Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1844-08-03

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tho two proposition for annexation, lfy.
|lcf'atfcaty aud licuonb blIll that Texas
never can be- annexed 10 this Union,
|wuhout tho prohibition Of slavery fer.
ever, in the largest proponInn Of the tor.
|riDofyl Any one can sooolhut IPoala
/ this Increase Southern poihcH influence
And again, the great oycrprojuelon
Of cotton that would onuo from tmmcjl.
ate annexation, would lowur the price OF
our great staple at lcos, ity per cont
for the worry moment that the American
Eagle spreads his broad, protecting wings
over the louilo plains of roSns, an un.
poralIalod emigration, both Of planters
and slaves, will take pacc--all will rush
into tho cultivation OF cotton, AID, as
a necessary consequence, the oyerpro-
dution would cause such aEhut in the mar
ket, aud necessary fall IN price, as viii
bring distress and misery to the hearhs Of
thousands, Tho large planter will feel
it in the loss Of half his crop, and if he
be in debt, irretreyable ruin will be en-.
tailed upon him, The small farmer who
raises just a sullic lent quantity of cotton
to clothe his family and educate his chill,
dren, will feel it, and feel it deeply, too,
in his inability to provide his family with
more than one half Of the indispensable
necessarleS Of life, while his children will
be compelled 10 grope their way in igno,
rance through the world, who otherwis
might have become ornaments of society.
The merchan; will feel It in the stagna
ton Of business and the diminution OF
his sales. The mechanic and dav labo.
rer will feel it in the reduction Of their
wages. Every class of society will feel
1t, and the shock will vibrate upon every
fibre of the body polite. Such are some
OF the disastrous consequences which we
firmly believe would fall upon the cot =
ton growing states by the imnsed ate an
nexaton of Texas to this Union, aside
from taking into consideration the hor-
rors Of war-the loss Of national char
acter-the great injury to our commerce.
All these evils, or most OF them could
be avoided, by the exercise Of little pa
Hence on the part Of the friends Of the
measure. Mexico will quietly relnquish
her title after she gets a few more drub.
Oings from the brave Texians,-the an
tipathy to the measure at the north Will
have subsidized when they understand the
fine market that will be opened COR their
manufactures; and then, if annexation be
the word, let time given for the embark
alton into other branches Of industry of
those who cultivate our third rate lands,
and who would be unable 10 compete
with the owners OF lands Of the first
quality-and thus avoid the ruinous dis
asters that would inevitably ensue from
the adoption of the measure of annexa-
ton al the present time Under such
circumstances we would be warmly in
favor Of the acquisition Of the fertile ter
rltory OF TeXas-but as things stand at
present, we arc most decidedly opposed to
running our own cotton growing country
TO enrich set of unprincipied Texas
land gamblers and stock obbers, or of
subscribing the ambitious purposes Of I'M
scruPuIous demagogues, who wish to con-
vert into an engine of personal aggran-
dlzement and partizan pre(erment, a
measure that should looked upon solely
in a national iight-as a question inyoIv-
ing in greater or less degree, the wei
fare Of the wtole Union.
Would it not be much better for the
South, then, to have SIdueholding Teras-
natural ally-on our whole south-wes-
tern border, free and MISREPRESENTATION
to have her Immediately annexed, at the
hazard Of the evils above mentioned, and
FREE STATES erected GU: Of the territory?
That the Independent ce of the Republic
Of Texas will be maintained inviolate,
there can be no doubt, if Henry Clay is
elected to the chief magistracy of this
Union. He declares, emphatically, that
" any attempt by European power, to
colonize or subjugate Texas" should
meet with ARMED RESISTANCE FRONT
the government Of the United States,
and there is no nation upon the face Of
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