Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-11-13
THE MEXICAN WAR.
Causes and Results of the UnpleaSantnes
 With Our Sister Republic.

Causes and Results of the UnpleaaRntnesa
 With Our Sister Republic.
 In 1885 the Texans, under the lead. ership of Stephen r. Austin, Samuel Houston and other American colonists, threw off the Mexican yoke, and after years hard fighting established their Independence. After maintaining it. self as an independent republic for nine years, Texas applied, early in 1S44, for admission into the American Union. The petition, however, was rejected by Congress, although chiefly for partisan reason. Slavery was recognized in Texas, and the leaders of the slavery party in the United States, knowing that the institution was ruled out by law from all Western territory north of the southerly boundary of Mis- souri, saw in Texas their only chance for the preservation of the bal ance between the slave and free States, Consequently the Democrats cham pioned admission and the Wings op- posed it. In the presidential election in the fall of 1914 the Democratic can didate, James K. Polk, was elected on the admission issue, the Whig nominee, Henry Clay, being defeated. The next
 
 tion of Texas, although realizing that the act meant war with Mexico. One of the Whig grounds of opposition to Texas admission was the fact that there was a dispute between that coun- try and Mexico as to the westerly boundary of the former. Texas put it at the Rio Grande, while Mexico in- sisted that it should be the Nuesces. Trhn AnHtaf TTnita1 and Mexico began in 1S46 and end ed in 1S4S. As result of the war, we obtained territory 50 large in area that, in the language of Webster, bird could not fly over it in week. The United States thus gained, in addition to the undisputed possession of Texas westward to the Rio Grande, tho greater part of which IS now New Mexico and Arizona, part of Colorado and the whole of California, Nevada and Utah. The remainder of the pres ont Territories of New Mexico and Ari- zona was bought from Mexico in 1853 in what is known as the Gadsden pur- chase, the United States paying $10, 000,0 For the region gained from Mexico between 1S46 and 1s4s the United States paid Mexico $15, ,000, 900, pesldeS assuming the ueDG or IeXaS, $7, 500, 900, and certain debts due by Mexico to American citizens, amount ing to about S3, 800, 000.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
 A university extension system is about to be projected in Philadelphia modelled upon a plan which has been in vogue in England for some years the object of which is to bring universi ty teachers within the reach of persons of all classes and both sexes in city and suburbs by the establishment ot branches for the disseminating oi knowledge, as now taught in the col leges and universities, to those who are otherwise unable to secure such ad ,vantages. The institution will be thrown open to mechanics, laborers, professional men and people of all grades and occupations who desire to avail themselves of the benefits. A trifling yearly fee will be charged. The best instructors to be had will be sc cured for the work. At Cambridge, England, the university branches have ten thousand students, and Oxford ha: eleven thousand.