Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-07-05

I act, the public lands-on all these he has been
against the slaveocracy tell them that if Mr..
Clay is not elected, it is morally certain that Mr..
Polk, an avowed annexationst, will be, and that
every vote against Mr.. Clay will count for annexa-
ton yet you will find men with whom these
truths will not avail. The power Of party has been
brought to bear upon them their prejudices have
been appealed to and their fears aroused-and
thus men, who feel most deeply the curse Of slavery
will absolutely sustain it!
There is danger which ought to arouse every
patriotic man to immediate and energetic action
The danger is greater than it ever has been be-
fore-it is imminent. Hitherto the North has been
counted upon as united immoveably against this
scheme; but the ocofoco leaders have played
false; they offer their birthrght of freedom for
mess of pottage; they have betrayed the free
States We invite the attention of every Vermont
er to the vote taken in the Senate the following
resolution, introduced by Mr. McDuiio of S. c.
and disposed OF on the llth of June:
Resord That compact of annexation made the
Executive Government of tho United States and that Texas
unlimited the Senate for confirmation by the President OF
United States, he and the is hereby ratified ,hc
Fundamental law of the Union between the United states and
Toxa tho Supreme Executive and Legislative
Texas shall ray and co firm the said compact of annex
atom"
The motion was to lay this resolution on the ia
ble,--that is, to kill it:
YeasosIessIs a,sAs, Barron, Dates, Bayerd, Brrie.,
ton, arnagin, Johnson Maagaa erriek Miller, Aorhead
W Sc5i dssP FGi.e NI S% wa ai%s' "'
Niys-Mossrs allen, Atchison, dhertoD, Bagy, Benton,
Broesc, Buchanan, Edrfcid, Fulton, Hafo Haywood u
-l9-( All Locos.)
Of nineteen who voted to sustain this resolu-
ton, TEN lin italic) were from the free States and
all locofocos. OF the 81 VINO voted to kill this
resolution, THIRTEEN were Wings from the
slave States. Mark, then, this fact-it was the
WhigS, and the Whigs Of The Stare States, Too, who
defeated that resolution. Had it not been for the
patriotism of those Wings, the recreant locofoco
dough faces of the North, would, ere this, have
bound the free States in eternal scrvitude to the
slave power-for be it remembered, that if slavery
once gets the balance of power, it will never
er, be surrendered.
Look at the vote on the question of ratifying Ty-
lers Traaty:
Ayes Noes.
From the Free statcs, From the Fee States, Is
Slave States, ii Slave States, II
IS Is
All Locos but onc,l [27 Wings and locos.l
Here it will be seen that majority of the .Slaue
States uoted against The Treaty. 1t was the Wings,
and the Wings of the slave States, too, who de-
feated that treaty.
From these facts it is evident ,uhat the dangers
are: they are, that locofocoism in the free States
will surrender the votes of as many of these States
as they can carry-and that The South, tempted as
she is by the offer of eternal supremacy in the gov
eminent and Of the perpetuation of slavery, and
goaded she is by the threats of ultra abolitoniss
will yield to annexation. Strange as it may
SEEM this great question, which is to settle the
fate Of slavery forever is at this moment com.
petely in the hands of the slave States, and it is
there, simply because portion of the North-the
locofocos of the free States-have basely BETRAYED
the people. What, then, is the remedy? 1t is, if
we can, to sweep from Congress every Northern
locofoco-there is not one to be trusted who ad-
heres to his party after the avowal of James X.
Polk and the Locofoco Convention in favor Of
nexation,-it is, for the free States TO unite as
one man in sustaining the WING PARTY AND
THE WING SENATE. We know that anti
slavery men will object that Mr.. Clay is a slave
Holuer-tlaI the wing party embraces SlaFenold-
ers. 1t is true,-but warn the anti-savery men,
that oithom Henry Clay, and The votes Of Stare
holding members Of Congress, the antislovery cause
is forever lost. Ostracise Mr. Clay and the slave
holding Whgs-dvide and defeat the Wings of
the North,-and in two years from this you will
see Texas an integral part of this nation-and
slavery Boosting Of its perpetual supremacy in the
| jS IN tla f,ptt1 ,ot
locoocoism has surrendered this question to the
South it is impossible to escape the conclusion,
that if the opponents of annexation in the North
abandon the Wings of the South, annexation can
not be defeated. The patriotic Wings ofthe South
who dare go against annexation, must not be a
bandoned. Judge ye of this matter, and take the
course which true lover of liberty ought to pur-