Independent Democrat., 1844-07-27

SHtifeiy unCoaheCieu Win tne merits or
dement's of any particular treaty.
But Of all the attempts to evade the
real issue and substitute false one, the
pretended cry of disunion is the most
reckless, and one that will recoil with the
most effect on the authors of the alarm.
He sum and substance of this pretended
charge is this: warm annexation resolu-
lions have been passed by the people in
their primary assemblies, in every State
in the Union, and, in commenting on the
opposition to this great measure of deliv-
efance, arising from aEti-slavery grounds,
they have rebuked, in bold and manly lam
guage, the foul spirit of aboltion--and, in
solitary instance, (n South Carolina
they have resolved that they viii have
Texas or disunion, if her rejection be pla-
ced on abolition ground.
They say, perhaps too rashly, that if
Texas be not annexed, but form alliances
with England, or in any other way subject
herself to British influence, it will be i'm
possible for us 10 sustain our domestic in.
stilutinns; and, in thai event, 1t will be the
duty of the South, as a choice of evils, to
separate peoceably from the North, and
unite their destinies with the +" Lone Star"
of the West. This is ''the head and front
OF their offending" For this they have
been denounced by every federal paper in
the land-among others, the National In
telligencer, Richmond Wing, New York
Tribune, (hmsell an abolitionist,) Nash.
vile Banner, and the whole tribe of hum
bic imitators, have poured out upon their
devoted heads the bitterest yals of politi.
cal wrath. Why, sir, one woull Judge
that these very patriotic gentlemen editors
would go into spasms at the very sound of
diSunion. But it is not disunon of itself,
but disunion in defence Of slaUery, that
excites their holy horror. Here lies the
proof that will not leave "!oop to hang a
doubt on"
At the close of The special session of
Congress of 1943, Mr.. John @. Adams
published a, manifesto, signed by thirty
members of Congress (his political alles)
declaring, in advance, their opposition to
the then mootcd project of annexation,
and endeavored to fright us from our pro-
priety," by telling us that the North would
dissolve the Union rather than admit
Texas or any other slave territory into
this Union. 4 cain, ihe Legislature oi
Massachusetts, and, if | mistake not, that
Of Vermont, have resolved that the an.
nexation of Texas, by enlarging the limits
of slavery, would be just ground for a dis
solution of the Union. Where slept then
the patriotism OF those who now profess
to see SO much alarm in the proposal Of
the same issue by single public meeting
in The South, in which they say they be.
iieve q hope very erroneously) that this
issue would be forced upon them in de-.
fence Of their peculiar insttutonsf Must
the true reason be assigned? They look
ed with oomplacency on the threat Of dis
union North of the Potomac, because
made from opposition to slavery they
view with horror tho same threat South Of
! The Potomac, because made in defence of
slavery, and as manifesting determine
tion to sustain that institution. | would
perhaps be doing injustice to charge abo-
lition upon all the journals, (particularly
those OF the South,) who draw such dis
tinctons between Northern and Southern
threats, but their conduct in this particular
can only be accounted for by an unfriendly
feeling 10 the institution of slavery. or an
INSCRIPTIONS devotion TO the spirit of
Eparty
And has it come to this, that the North
may boldly tell us that they will dissolve
this Union rather than see this Government
do single act that viii aid in perpetual
ting Southern rights, and not receive one
word Of censure from their Southern whig
alliesa
Buff the down -trodden and bleeding
South, bearing most cf the burdens of
this Government, and seeing that species
Of property by which she is enabled TO
pay tbs enormous tribute about to be