More Annexation

When the present iniquitous war commenced, it was proclaimed by the administration papers that the Government did not want the first foot of Mexican territory,andthatno permanent conquesls were contemplated. All that was required was to bring Mexico to terms. But no sooner does our army get full possession of a province than it is annexed forthwith. - Thus Gen. Kearney tells the people of Xew Mexico in his proclamation, - It is the wish and the intention of the people of the United States toprovidefor New Mexico aree government, willi the least -possïble deíay, similar to those in the United States, and the people of New Mexico will then be called on to exercise the rightsof freemen in electingtheir own Representaiives to the Territoria Legisïature, but until this can be done, the laws hitherto in existence will be continued until changed or modified by competent onlhority, and those persons holding office will continue in the same tbr the present, provided they will consider ihemselves goodcitizens and willing to take the oath of allegiance to the U. States. The undersigned hereby absolves all person residing within the Boundary of New Mexico, from further allegiance to the republic of Mexico, and hereby claims ihem as citizens óf the United States.Soine idea of the character of the "citizens" may be formed from the following paragraph : - Civilization rx Santa Fe. - A gentleman attached to Gen. Kearney's expedition says, in a letter from Santa Fe, to his brother in St. Louis ; "This is the most miserable country I have everseen The hovels the people live in are buil of mud, one story high, and have no ilooring. They sleep on the ground and have ncither beds, tables nor chaira In fact, they burrow in the ground like prairie dogs.Commodore Sloat has also taken possession of California, and annexed it to the United States - so far as his proclamation can do it What authority he had for his doings does not appear. It was once doubted whether even Congress could annex a foreign nation to thie ; but times are altered. Any of the President's officers who can writc a prclamation, can do it "just as easy !" Hear what he Commodore says :"I declare to the inhabitants of California that although in arms with a powerful forcé, I do not como among them as an enemy to California, but, on the conü-ary, I come as their best friend, as hcnccforward California xcill be a por ion of thc United States, and its peaceable inhabitanls will enjoy the same rights and privileges as the citizens of any other portion of that nation, with all the rights and privileges they now enjoy ; together with the privilege of choosing iheir own magistrales and other oflicers, for fhe administraron of justice among themselves ; and the same protection will be extended to thern as to any other State of the Union. EtEcxiox, Tuesday, Nov. 3.