Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-06-23

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of that new and sudden Impotence. The oil,
friends of Texas stood upon their old ground
the countries were still at war, but actually ne
gotiating for peace: they wanted Texas annex
ed, but without war with Mexico, and urged ;
little delay, to permit their Ministers, then ne
gotlating under the auspices of Great Britain
and France, to make peace. All delay was re
fused, the treaty was signed; and was rejected b,
the Senate because its ratification would have
been immediate war with Mexico. He Mr.
b. was one OF the majority of the Senate which
rejected that treaty; and his constituents, tho
all In favor of annexation, appreciated his mo.
tlves, and justified his conduct. His reelection
to the Senate in the same year was the verde
OF the people upon his conduct, and he made
them his profound thanks for the Justice of thai
verdict, and the honor of that election.
The treaty of annexation was rejected, but
annexation in another form was still prosecuted
A resolution for the admission of Texas, as
State, passed the House of Representatives: ar
additional and alternative resolution was added
In the Senate, to appoint commissioner to ne.
gotiate for admission, and to conciliate and re-
concile Mexico, and thereby prevent the an
nexaton from bringing on war. The expiring
administration of Mr.. Tyler snatched the al
tentative from the hands Of the President elect.
hurried off the House resolution by a midnight
messenger-slammed the door of Cancellation
in the face of Mexico-and infamed her pride
end resentment to the highest degree. From
that time forth every thing breathed war be-
tween the two countries, which broke out the
ensuing year.
Mr.. B. said this was the history of the loss
and gain of Texas, and its sequence, the ,car
,ciM .Nerico. The country is recoyered-a wal
has followed, and the question now is, how to
finish ltl For himself be felt clear. His pol
icy had been uniform from first to last-it was
to get back Texas without breach with Mex
leo; and he was certain it might have been
done if wise and temperate counsels had pre-
vailed. The United States had only to wait for
peace: that was upon the point of being signed
in January, 1912, under the powerful media
ton of Great Britain and France, when the
then Administration broke up the peaceful ne
gotiatron, dispersed the Ministers, assumed the
war, and placed the army and navy under the
control of the President of Texas to fight Mex
leo. The rejection of the treaty stopped the
war then assumed; but the midnight transmits
sion of the House resolution started it again, and
soon placed the two Republics in the unhappy
condition in which they now stand.
Mr.. B. repeated. His policy from beginning
to ending had been to get back Texas without
war, or evena breach of friendship with Mexi-
CO. He was greatly averse to such war. He
saw great and extraordinary evils in it. Be
sides the evils common to all wars-loss of
lives, distress of families, interruption of COM
merce, ruin to many merchants, and load of
debts and taxes; besides all these ordinary evils
incident to all wars, he saw others of new and
extraordinary kind in a war with Mexico. She
was Republic, and weak one, and our neigh
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constitution and form of government, and had
maintained civil wars at home to keen it up
She was one of the Spanish American States
which stretch from the southern boundary of
the United States to Cape Horn, the whole of
which had copied our form of government, and
established close political and commercial rela-
tons with us. All these States had just eman-
cipated themselves from European domination.
adopted the republican system, and taken the
United States for their model and their friend,
the elder sister and parental guardian of the
C Ordon of Republics which stretched across the
two Americas. The position of the United
States, at the head of this long chain of Re-
publics, was grand and impressive, and imposed
upon her an enlarged and enlightened system,
which had been carefully acted upon by all A
merican statesmen, from the time these Spanish
American States began to establish their indie
pendence. Europe had a system of Monarches
consolidated by holly alliance. The new
world had its system of Republics, to be cemen
ted and united by sympathy and friendship
To maintain our position ut the hean of this
republican system in tie new world was due to
ourselves and the human race. To cherish
and perpetuate these Repnbics-to preserve
their friendship and their commerce-to contn-
To ho fioir
them in the republican system of the new world,
and prevent their relapse into the monarchical
system of the old world-ths was our true and
noble policy. War with any one of them would
endangcr that policy; for being all of the same
origin, religion, language, customs, they would
naturally sympathize with each other, and in
having war with one the friendship Of all might
be leoparded.
lie (Mr. B. } had endeavored to act upon these
enlarged principles, originating not with him,
but with enlightened tatesmen before he came
into public life. He had endeavored to get
back Texas without war with Mexico, and
was certain it might have been done with all
ease by the simple process of leaving Mexico
and Texas to make peace, and treating Mexico
with the respect and Difference due to sister
more proud and sensitive be-
cause weak and unable to contend with U.S.
The first great error was the annexation treaty
of 1912, and the manner in which it was con-
Quoted; that was the work of the Tyler Admin
istration, and for selfish and unworthy purpo
ses. The second great error, or worse than
error, was the rejection of the Senate's alterna-
tive resolution, and dispatch of the midnight
to Texas with the bsoluteresolution
of admission, on the night of the Sd of March,
1916. That also was the work of the Tyler
and in the last moment of its
expiring existence. The first of these steps
(the treaty. would have made instant war if it
had been ratified by the Senate; the second
made the war, and now the great question is to
finish it. How to finish it! That was the
question which every one present, no doubt,
would wish to hear him speak. The time would
come, but it was not now. His opinions had
been asked by the President, and given him, and
in time it would be given to the public.
But he could say that he relied more upon
policy than upon arms to finish this war with
weak and proud ncighbo or. Fight US battles
she could not. That was proved from San ia
cinto to Cerro Gordo, and wherever the two
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