The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-27
POLITICAL.
From the Richmond Enquirer
AMERICA AS SEEN FROM ABROAD.

produced upon the mind Of Europe by the news Of
the acceptance of the terms Of annexation by the
Texan Congress. And as London and Paris are
the two great foci Of influence upon the destnes Of
the Old World, brief glance at the comments Of
their public press may give ON insight into the
real sentiments Of the masses.
The opposition journals in London taunt the
ministry most cruelty for their weakness and pu-
sianimity in allowing annexation to be completed
The following extract from the Informing Chronr
clen clearly shows this. Without intending IT, II is
complimentary to the frmness and perseverance, OF
the American authorities. The last paragraph de-
veIops the disappointment of England at being
stripped of those commercial advantages, which the
independence o. of Texas would have secured her.
We ought to rejoice at having reaped all the bcne-
fits which England, in vain, employed all her d.
plouacy and cunning to draw within her own en-
brace. In adding Texas TO our republic, we touch
ed England in tender points
"The American papers add that the Oregon diff
ference is settled well that of Texas; and that
this settlement consists in our giving up the Colum-
bio and the territory north Oft the 10th degree OF
latitude. II would not at all surprise us. Nothing
that our foreign Office could do, in the way of ces-
sion, would surprise us. And we are the more in.
clned tocredIt the disgraceful intelligence because
of the peremptory bravado in words with which Sir
Robert Peel met Mr.. Folks assertion Of his eoun-
try's right; for your weak statesmen always affect
the pendulum movement. They love TO oscillae
and alternae--be humble to-day. because they were
brave yesterday;to excite hopes one day, in order
to dash them the next--and make bold claim,
in order to reap the full disgrace Of weakly aban-
doning it.
"Another triumph for the foreign policy of the to-
ries 7! Texas has been annexed TO the United
Sates-both branches off its gsature rvalling each
other as to which should first consummate it; whilst
the offer of independence from Mexico, so laborous-
ly, but of too late, obtained by our envoy,
is flung in the face Of enroy and of Mexico by the
TEXANS whilst the United States troops already oc-
cupy the western frontier of Texas.
"Mr Polk has certainly commenced his presi-
dency with a very brilliant achievement and in any
circumstances he may have been proud. Although
to triumph over our 'poor devils of tores--those
by-words Of ptsilanimity and blunder, those
officials whose fate it seems to be to yield every
British right and dsappoint every British hope, the
smile of fa.uous selEcomplacency resting on their
visagss al! the while--to triumph over such self
doomed antagonists can be source Of but little
glory;
selves TO the annexation of Texas and all its
sequences--to the extension of a rival and naval
power round the shores of the Mexican Gulf to the
approximation of the same power TO an immense
region and coast the Pacific, to an inoaculable
impulse given to slavery and save-breeding, well
as, we firmly believe, 10 slave-tradng. Whilst we
see France and her prohlbtve tariff yearly advan-
cling round the Mediterranean, and closing region
after region and port after port, commerce;
in the New World we find the United States, whose
prohibtve tariff is Of creation spread that tariff
with its flag over shores the most open to in
facnce tho most favorable to our trade Ii it was
empty honor we lost, or the balance of power or
any of those superannuated, though to us good mo-
tives, which this age has obterated, we should say
nothing; but losing ,ade, profits, po,rer, ship
ping, and substance, toatag alike the skin TO Keep,
the spiyit to defend Them"
Another British journalist gives 10 Mr., Polk a
IL. e.. ~.
of the wing press seem disposed to allow:
ssPresdent Polk has, however, defeated the pur-
pose Of his own Senate, he has out-promised and
out.maneuvred England, cajoled the Texans into
q vote of annexation, and acted thereon promptly
by the despatch of ships and regiments to the Rio
Grande Polk has shown himself in this a worthy
son Of Jackson: indeed, an improvement upon old
Hickory, since he has avoided the violence and
b.,odshed which accompanied the generals seizure
of the Floridas."
The London Morning Herald, with a stless,
noaichdiant air, which evidently does not sit natur-
ally upon it, surrendcrs Texas as ''of no conse-
quence to them, and they would not take her as a
gift. The United States are welcome to her; that
neither England nor France care anything about
her being annexed to this country and that Next
co, instead of quarrelng about the nuptials, had
better act like a sensible mother, and give her
daughter away"
This soGnds very much like tie consoling excla-
D1HtlOD Oh Tue cDVntfyH1dn, Wnen the raODt eS-
e as from ms arms was ny 50 'e'y '''' a''sf
To show lie feeling of the French people, we
quote largely from very interesting letter of Mr.
Walsh, the Paris correspondent of the "National
lnlelligencer,n under the date Of August2d He is
on the spot, and has had full opportunities Of wach-
ing the ntrigues and designs Of the European mon.
achists. He speaks like American--lke
patriot. He halls the annexation of Texas as the
death ne of all attempts the part Of monarchi-
cal powers TO ''palter, or tamper, or intrigue with
any branch Of the republican American family"
Separated from his native land he is yet warmed by
the American spirit, and congratulates his country
upon its noble triumph over foreign avarice, in
trigue, and ambitions:
ave received yesterday the ercelent news Of the
self-annexation Of Texas. This contamination ap-
pears TO jsf ichaf IL should be. The long British
and French agony is over. few days ago, the
journal des Debats expressed, lingering soace,
the hope that the Texas Congress would find the
terms of admission loo hard to be adopted at once,
and without qualifications; and if the question were
referred again to the Congress Of the Union perhaps
an entire failure would he the RESULT What has
happened irresstibiy admonishes the monmchicai
po,eers Of The ranity fall attempts 10 pasr, anper,
intrigue uih any branch If the republican .4merica
family That the representative of France in Mexico
should have been the chief aecn, there, and writ
ten letter in the vein and style OF that which he
addressed to his worthy coadjuior, President Jones'
produces more surprise and dissatisfaction in Paris
than any other of the disclosures. The .lloneur
OF this day gives the advices in erienso, with
out comment. The Debats observes, that al
though the event was foreseen, il has caused a
certain degree of establishment. The American
Union tortfes itself Use rentorce) by this great
dismemberment Of Mexico, Mexico s in state
of the most dcplorable anarchy and California, no
doubt, will soon become another subject of annexa-
ton The National rejoices in the defeat of the
Joint diplomacy of England and Mr.. Guizot: il sig
nal flfttxr IF off ii.