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The Whigs And Annexation

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
September
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Cincinnati GnZette, the National Intelligencer, and many other leading Whig papers in the Union, are coming out in decided opposition to any fürther efforts to prevent the final admission, by our Congress, of Texas ihto the Union as an independent State. They say: "We regard this movement as highly improper. We tried all in our power to prevent the passnge of the annexation act - but our counsels did not prevail, and we must submit to the consequences as we best may. We had bctter bear the ills which are upon us, and bend our energies to prevent a recurrence of such acts in future, than to place ourselves before the world as repudiators, or in an indefensibie or even an equivocal posilion We are opposed to all party opposition to ihe fulfilment of the propositijns of our government lo the people and government of Texas.'So here is the end of the boasted opposition of the Whigs to annexation! - What becomes of the "everlasting" objection of Gov. Stade - the threat of the Boston Atlas and other leading Whig pnpers, and the resolves of the Faneuil Hall convention, that the Union would be dissolved by the success of the annexation scheme? The occasion for which they were manufactured has passed, and they have given place to renewed servility to the slave power - just as all sucb fitful, ephemeral resolves of the proslavery parties must of necessity do. -

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Signal of Liberty
Old News