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PRIOR 10 Inc year 1903.
During the late war With Great
Britain, the miliisry and naval CON
mandera Of that nation issued prOcls.
nations inviting the slaves to their
andsrds, with promises Of freedom
and Of settlement 10 some Of the Brit
ish colonial establishments. This,
surely, was su interference with the
Institution Of slavery Ia the states. By
the treaty Of peace, Great Britain stip'
ulated TO evacuAte ell the forts and
places 10 the Uoited States, without
carrying away any slaves II the
government Of the Uaited States had
no authority 10 Interfere IN any saaB
with tho institution Of slavery 10 the
states, they would not have had the
authority 10 require this stipulation.
1t iS we'll kNOwn that this engagement
was oct fulfilled by the British naval
and military commanders; that, on the
contrary, they did carry away all the
slaves whom they had INDUCED to join
them, and that The British government
indsxibIy refused to restore any OF
them 70 their msstersi thai a claim Of
indemnity was consequently iastitu.
ted 10 behalf Of the owners Of the
slaves, aud was successfully maintain
ed. All that series Of transactions
was al interference by congress with
the institution Of slavery in The states
In one way -in the way Of protection
aOd support 1t was by the institu.
tion Of slavery alone that the res'ilu.
tlOG Of slaves enticed by proclamation
luto the British aervice could be claim.
cd as property But for the inslilu.
ton Of slavery, the British cOmman
ders could neither have sllured them
to their standard, nor restored them
otherwise than as liberated prisoners
Of war. But for the institution Of
slavery, there could havs been no stiP
uIation that they should not be carried
away as property, nor any claim Of
indemnity for the violation OF that co.
gagemenl.
But The war Powe! Of congress over
the institution Of slavery in the ststes
is yet far more extensive. Suppose
the case cf servile war, complicated,
as TO some extent iii even now with
an Indian wari suppose congress were
called 10 raise armies, to supply money
from the whole union to suppress b
serViIe jnsuFrection: would they hsve
no authority to interfete with the in
stitution Of sIsveryl The issue Of a
servile war may be disastrous, BY
war The slave may emancipaie HIMSELF
it may become necessary for the mes.
ter to recognize his emancipation by
a treaty of pesceI can il for an instsnt
be pretended that congress, in such .
contingency, would have no suthori.
ty to interfere with the institution Of
slavery, in any Nay, 10 the statesf
Why it would be eqliveIant TO saying
that congress have no constitutional
authority to make peace.
lSuppose = more porIenlous case,
certsinly within the bounds of posi-.
biIity-l would to God | could say
moi within the bounds Of probability.
You have been, if you are not now, at
the very point OF war with Mexico
"A war, am sorry TO say, go far as
public rumOr may be credited, stimu
lated by provocStiOns on our part
from the very commencement OF this
down 10 the recent su
thority given to Gen. Gaines TO invade
the Mexican authority. tits said that
one Of The earliest acts Of this admin
islratiOu was proposal, at time when
there was already much i'll humor 10
Mexico against the United States,
that she should cede to the United
States a very large portion of her ter
ritory--lsrge enough to constitute
nine states equal in extent to Ken
lucky. II must be confessed that q
device better calculated to produce
jealousy, suspicion, i'll will, and hatred
could not have been coGtrived. II is
further sfirmed that this overture,
offensive 10 itself, was made precisely
at the time when 3 swarm OF colonis's
from these United States were cover
ing tho Mexican border with land job
bing and with slaves, introduced in
defiance Of the Mexican laws, by
which slavery had been abolished
throughout that republic. The war
now raging in Texas is . Mexican
civil war, and a war for the re,sstab.
lishmont Of slavery where it was abOh
ished. 1t is not a servile war, but
war between slavery and emancipation,
and every possible effort was made 70
drive US intO the war, on The side Of
slavery.
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