The Daily Madisonian

TEXAS.

From the Richmond Enquirer.

Should we lose Texas, the responsibility will be on the heads of those who have rejected the Treaty. But we do not believe in such a result. We must now strike boldly for acquisition. The election of Mr. Polk will cheer up our friends there, and counteract Mr. Anson Jones, if he should have changed his views. The President, we presume, will speak in strong language in his Annual Message. We trust not a week will elapse, before a resolution will be brought into the House of Representatives to report a bill for its Annexation. If the measure can be passed under Mr. Tyler's Administration, we should hail it with pleasure. Let the glory all be his. Signs are afloat, which seem to indicate, that the Whigs consider the late election, as the exponent of the will of the people, in favor of the Annexation, and some of them may even be disposed to give the credit of the act to Mr. Tyler, instead of to Mr. Polk. We certainly would not object to any motion of this description, however capricious it might appear, which should redound to the prosperity of our country. We have remarked with our brethren some of the Whig signs of the times. They incline more in favor of Texas than before the election. The Baltimore American, (Whig,) lately intimated That Annexation "would not be opposed by the Whig of the South. A still more remarkable revelation is in the New York Courier. It furnishes some pressing arguments in favor of the measure. Among these are the following:

"In support of these views, we have endeavored to show that Texas is necessary to the commerce of the United States, because in twenty years she may grow sufficient cotton to cause our own great staple to be excluded from European ports, unless we abandon our Tariff. For the same reason, the possession of Texas is important for the protection of the interests of the cotton growing States; and, finally, the whole country is deeply interested in re-obtaining what was once ours, because no country can be permanently prosperous, that has not a foreign, as well as a home market for its produce——without which, there can be no commerce, and commerce being absolutely necessary for the civilization, the happiness, and the prosperity of a great people. While these are the prominent reasons with us, in favor of the Annexation of Texas at the proper time, there is one other of which we have never lost sight, and which is very little understood. As the friend of the slave, we desire to see Texas admitted to the Union; and never did Mr. Clay place on record a greater truth, than when he wrote that, the question of Annexation had nothing to do with slavery."