Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-09-13
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sumption of cotton is already stationary il
England and France, and that the thns
aimed at by South Carolina, is not to 10
crease the supply against that demand, bu
TO increase the demand, by increasing Eng
lish ability to consume; and to do that b
giUing to the English manufacturers til,
market Of america. "The waters of Texa.
flow into our Mississippi, and therefore i
would be impi0us not to reunite what nature
had joined. Impious las if there would
not be exactly the same clamor for it, il il.
waters flowed into / know not what lake o.
fire or Of death at will consume such
unknown quantities of northern manufac.
lures" Unknown, indeed as il we were
quite as verdant as not TO be perfectly aware
that the precise object of some of the promi.
nent movers ofthis business is to get Texan
votes to stop your mills, not Texan custom
ers 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 TO
be shod that what they VIGOROUSLY aimed
at, is not at all an increased ability to con-
sumo your anufdcturers, but an increased
vote against your tariff, and an easier victo-
ry over your labor "Texas will admit
British goods, duty free, or under low duties
and they will be struggled in such quantities
into the United States, as to diminish our
revenue, and evade our law of protection p
a reason which am sorry to see receive the
sanction of convention of Massachusetts
men, of whatever politics,-scarcely salts
factory, venture to conjecture. to any man
ly minded and intelligent member of that
body of our Democratic fellow citizens, who
have just made their nomination of Governor
AS if, Texas starved to death. crushed.
paralyzed, for want Of money-Texas almost
compelled TO let go the sweet and proud
boon of national independence, because she
has not the financial ability TO assert her
title to it-as if she can afford to admit
English goods free of duty, or under duties
so far below our own, as to warrant such
an absurd apprehension-as if all Louisiana
and Arkansas and Missouri, were going TO
form great copartnership of smuggling
with Yorkshire and Liverpool as if, on
this hypothesis, you must not have Mexico
too, for she is under English influence, and
will lend hand to this hopeful scheme Of
turning the flank of the tariff.-and Canada
which is England herself-in direct con-
tact with more States than Texas touches
nay, as 1t you must not, as good Alabama
Wing said, make up your minds to have
mo outside row at all, for the squirrels TO
eat )" and so strike dead TO the water all
round, at once, not forgetting your right to
marine league, of say couple of thousand
miles long, to prevent lowering on your
coasts.
No, tellow-citzens, there is no case made
for annexation at all. Let him who in ma
king his mind up on that subject, and who
desires to so do, not in the small spirit of a
narrow and local selfishness, but as patriot,
unionist, statesman, a Christian, lover
OF his kind; let him unrol the map of our
territory, as now we hold it, broad bound
less as an ocean; let him, on that map, OBJ
serve how that territory spreads itself out
from the st. John to the Sabine, eight and
twenty hundred miles Of coast, and inland
TO the Rocky mountains, aye, to the great
tranquil sea, more than thirty-fve hundred
miles-wider than the vast Atlantic; let
him mark how it extends through twenty
parallels Of latitude and thirty of longitude
through all climates and all soils let him
observe as he descends from North to South
how it successfully displays sample and a
rival of all the great productions and all the
great productive regions Of the giobe,-pine
forests, like those of Norway wheat field:
outmeasuring those of Poland pastures am
pier and farer than the shepherds of Eng
land and Spain ever saw; cotton, rice, fol
the world, though Egypt and India were
'smltten with instant and perpetual sterility
1et him reflect that there are limits of ma
tons territorial extent, which the laws o
nature and of man do not permit them t.
transcend, beyond which the warm tides o
the national heat, cannot be propelled, o.
cannot flow back beyond which, unity
identity, nationality, are dissolved aud dssi
pated and then let him bear in mind tina
our territory is already three times large
than England, Spain, France and Italy, al
put together; larger than the Roman EN-
pire in its zenith; and he will be prepare,
TO say whether, with or without the cost 0
war; with or without the violation of trea
ties; with or without the approval of tn
moral judgments of the world irrespective
of all influence upon his own state, or re
gion Of states, he thinks it well to add t
this vast region another, forty times large
than Observation-Disclosures than France
for the purpose of perpetuating slavery, o.
a soil, certain otherwise. and speedily, to b
free. How far wiser, more innocent, NOR
glorious, to improve what we have; to fe
our forests to construct our railroads; t
reclaim our earth; to fit it all up to be tn
spacious and beautiful abode of one harmc
NOUS family of man.
And, now, felow-citizens, il these ar
the evils of annexation; and if the elet
ton of Mr. Polk will, or probably may, e