New-York daily tribune., 1844-12-02

usurpations OF the Federal Government.
Threat Of Notification.
Under these circumstances, ii deroEres on
Scutk Carolina TO decide ,rhat course she toiH
pursue in refereree to the Tariff. The period
has orrired ,ehen she can no longer postpone her
faal decision. 1t is due from. her. 1t is e.
pected Of her. AID i she fails TO announce II,
her silence ,cil nevertheless be c0aclusiUs Wat
cper may be the technical urlidty or legdRtoree,
of the opinions on this important question cisich
your predecessors haze placed up2n yoar reeoTcs,
il appears clear TO me that our State IS bound 6y
her past HISTORY and the principles she protesses,
and opes il to the country ard herself, TO adopt
such measures rs tciH at an early peTiod 6TIng
all her moral, constitutional, ard, II neeessary'
PHYSICAL. RESOURCES, in direct array against
Dol,cy ,vhich has nercr been checked but by ner
iaterpssi,ion, and ,caiea imporcrishes our Coa'a-
try, repolutionizes our Gouernnlent, and oUeT-
throus orr liberties. The ezpedteney, the man
ncr, and the precise time Of doing this, are toT
pour graue dehberdt;on.
Annexation Of Texas-Position q MeEieo.
The last session OF Congress wes also sigaali-
zed by the rejection of Treaty for the Annexa-
ton of Texas to the United States. The cause
assigned for this rejection was, that Mexico not
having vet acknowledged the independence Of
Texas, it would be a violation Of our treaty oi
smity and peace with that power 10 receive Tex
as into the Union. 1t is at least question,
whether the United States has not claim to
Texas paramount to any 10 which Mexlco can
pretend II may alsa be questioned, whether the
terms on which Texas united with the Me1lcan re-
public, and formed Department OF 1t, did not en-
title her of right to withdraw whenever she saw
proper. Be that as it may, she has IN fast disso-
we'd the conne1ion, and has been recognized as
an Independent Power. BY the United States,
England, France, Belgium, and Holland A jury
of nations has pronounced divorce, and Mexl-
co has abstained for eight years from attempting
to reyive the union by the ordinary means offorce
of arms. Her claims cannot now be regarded as
anything short of frivolous. That the political
sensibility of the United States should now hang
point Of honor on these claims, and thereby
throw away an empire, must appear to all the
world extremely romantic, If not rd:cuious.-
While Russia IL bY incessant war extending her
overgrown dominion into the rugged stePpss OF
Tarlary while France sheds torrents ei blood,
and spends millions of treasure, to conquer foot
hold on q sterile coast of Africa, and, stretching
across Two oceans, opens her batteries on the ie-
male sovereign Of petty island al the antpo5es,
to establish her supremacy there; and while
England with rapaclous hand despolls Eastern
Princes of Province after Province, and even
to accept e kingdom on the Mus
quito Shore as legacy from barbarian ch!ei;
that the United States should, from mere deli
eacy, refuse profered territory ofthrce hundred
soaare miles, embracing the most ier
tile soil Oh the globe, and peopled by her own
children, cannot be otherwise regarded than a.
absoptely Quixotic. Europe, while rejoicing at
such an unexpected event, is SO utterly incapable
Of approaching these sublimated notions Of ra-
tional faith as not to hesitate to ascr5e 1t sIley
10 the influence OF party spirit, and note 1t as
fresh evidence of tho instability of our lnsiltu-
tons.
Northern Hostility to Siarery.
That party spirit may have had some influence
IN the rejection of this Treaty, IS probable. But
The NUN, and most powerful reason, undoubted-
" was the deadly animosty Of portion of this
Union to our domestic slavery, and the fear of
ext ending and perpetuatihg II. This reason has
been openly avowed by nearly the whole press OF
the nonslavehoding States by thor public lee
.urers, by their most distinguished orators, and
BY the legislatures OF several States-pdrticu-
arly of that Observation-Disclosures resolutions
transmit you, in which is strongly intimated the
,xpedcncy of dissolving the Union of these States
N this very ground, if Texas is annexed.
Scarcely any circumstance could have fur
lished go striking proof of the deep .seated hos
ility of every portion, and almost every individ
lal, of the North, to our system of Slavery, and
heir fixed discrimination to eradicate it. ii possi-
Bic, as the rejection of this treaty, and the aTgu
nents by which they justify il. In every point
If view, save enc, the acquisition of Texas was
IF more consequence to the North than to the
South To them it gave an increase Of COM
nerce fresh market for their manufactures;
.nother vent for population; new subjects on
whom to levy triaute. To US, security. only;
md security at an immense sacrifice in the value
If our lands and of our staples. But the pride
If increased dominion, the thirst of wealth; am
oition, and avarice-long supposed to be the two
,,rongest passions of cur natrre-have sunk be-
ore their fanatical zeal to up.oot an institution
with which, is linked forever, and ineepassbly,
the welfare, and almost the existence, of FIVE
millions of their fellow citizens.
Division Of the Methodist Church.
Nor is the refusal to ratify this treaty. SO vital
" important to the South, the only extraordinary
proof which the past year has furnished, OF the
exuberant and rancorous hostility of the North
20 our domestic slavery. At meeting III May
last of the General Conference of the Methodist
denomination, whose ecclesiastical constitution
and government bear, in some respects, striking
10 the political Constitution and Go
veroment OF this Confsderacy, pious BsEop of
the South was virtually deposed from his sacred
office, because he was stakeholder 1t was
openly and distinctly stated, that the Methodist
congregations in the non.slaveholding States,
much larger erproportion OF the masses
than any Others would no longer tolerate slave.
holder in their pulpits; a fact which has been
since exempli6ed With becoming spirit, The
patriotic Methooists of the South dissolved all
with their brethren of the North. And
ior this they entitled to lasting honor and gra-
titude from us. Other Instances might be cited,
not so striking, but equally decisive OF the fact,
that the abolition phrenzy is no longer confined
TO few restless and daring spirits, but has seized
the whole body OF the people in the .slavehod.
ing States, and is rapidly superseding all other
sxciements, and trampling on all othct interests.
1t has even been thought that The organized Alb
clifton vote might decide the pending Presiden.
,;9l ele,fior and hoih uartisS nj the North have