2 AUGUST 1845, Page 2

Texas is by this time annexed. It is no longer

an act to be disputed, but to be regretted, if that is worth anybody's while. It is scarcely worth ours. However disreputably United States citizens played the cuckoo with the Mexican colonists of Texas, it was de facto an independent state, at liberty to choose its own government. It has chosen to be a province instead of a nation. The measure seems calculated to prolong the existence of slavery as an institution in the freest of republics. On the other hand, by increasing the extent of the Union and the weight of the re- pulsion existing between the Northern and Southern States, it seems to menace a splitting of that Union; so that an enlarge- meat of the territory may after all result in a diminution.