The State guard., 1847-10-05
Letter from Ex-President Tyler. To Me Editor of the Enquirer

given a place in the columns of you
 paper some two monhs ago, has, to
 my no little astonishment, called forlt
 public letter from the pen of Senator
 Houston, of Texas, on matters not pu
 in issue by the article which, because o
 the great responsibility of the paper ir
 which il appeared, deemed it proper tc
 notice. Nothie certainly was farther from my intention than 10 have involved the ex-President, nSs-the Senator from Texas, in the necessity of any exposi ton upon the subject. Whatever doub existed as to his real desire for the an
 nexalion of Texas to the Uni,ed States, had, by previous publication, either in the form of speech or letter, l forge, which, nor is it material 10 remember, been sufficiently cleared up by he dec> Iaratlon, that he osiy coqueaed rith Eng iand in all that he had done, with view, as We are now told, to produce an im- pression with the over-credulous people of the United States, as well as those entrusted with the administration of their public affairs, that the golden mo. menu for annexation had arrived, and if pei mitted 10 pass, could never be re. called.
 Aided by Ibe silence of fhe Ieuas press, and for aught 1 know, by other and still more imposing means, Mr. Houston certainly succeeded in impressing Gen. Jackson-to whom, in the exhuberance of his devotion. he ascrbes ihe whole honor of the measure-with the belief tha; the coquette would, unless prevent, ed by prompt action, very soon fall into the arms of another. and thus be forev- CT lost 10 the United States. That time> honored patriot has descended 10 the grave, unoer the full conviction that what he avouched 10 the American peo. pie was true in every word and in every letter. He was incapable of giving nt. terence 10 what he tet to be untrue; and i may safely add, that he looked too deeply into the deeds of men, and un> derstood too thoroughly their motives, 10 be easily deceived, He saw as read fly as others, tbe great stake at issue in lhe question of annexation-a stake which the leading States of Europe would be quite as eager 10 gain as the Pnited States-and he possessed as full a knowledge of the necessity which would compel Texas to resort 10 expe- dients 10 rescue herself from the unhap. py condition in which Mr. Houston des scribes her to have been in i5ll, as the President of Texas himself.
 Those expedients are now for the first time promulgated to lhe world by Mir. Houston, as having been deliberately weighed, considered and adopted by him self. The first was 10 o5laln annexa |. lion with the UnIted States; that failing, the second was to obtain from Mexico the recognition of the independence of Texas, and failing in both these the third was 10 form defensive alliance with some foreign power against Mexi- co. In order to accomplish the last two of these objects, the President of Texas had spread out before him broad field for diplomacy as could well have been desired. Ills first expedient, annexation to the United States. was very soon ex- hausted, since MT. Reilly, who had been instructed to propose annexation al an early day of my administration, so ut- terly failed as. not only 10 withdraw the proposition, but to accompany the with, drawal with the declaration that Texas would never renew it. After Mr. Re,l- ly's failure, the question naturally arIs- es, what course did lhe President of Texas then pursue? Dld he fol,l his arms in apathy, or did he press on 10 the accomplishment of his second and third exped enis? Drd he seek 10 inter est other Governments in the affairs of Texas, so far as 10 induce their inlerpo . siton with Mexico, in order to obtain an acknowledgment of independence 2 and was it not lhrouga their interposi- ton that a quasi armistice was at length obtained2-an armistice which, howev> CT, opened the door to an ackno wledg- ment of Texas independence by Mexl- co no wider than t bad before stood.- After the failure of his first expedient, did Mr. Houston stand with his arms folded, and fall lnio an apopleclic sum- ber7 It was not until his presidential term had run the greater part of its course, that the United States Executive startled by intelligence received from London, and confirmed by the represen. ia;ive of Texas al that court. deemed il necessary to institute inquiries, through it's accredited organs, for the purpose oi ascertaining the true condition of things
 Those inquiries developed the active ef forts made by associated individuals to insure the fulfIment of their inirigues and the extent of the counenance which had been bestowed upon them by the Ministry of Great Britain, which was more publicly and openly avowed on the floor of the British Parliament, in a debate in which Lord Brougham, whose
 sentiments were fully reechoed by the
 British Minister, bore a conspicuous
 part. In that debate the Texan was de.
 clared to be ihe aUimportant question -
 and this moi so much on Its own account
 in the abstract, as in it's bearing and eff
 fec. on the condition of the U. Staies.
 There was no longer any room te
 doub, but that the eyes of foreign pow.
 CTS as wei. as of associated companle.
 were strained in that direction and