Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-05-19

exhaustion of the treasury, proposed to Z
loan them the sum Of 81 ,0OO, 900 upon a {
mortgage ofTexasl The Mexicans con- :
sidered this farther and grosser insult.
In the latter part of the year 1929,
Poinsett was recalled, and all the informa-
ton respecting these remarkable transac-
tons, which the President has thought
proper to give, or any member of Con-
gress to call for, was declaration in the
message Of that year, that the imputations
upon Poinsett of interference in the po-
litical concerns ofMexico were believed
to be groundlessl Mr. Poinsett left Mexi-
CO amidst the general excavations of the
people and government.
A Charge d. Affairs, Col. Butler. was
sentto replace him, but we understand
that he has never ventured openly to pro-
pose a renewal ofthe negotiation. In the |
year 1881, it had come to be well under
stood In the United States, that all hope of
taking Texas by diplomacy was at an end.
But it was said by the Southern presses,
and evidently with the sanction, if not at
the suggestion Of official persons, that the
Texans would one day declare themselves
independent, and ask to be received into
1.-The union.
1t remains now to advert briefly to the
source ofthis extreme Impotence for the
annexation of Texas to our country, al
ready so extensive. This source is deep
er than mere covetousness of territory.
Slave labor ruins in a course of time eve
ry soil in the planting countries except
those rare spots, which possesses by ma
ture an inexhaustible fertility. The plant
ers know no such process as mGauring.-
The maritime parts of Maryland, Virginia,
and North-Carolina are described as bar
rem and desolate for nearly one hundred
miles into the interior Where once there
was cultivation and stately mansions,
there are now stunted pines; and the wolf
and wild deer have literally returned to
their original haunts. The business of
planting, properly so called, is run out,
and as farming never has borne, and new
er can bear, to any great extent the ex-
pense ofslave labor, the owners Of slaves
in the old states find themselves equally
embarrassed by an impoverished soil, and
a surplus labor The latter rapidly in
creases, and new mouths are added in
proportion as the means are diminished
for filling them. In this state of things,
the planter would be compelled to emanci-
pate or starve in the midst of his vassals.--
And here comes in the American stGUe
trade. like guardian genius from the re.
gions of despair, to relieve criminals from
the natural consequences of their crime,
from the correctional police, established in
mercy by the ruler Of the universe. 1t
= comes to turn sins into gold.
Hence the fact, that Maryland, Virgin
ia, Norh-Carolina, and South Carolina,
had become, before the year 1880, slave
exporting states, and some ofthem slave
: raising states, i. e. making 1t q business
+ to breed slaueS for the market Mr. Mar
q shall, a member Of the Virginia assembly,
r estimated the number raised and sold bv
u that state, between the years 1920 and
IS 1880, at los, 900; which were worth, at
: moderate calculation, S32, 400, 600. Du-
l. ring the same period, Maryland, North
N Carolina, South Carolina, and Kentucky,
5 exported as many more. This, therefore,
N is an interest fearfully great and increas-
1t ing Georgia, Tennessee, and even Mis-
n souri,, may now be added to the list accord
Is ing to information which is reaching us
Ia from these states
y 1t is obvious that this immense amount
Of human merchandise, this 'rirgintial
= crop as it was dedominaied by Mr. Faulk-
~ ner in the Virginia assembly, must find a
- market; and there is no place on the globe,
- where Americans, who, by the law OF
N4I md Ayy NhoN ,,4L
. which We have forsaken,) should all be
a. born free, can be sold like cattle, except
:. within the limits Of our own republic
, 1t becomes necessary, therefore, for tn Z
. support of this mighty iniquity, that a
!. home market should be provided.
Il II is well known throughout the slave
l. holding country, that it is the uniform
h policy of the slave states to stop the i'm,
a portation of slaves from other states, as
q soon as they are in a situation to dispense
IS with the supply from that source. The
= most high spirited and dangerous slaves,
[r and those who have committed crimes,
i, are commonly transported to the slave
re importing states as punishment. There
N is therefore a tendency to bring together
l. in those states, dangerous mass of ma
h. terials for instruction. Accordingly all
in the states except louisiana, have now ex'
D. clnded the trade They do permit per
D. sons moving into their limits for the pur.
d pose Of residing. to bring their slaves, bul
s. none for the purpose of sale. In 1881
,e Louisiana passed a similar prohibition
70 but repealed it in 1923, in consequence
III it was said ofthe ravages of the cholera
is 1t is well understood throughout the south
r that within the present limits of the Unit
er ed States. the slave trade, cut off by law on
"a. the north and west of Missouri must soon