The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-10-02

ART OF commerce tnen, might place or keep
the fertile region that alone produced it, for
ages, at the head Of the Conederacy. TIL.
exaustless soil and temperate climate of the
West, might attract and seat the centre of
power thereon the empurPled prairies-by
the shores Ofinland oceans. Labor and
Liberty, and Culture. might sometime win it
back 10 the rock Of Plymouth, the Battle
Fields of Bunker Hill and Bennington, TO the
SUBMITS of ourgranite mountains to the side
OF our bridal sea. OF all these alterations.
they intended that the people of America,
The people Of each region of America, Should
take the risk. OF all these we are ready TO
take the risk. Ofall these, we ALWAYS have
run the risk. But there is one thing, Of
which the trainers of the Constitution never
meant, that we or any region should take
risk; and that is, that any region, any inter
est, should call in foreign allies to prolona and
argument an aScenddHey, lrhich, under the ac-
ton Of natural causes, might be imagined 10 be
passing array! They never meant that the
North should call in the Canadas, or New
loundand, or Greenland, for the sole pur-
pose of giving us more votes in Congress Tor
lumber duties, or potash duties, or peltry
duties, or fishing bounties. or the protection
of woOl.-They never meant that the South
should bring IN Mexico, or Cuba, for the sole
purpose of voting down the Tariff. or main
tanning any dominion Orany institution. mere
ly because the broad, deep, and resistless
stream of time was threatening TO bear it 81
lcntly away. No No. That is not the
Union we came into. That is not the race we
set out TO run. We agreed TO love. honor
and cheriSha certain national identity. We
agreed TO place ourselves in the pow erof
f.fr f.att, nDff.s -,
our chance, Of any constitutional adminisira-
ton OF government; any fashion Of politics;
any predominance of interest, opinions and
Institutions, to which that might constitution
ally subject us But we did not agree 10
loye-we did not agree to he governed by
all creation We did not agree tina; the nncY-
chants Of Matanzas, the gold miners of Hex
leo, the logwood cutters of Honduras, the IN
dian traders Of Santa Fe Coahuiia, whose
"barbarous appellalions," we can neither
pronounce nor spell, should make cur laws
Non hGc IN fedora reRii Take care less the
people of all regious, bat one, should give
the transatiOn-"we made no such bargain.
and we stand no such nonsense"
With these impressions the evils of an.
nexation, il is difficult TO suprrCss ndiena-
ton at what would otherwise deserve nothing
this measure, who are ashamed or afraid 10
give the true one. "Texas is so fair and fer
tile" they say; as if this were not lust as
good an argument for annexing Ffancc,-a
better one, since France, though not so large.
Is iairer and more fertile, at will increase
our expectations ofcOttOn and sugar so much
as if we should not grasp Egypt. and Bra
iii, and llindOstan on that reason; as If Col.
llomes's letter, Just published, did not tell
us that the consumption of cotton is already
stationary in England and France, and il.at
the thing aimed at By South Carolina. is nos
to increase the supply against that demand,
bat 10 increase the demand, BY increasing
English ability to consume: and to do lhat
by Curing 10 The English manufacturers the
market Of america. The waters Of Texas
flow into our Mississippi, and therefore it
would be impiOas not to reunite hat nature
had joined'-lmpiOus as if there would
not be exactly the same clamor for it, fits
waters flowed into | know not what lake,
of fire or Of death! "It will consume such
unknown quantities of northern manufac-
lures" Unknown, indeed as if we were
quite so verdant rs not TO be perfectly aware
that the precise oil jet Of some Of the more
prominent movers Of this business is TO get
Texas votes to stop your mills, not Texan
to buy your cloth; that some of
those men would be glad to day to see you
send your children or your horses TO England
10 be shod; that what they VIGOROUSLY aim
II IS not AT all an increased ability TO con-
sumo your manufactures. Lut an increased
vote against your Tariff and an easier victory
over your labor. Texas will admit British
goods duty free, or uadc- low duties. anil
hey Will be Struggled in such quantities into
he United States as 10 diminish orr revenue
ind evade our law of profectiou "a reason
which am sorry TO see receive the sanction
IF a convention Of Massachusetts rren, Of
y hatever poliIies-scarccly satisfactory,
'eniure to conjecture, to any manly minded
md intelligent member Of that body ofour
democratic fellow citizens wl have iust male
heir nomination OfGov.-as # Texas starved
o death, crushed, parslysed for want OF mon
,y-Texas, almost compelled TO let 90 tie
weet and proud boon Of national indcpcE-
leuce because she has not the financial abb
ty to assert her title to it-as if she can afcrd
o admit English goods free of dUty, or I'M
Ter duties so far below cnr own as 10 war
ant such an absurd apprehensioH-as fail
louisiana, and Arkansas, and Missouri. were
.oing TO form great co partnership of SNUG
ling with orkshlre and Liyerpool-as If,
IN this hyoth si', you must not have Mexico
90, for she is under English influence, and
viii lend hand to this hopeful scheme Of
nrning the flank ofthe Tari1-and Canada.
-hich is England herself, in direct contact
irh more States than Texas toucbes-uay.
5 if you must not, as good Alabama Wing
aid, make mp your minds to have "no outside
DIV at all for the squirrels TO eat" and so
trike dead TO the water all round, at once,
OF forgetting your right to marine league.
say couple Of thousand miles long, to
reveut lowering on your coasts.
No, fellow citizens, there is no case made
n annexetion ut all. Let him no is ma
ing his mind up on that subject, and who
ssires to do so, not in the small spirit of
arrow and local selfshneSs, but as patriot,
unioniSt, statesman. a christian, lover of
is kind; let him unrol the map of our terri
Try as now we hold it, broad. houndIess as
n ocean; let him, on that map, observe how
lat territory spreads itself out from the 81.
ohn TO the Sabine. eight and twenty hundred
tiles Of coast, and inland to the Rocky
fountains, aye, to the great tranquil sea,
than fbirfp 6ya burJ-aI