The Daily Madisonian

TEXAS TREATY

Notwithstanding the infamous outcries against the Texan Treaty by hypocrites and traitors, none of them have specified any objections. We defy any one to point out objectionable articles in the Treaty or to propose better substitutes. It is mostly knaves who utter denunciations against it, and mostly fools believe them.

The Treaty simply annexes or incorporates the territory of Texas with the territory of the United States, giving it neither more nor less right or privilege than any other portion of the territory of the United States. Is that wrong? Who would give it more? Who would make it less? Texas has gone to much expense to improve her territory, and surrenders her public domain; the United States agree to pay, from sales of land, the amount of her debt.— Would any one repudiate her debt? Would any one make her debt an insuperable bar to annexation?- Will not her custom abundantly reward us, if we had to pay the debt and get no land?

Will not Annexation entirely preclude the attempt of England to raise up a cotton-growing nation in opposition to the United States? Can there be any adequate assurance that, if not annexed, Texas will not become a fatal rival to us in cotton-growing?

Where is the evil to come upon us by having Texas annexed to this Union? Who can show any?

We think it would be more consistent with the obligations resting upon the Printers (Gales & Seaton) to the Senate, to publish the President's Message in response to a call of the Senate. The Senate had removed the injunction of secrecy, but the Intelligencer, with the Message in its possession, preferred to forestall public sentiment, by a garbled statement made upon the authority of hear-say, offering the flimsy excuse for its misrepresentations, that it had not had time to read the Message. The People desire correct information, and would no doubt greatly prefer to wait a day or two, when they could judge for themselves, the Message being before them, rather than to be misled by the hear say account of the Printers to the Senate. Such proceedings on the part of the Printers to the Senate, may subserve party purposes, but we doubt whether the public interests, or the cause of truth and justice is to be advanced a single peg.

N. B. We hope Mr. Jones will not omit to state whether any, and which, of the delegates to the Tyler Convention, from any of the States, do not now actually hold office under the Captain, and have only promises when the next changes come round.-Globe.

We'll count noses with you. From all that we can learn, there will be about as many office-holders in the Van Buren Convention as in the Tyler Convention. We presume it will not be called "interfering with the freedom of elections," or an "abuse of the right of suffrage."

P. S.-We would respectfully and earnestly call upon our friends to muster strong in Baltimore on the 27th. Besides the regular delegates we hope there will be thousands of our friends from distant points.

Extract of a letter from New Orleans, May 8th, 1844.

"Clay and Van Buren's letters against the admission of Texas and Tyler's Treaty of Annexation, have created a perfect flame in the public mind.- Their old friends are deserting them in platoons.— John Tyler is the only man named for the Presidency by all who occupy the American side of this great question.

"Tyler can easily carry Louisiana against as many British candidates as they choose to run,—nay, will carry it."