The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-05-03
PEOPLES PRESS.
Tuesday Morning, May 3, 1912
ANNEXATION OF TEXAS.


We arc glad our able representative, in con.
junction with others, has sounded the alarm in
Congress upon this subject. On the l4th ult.
in the discussion of appropriations for the SAL
aries of foreign ministers, Mr.. Lynn, of New
York, moved to strike out so much as related
to mission to Mexico. Another motion was
made by C. J. !ngersoll to strike out so much
as related to minister to Austria and Prussia.
Their motions gave rise to long and exciting
debate in the course of which, Messrs. Slade,
Adams, Bolts. Wise and lngersoll largely par
ticipaled; and the two latter gentlemen covered
and wri,hed under the lash of one of the most
cutting phippics ever delivered by Mr.. Adj
ans in Congress. Without being able to in.
sert the whole debate; we deem il our duty, as
faras our limits will permit, TO give extracts
from Mr.. SHADES speech. However We re.
greet the deviations ofthe House from straight.
forward progress towards the most important
object Of the session, revision of the tariff.
we could not but rejoice that the secret combi-
nations of southern men with the northern loco
democracy, to annex Texas TO the Union, were
displayed before the nation. The accomplish.
ment of this object would render this Union a
curse rather than blessing. II would per.
petuate the dominion Of shareholders, which
is worse than an Egyptian bondage to three
fourths of the Union. Far better would it be
that the Union should be at once dissolved, and
new combinations formed among states whose
interests, either real or imaginary, were not So
variant from each other. We know of no an.
ticipation whic h should give the North more
serious alarm, than the event to which We have
alluded. In our estimation, war with England
would be blessing in comparison. 1t would
iinallyend IN peace. and The adoption Of a sound
protective policy. But the annexation of Texas
would blight every hope of prosperity which
recent events have been unfolding to our view.
Slavery, SLAVERY, Slavery: nothing but SLAVERY
TO shareholders. would be the final result; aud
well did Mr.. Sladc say that he would not give
the snap Of his finger after such an event.
MR.. SLADE said he was aware of the i'm
patience Of the committee for the passage of
the bill. and he should not go now into the dis
cussion as fully as he desired to do. lie must
render, however, his thanks to the gentleman
from New York (Mr.Linn) for having brought
the question of this Mexican mission to the
notice of the committee and of the country; and
though Mr.. s. could not vote in favor of the
motion he had made, he reioiced it had been
made, since it opened the subjec: for debate.
He expressed his regret that the gentleman
had, from motives of deicacy confined himself
10 general outline of his argument, and had
not filled it out moro in detail; if the gentleman
supposed he should, in the slightest degree,
escape censure in certain quarters by such a
course, he would find himself entirely mistak.
en-. 1t was due 10 himself due to the House,
and especially due to the country, that the SUBJ
ject should be more fully got into, that the COM
munity might be reused from the stupor which
seemed to prevail in regard to this whole sub.
jcct Of the annexation of Texas to this Union.
MIR. S. declared himself in fsvor of the
appointment of full minister to Mexico in
preference to a charge. not Only on account of
the direct relations which subsisied between us
and that country, but also of the collateral
bearings of the subject. But, while be was
decidedly in favor of the mission, he did OBJ.
ject to the individual who had been appointed
to fill it, and he thought there we're sufficient
reasons why he ought not 10 receive his outfit
and salary; at all events the committee had a
right 10 discuss that question. The individual
to whom that important and delicate station
was entrusted ought. in poin: of talents and of
GOODNESS, to be second TO no man on earth.
Blu. whether he looked to the personal charac.
ter or to the political relations ofhim who had
received the appointment, he thought there
were valid objections to his occupying that
post Indeed. he was nearly the very last man
WHO was, IN these respects, fit TO manage the
difficult and delicate questions which already
existed or were likely TO arise between the two
countries. Though possessed of talents If !,
high order, these alone did not fit him fur tho
station. He ought to possess temper and
GOODNESS which exalted him to an elevation far
above the interests and feelings of any par,icu.
lar section Of the community, and which did
no, relate TO the country at large. Many of