The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-04-25
From "A. M. o,..s., Dee.

suggestion against The cons'ituiionaty OF The nea-
sure Is that will increase the number Of saSs-hothnS
States This is indeed, The moving cause OF all Tia
sound and fury with which, IA what are called inc
Free States, the proposition has been received
Every other objection that is urged applies with a
thousand fold force To the acquisition or occupancy Oh
Ofegonyet this propagation does mol raise, IN any
qusrter the outery that the contemplated recovery u
Texas has been greeted with. Indeed many WIZ
are violent in denuncialoD II the project Tor annex
ing Texas among The advocates for tho mmed,a's
assertion Of our claim to Oregon. We are lusuheo W
concluding, therefore, that the ltoion influence anu
desire TO psrpetuate he asceDdsncy OF the NORM
ern States are at the bottom of the opposition 10 the
anne alton Of Texas, wherever that opposiioh oi-
play. itself violently. Phlanthiopicai motives are
mostly pleaded in support Of the opposition whieh Is
thus waged Political motives however, We doubt
not, have quite much influence, with Mr. Webster
and his coadutors. At all events the issue winch Is
thus raised concerns the South politically and 'ialy
aud presents an additional and powerful reason why
the States south Of the Potomac should Insist To The
exclusion, If need be, Of every other question: on the
accomplishment of the measure
From the spirit in which the increase IN the number
of slave holding ates, which would follow annex.
a,ion is raised and pressed objection to the inca
sure The Southern 5 ates may gather an instructive
moral. They may learn from It, the degree OF for
bearanoe and consideration which they to expect
when the free States shall be suffered to obtain pos
session Of the Senate they have of the House
OF Represent vss and Of the College of Presidential
Electors The language of Mr. ebster, as it has
been of John Quincy Adams and his followers for
he language Of all, may say who array
themselves against the project of ion-stnpped
Of gloss and verbage is more nor less than this :
The Constitution connects us with the Southern
States and far the letter Of that nstIumrnt goes
we nave made up our minds to endure the connee
ton; but farther than this We cannot 20; we abhor
those Southern States and their institutions and con-
slider ourselves sufficiently contaminated by hem and
involved IN their crimnality, without having their
number or limits extended.
Is this language too strong to describe the sent
nents of those who oppose The accession of Texas
the Union Mr. Webster himself, biay eau
tious of speech, says:
81 frankly avow my entire unwngness to do
any lhing which shall extend the slavery Of the Al
rican race this continent add other sare holding
States TO the Union. We have slavery al.
ready amongst The Constitution found amongst
u.s. It recognised it, and gave it solemn guarantee
To the full extent of these guarantees we are all
bound in honor, in justice and by the Constitution
But when we come TO speak Of ad hitting
new States, the subject entirely different
peei. Our rights and our duties are then both diff
ferent ln my opinion, the people Of the
United Stats ,oiH not consent 10 bring a new, vastly
extensive and Stare holding country large enough for
half dozen or d. zen States, INTO the Union. In
my opinion they ought moi TO consent 10 it,"
The same and stronger words have been used to
Mr.. Adams thousand times. In the same strain
are the resolutions of a meeting lately held in Cincn.
natl: Texas ought not to be annexed" say these
Cincinnati gentry
because the result Of the proposed annexation
would be 10 enlarge, 10 extent undefnable the
domain Of sGrery Aud while we claim no right 10
Interfere WI hsayery 10 the States where it already
exists, we not only claim the right, but feel il 10
be sacred duty, to resist lis extension 10 any ne,s
territory, and thus make it NATIONAL
more explicit. The Philadelphia North American
QUOTED with great relish by the National Intelligen
Gel, says:
eve do not hesitate TO express the opinion that it
the UnioD) should be declared at an end as soon as
this most disastrous event takes place Let us hare
Coedtraey Of States in rhieh erery citizen shall be
fireman. and If commercial wealth shall be diminish
ed by this change, II manufactures and agriculture
shall mud less eXtens We markets. The hands Of those
citizens uii not be stained with placing manaces on
tn sc whom the God Of nature has made men well
as themselves "He who allows oppression shares the
crime" We haR hare port lot in booming TO
rrevocsbe and TO inlerminsble slavery millions, tens
OF millions yet UNBORN or IN saactlonng the eding
Of the market for slaves in Texas by The children Of
the slaves OF the now slave States. We shall have
no part in this 'home slave trade" which, at the
cost OF the tears and agonies OF fathers husbands
wives children, loo icideiy carried ia The
sare States, but will then be the common traffic OF
the slave driver and slave breeder. BY the Consti-
tuition Of the United States all Interference with the
preseHf siae Of things IS prohibited. Let It continue
so; We do not ask to impair this compact we would
not do so. But Texas admitted into the Union the |
compact is al an end. The constitutional slpula.
ton sacred as It is and adhere 10 lis obligation
was made between the original thirteen States
IL cannot be extended 10 Texas more than II can
Mexco--no more than II can 10 Cuba or 10 |
ucatan. Free Stats, let IL have no such unoLriiar
,rierSion :
eve are not sboitionists; we acknowledge the |
sovereign and binding influence OF the Constitution of
the United States. But this I, all ICE ,ciH eoneede"
In the same strain, or even more furou.ly, writes
the Boston Atlas
"For our own parts-as conductors Of a publ c
press-as citizens Of this free RepubIic--we declare
-solemnly-seriously-a dyisedly-that we will not |
stand by and the indie pendent nation Of Texas an.
nexed 10 TINS country as part OF It's territory and
uidrrtad tsidJor the extension and dissemination Of
slavery. We will resist it, in every way in which re-
sissnce can be effective We will resist il with our
pen. We wall sis Il with our tongue. We will
resist II with our whole spul-with every nerve and
muscle Of our body We will resist it with the las,
drop OF our blood. There hope Of h,npiness ON
earth that will not surrender rather han ,ub,n. 10
This ueeursed, \. Hsh ploi.n
With still greater and more blasphemous e,nba
sis, writes another New England print (ouo,ed n,
New York journals Of the same Glass; with who's.
outrageous edusion we shall close these extracts.
which we have introduced merely samples:
I'VE oppose The annexation (ssys the New Eng
aud print alluded TOY because II Is contrary 10 the
dictates OF prudence-because 1t s violation Of the
vt tend 10 srtnrih,n and psr-
pei'eh ttf Stare po,ou. The Nor cannot and will
not submit to H. Our opposition will be silent. but IL
VIII be sure and steady, and eeotire-cslm and cool
but drop-dignlhcd bu strong Our "PIlgrim bloodn
may move slowly, but there depth Of degradation
TO which we cannot and will not stoop. In the words
OF the poet, we say to the South
All that ulster State should do, all that free State
may,
Heart, hand, and purse rofTer, as in our early
day: