Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1844-05-25


say-lhat Is, majority Of Congress declared against
inerpose his peo TO They seemed to forget that
when such crisis arrived dissolution would have vinu-
ally taken place, and that the South would had rely
upon something else besides the Intellectual empty agu-
ments Of ceto-parculary such the candidate
would have written II we may judge from many Of the po-
lit cal papers that have emanated from him, in which he has
generally held his left hand seaI,hly TO the South while
his right extended with much dectness he could
assume grasped by the North We did allow
he duped the case and should determine
moi 10 led astray deceived in the other To prevent
dissolution and protect the interests Of the South
have thank God to rely upon than the promises Of the
" Northern with Southern principles" the chimer
cal expectations OF the friends Of i'm Mediate annexation.
The glorious compact which bequeahed by
mon ancestry dsregaded and ampled the dust
patriotism which, however others may think, believe still
burns with bright flame in the North as IN any other po
ton Of the Unon be exnguished; sefnteres, which
often influences whom other feeling REACH must
forgotten before the States can consent to
interfere with and destroy privileges and property Bnt
should all these considerations fashoud our Northern be-
hren, carried away by blind ianaticism ogefu Of justice,
right and country Of all the advantages OF Union Of the
glory have achieved under the "sta spanged BAN
ner be willing undertake To interfere with or overurn
slavery we shall then have but last resoone melan-
choly aernatve,pe must rely upon our oon stout arms
and brape hearfs The defence property and fresides
Of those who believe in the notion industri-
ousy popagated by the friends of annexation that the
treaty rejected the Texans will unite themselves with, or
sell their slaves TO- England The present population 81
Texas consists principally almost entirely OF emgans
Bit they favorable and believe in the necessity Of
labor and they would be prompt to repe any attack
upon the institution of slavery ourselves TO assume,
therefore, that the Texans prepared to form an alliance
with England upon condition Of the abolition Of slave
for stipulated price, to assume that the whole OF the
Popuaon are prepared to abandon Texas and to re-
either Great Britain the free States Of this Unions
for Southern man for moment imagine that they
will remain in couay where their slaves have become their
equals Equally violent is the presumption that the Texans
prepared could be induced, sell their slaves Eng
of If
holding States Of the Union for hardly he supposed
that they would be willing weak enough to sell their me-
goes England for 5000 each when they would have to
$500 each for those they might need 10 the country OF
their adoption. This idea, therefore, is not wefounded,
but highly absurd, and gross Insult to Texas We were
told the thing in 1897 when Texas applied for admis
sion the Union. The accusation false then, and the
prediction will prove equally false England moreover,
Lord Aberdeen informs us DESTROYS Of The separate and
Independent existence of Texas and have good
believe that such is the wish Of France. We have right
doubt the sincerity Of these great Powers but at the
time think it the duty of Government to make known
them, and TO the world that attempt on their part or
the part Of any other European power to colombo Texas,
interfere in her internal AFFAIRS take her under their
peculiar protection, will be considered aggression by the
United States dangerous TO peace and safety and Will be
| resisted accordingly
bound to assume debt Of Texas should not exceed
millions Of dollars Although this particular DO spe-
cie will be obliged to the debt even should
fifty Millions aud you prepared to add so
greatly your present Indebtedness in order to- get ride
of would you be willing to resort TO the cheap and easy
mode reputation Strange things sometimes occur in
political life and had not become fully aware Of this act
should have been astonished Of the eontery with which
Of the friends of Texas advocate the assumption OF It's
debt the time that they cannot listen with patience
to any proposition which might be made for the arrangement
Of the debt owing by some OF the States already
enclosed within pale of the Union and which, might
4 hink, would be first entitled to their sympathies
Having thus glanced, felow-czens at these points OF
general interest country let look little into the
If eYafiop n q
producing State. II is my deliberate opinion mat should
the treaty he ratified the lands of Louisiana will be reduced
segenty five per cent in value and our grea, staples y
per cent Emigration Louisiana from the Atlantic slave
holding States will ceasen fact expect partial emil
grafton from Louisiana Texas This being the where
shall find market for improved or unimproved lands
@ s mo thousand :. no soas
round To what a condition would this state Of ,hnes
reduce the indebted portion Of people, who might wish to
SELL or whose estates might be sold under execution The
effect upon the price Of sugar and will 10 equally as
great We know from actual experiment that sugar the
pest quay can be made in Texas and that the climate Of
hat country favorable its production than that of
Louisiana CAM then, Louisiana planter whose land has
cost nm n dollars per acre, expect to compete successfully
with his rival in Texas who from Virginia and buys
his land at dollar aud twenty five cents Der acre The
same may he said Of the composition of the Texan cotton
planter The land would be much cheaper and the climate
and SOIL as well, not BETTER adapted cultivation But
there yet remains important consideration aud one
which more seriously affects as sugar and cton
Panters and that the rapid and immense addition which
wouu oe made To the quantity OF staples IL the treaty
De athe there be doubt that the next three wears
Two hundred and fifty thousand working hands will be intro
duced into Texas from the United States and principay
from sections OF the sayehnng States producing no sugar
and but little cotton This force employed Texas say two
hundred thousand hands the cultivation of cotton and fy
thousand ~ the cultivation will be the OF add
g one million OF bales of cotton aud hundred aud fy
thousand hogsheads Of the present overgrown
ana these VIII be produced by aborers now producing
more han one hundred thousand bales Of the none
o the latter What must inevitably be the OF this
great addition to the quantity Of staples Most assured
reduction IN each Of more than fifty per And are
you prepared suffer to this extent aid in the accomplish
ment OF measure by which many evils may inflicted
upon the nation large and from which you can derive m
have underworld to show, corresponding advanagel
have thus fellow citizens presented you in nv plan
unvarnshed way, the views entertain upon question
which, am compelled believe, has been agita,ed in lis
inception and progress rather with view TO the gaicaon
Of selfish ambition and the attainment Of power than 10 pro-
mote the interests and harmony Of the whole country And
in conclusion would ask you pause and reflect as have
DONE before you allow yourselves be carried away by the
specons but false arguments Of the advocates Of This
would ask, too il immediate annexation is Of such over
whelmng Importance that should be ready 10 sacrifice for
it's attainment those great pncipes-such national cur
rency, tariff, distribution Of the public land-or which
we have 80 long and manfuIly coutended To obtain
Texas which be obtained this only with danger
and dshonor you willing throw overheard these and
the other principles Of the Wing party and
THE MAN who is their uuest and hest representative
ALEXANDRA BARROW.
/. WASHINGTON, Mar "a, 1874.
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