Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1844-06-15

abolish slavery, would the ahnsfait61 hi Isl
ne arrest that purpose, or w4nld II not ratht
stimulate it7 Say that they pre- even at I'll
moment resolved On tho abolition Bf sl3Ysfy
the United States Of course, they muHI be
favor Or d dissolution Of the Unioii, and 10 dii
solve Mat at any time, for my cause, ID 10 PFC
dnde civil war. Any attempt on the part {
the North to int6ffers with slavery must en-
In d disruption of the Union aud mons knoi
fhts fact better than our Northern brethren
and none, am sure, wotId depFacat8 such
result mors than they. Interests te nay moth
Ing of Patriotism, would forbid such m idea
The love Of the Union IL aB strong IN the Mort
as in tbs south its dissolution would prov,
more disastrous 10 that portion Of tho eouulf.
than 10 ours and | must hav9 stronger avi
denee than ! now possets before ] can beiley'
III The existence 6fapy serious Or general wisl
IN tho non. slaVai1olding Stalpg 10 destroy tHt
Union-Befor6 | will consent 70 accuse then
Of forgetting the eNanple of q noble ancestry
Of deg6neratipg from men Whose names clus'
ter In d glorious constellation Arg1pd The err
Of tho formation Of the Observation-Disclosures
in short, | can bring myselfto brand them with
the odious name Of traitors. DHt, admit thai
The Hotspurs and Don QuiHotoa Of the South
are right, aud that | mn wrong Iii my opinion
as to the wishes and inteniione Of The people
of Tho North on this subject, we ought then
to expect civil war, and prepare for it. In the
event Of such a war, would not the South be
weaker with its white and slave population
prattered over a territory stretching from the
Delaware Bay To the Rio del. NDrte than II
would be were they confined 10 their present
limits7 Our population would be- mere aparse,
the frontier 10 be defended double IN length,
the difficulty and expense Of assembling troops
and concentrating the munitions Of war grant
" increased. Any military man, AZ we'll as
common sense, will toll you that II would be
n much easier matter successfully TO defend,
against the assaults Of a formidable Power,
The other Blaye Stated, were The white and
black population Of Alabama, M 4sfssippi, Lou.
~iaiana, Arkansae, and Missouri, removed with.
in the limits Of the other eighs slave States,
than TO defend the preseptthirteen slave States.
ANY person who would contend THAT Il would
be as oasy to defend, with tho Sans or nearly
The same means, a large and extended frontier
az A comparatively small and contracted one,
must either be Il fool himself or expect others
to be 50.
In my opinion, feIfow.citizenB, the idea that
the immediate union Of Texas with The United
States will give greater security to our slave
institutions, is about as ridiculous an was the
promise made by the friends Of ftita Northern
man with Southern principles " that be would,
should IL become Decesgary--that H., II a ma
jority Of Congress declared against ls-.inter-
pose his vcto 10 save Us. They seemed tofor-
Get that wien 6ieR a crisis arrived a dfasolu-
Ion, would have virtually taken place, and that
tho South would have had to rely upon some.
thing else besides the Intellectual and empty
arguments Of a Ueto--particularjy such a one
AZ their candidate would have written, If we
NAV Judge from many Of the political papers
that have eliminated from him, In which he has
generally held out his left hand etealthiIyt 70
The South, while his right wag, extended with
az much dtreetness as no gould assume, TO be
yraaped BY the NORTH. We did net allow our
10 be duped IN the one case, and we
should determine not TO be l6d astray or dc.
in the other. 70 prevent a dissolntion
and TO protect the interests Of tbs South, VIC
have. thank God, more to rely upon than the
promises Of the "Nofthera man with Southern
principles" or the chimerical expectations Of
The friends Of immediate annexation The
compact which was beIusathed to us
By n common ancestry must DO ~aisregarded
md trampled in tho dust ; pafriotlstnt which,
others may think, | believe stilf BURNS
with as bright flame in the North ae IN any
,ther portion Of the Union, must be axtinEuish-
ID self. interest, which often influences men
whom no other feeling can reach, must be for
rotten, before tho non-slaveholding states can
consent to interfere with and destroy our pri-
and property. But should all these
considerations fail-ehould our Northern brefh
EN-, carried away by q blind fauaticism, forget
'ut Of Justice, right and country, Of all the adj
,aptages of Union, Of the glorg we have
achieved under the same "etar-spangled ban
ler,H be willing to undertake 10 interfere with
,r overturn slavery, We shall then have but
lut one last resort--one melancholy ~alterna-
ive-oe mast rely upon our otcn stout arms
ind brave hearts (or the defence off oaT property
tn9 fresides.
I am not one Of those who believe in the
industriously pFopagated By the friends
If annexation, that, if the treaty ID rejected,
he Texans will unite themselves with, or
iell their slaves to England, The present
population Of Texas consists principally, al.
most entirely, of emigrants from the slave
folding States of our Union. By education,
" habit, they are favorable TO, and believe il
he necessity Of slave labor, and they would
,e as prompt to repel any attack upon the IN
of slavery az ourselves. 10 assume,
therefore,, that the Texans are prepared to
orn an alliance with England; upon the con-
Ifiob Of the abolition of slavery for a stipula-
ed price, is to assume that the whole Of the
resent population are prepared to abandon
Texas, and to remove either to Great Britain
r 10 the free States of this Union for no
Southern man can for a moment tinagiDe that
hey will remain in a country where their
have become their equals. Equally
.ioIent is the presumption that the TEXANS
re prepared, or could be induced, to selltheIr
layes to England, with the intention Of BE-
ominp residents of the slaveholding States of
he Union : for il can hardly be supposed that
hev would be willing or weak enough to cell
heir negroes to England for 5000 each, when
bey would have to pay 500 eech for those
hey might need in the county oftheiF adop-
This idea, therefore, is not weil-fonDd-
a, but highly absurd and a gross insult to
Texas. We @eTe told the same thing in
s27, when Texas applied for admission into
he Union. The aecusation was false then,
nd the prediction will prove equity false now.
England moreover, as Lord Aberdeen informs
IS. is DESTROYS of the seperate and indepen-
.ent existence Of Texas, and We have good
eason to believe that such is the wish Of
rance. we have no right to doubt The sim
Gritty of these great Powers, but, at The same
irae, | think it. the duty of cur Government
q make known 10 them, ard 10 the world,
hat any attempt on their part, or on the part
# any other European Powes, 10 e~olonize Tex
:. or to interfere in her internal affairs, or to
axe her under their peculiar protection, will
considered an aggression by the United
States, dangerous TO our peace and safety, and
be resisted accordingly.
By this u.uch-talked-of treaty, the United
- IN l. hnnnd 70 aERnrna the debt of