The New York herald., 1845-01-28
Crisis or the Texas Question.

Crlsls OF the VcxaS QuesttOn.
Yesterday was most lovely day in New York.
The clear sky-the balmy air-the bright sun-all
seemed more like Southern climate than that of
the cold North. The Park looked as If it were
just about to put on the green vesments of the JOY
Gus spring, and the Fountain danced and spark led
and leaped as if it had become instinct with life
beneath the rays OF the MONDAY sun. An hun
dred cannons sent their laundering echoes all over
the city and neghborhood, telling every body that
something unusual had occurred. And so it was
The Texas question has passed Committee of the
House OF Representatives by the unprecedented
majority Of twenty, and this extraordinary fact has
carried astonishment into the minds OF all parties
and all circles and all classes in the community
Hence the extraordinary excitement-the firing
OF the guns-the rejoicings in the Park amongst
the party of annexationsts, and the gnashing of
teeth and dreadfnl antlcipations of the future
amongst those opposed to the extension of the
boundaries of freedom to the utmost limits of this
hemisphere
For several days past this community has been
agtated on the Texas question, arising from the
prominence which it has attained both in this
country and in Europe-agitating every district Of
the United States-exciting tempest in England,
France and throughout the old world-thus dis
tincy showing that the Texas question is the ques-
ton of the day, and Of the civilised world-ihe
question on which every other subject connected
with the policy OF the great nations of the old and
new world is to turn. Well, it has passed the
House OF Representatives by the extraordinary
majority Of twenty-a result which was never
dreamed ot-and the probability is, according to
the best accounts, that it will pass the Senate by
small majority, it is true, but sufficient to decide
the question at once, in favor of extending the
boundaries Of this republic over the whole area of
Texas. This position of the question, will, doubt
less, stir the elements of the opposition here and
throughout the North, and we expect to the abo-
litionists and all those who affiliate with them, and
with the views oftheBtish government and the Bri-
ish press, Immediately coming forth in public meet
ings aud denouncng this movement, whilst on the
other hand, the old Jeffersonian and Jackson de-
mocracy of all classes and in every section Of the
Union, generally concentrating their forces in
favor of it, The question may be before the Senate
for three or four weeks, and in that interval we
have no doubt an extraordinary excitement on the
subject will be developed throughout the coun-
try.
This is undoubtedly one of the most important
questions-if, indeed, it be not the most important
the people of this country since the Revolution. 1t
involves, however, merely the continuation, on
broader scale, and at a more important era of the
werld, of that wise policy which affected the an
nexation of Louisiana, which was secured by JEFF
ferson, and was one of the most important public
measures ever carried out by any statesman in this
country. This is a second step in the great move
ment of the Anglo Saxon race on this continent,
and will open the way for future generations to
carry out the idea started by Alexander Hamilton,
the great statesman, in 1897, when in speaking Of
the annexation of Louisiana and Florida, he talked
of squinting towards South America Indeed, we
already perceive that in Detroit and Buffalo public
journals and public writers are beginning to elk of
the propriety and necessity of the annexation Of
the Canadas to this country an equipoise TO the
annexation Of Texas, and for the achievement of
that purpose, the expediency of opening negotia-
ton with Great Britain for the purchase Of those
northern British colonies.
1t will thus be seen that we are on the brink of
great excitement, which will last till the question
be terminated one way or another in the United
States Senate. The prospects are decidedly thai
the decision of the people in favor of the an
nexation of Texas, as indicated by the election Of
Mr.. Polk, must be carried out by the present mem
bers Of Congress at all hazards, and at every risk
Let the abolitioRists do what they please-let the
British press and British monarchists bluster as
much as they choose-it is impossible to prevent
the ultimate complete triumph of republican prin-
cples over the whole of this Mexican continent.
NEGLIGENCE IN THE PosT OFFICE AT WASHING.
ToN-Every now and then we have to complain
of negligence in the post office management be
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transmission of our correspondence from the capi-
tai, and we have every reason to believe, after the
best investigation we can make, that the blunders
and negligence are to be traced to the Washing.
ton post office. We publish to-day, in another
column, very important letter from our special
correspondent at Washington which ought to have
reached us on Sunday afternoon, but did not come
to hand till yesterday morning. We are disposed
to believe, from indisputable facts, that the error
did not occur here, and that it could have occur
red only in the post Office at Washington. We,
therefore, direct the attention of the Postmaster
at Washington, to the bunderng and negligent
manner in which the public business is managed
by his clerks 1t it is not corrected we shall insist
on thorough reformation being made in that
establishment, from top to bottom, when Mr..
Polk comes into power. When the post officials do
their duty, we gladly award them the praise which
they merit. When they neglect it, we will never
hesitate to denounce them in the strongest man.
ner possible.
THEoLoGY-DR. PIsE.-The sermon in ST. Pc
ter's. on Sunday evening, was delivered by Rev
DR.. Pise, who, to the great delight Of his hearers
and friends, has recovered from his temporary ILL
ness. The church was crowded to excess; proba.
oily thousand persons stood in the aisles to hear
the Word, which had reference, on this occasion.
to az very curious as we'll as momentous dogma OF
the Catholic Church, that of Purgatory. Asusu-
al, when DR.. Plse breaches, the discourse COM
manded unbroken attention Of the as, ymb.ed thou
sands tul report Of this discourse, prepared
with much care and fidelity, will appear in to-mor.
rows Herald. 1t is unavoidably excluded to-day
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