Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-07-26
TEXAS.
From the Human Rights.
n E y As.

effects Of the annexation of Texas to the
Union.
l. Slavery would receive a new inn
pulse. Opening that fertile country TO
the slace SPECTATORS, would give new yig-
or to the system in the old dilapidated
slaveholding States. They would then
become, more enphatiealsy, slave-grOW
ing STATES the Congos and Guineas Of
the Texan slavo-traders. The incubus Of
slavery. now crushing their energy and |
prosperity, and operating as a motive to |
emancipation by making the system intol-
cradle, would then be rolled of upon |
Texas. and they would be enabled to en-
dure the otherwise insupportable load
Texas. with its youthful elasticity. the sa-
lubrity Of its climate, and the fertility OF
It's soil, could long sustain the weight
without sinking. OF course It would be
for the advancement of the slaveholding
Interest, and legitimately carrying out the
end for which Texas was introduced into
the Union. lviz: the propping up Of
slavery.) that Il should rapidly increase in
population. To this object. the energy of
the South would be devoted. Planters
would emigrate thither with their slaves:
spectators would pour in from abroad:
government would encourage emigration
BY giving land to settlers: the internal
sIave-trade would be driven with dreadful
energy: thousands Of victims would be
smuggled in from Africa direct, and BY
the way OF Cuba and Texas would soon
become populous and powerful territory.
g. Then the North might End that she
had aroused from her slumbers too late,
and that the precipice was crumbling all
around her. She would then learn the
. true secret Of all this feverish anxiety to
establish liberty in Texas BY the in
troduction Of new slave States into the
Union from this territory, THE SLAVE
HOLDING INTEREsT WOULD HAVE PRE-.
DOMINANT POWER IN THE NATIONAL
COUNCILS, and the extension and perpet.
uat'cn % the system would become the
= c4r1inaI policy of the general govern
mentI II should be remembered that the
object .ot the South in bringing Texas in
70 the Union, is TO strengthen slavery
THIS has not been disguised from tn,
earliest moment to the present hour The
spirit Of liberty, rising in its majesty, il
this country, to strike down this bloody
system, has alarmed them. They ar,
casting obout in frenzy for shelter. The,
would retreat back upon Texas. and Their
rally their dismayed forces.
=. The acquisition Of Texas, will, in pre-
cess Of time, enable them to put down ey
cry effort which northern citizens ma
make 70. the abolition Of slavery. Di
eussion. by the press and by the vote,
may then be awed into subserviency,
crushed into silence, not merely by LYING
law, but by Siatsts law. The right
petition, OF assemblage, and Of organic,
lion 10 'Anti-Slavery Societies, may tho
Be destroyed, not merely by the lawle
assaults Of mobs-Inot by dragging JOB
Quincy Adams from the floor Of Co
.gress-noi by indictments at common la,
OF doubtful constitulionality, but by Law
, formally enacted, and executed by the ire
arm of.miiilary power. Northern eli
Gems may iben be punished by impriso
ment, by gcourgings, and hangings,
The. utterance Of the seli-evident truths
yNfha Declaration OF independence ~
Nashville, Vicksburgh. and Savanna
but by Statute Laws in Philadelphia, Ne
York, Hartford, and Boston. The pu
lie mail need not then be plundered
the writings Of Franklin, and Jefferso
and Jay in defiance Of law, by mobs
gentlemanly anarchists at Charleston, b
he who dares to deposit newspaper OF
letter in the Post Office at New Y or
containing sentiment hostile 10 the
vine right Of slaveholding, may be ii
prisoned, or burnt at the stake bv Z
High Sheriff, according to the statute
such case made and provided! Northe
citizens may then not only be indicted
the South for declaring that +" God col
mands, and all nature cries out, that m,
should not be held as property" but n
Governors Of the North may be compe
ed BY law, 10 surrender up such felons
the tender mercies Of sloveholding jud o
and jurieS to expiate their crimes up
the gallows. Do you tell ms, these Law
would be snconSfitstionGta The Sour
would THEN BE ABLE TO ALTER tn
CONSTITUTION TO THEIR WISHES :
and would they lack the inclination
Nay, verilyi Give them the power, az
they would, to perpetuate this system. i
stantly erase from the Constitution all Il
provisions by which freedom of speech.
the press, Of petition, OF assemblape,
organization, and Of locomotion, are qua
antecd. They would forbid, BY expire
provisions and high penalties, all an
slavery discussions. publications. petition
meetings. and societies He who doub
il. has specifically studied the signs
the. times. and has yet to learn the gent,
ofslavery. The supremacy, the omnip
tence Of the system. 10 the deliberate d
termination OF is abeitors They avo,
before the world. that they viii wade
blood. to secure their PeeuIar institution