by England herself, l from whom the ssLondon Times" halls; and then, in the exercise of their own free con- sent, have united their fortunes with our own. Hence the s.groans of the Britains.o They
 
 ascendancy over her, and in monopolizing her cotton, to the serious detrinent of our own interests; and hence their tears-their grefs! Great Britain counted, too, upon the efficacy of such pathetic appeals and violent denunciations of Mir. Channing and the aboli- tionists. She confidently counted upon their assisting her purposes, and ill defeating an- nexation by the abuse they attempted to cast upon the slave power; and hence she Great Britain folded her arms in quiet, and calcu- lated that the Channings and Adamses and others were working out her ends, instead of availing herself of the fairest opportunity which then presented itself, of paying the debts, relieving the wants, and establishing the independence of Texas Hence the dou- ble grief which Britain now feels; and the idle attempt the < Times" is now making to rouse up the ant-annexationists in New England, and trying last, desperate effort to defeat the consummatlon of the measure.
 A correspondent exposes these impoent and ''hypocritical'' appeals of the '' ''London Timesn in the following terms:
 For lie Uaion.
 We cannot refrain from noticing the eulo- gum so lnleHueu( Oi tllG LoiiuOi iiiN' on portion of the citizens ot the United States; while, at the same time, we regret that there are those who, from their conduct, have given coloring, Ito say the least ot lt,) to that feeling which is appealed to, and who no doubt feel complimented at anything ol the kind emanating from the hireIng pens and tory prints of Great Britain. Tine appeal is made to the citizens of New England and, if we mistake not, It will aiouse among the honest and intelligent majority of them, feel ings of the deepest indignation
 The British government are perfectly con vinced that they have in this country friends both ready an willing to cooperate with them in attacking every thing which they think can tend in any way to lnJure our republican institutions. By causing division among us, they hope to accelerate our ruin which they so eagerly desire. Loving the treason, however, they despise the traitors. Recolecting the blue lights held out as a warning 10 their fleets during the war oi 1 1912, they feel conscious that the same men who were then ready to betray their country, are willing to do the same thing now. Hence the appeal made so directly to particular class of the citizens of New England in the article alluded to. But, at the same time, the