the confidence with which its friends may

rely upon the increased strength it will gain

from its intrinsic merit, the more it is examined,

and the more thoroughly its bearing on the true

interests of Texas and the United States, is un-

derstood -- it may be easily assumed that it is

destined to a speedy consummation so far

as the action of the United States can accomplish

it. A result so much in accordance with

the early wish of Texas, and deferred by causes,

which, now inoperative, have ceased to be

remembered with feelings of unkindness by her

citizens, cannot but be hailed with joy by

all who have sympathized with their sufferings

in a noble struggle for independence.

This reference to the assault of the

recent elections in the United States, not made

without a just sense of the impropriety, as a

general rule, of introducing them to the notice

of Foreign Governments, who have no right to

take cognizance of them, has been dictated

in this case by the peculiar relation of the practice

to the question of annexation. Without the

cooperation and sanction of the Government and

people of Texas the measure cannot be consummated,

and hence it is important that no mistaken view