Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-11-08
From The Tribune.
TENAS

ain an evil hour for my country" once said
an American Commander 'o inc with a sigh, ''dd
the French and SpanardS abandon Louisiana ia
the United States. We were not sufficiently
country before and should we be mad enough
to- drive the tn1ush FROM Canada, and their 9th
or North American Provinces. we shall soon
rease To b. a country al all. Without local at
tnchmnn'. w,ihomt National honor, we shall re-
semne swarm of insects that settle on the
fruits OF the Earth to corrupt and 'ievour them.
rather than men who love and cicavc 10 the land
vt their forefa,hers. After slapcless Anarchy,
we shall al last be for mel into mlny countries;
cr shall fall beneath the despntism of son'n Nj
itaty Ahven'nrer; like Lion consumed by an
inward disease, PROSTATE and helpless under
the beak and ta'nns NJ vrl'urn. ~ vet me 'ner
bird f prev.-The Friend, rol r. Essay X.
The writer Of the following paragraphs is
m mclllcr in ihn sirilrs of Party. Time, and
other habits, have gradually (he fiuds) weak
enel the interest with which h" might once
have entered into political conflicts, and have
formed him. inspNsihy yet indisso'njly, to
(l lcasi) calnnr and qretcr pursuits.
", occasion nov AMI then arises, in II
government like ours, when the ordinary oh
iecis Of Political warfare disappear in the
presence of strrnrr realities; and when the
ia sport ar weakness, becomes one OF dam
ger, which peril lngtils us to neglect. Then
comes n moment whnD, not change of mas
tess, Or CHOICE hrInrrn good and evil pol
irirs, is to be t.h.trl ,h~.y..r t..i" y'rnncr-
est or transient results: whose wrong deciS-
i'm may still leave our country hahtable and
our condition one Of continued hope, is spell
ling ont its answer il the srfTfares Of the Ma
FL.
nate blessings Of conl administration either
valuable or altainahle, is itself thrown into
the Lottery, and awaits the turning Of its
wheel.
Such a moment it seems 10 the writer,
now hangs over as. lam af1iightpd, sir, TO
see with how little trembling the mass of our
population regard the settled and reckless
determination to annex Texas TO our Re-
public. The certainty Of its defeat can
hardly hc assigned IA the reason of this apa-
thy. 1t is evident they virw i! as question
Of party-oi victory or drfra. An occa-
sionll voirc is heard, indeed, Of one who has
some apprehension Of tho extent of evil
has fathomcd some Of the depths Of rum into
which this measure must inevitably plunge
us. But the multitude, even of enlightened
They regard the measure MS like, IN kind at
least, to those that have risen before it, one
by one, from the ingenuity Of creed necd
ing partv-An,i-B Bank Anti. D,s'rlhnlion-
Free Tradp--Snh-Trcas They are di.
verse in kind. Ofthosc, the evils are tenn
porarv and durable of this. pcrmanen, and
remedIless. They ar" questions of policy !;
this reaches the very ground ON Which policy
Is even possible.
Our country is already as largo, and en-
braces as many conflicting, not to say incom-
patiblc. interests as are ut all consistent with
National Union. Ii has always been (nihle
of our comntrvmrn, tn boast of their oxiend-
cd trrri,ory, and to think its enlargement 50
much sur" advance in prosperity and glory.
Nevertheless, shrrwd and uninicrcslcd on
lockers in the Old World have understood.
from tn" beginning. that herein is the frs,
md last fear Of the integrity Of our Union. -
We already (who affects To be ignorant of il!)
need al the Influences whicl, our dearest m
forests, the sacredness Of our Constitution,
and our common Ancestral glory can supply,
10 save us from diSnnion. The Patriot still
prays and trusts that National compact
which has been tho source Of all our success,
and is the ground Of all on, hopes. may by
honesty and prudence yet he preserved I'M
broken. But add to our over strained hands
the weight Of i'eyas, with its new hostile in
tercs's, its unriemcous war, its refugee and
desperate porulace, and how long will the
over-ladon vehicle lumber on, before the
whole will tumble into ruin
Amy great extension of our territory wonlc
probably ruin us hut we're it otherwise
what kind of an addition vii! Texas be p
To those who love morality, and freedom
and law, the manner Of her settlement. he
relations to her mother country, and tho
character of her populace as revealed in the
weekly press, answer with emphasis. SHE
is den of thieves; she is sworn TO perpet
uate domestic slavery in its hloodicst and cru
elest form; hel men Of influence and onic,
arc the rejected criminals Of better lands =
she is the provrrbial rendezvous Of rascal
for all the Continent she is red with tn
blood Of violence and recling with the debil
ity of early dissnluteness. With what mo
tive shall we we'd ourselves 10 a populac
whose law is might, whose religion none a
all? Or whv shall we bnd ourselves, as tn
ancient did their criminals. to a "body c
death1"
In tho name Of our Union, and Of Moral
iiv, and OF Posu,ity, may not u.go til
honest Of all parties to mite in resisting III
disastrous alliance? May we not especial
call upon the great number who. proiessin
opposition TO the measure, still temporiz
with il, rs il this, too, were question
loaves and fishes, 10 come boldly oui again,
il. as evil, and only evil, and declare oppc
siion 10 Annexation under all conditions III;
are ever likely TO arise "!
IN two points of view may the result
the coming Election be considered prophe
ic of American prospects. II will, in a
probability, determine whether Texas sl,a
he annexed to us. If Texas, and the can
didates identified with her, succeed in tI,f
Election, our doom is written--we may pre-
pare TO meet il. Our ruin may not b
speedv. bnt il will be certain. Nothing "a