The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-09-25

should be disposed to do nothing, do you
believe such party or such faction as this,
would permit him to do nothing! No, No.
Desperately, weakly, fatally, does he deceive
himself, who will not see that every thing
which an Executive, elected expressly to do
this deed, can do, will DO done. and done at
once! He will put it forward in his very first
Message. He will put it forward as the one,
grand measure of his party and Of his admins
tration. Nothing will be left unstirred to eff
ectit. The farewell words of Gen. Jackson
will be rung in admiring and subservient ears.
Aye, that drum shall be beaten, which might
call the dead of all his battles to the "midnight
review, in shadowy files! The measure
will not be attempted again, in the first in
stance, in the form of a Treaty, requiring
two-thirds of the Senate, but in the form of a
law, requiring majority Of only one. Do
you say that such majority can be comman-
ded! Do not be to sure of that. l pray
you give no vote, withhold no vote, ON such a
speculation as that. Do not, because Presi-
dent Tyler has not been able to command
majority-Presiden Tyler, without party,
with one whole division of the Democratic
party, with Col. Benton and Mr.. Wright at
its head, against them; with the Southern
Wings, under the seasonable and important
lead of Mr.. Clay, against him to man-do
not, because under these special and tempo
rary circumstances, he has not been able to
obtain majority, therefore lay the fattering
JUNCTION TO your soul, that when President
who has party, and that party majority of
the People, flushed with arecent victory, won
on this precise issue, shall try his hand at the
business; when Col. B enton-the temporary
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tence having subsided-shall resume his nat
ural and earlier position: and LA Sale ="
and "Ameicanus shall be himself again :;
when Southern Wings, no longer rallying TO
the lead Of Mr.. Clay, shall resume their nat
ural position, or shall divide on the question ::
when the whole tactics of party, the united or
general strength of the South. the vast and
mutiform influence ola strong Executive
shall be combined; when the measure comes
to be pressed, under every specious name, by
aid of every specous topic Of patriotism and
| ggrandisement; when, if any one, or two,
or ten, or twenty members of Congress,
shonld manifest symptoms Of recusaucy, or
should try the effect of a little "sweet, reluc-
tant, amorous delay" the weried sisters of
ambitious hearts shall play before their eyes
images Of foreign missions, and departments,
and benches of justice-do not deceive your
selves into the beliefthat the majority Of one
will not be secured. speak now of the ad-
mission of Texas as mere territory. The
erection Of that territory into States will be a
very different undertaking-later, less prom
Using, far more dreadful trial of the ties of
the Union. Of that have something to say
hereafter; but have no doubt whatever, and
| feel it to be an urgent duty to declare it.
that the territory as territory. will be admit
ted in twelve months after Mr.. Folks cleo
| ton, unless some extraordinary interpostion
Of the People, on which dare not speculate,
shall prevent it.
Mr.. Choate then proceeded to observe
upon letter, which he had read in the Ma
tional Intelligencer, signed by seven promin-
York, including the accomplished editor OF
the Evening Post, in which the writers de-
clare their purpose of supporting Mr.. Polk,
but recommend the election of members OF
Congress "who will reject the unwarrantable
scheme now pressed on the country" He
remarked on the concession OF the letter, to
wit: "that the Baltimore Convention had
placed the Democratic party at the North in
position of great difficulty it expos
ed the party to the constant taunt shat the
Convention rejected Mr.. Yam Buren, and nom
mated Mr.. Polk for reasons connected with
the immediate annexation Of as."-that
it went still farther and interpolated into the
party creed new doctrine, hitherto unknown
among US, at war with some Of our establish
ed principles, and abhorrent to the opinions
and feelings OF great majority Of Northern
freemen!" And he doubted whether State
which should give its vote for President
nominated solely for the very purpose of an
nexing Texas, would or could, in the same
breadth, elect members of Congress to 60 and
defeat this "scheme''-''unwarTanta E.
nough, no doubt, but yet the precise and sim
gle '.scheme" which Mr.. Polk was brought
forth to accomplishment whether they, or
such as they, who surrendered TO the candi-
date at Baltimore, would be very likely TO
beard and battle the incumbent at Washing
ton. He then resumed:
Il The election of Mr.. Polk, then, will, or
may probably annex Texas as aterritory. The
election of Clay defeats or postpones it in
definitely. Some persons pretendto doubt or at
least seem to deny this. Butdo they do him,
themselves,or the great subject justice! Read
hisletter upon this subject; observe the broad
and permanent grounds Of exclusion which
he there sketches; advert to the well-weighed
declaration, that so long as any considerable
opposition to the measure shall be manifes-
ted, he will resist it; and you cannot fail to
see that unless you yourselves,-unlessM Mass
achusetts, and Vermont and Ohio, should
Withdraw their opposition, for his term at
least, you are safe, and all are safe. That
letter, in my judgement makes him title to
every anti-Texas vote in America. The cir
cumstances under which it was given to the
world, happened well to know. 1t was be-
fore either Convention had assembled at Bal
timore. 1t was as yet, to me at least uncer-
tain what ground Mr.. Van Buren, would take.
Warm friends of Mr.. Clay in Congress
would have dissuaded him from immediate
publication. They feared its effect even on