Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-03-11


and allowed us no further time for the double vote
than the few days which to intervene before the
official intelligence Of the victory should arrive. Here
are extracts from his speech that occasion,
and which verify what say, and show that he was
then ready 10 plunge the country into the Texan
war with Mexico, without the slightest regard to Its
treaties, its commerce, its duties or its character
"Mr. Calhoun Of opinion that il would add more
strength TO the Of Texas wait few days until they
official continuation Of the victory and capture of
Santa Anna, 10 order TO obtain unanimous vote in IA
vor Of the recognition Of Texas. He had made
his mind only recognize the independence OF Tex
for her admission into this Union; and if the Texans
managed their Affairs prudenty they would be called
upon TO decide that question. There powerful
why Texas should be pant OF this Union The southe IN
States owning slave population, deeply interested in
preventing that country from having the power TO annoy
them and the navigation and manufacturing interests Of the
north and east equally interested in making part OF
this Union. He thought they would be called de-
eide these questions aid when they did it, he
for acting On both togehefor the
Of Texas, and for admitting her into the Union.
II should 60 they had done he could not but
that before the close Of the present session Of Congress
they would only ledge the independence OF Texas
but admit heI into the Union He hoped there would be
unnecessary deay-or 10 such delays da
but that they would act with unanmty and act promptly
Here then, is tie proof of the fact that ten years
ago, and without word of explanation with Mexico,
or any request from Texas-without tie least notice
the American people, time for elaboration among
ourselves, any regard to existing cominerce-he
was for punglng US into instant war with Mexico. |
say, instant war; for Mexico and Texas then in
open and to incorporate Texas, to incorpo-
rate the at the same time All this the senator
was then for, Immediately after his grataitous
cesson of Texas, and long before the invention of the
London abolition plot OPPORTUNITY 10 his aid.
PrOmptness and unanimity were then his watchwords.
Immediate action-aciion before Congress adjourned
was his demand. No delay. Delays were danger
ous We must vote, and vote unanimously and
promptly. / well remember the senator's look and
fndo on haf Gyo of lOol
and the magisteriality of his attitude. 1t such
he often favors with, especially when he is Ia
crisis, and brings forward something which ought to
be instantly and unanimously rejected--as when he
brought in his string of distractions Thursday last
So ii in lS36-prompt and unanimous action,
and look to put down opposition. But the Senate
were not looked down in 1896. They promptly and
unanimously refused the senator's motion and the
crisis and the danger-goon natured souls ,-immedi-
aely postponed themselves until wanted for another
occasion.
The peace of the country was then. saved hut it
was a respite only, and the speech of the senator
from South Carolina, brief as it was, becomes mo-
mentous foreshadowng everything that has subse-
quently taken place in relation To the admission of
Texas. In this brief speech we have the shadows OF
oil future movements, coming in procession, in adj
vance of the events In the significant intima ton,
qualified with the if - the Teams prudenLlg
managed their affairs, they (the Senate might soon
be called upon 10 decide the question Of admission ~
in that pregnant and qualified intimation, there
visible doubt that the Texans might not be prudent
enough TO manage their affairs, and might require
help; and also visible feeling of that paternal guar
dianship which afterwards assumed the management
of thei: affairs for them. In the admOntions una
nimity, there that denuncation of any difference
of opinion which afterwards displayed itself IN the
ferocious hunting down Of all who opposed the Texas
treaty. In the reference southern slavery and an
nOyance TO slave property from Texas, we have the
germ of the " defence" letter, and the first glimpse
of the abolition plot of John Andrews, Ashbel Smith
\ Lord ABERDEEN beg pardon nf Lord Aberdeen fol
naming him in such connexon-and the Worlds
Convention, with which Mexico Texas and the Uni.
/ ted States were mystIfed and bamboOzled in April
1874. And, in the interests of the manufacturing
and navigating States of the north and east as con
nectcd with Texas admission, we have the text of al
the communications to the agent Murphy, and of al
the letters and speeches to which the Texas question
seven years afterwards gave rise. We have all these
subsequent events here Swallowed forth And now
the wonder is, why all these things forescer
a little while before when Texas was being ceded t.
a non-slavehoding empire and why, after being 81
imminent and deadly in May, 1886, all these danger.
Suddenly went TO sleep, and never walked up agar
until 1874! These are wonders: but let us not an
ticPate questions, and let proceed with the nara
tive.
The Congress of 1886 would not admit Texas
The senator from South Carolina became patient: the
years it made no disturbance 1t then woke up, anC
with suddenness and violence proportioncd to it
long repose. Mr. Tyler was then President: the sen
ator from South Carolina potent under his admin
istration, and became his Secretary of State
All the springs Of intrigue and diplomacy were imme
dately in motion TO resusciate the Texas question
and 10 relnvest II with all the dangers and alarms
which it had in 1886. Passing over all thu
dangers Of annoyance from Texas as possibly non
saveholdng, oreseen by the senator in 1886. and
foreseen by him in 1919, with II the need for guar
dianship then foreshadowed, and all the argument
then suggested: all these Immediately develope,
themselves and intriguing agents traversed rth ant
sea, from Washington to Texas, and from London t
Mexico passing over all this, as belonging to
class of evidence not now to be used come ono
to the letter of the 18th of January, from the Texa
minister to MIR. Upshur. the American Secretary O
State; and the to that letter by Mr. Calhoun
of April 1lth Of the same year. They are both vita
in this case; aud the first is in these words
s'-hr Pan Zandt to Mr.. Upshur.
"LEGATION TEXAS,
"WashiBgton, January IL, 1874
I" SIN: IL is known TO you that armisice has bee
proclaimed between Mexico and Texas; that that arms
has been obtained through the of severa
great powers mutually friendly and that negotiation
are pending having tor their object a settlement
the difficulties heretofore existing between the Two conn
tries. proposition likewise, having been submitted
the President of the Unied States through YOU for III
annexation Of Texas this country therefore (whou
indicating the nature of the reply which the President
Texas may direct to be made TO this proposon) be
leave to suggest that ii may be apprehended should
treaty of annexation be concluded, Mexico may thin
proper to at terminate the armistice, break off
negotiations for peace, and again threaten commenc
hosiiiies against Texas and that OF the other go,
ernnents who have been instrumental in obtaining the
cessioR, 1t they do throw their influence into
Mexican scale, may altogether withdraw their good off
ees Of mediation, thus losing Texas their friendship
and exposing her 10 the uDEesraned Of Mexic
In view then, Of these things desire 10 submit hroug