Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-11-10

battling the CID aHd consistent friends of tbs
measure with the new form which had been
j given to the question. Mr.. Clay was > of this
Class Of all the public men, he was able to
present the best and fairest Texas record. He
was opposed to the loss of the province in 1919.
ana offered resolutions in the House of Repre-
sentatlves, supported by an ardent. speech i'm
(which he cond deinned the treaty which rave il
away. AS, Secretary of State, under, Mr.
Adams, he had advised the recovery Of the
province, and opened negotiations to that eff,
| feet, and wrote the Instructions under which
| Mr.. Poinsett, the United States minister, made
1 the attempt. AS o western man, he was tho
natural champion of O great western interest -
pre-eminently western, while also national He
was interrogated according to the programme,
and answered with 6rnniess, that, although an
ancient and steadfast friend to the recovery Of
| the country, he was opposed to Immediate an.
nexation,, as adopting the war with Mexico.
and making that war by treaty, when the war
making power belonged to Congress There
were several other democratic candidates the
whole of whom were ntcrrogatcd, and answer
ed promptly in favor of immediate anncxatforrs n
some of them improving their letters, as adj
vised, before publication. Mr. Tyler, also
now appeared above the horizon as O. Presi.
dental candidate, and needed no interrocato.p
ries to bring out his declaration for immediate
annexation, although he had voted against Mr.
Clays resolution condemning the sacrifice of
the province. In WORD, the Texas hobby
was .multtudinously mounted and violently rid
den, and most violently by those who hadbeen.
most indifferent to it before. Mr. Clay and
MIR. Calhoun we're the only candidates that am
swered like statesmen, and they were both dis
taneed -esst e. ..s... ..s, Et.. -.9.fF .sr ~
The time was approaching for the conyon.
! tlon to meet, and, consequently for'-the con-
clusion OF, the treaty of annexation, which was
to be a touchstone in it. 1t was signed the
| 18th of April, and Was to have been sent to-
| the Senate immediately, but was delayed by q
circumstance which created alarm-made q
balk-and required new turn to be taken
MIR. Van Buren, had not yet answered the in-
terrogatories put to him through Mr.. Hamett,
or rather his answer had not yet been publish
ed. Cneasness began to be felt, lest like so
many others, he should fall into the current,
and answer in a may that would enable him to
swim with it. To relieve this uncertainty Mr..
Blair was applied to by Mr. Robert j.. Walker
to write to- him, and get his answer This was
a very proper channel to apply through. Mr.
Blair, as the fast friend of Mr. Van Buren,.
/
as the political adversary of Mr. Van Buren,,
could not ask Mr., Blair to do it. Mr.. Walker
stood in relation to be ready for the work all
round F.; as a protesting friend of Mr.. Van Bu-
rem, though cooperating with Mr. Calhoun
and all the rest against him, he could speak
with Mr.. Blair Oh point which seemed to be
! for Mr.. Van Buren's benefit Ascooperating
with Mr.. Calhoun, he could help him against
! N aHy inta To
the go-by III the end. AS being in all the
Texas mysteries. he was natural person to
| ferret out information on every side. He it
was, then, to whose part it fell to get the de-
sired answer from Mr.. Van Buren, and through
the instrumentality of Mr.. Blair Mfr. Blair
wrote as solicited not seeing any trap in it
but had received no answer up to the time that
the treaty WAS to go the Senate Ardent for
Texas, and believing in the danger of delay,he
| wrote and published in the GloGe glowing ar
tiele in favor of immediate annexation. That
article was ! poser and dumb-founder 1t
| threw the treaty al aback. Considering Mr..
Blair's friendship for Mr. Van Buren, and their
confidential relations, it was concluded that
this article could not have been published with
out his consent-that it spoke his sentiments
and was in fact his answer to the letter which
had been sent to him. Here was an ugly balk.
| It.seemed rs il the long intrigue had miscar.
ried-as if the plot was going to work out the
contrary wav, aud elevate the man il was in
tended to put down In this unexpected con-
nncture new turn became Indispensable
and was promptly taken. oda : aaEF..
Mention has been made in the forepart OF
this chapter of the necessity which was felt to
obtain something from London to bolster up
! the accusation of that formidable abolition plot
which Great Britain was Matching in Texas,
and on the alleged existence of which the
whole argument for immediate annexation re-
posed The desired testimony had been got,
and oraeularly given to the public as being
derived from ''irlrate letter from citizen of
/ WdfWqRd, then an Lond0n" The name of
| this Maryland citizen was not given, but his
rcspectability and reliability were fully reuched;
and the testimony passed for true 1t was to
the point i'll charging upon the British govern
ment, with names and circumstances, all that
had been alleged and adding that her aboli-
ton maehinations were then in full progress
This went back to London, Immediately trans
mitted there by the British Minister at Wash
inston, Sir Richard Pakcnham and being
known to be false, and felt to be scandalous,
drew from the British Secretary of State (Lord
Aberdeen) an indignant, prompt and peremp-
| tory contradiction. This contradiction was
given in despatch dated December 26th,
lS43. 1t was communicated by Sir Richard
Pakenham to Mr. Upshur, the United States
Secretary of State,on the 26th day of Fcbrua-
ry, lS4t-a few days before the lamentabls
death of that gentleman by the bursting ofthe
| Princeton gun. This despatch, having no OBJ
ject but to contradict an uufounded imputa-
| tien, required no answer-and received none.
1t lay in the Department of State unacknowl-
edged until after the treaty had been signed,
and until the day Of the appearance of that
| redoubtablc article in the Globe which had
been supposed to be Mr., Van Buren's answer