The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-08-07

What should we gain by the acquisition o
Texas? Land : Have we not a Thousand
millions of uncultivated acres already Sc
curl ty against the invasion of the the South
abolish slavery, and she may defy invasion as
boldly as we who dwell almost within sigh
and hearing Of British ports Extension Of
market for our manufac lures Does moi
the slavery we already have nullify the Union
to prevent our manufacturing at all!
Citizens, We who have rejoiced under the
name, and claimed the principles Of demOcra-
Cyl am one Of you. ii | know my own heart
or life, / love and cherish next to my religion,
the equal and beneficent principle ofdemocra-
cy. | warn you not to be misled. Hence
forth the Wings are by confession of man.
kind-the party of FREEDOM. of PRoGREss
and of CIVILIZATION.
Friends of Emancipation! Advocates of
the Rights of Man! | am one of you. |
have always believed and trusted that the
Wings of America would come up to the
ground you have so nobly assumed. Not
that | supposed, or believed, they would all
at once, or from the same impulses, reach
that ground. But that the progress Of events
would surely bring them there, and they
would assume it cheerfully. That consumma-
ton has come. All that is dear to the Wings
of the United States, in regard to policy, TO
principle and to administration, is now in
vOlved with your own ~favorite cause in the
present issue upon the admission of Tex
as to the Union You have now this great,
generous and triumphant party on the very
ground TO which you have invited them, and
for not assuming which prematurely you
have so often denounced them. But you
will say that HENRY CLAY is a slave holder.
So heis. l regret it as deeply as you do. |
wish it were otherwise. But our conflict is
not with one slave holder or with many, but
with slduery.. Henry CLAY is our represent
tative. You are opposed to the admission of
Texas, and you admit and assert the duty Of
resisting it by the right of suffrage. Will you
resist it by voting for JAMES G. BIRNEY !
Your votes would be just as e%ffectual if cast
upon the waters of this placid lake.
But you say HENRY CLAY disavows abo-
litionism. Let him do so. What care you
and for that!-He is opposed to Texas.
He is the candidate Of the Wing Party.
THET are opposed to Texas-They not ne,
are to prevent the annexation of Texas. Let
us bring New York up TO the ground she held
in the Virginia controversy. (Cheers) There
she shall have anti-Texas Senators IN Con-
6iNo9s--INN OS SNNNiN III NNAAo " hhhA
Texes Representatives in Congress and
then let the ghost OF the Texas treaty come
back in what shape it may, we will question
it and silence it forever. II it come again by
treaty, it will be rejected. Ifby law or joint
resolution, it will be defeated. The security
the duration-the extension of slavery-all
depend on the annexation Of Texas. How.
then. can any friend of emancipation vote for
the Texas candidate, or withhold his vote
from the Wing candidate, without exhibiting
the mere caprice of faction
Democrats, Liberty men and Wings, by
whatever name you prefer to be called the
issue presents itself alike TO all. Texas and
slavery are at war with the Interests, the prin-
ciples, the sympathies ofall The integrity
of the Union depends on the result. To in
crease the slave holding power is to subvert
the Constitution, to give a fearful preponder-
ance which may, and probably will be spec
Oily followed by demands TO which the demo-
cratic free labor States cannot yield, and The
demand Of which will be made the ground
for secession, notification and disunion.
Mr.. SEWARD sat down amid the long con-
tinued cheers of the thousands who heard
and resDonded 10 his sentiments.