The startling announcement has reached London, that a treaty to
annex Texas to the United States has actually been concluded— ay, sealed and signed ! But stay—it has yet to be ratified by the Senate ; so that the impudent rnanceuvre may be stopped, or at least delayed. By losing its grossness vice loses half its evil; and some years hence, by being less palpably a flagrant offence, the absorption of Texas into the Union would become really less wicked. The case of this state is known to all the world ; it has arisen before the eyes of the generation now living. Texas is a Mexican province ; American citizens migrate into it, upon suffer- ance; they grow to be a majority, or at least the most powerftd taus in that province ; they declare themselves " independent " ; and now they wish to be taken back into the Union, as American Citizens, along with the Mexican territory 1 It is as if the English in Boulogne were first to declare themselves "independent," and then to offer to annex Boulogne to England. In the very same way, if Mexico were hospitable to foreigners, the whole of the Mexican republic might be decoyed into the Union. The success of the measure, however, is doubtful. It is suspected to be an electioneering ruse of JOHN TYLER, anxious to curry favour with the populace, in hopes that he may be forced to accept another term on the Republican throne. It is only wonderful that Mr. CALisoust should have lent himself to the trick. Luckily, however, there are other political leaders : Mr. HENRY CLAY, the chosen representative of the Whigs in the approaching election for the Presidency, has forcibly denounced the plan ; and Mr. MAR- VAN BORER, the chosen representative of the Democrats, also deprecates it : reflecting and rational men of "the two great parties in the state," therefore, are ashamed of consummating the spoliation with such barefaced haste ; the Senate is likely to revise Mr. CALHOUN'S diplomacy rather unfavourably ; and then the treaty will be rejected. Some day, probably, Texas, in the nature of things, must be " annexed" : but time to forget Mexican associations—time for witnesses of the trespass to die off—time for a little further insight into the social nature of slavery and of the Negro race—is due to decency, before another slavery- tainted star be added to the " star-spangled banner."
