The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1844-08-01
Texas--slavery--reae,al HumSuggery.

The coon stump orators who are riding the State Of
Ohio for life, with the story that all is lost unless some
thing can be done speedily all at once TO have got
adreadlut horror OF slnusry in Tras This certainly
comes well from the advocates Of man who boasts ol
his "fty slaves" But le, US look at the predcament
OF these lnen The whole of Texas is now slave
country. Mr.. Benton's bill to admit ii into the Union
expe!s slavery from one half Of it, and Mr. Clay in his
letter says
3r"Would Texas ultimately, really add strength 10
that which is now considered the weakest part ot The
Conlederacy? If my Information be correct 1t would
not According to that the territory OF Texas Is sas-
cepble of division into FIVE States of convenient size
and form. OF these TWO ONLY would be adapted
to those peculiar Institutions, from the nature of their
SOIL climate and productions would not admit oi those
institutions In the end therefore, there would be T WO
SLAVE and THREE FREE STATES probably
added 10 the Union."-sx
The admission of Texas therefore, instead of evten
ding slavery would, according to this free two thirds OF
the country of slavery! Is this the reason why the
Cayites oppose the measured It would seem So But
we have still more evidence. The admission OF Iexas
will not only free two thirds of that territory OF slavery,
but it will according 10 another great light OF that par
W. cause slavery to disappear 'rom Maryland Virgin
ia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kenuckyp These
latter are the views of Waddy Thompson, as published
in the National lntelligeneer Hear what he says at'
ter expressing his opposition to the annexation OF Tex
as:
"Hoding these opinions my object is not TO postpone
the result for short time but 10 prevent it forever
Will any one deny any of these propositions
l. That the most efcacious measures in favor Of alb
clifton would be 10 destroy the value of slave labor
@ That the reduction in the price of cotton to three
or four cents would destroy the value OF slave labor in
the old slave States?
g. That any large increase in the quantity OF cotton
produced would have the effect to reduce its price tc
that point or even lower say, for example, sudden in
crease of five hundred thousand balesl and a. That The
annexation of Texas would cause such an increased
production? Much the larger portion of slave labor is
cotton II is the price of cotton which regulates excu
svey the value of slaves as Of a!mons every other ar
tice Let tit be borne in mind too, that Texas is adm
raby adapted to the production of sugar. long staple
cotton and tobacco-the other only articles, with the
exception ofrice, which produced by slave labor
by over production it will not be denied that slave la
Dor can be employed in Texas with at least twice the
profit which il yields on the average in the slave States
of the Union Our Slaves will then be carried to Tex
as by the force Of law as fixed and certain as by which
water finds its level THE SLAVES WILL VERY
SOON DISAPPEAR FROM MARYLAND, VIR-
GINA, NORTH CAROLINA, TENNESSEE,
AND KENTUCKY, AND IN A PERIOD VERY
SHORT FOR SUCH AN OPERATION, THOSE
STATES WILL BECOME NON-SLAVEHOL-
DING STATES; AND w HENEVER THAT is
THE CASE, THEY WILL NOT ONLY NO
LONGER HAVE A COMMON INTEREST
WITH THE REMAINING SLAVEHOLDING
STATES, TO DEFEND THE INSTITUTION
BUT WILL VERY SOON PARTAKE of THAT
FANATICAL SPIRIT OF A FALSE PHlLAN
THRoPHY WHICH IS NOW PERvADING
THE WHOLE WORLD"
We beg of every voter in Ohio to put those two ex
tracts together and then say why Mr. Clay and his sup
porers oppose annexation They dare not meet the
question cs one OF great national importance, but al
tending to weaken the power Of the slave Staes This
is the cry of Clay and his friends in TIE south, while
here in Ohio, to coax the abolition vote, slavery is
sounded on every coon tongue How long would the
interests OF the nation be supported and preserved in the
hands oil such party of Oglers?-O Ohio Statesman.
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