Lynchburg Virginian

Texas annexation time and from: It deserves to be noted, among the remarkable events of the present day, that, while the espousers of the annexation of Texas are in the habit of applying the strongest cries of denunciation to those citizens of the U. States who have opposed that measure, who have not very cordial in their approbation of the means by which it has been effected, they nevertheless evince the least kindly and cordial feelings towards those citizens of Texas who exerted every nerve to defeat annexation, and who by their personal influence on by their official status, were enabled to render their hostility to that proposition a just source of uneasiness and apprehension. Among the most conspicuous of the opponents of the measure, in Texas, is Gen. Sam. Houston, who, while President of the Republic, not only threw every obstacle in the way of annexation which his official position enabled him to suggest, but short after his retirement from public life, exerted a scarcely less efficient influence in opposition to it through his successor in the Presidency, Anson Jones—a man, who, as is generally known, was thoroughly imbued with Houston's opinions and prejudices, and was the servile instrument in carrying into effect, as far as practicable, all his views. Yet Gen. Houston, so far from meeting with the castigation which his like men as Alfans, Wigfall and others of their fellow citizens on this side of the Sabine, think he so richly deserves for his folly and his crimes, is treated with the most singular forbearance and tenderness from all of them, while others in proportion denounce him in the harshest terms. We cannot but be somewhat at a loss to comprehend beyond the motive of this ungenerous yet discerning discrimination unless, indeed, it be, as a strange change whispered op that gentleman by the Richmond Enquirer and Washington Union, during the general hey day of the annexation question, to imbue him to give to it his countenance and support, is regarded by them as having the theotorga, which is to be re atler to be ratified by dis election, bi rough the uns tractability of their served and eir trien's, to the Presidency of the U. States. The least can be founded toy arts Gen. Houston by nore press, audlyether nut sery cissin.larly sateted, unouesiiutually sooks an plelous—ahd we Minture cuem lt exjoiet, evenin adyance of ay deeist e ui vitria hae king to a reauh mauspice usand d s_rare nul, to i tier suchy developmente as may le made, by men ghitled to she cidercr of tho people, tutching the charaeer aud conduct of Mr. Polk heir presumptive.

A correspondence between Thomas P. Anderson and other citizens of Galveston on the one part, and Gen. Mirabeau B. Lamar on the other, affords us an opportunity of ascertaining, to some extent, the adoption of Gen. Houston in the subpreetarrexaihgfe we dem tkn s tjiolsfhcithi iujarleicetoaval uselvestthe Int rainn (n I dnd i th I ng and e oquent letter of the later gealowa n-tr ie wlcleot wheh wer gret we hate noi roo i Cen. Litar charges that Gen. Houston has always been opposed tuthe anlexa jn ofTe xas to the U. Stater even when. tader the tfuerer of a powerfu ei rrentof puble seniiattt, Ie was coustral td to subunit a prope- siten tocur gve nitii hesiug shis uectin vlew;and he suppers th.s (iar e by an array ot eh umstautinl aud pusitivetesi nony,lue forco of wntch is absolutely ir resistble. feimne ot wnh a denialfareceut declar. athiCet I tstt, iat ie prcp sil n for asuexo 1hrntedundrsadmist.ation,-a e amation whacl. has been reguently uade and is generally enod- Hed in the I. Sial s.Ce. Ihaarsoks datoHon- ton's predertse r in thre Pres er. Jde Burat, jus'ly deleeverth reraid creddt uay atlacht the sr giationed the pla. Geu. lamar wan a mem. ter l Iresiccnt Burnet's Calaret. wd ajeaka froma kuou ledge o the fact tireret re, wPet le aaserts that in 1o6, Messrs. Collingun danad Giragson were despath ed py that gemileman to ile L. Siates to propose tho arel measure Lu out guve ruteut,-the peo,de of Texashar- mg uuin ated thear ceclded as prabatlon of the sugge ownt Hot. Houston, he sass, "otly r tfowed d the wakeol the public sentuet, and obeyed a mandata which he dared bell not oppose." In iE41, howeyer. Ilutsion claims tho credu of baving reurved i; but le subgequontly with- drew It. Ard wly ? The Mesiean guvernment had. he mean wlule, mtinrated, th ugh Capt. Eliott, the emp British Minisier in Traas, iis willegness to reeeive and Fexan Co inmdsslane rs t nga tale a treniy of pesce, ap on the Iasis of the subm issu o ot Texas to that govern- ment; and, aeting prou pily "p n their suggestion, which he oug ht to bave sp uned, llous cn arpolnted commi stoters, who fotly th prucceded to Mexico, and con cluded with Zania Aia a areenent in which the young Republie was reeogn z d as a "Department of Mexico." Publie indigr atten was at once araused; ana Houston, to serean lluseli fr m she consequenro, threw all the censure upd i is cotmn jasjopers, whem h in dey charged with having transeended their instructone;— but who, in the optnton ot Gen. I an ar, were unjustly so charged. For, as he cogen ty argues, the very con- ditton of the reception of the cotnmissioners by the Mex. ican government was that they shouid be invested with power to stipnlate lor the ret rn if lexas to her allegi- ance to the parent c untry ! Santa Ana made thura sine qua non of all nego saton; and it was under this fundateutal requiren ent that Gen. Ilonston despatched his commissioters to Mexicu; and it was th is overure from Mextco, backed and susiained by the Brrish Mno It w ister, that induced Gen. Iuuston to withdraw the pra- position made by him in 1s41 for the anme xarion of T tar. as to the U. States. And Gen. Lamar charges that thn betrayal of his c untry was induced by sotre "impropet No influences." exerted by the Byush goyernmenty and of acts which he canupt deay—to wit, that he was "*co- he sarcastically reviens Gen. Hlonst i's lane detned 95 cen agun quetting" with Mextco and Great Britain, for the put In R pose of operating upon the fears and af prehensions of the to $5.8 peuple of the Untted States, and of thereby more cerain- 1n B ly securing the adoption of a mensute to whichr he had to $57 Induced Santa Anna and Copt. Ellfiutt to b:liove ho In N was irreconciliably opposed!

Gen. Lamar, however, pushes his investigation more chusely. Te reft rs to the course of President Jones, the bosom frend of Honston, and the interpreter of hi Pork sentimtats, who at every step, attempted to defeat the that the measure of annexation -to the course of llouston's con- be small filential friends in and cut of joyer-to the courseof cerned. the ne wspapers in his interest-all of whom violently the last opposed amuexation, and nsed all their influence to re.s Cropa of der it uapopular. Was this a part of he game of co- who rece quetry? Were all these fitends of his in the seciet of per uf th his Machivellan duplieny? Or dd be deceive them, in hoge in order mure effvctually to clual his real purposes from Wythe progress

If le had misled there friends, it would be, as the deteetion of the Mo xiean and British gavernments. Gen. for then Lamar remarks, a ma ural cuhstiuence that they should must be resent the doglieny by Lieh idary had bren inveigled in to a labe p sirum-bant ther eontiaued deyolion to him even wuh ths avn val on dheir bys, atlords presnmptive which is pruof that they helieved hiri sive re then, in his effort market, to defiat annexatun, and that i he has ever played killed he part tor ign t his tei s a . aeais i this w os adur. are gene