Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-01
OF The following chapter of history is
from the New York correspondent of the
National Intelligencer.
A Little More History.
Who killed cock-robin I!
|, said the sparrow. with my bow and arrow 7
Twas | killed cock-robin.

The uncertainty of history seems TO be as
well entitled to become proverbial as - the
uncertainty of law For one point clearly
established by history, and beyond dispute,
we may generally find two that are LETT in
doubt and uncertainty. While the affair of
the robin seems to be a settled point, testified
to, as seen by the jay "while he sat on the
spray" it is feared the world may never ar
rive at unqueStionable answers to the veXpd
questions, who killed Tecumseh, and who
caused the annexation of Texas!
the latter question has doubtless had a
good deal of light thrown upon it by the re-
Gently published letters of the En- Presidents
TYLER and HOUsToN, but their RAYS cross
each other at so many bright and sharp an
giles, that they serve rather to bewilder the
sight than to give any clear view of the OBJ
lect. This is to be regretted, for if the an
neNatlon of Texas, as Mr.. HoUsToN asserts,
Z" unmade and made the great men of Ameri-
ca 1t Is necessarily a question Of considera-
BILE historical interest.
President TYLER's version of the affair is.
that he did ii. He is willing to allow TO
General JACKSON Gas well as " other auXilia-
rIes who deserve 10 be noticed in connection
with the matter,'O a good deal of praise for
giving "to the action of the Executive his
Jealous and cordial support" hut at the same
time he declares that he - took the initiative
without any previous consultation with that
distinguished man" And. though he does
not inform us how it happened that in - the
early part of the Administration" the propo-
sitlon OF Texas for annexation was so coldly
repealed as to induce her agent to withraw it,
with the declaration that Texas would new
er renew it," yet the lion-power of the Ex-
ecutlve was reused at last by STARTLING intel
ligence from London that left him =. no room
to dou5t but that the eyes of foreign Powers
were strained in that direction" and then he
babe his Secretary at once : to break up and
scatter TO the winds the web of their i~ntrirups
by a direct proposal for annexation" He in
tended the grand leap should have been so
secret and so sudden as to take land specu-
Iators and crowned heads equally by surprise.
And, though the affair was DELAYED a little
by provldential circumstances, he at last
brought II to a successful issue.
President HoUsToN's version of the bust
ness Is, that he end General .Jackson did IL
he by playing possum, and Gen, JACKSON
by his popularity and personal influence
Finding the offers Of Texas to come into the
Union were treated with coldness and neg-
lect' President HoUsToN says common sense
suggested to him "the only feasible plan to
attain the desired object; and that was, to
excite jealousy and alarm on the part of the
politicians and people of the United States in
relation to the future commercial and politi-
cal connection of Texas with European ma
TONS" In the course of events, circum-
stances occurred in England, which have not
been at all explained either by him or Presi-
dent TYLER, that materially aided his plan,
and enabled him to excite the desired alarm.
And, while these causes were in full opera
ton, to cap the climax, he directed his Min
ister : to make known to the Government of
the United States that tie proposition for m
neration 'OGs no longer open to diScussion.' -
The trout or the pickerel will never Jump so
quick or bite so sharp as when they see the
bait rapidly r~eceding from them and the
skIlful angling on the part of the President of
Texas, according to his own showing, has
been made sufficiently manifest by the vigor-
Gus jump with which the Executive of the
United States seized the bait.
But the circumstances in England and the
startling intelligence" which reused Mr.,