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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
August
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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The headlongrtess (ifií be aïlowable to make a word) of ou f Government in conducting the Texas negotiations is truly surprising. That country cannot be received inio lhe Union until six rtionlhs from lliis time. Yet the official despatches received nt Washington show that our Government has become pledged to the Texans to defend them in all their war with the Indians, as welf as against Mexico. After the ossent of the Convention had been givcn on the 4-th of July, lo the proposed union with the United States, Major Donelson, our minister, 'mmediately assurcd the President of the convención (not the executive of Texas) that, "From the date of f nis ordinar.ee, Texas will hnve acquired a right to the protection of the United Statesj and the undersigned is happy to inform you, that the president of the United States hns taken steps to afibrd this proiecfion in themost efiectivemaimer ogainsf future Mexican and Indian invasiun." tt? Last example of modesty. The Editor of the Signal of Liberty, draws a campar ison bet ween his paper nnd the True American: and, in speokingof Mr. Clay makes use of his given naincr, as if he stood upon the same footing or belonged to the same race. VVhy, Cassius M. Clay is a perfect gentleman, whosc hearl is supplied with the best of blood, and nhosc intellect is superí. And wliere is there a word, sufficiently contemptible to describe the Editor of the Signal! - Moiu roe Gazette. ft?" The Port Hurón Observer, Adrián Watch Tower, Jackson Patriot, Marshall Expounder, and Ann Arbor Argus ngree in the watchward, "Away with all Banks." As there are 24 Democratie papers ín the State, it appears fhat nine teen must yet be reefconed ïfi favor of roe Banks,

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Signal of Liberty
Old News