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WD tagst not lhyesI, that besides great pub.
ie considerations, there are cxicnsyc private In-
terests involved In this matter; and we may
therefore well be distrustful of the thousand ru-
mors which are from day to day put afoat upon
this subject. What comparatively few indi-
viduals, acting under the influence of personal
interest, may not desire to have done, will not
undertake to say,or to conjecture But that the
people of Texas, = will ever be
found capable Of sending minister TO the crown
ed heads of Europe, TO barter away their young
and enterprising republic, and all that they have
purchased with their blood, TO the highest bid
der, is what cannot believe; in the possibility
of so apostate and unnatural connexion, | can
have no faith.'


From the extracts above given, the reader will
be as well able, probably to gather Mr. Van Bu-
ren's opinions upon the subject of annexation, as
by reading his whole letter; perhaps more SO.
1t is addressed to the Hon. VIM. II. Hammet,
member of Congress from Mississippi, who wrote
TO Mr.. Van Buren, on the 9th of March, asking
his opinion as to the constituonality and ex
pediency of Immediately annexing Texas to the
United States" " promising that if il Mr.. Van
Buren's reply] be favorable to annexation, he
would, on account of the great effect it must
have on the issue of this question, give to it
early publicity" Mr.. H. speaks of Mr.. Web
ster's and Gen. Jackson's letters upon this sub
ject and "the impression that Mr.. Clay will op-
pose the annexation" and evidently desires to
draw from Mr.. Van Buren the expression of an
opinion favorable to annexation, and thereby pre-
sent new issue to the people upon which to
decide their choice of candidates for the Presi-
dency. But it seems that in the language Of
lawyers, he has taken nothing by his motion,
Mr.. Van Buren not being more favorable to I'M
mediate annexation than Mr.. Clay.