Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-10-11

who by the slave trade or piracy acquires possess
sion OF 100 sloves-his fellow men--in Texas to
stand, by admission into the Union, against you,
sir, abbott Lawrence,) and any other 60 of the
wealthiest and most intelligent freemen, whether
Wing, Democrat, or Abolitionist, in the NORTH II
We want Texas they tell u.s. to prevent smuggling
into the United States That is the men who have /
sworn to dissolve the Union, or break down the do
nestle industry of the country, want Texas for
fear England will do the same thing, which they |
are rushing to war, even, to accomplish! Into such [
absurdtes do men fall, when they leave the straight
road of justice and truth. Here lies England,
along our whole Northern coast. We are accessi |
bic through the whole of the Eastern and Southern
border, and yet we are to be told that Great Britain
will sail around the dangerous about Florida,
aud into the shallow agoons Of all southern Texas
and pass through the swamps of the Mississippi ly
ing between these and the Sabine, to smuggle goods
into America The same which forbid its
being used as a place Of smuggling, apply with
greater force against the idea of Andrew Jackson,
that Texas would, in the hands of England be-
come point of attack. If il were not for the
source whence this argument came, it would de-
serve to be passed in contenIptuous silence What,
when we are unable to guard the line from the
mouth of the Sabine to the southern border of Ar
kansas-a few hundred miles-extend the line
from the mouth of the Rio Grande, 1900 miles, in
GLIDING the Santa Fe to its source, embracing 100,
600 square miles more than the kingdom of France
thus to weigh down common sense, put Napoleon
against Jackson and he tells that desert is the
best barrier against foreign incursons; and should
England be fool enough to land IN the shallow bays
Of Texas, unfit for the first class of war. steamers,
and hazard her army through the unproductiue
swamps between the Sabine and the great river,we
would have time enough to rally half million Of
| frecmen, from the Lakes TO the Gulf to give her
| ball and steel as as she showed herself from
the cane brakes of the Mississippi. The idea that
England seeks to surround us is equally absurd
II she did, she would only weaken her force, and
enable more easily to break through her serried
ranks, wherever drawn up in battle array. But
| England seeks not to possess Texas she has again
and again, in the most formal manner, disclaimed
any improper interference of any character what
ever; and if she should attempt it, then let us by
arms, if necessary, stand for Texan independence
| would always treat an opponent with respect but
| must confess that lose my patience when / see
such men as Mr.. Bancroft urging the annexation of
Texas, under the amnabe pretence that it would
ultimately lead off slavery from our soil Manu-
lecturers, do You lower the price of your goods by
acquiring additional markets? Farmers, do you
diminish the price of your produce by having two
manufacturing towns to sell to instead of P
Then tell me no more that you will destroy slavery
in the States, by finding in Texas new markets for
slaves, and thus enhancing the profits of slave
breeding in all the grain growing slave States in
the Union What presumption is it for men here
to set up such opinions against the combined expe
rience of all who live i'll the slave States; both
Those who are in favor of emancipation and those
who advocate eternal slavery, agreeing in this only,
that the admission of Texas will tend to make
slavery secure in the United States for centuries
to come! Nor do we want Texas for the purposes
Of emigration and expansion of our population
Every principle Of political economy teaches US
that up to the time when the earth ceases to afford
sustenance for its inhabitants, it is desirable not to
diminish population bet to increase it--because all
the burthens of civil government, and of moral and
intellectual improvement are lessened to each in
dividual by the accumulation of numbers, to say
nothing of the perfection of all the arts which
crues from the division of labor, and the laws of in
telligent observation and heightened competition
We are capable, on our present soil, of sustaining
more than two hundred millions of men. Far dis
tant, them is the day, when it will be the interest o
our people to leave us. No, we don't want Texas
to prevent smuggling-we don't want it to proven
England from getting it as point of attack--wt
don't want it for purposes of emigration--we dom
want it to destroy slavery. oh, no. | ask every
democrat here tonight to tell, if there be, unde
Heaven, any reason why this project, then, is urg
ed upon us in all this hot haste but for the avowed
the single, the damnable purpose of'extendng n
very over the unborn fifty millions of Texas az
perpetuating the slave rule over and our posteri
ty? Once more, repeat, | am against it, now, ant
forever. The Romans made their prisoners of wa
pass under yoke, to remind them Of their seryi
tude here is a yoke labelled acar and per.pet,,a
slavery shall the future historian write it, that tn
descendants of the patriots of '76, went forward t.
the polls in 1914, and voluntarily submitted thei
necks to bondage, gladly prostrating themselye
beneath the heel of the tyrant?
But if you take Texas you must pay her debts
$25000,000 says Mr. Benton-who also tells, wha
we all believe to be true, that not single foot
unappropriated land remains in Texas proper t
come into our possession and quidate the debt w
pay for her. How dare the men who will not Civ
US our own land money, to pay our debts and rellev
our own States from reputation and dlshonor, t
thrust their Internal fingers into the pockets of tn
freemen Of America, to pay 25,000,000 Of none
for a foreign nation, incurred in propagating slave
ry among men? We trample upon the most sol
emn treaty between Mexico and the United States
and rush over the Constitution, to war in this fiend
ish propagandism; and in such war; according t
the laws of nations, it is not only the right, but thu
bounden duty of all Christendom to come in to tn
help of Mexico and reduce us to a sense of CON
mon justice. And in such war; when the banne
of l776, fright against might" once borne by III
is now borne by them-when | shall be called u[
on to rally to the standard of my country inscrbe
with eternal slavery" | am bold in the avowa
that though profess to be as brave as most men,
have no heart for such contest am a coward
such cause On our own soil, in defence of OF
own rights, defy the world in arms-but in sue
a cause this if the Bible be true, we cannot suC
ceed if history be not a fable, we cannot hold pc
!, manent conquest; "they who live by the swol
shall perish by the sword" and at all times domir
= ion based upon unjust conquest has fallen to SUI
: den ruin and ultimate retributve desolation! TIL
S Republic must stand upon justice,a high moral SCI
tment, or else it cannot stand at all there must
= either regard for right a resort to the swor,
: either pure baotboX, or the pestiental cartridl
: box The day that the nation deliberately violate
right the Constitution of our country crumbles IL
to dust and is gone forever and upon its ruins ri'
Q force and utter despotsm And now we are Gale
upon in the very outset to perpetrate this outraG
II against the laws of nations and nature, by tram
s ling the Constitution under foot in two several il
h stances once, as have shown before, by VOL
v ting the 9Th article Of the amendments, by ADM
|, ting Texas as a Slave State; and again, by adm
q ting her at all. The Constitution is an nstrume
: of delegated powers all powers not given are n
IS served to the States, or to the people. Where,
q, ask every Democrat here, is the clause giving Il
l. Federal Government authority to add foreign n
a, tion ia us or us TO n foreipn milton No Wher,