The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-08-08

GIVE are particularly anxious that our
Locofoco friends should see what the New
York Evening Post says of the Texas ques-
ton. Remember that the Post is not ONLY
the leading Locofoco paper in New York
but is UNNECESSARILY the ablest and most
respectable Locotoco paper in the Union,
and its orthodoxy has never been question
ed:
TExAs.-The Texas lunto, which desires
TO get the Democratic party into its keeping,
apply sundry phrases 10 those who oppose
this precious project, the truth of which il
may not be useless 10 examine. They are
termed abstractionists, federalists, abolitionits
and British emissaries. Now we propose 10
see who the gentlemen thus compliinented
are, and how far they deserve it.
In the first place. it is worth while to no.
tee, that the whole movement on this sub
ject is in the %siIictest sense a party Jug
gle-and a very poor one. 1t would disgrace
a thimble-rigger of the most ordinary preten-
sions.
We are informed by the Baltimore conven-
ton "that the annexation of Texas at the
earliest practicable PERIOD" was a cardinal
feature in modern Democracy. Now. W.
should be glad TO know what the "~earliest
practicable period'' means. Who objects TO
annexing Texas sat the earliest practicable
period?' We see no reason why the moon
should not be annexed "at the earliest prac-
ticable period"-that is to say, as soon as
it can. AS soon as the just claims of Mexi-
CO can be disposed of-as soon as the ques-
ton of slavery can be got out of the way, we
abandon our opposition TO the annexation of
Texas.
Such may be the Interpretation of this
phrase; and such may be the sense in which
thousands OF Democrats will take it; but such
is not the sense in which the Texas hocus-po-
cusers mean 1T.
The annexation ofTexas with them means
nothing more than the extension and per-
petuation of slavery at the risk of war and
with war if cannot be got without. 1t is the
pure Southern Upshur-Tyler scheme; il is the
pill without the gilding-the dose without
the sugar.
1t is plain enough TO see, that if this ques-
ton had been committed at the outset 10
men of mind large enough 10 take in all the
interests of this great nation, Mexico would
have been satisfied, the question of slavery
avoided, and Texas annexed with honor and
satisfaction 10 the entire people. But for
: our shame and misfortune the matter fell into
f the hands of a few fanatics as crazy on the
! subject of domestic Institutions as the
. maddest Abolitionits in the Union-men who
f believe, or affect TO believe, that the sum-
mum bonum of republican freedom lies in the
possessing a few hundred slaves; and by
! these slave-holding fanatics was the question
of Texas, a great question of extension OF
, empire, dwarfed into one of enlarging the in
: ~luence of that pernicious institution which
, defaces and disgraces our otherwise glorious
D country.
t This abortion, rejected with contemp and
t disgust by the whole country, a few North
ern Democrats are swaddlingand nursing ano
7 irving to coax into life. Now we say it with
mere reference to the interests of the party
i interests which no wise person can overlook
Q that any Northern Democrat who seeks tC
identify the party with the extension Of slave
e nv, and 10 make that the rallying question, i:
e only fit for bedlam; no greater political insan
ity can be imagined.
" Slavery is an old, decrepit, worn out feud
s. al institution. Shall the young Democracy
e in its heroic youth, siifle its ardent nature
l. by so unnatural an alliance? Where slave
nv and slave representation exist under thu
e Constitution, let them exist. 1t is the bar
* gain--it is the bond. But to extend thes'
evils to another portion of the Western
hemisphere, and, above all, to make thi
the rallying cry of the party, is evidently SUI
cidal.
Those sagacious gentlemen, therefore. wh
undertake to denounce such Democrats a
are content with the old issues as abstraction
lists, &C., are acting perhaps with less sens
thar they may imagine.
With some people names have weight. Nj
Van Buren,, Mr.. Wright, Mr.. Benton, to sa
nothing of the many prominent Democrat
III in this State, have declared their irrcconcili
nd BILE hostility to the Texas scheme, urged on th
he new ground of slavery and for the benefit
to slavery.
ID Isit TO be supposed that these gentleme
to are all to come TO the riglt-about face, bt
cause a few men in Baltimore see fit TO pa.
he a resolution in regard to which they receive
ks no mandate from the people? If the Dem
d. cratic party has such ability to stump abol
ed and turn about" as they would imply,n o M
n. Polk but Jim Crow should have been OF
candidate.