The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-10-07

100 iatc 10 make good tcrms-ull the anti unnexa'
ton party in Texas had been so wholly annhated
as not to command single vote in the Texan con.
vention-so that the proposals. presented to Mexico
"under the mediation" Of England were crushed by
unanimous vote Of rejeciion-afier adding that
Mexico can make no war, because the sloan of an
effective sum Of 100000 of dollars must create
more than 45,0O0,00O of dollars of stock, even al
the present price of the active Mexican debi"-the
"Times" proceeds to say;
The projectors Of the annexation OF Texas like
ed roesss SAo Effected ne partition Of Poland w.i
a~art mat NE success If s scheme insured by the de-
s,rpSs s Pog.r sy attacked and Mexico would not
ine Of washington had not relied the supreme mpo.
enee o. It's victim The politicians who have inoeuated
hei country with territorial ambition and the vangorous
passion Tor military enterprise not displeased to find
that such powerful causes operating in favor of their
Mexico and the United might be, Mr. Polk
would probably be glad TO avoid preciptang his country
into so vast a career OF uncertain events.
These considerations tend render actual between
the Two republics extremely improbsble and Mexico
was unable to put down Texas in rebellion. still less can
she reconquer Texas OF the powerful
states In the world But II the termination Of this aar be
pacific 1t establishes the patent ndubitable
ner the superiority Of the and Of the
United states government over their neghbors These adj
Prored that consideration Of prudence justice good
Jah can rsran them from eisfng acquiring the Possts
that these and will only be limited
by opportunity and public caprice until become the in
no sa, 70 oppess them nv a but
selves is the effect Of these violence fraud lead
ing to immense extension of territory upon their own po
ltcal and social condition Thus much only do
tue confidently to these changes involve the
creation OF such conflicting interests the existence Of such
opposite characters and designs the Of such for
midabe passions and the growth Of such and
homogeneous people that the feeble federal government, Of
and the contests which the neghborn the south
the Union are too weak to win at last break out in
growth Of the American democracy rapid and
in Its internal corruption and Its external crimes in the
progress OF its population and its productive powers but
unless the eternal Of public morality and Of history be
suspended these same phenomena the certain
possible that such system should be carried with
out leading TO disastrous than that society
the reaction Of the same principles which have been
allowed 10 assa Mexico and appropriate Texas will
day be felt In the heart Of the Union
Any front less brazen than that of the "Tmes"
would mantle with blushes--any tongue less veno-
nous, would sammer at this allusion to the Parti-
ton Of Poland in connexion with the annexation Of
Texas. In that great crime it did indeed so happen
that England took direct part because out oft she
could get no gain. But, far back in British his
tory lies another event Of too much the same COM
plexion, in which England bore a leading hand.
Has the "Times' forgotten the Congress of Wen
ma, and the British policy Of 1852 How was it
then, under the dctation of Castlereagh, with the
fair lands on the left bank of the Rhinel The
world remembers, if the "Times" chooses to forget,
the day when the smiling fields and the busy Free
Cities of that popuous region became another Pc
land in the grasp of the spoier, and parceled
out and partitioned, and transferred, under British
mediation without one look at national lineage,
or affinity or sympathy, or one thought Of justice,
or law, or mercy or the love of man, or the fear
of God-till the very name of "mediaiised
prince became proverb of pity to the COM
passionate, and byword Of scoffng to the
hard of heart! And is it now for Engand--the
England Of this recent atrocity--to liken the
spontaneous aggregation of two kindred nations
into one, under the action of common impulses and
principles Of freedom the end that such voluntary
confederation might secure to both the largest meas
ure Of peace and ptosPerity,-is it for England to
liken such a union of two such nations, both re-
cognised by herself as free and sovereign, to the
robbery of Polandi
But the "Times'' consoles itself. The expansion
of our federave system is in the view, and ac-
cording to the hope Of that JOURNAL to work its own
ruin. Let England lay no such fattering JUNCTION
TO her soul. The confederative system on this con-
Misunderstanding federal relations, instead of diplo-
matte relations over this whole branch of the Anglo
Saxon races the system Of guaranteed peace taking
the place Of the system of contingent 1t is
the system of free trade and common benefits, to
take the place Of guarded boundaries, where the
custom house officer meets you the borders, to lay
his restrictions upon you, and TO levy his heavy
tariff acquisitions upon your commerce Louis
lana is partly French, and Canada is partly
French. Is it on the coterminous banks Of the
Sabine, or the coteminous banks Of the St. Law.
renee that the peace of the peaceful is most in peril
Sagacous men have long been bordering these
things. England has yet to learn the value of the
representative system--that rue-of-three system,
as she is wont sneeringly to call it. Her ON
nipotent Parliament, with its theory of virtual
representation for her colonies-called "rirtuoi,"
we suppose, because there is no virtue in it's
but the sham and the shadow of the august form
Of real represeniation-the palladium to the New
World of freedom and Of peace.
The "Times" has started another phantom, to
console the British public for its late accumu-
lated disappointments. Il first charges with the
ambition OF acquiring California, and then II attempts
to satisfy its readers that we cannot physically effect
the conquest, that the effort on our part will be
arrested by the gigantic arm of Great Britain.
Strange, indeed, that the Times" should charge
us with the desire of acquiring California,
when the eager eye of England herself is even
now anxiously fixed upon the same country.
No wonder that the leading journal" seeks
to rouse up Great Britain to participate in this hypo-
,hetical war with Mexico, or TO anticipate in the
occupation Of the goodly ports of the Pacific. But
upon this question the "Times' may find itself even
tually mistaken. We have the means Of taking Cali
forna, in case of war, without sending our troops
around Cape Horn We may easily be able to combat
the legions Of England, if she should employ her
navy to convey them to Monterey. We have but
to give the signal and thousands of volunteers from
the valley Of the Mississippi would be ready to
surrnount all the difficulties of the country and 10