New-York daily tribune., 1844-12-02
N. Everett.

tenn. which the Editor OF that sheet with an
ere, ps,hsps, to theinterest OF his columns sug.
rested. And to crown all in the true spirit OF
the cu.;aied fo1 he proposes that t7e should copy
AIc,ander,s tvo columns into The Tribune =
Wbv. man. we sh7uid nsver have written ten
lines ,bop. him in the world had not you III
psJed US to it. What can you think our readers
want Of TWO columns of snrfiing apology and spe-
Gil pleading from A. Il. Everett
Aad ye. we viii, to humor you, take notice Of
some Of his chief p7iats. Aeck. follows IN
your track in attempting to array Mr. Clay IN
support of his assertion that Annexation would
tend to abolish Slavery. But Mr. Clay nevaF
said any thing of the Kind, and cannot be gar
bled 50 as to give you any countenance. ny
Clay believes that Slavery must die cut OF itsel''
and therefore does not regard it as 50 formidable
an evil as it appears'to us. Bat we see vtry
clearly tina. this process Of dying out will COM
meuce when it has 10 moro virgin soil to I'M
ooverish-no new lands TO oTerspread The
Annexation Of Texas will postpone it half cen
tury. We DO not expect Mr. Clay, himself a
Shareholder and surrounded By all the influences
of the system, to regard this matter as we FegaFa
it. and as the North, in It's less degenerate days
conld rot fail to have regarded it; bur Mr.. Clay
neyer gave the least couutenance to the notion
thar Annexation would tend to destroy Slavery.
That one or two elaveholding Wings may have
done SO, in appealing to the ultra slaveholding
sections 10 sustain NJ. Clay against the tide OF
Annexation, is very natural; but it hardly helps
Alexander. He knows right we'll that the pro-
ecs Ct Annexation was devised and nnrsed to
maturity by ultra champions of perpetual sla-
very-Gen. Jackson, R. ]. Walker, A. V. Brown,
Duff Green, a. P. Upshur, T. W. Gilmer, John
TYLER, sc. &c.-that it was formally denounced
before it was ripe for development, eighteen
months ago, By ]. Q. Adams, Gov. Briggs, Gov.
slade, &c.-and that it has proved eminentiy
popular and powerful at the South, not because
it seemed likely to overthrow or weaken Slavery
but 70, en exactly opposite reason. (see Ex Prest
Lemar's Address, lately published in these col
umns) The whole civilized world perfectly un-
derstands that this is question between Freedom
and Slavery, and knows which is the side of
Freedom. Those (no matter OF what politics.
who talk of annexing Texas for the sake OF the
Slares, wcrs never known &c very ardent OF dis-
interested champions of Emancipation bsfcre.
But Aleck tries lis skill at manipulating the
question OF Slave Emigration from Virginia to
Tesas, with fameatap!e il success save IN eI-
hibiting his dishonesty. The gist OF his al gu.
ment is that Shareholders in the Old States will
sell all their Slaves off at once, fearing the market
will be supplied and the price fall after few
years If this argument were good for any
thing, the cid States would have been long since
drained of Slaves to supply the new Cotton and
Sugar States. Texas win draw upon them no
otherwise THAI as Alabama, Louisiana and Mis-
sissppi have done. WelIinforinod men under
stand that new Cotton or Sugar region de-
man6s field hands-atle-b1 bodied men and women
and does hot take The Slave population Of an
old State indiscriminately. Annexation being
effected, Slaves could for many years be raised
cheaper in the healthy, corn-growing eections OF
Virginia and Maryland than in the Cane and
Cotton region OF Texas, and a0oald be SO raised
to be worked off on the new plantations.
When Mr.. Everett says that the South and
Southern Statesnen' have no desire to extend
or perpetuate Slavery he speaks truly of that
large and enlightened portion of the South which
supported Mr.. Clay in the late contest; but if he
means to include the Annexationists his assertion
is directly in The teeth of notorious and innumer
| II l., |,
out the recent contest, been advocated by South
ern Anrexationists as the most perfect cons,itu
ton of human society-a condition TO be extend
ed and perpetuated-agd we know that Mr.
Claws bare expression Of opinion that Slavery
must one day terminate was made the ground o
vehement attacks upon him in Georgia and far
ther South, and probably cost him many votes
The trash about danger of Great Britain exciting
gervile instructions in the South and in Texas
Is not worth even saeer. The world is full o
very green geese, but none quite green enough
to believe any thing OF this.
We beg leave to suggest 10 Mr.. Everett that
| when man rats from defeated to q victerou.
party, he always does best to put a bod face or
the matter, and frankly own that he has changed
When he undertakes to deny his regeneration
the public only laugh, whether they believe he j.
trying to fool them or only playing the fool him
self. Mr.. Everett tries to make out that hi
was consistent Democrat in supporting MIR
Adams in 1928 and MIR. Van Buren in 1886 =
Bat, neighbor! you can't glide over 1892 in tha
way! Did we not see you here in 1881, an &C
tive and leading nembsr OF the Protective Tariff
Convention held in this City Did you not
about .hcse days, write very much, and very ar
IDENTIFY, in favor Of the Protective Policy7 Dc
we no. know you as a very industrious end mos,
uaspa'ing writer against Jackson and Jackson.
ism, including the Maysville and Bank vetoes
in the summer and fall OF 1882 AssuredIy
what you then wrote-and i! seemed to come
ftom the bottom Of your heart-was directly in
the teeth Of what ycu now profess and advocate
| And you remarked 10 Sir Janes Macintosh
| more than tceaiy years ago, that the ciounC