Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1844-04-27

admitted into the Union, the compact is al
an end. The constitutional stipulation,
sacred as il is-and we adhere to its obi
gatIon--was made between the original
thirteen States. 1t cannot be extended
10 Texas no more than it can to Mexico
no more than it can 10 Cuba or to Yucatan.
Free States, let it have no such unchriSh.
an extension!
"We are not abolitonists; we acknow-
ledge the sovereign and binding influence
Of The Constitution Of the United States.
But this is all IRE piH concede."
In the same strain, or even more furious
y, writes the Boston Atlas:
"For our own paits-as conductors OF
Public Press as citizens of this free Re
publc--we declare--solemnly --seriously,
advisedly--that we will not stand by, and
see the independent Nation of Texas an
nexed to this Country, as part of its ter
ritory, and as widespread field for the
eatension and dissemination Of Siarery -
We will resist it, in every way in which
resistance can be effective. We will re-
sist it, with our pen. We will resist it,,
with our tongue. We will resist it, with
our whole soul--wlh every nerve and
muscle of our body. We will resist it,
with the last drop of blood. There is no
hope Of happiness on earth that we will
not surrender, rather than submit to this
accursed, hellish Ilot."
With still greater and more b'asphemous
emphasis writes another New England
print, Quoted by New York journals of
the same CLASP with whose outrageous
effusion we shall cuse these extracts,
which we have introduced merely as sam.
pies:
"We oppose annexation Gays the New
Eng land print alluded to) because it is
contrary to the dictates of prudeGce--be.
cause il is a violation of the Consultation
because ii piN tend TO strengthen and
perpctuate the Stare porer. The North
cannot and will moi submit to it. Our OPP
position will be silent, bu; it will be sure
and steady, and effac Ive-calm, and coil,
hut ee1--dignified, bat strong. Our
"Pilgrim blood' may move slowly, but
there is depth Of degradation to which
we cannot and will not sloop. In the
words Of the poet, we say to the South:
All that sister State should 90, all that a
free State may,
Heart, hand, and purse we protfer, as in
our early day;
But that one dark loathsome burden, ye
must stagger wih alone.
And reap the bitter harvest which ye
yourselves have sown!
Hold, while ye may, your struggling slaves,
mud burden Gods Tree DIR
With woman's shrek beneath the lash,
and manhood's wild despair;
Cling closer 10 the "tleaving curse' that
writes upon your plains
The blasting of Almighty wrath 7galnst a
land OF chains.
Sill shame your gallant ancestry, the ca.
walters of DID,
By watching round tho shamb!cS where
human flesh is sold,
Gloat DER the new born child, and count
its market value, when
The maddened mothers cry Of woc shall
pierce the slaver's den!
Lorer than plunlmet soundeth, sink ye the
Southern name;
Plant, if ye will, your fathers graves with
rankest weeds of shame;
Be, If We will, the scandal of Gyd's fair
universe
We cash our hands forever Of your sin,
and shame, and curse"
Is it reasonable to say, that the writers
of these ,landerous, tratorous and unfra-
ternal-the latter term, at least, will APP
ply as well to the quotation we have made
! from Mr.. Webster as 10 the newspaper ex-
lrac !s-effusiOns, are sincerely attached
to the Union, and to be depended upon. in
good faith, to observe, even toward the
slaveholdIng States now existing, the
constitutional guarantees and compromises
on which the Union is formed! With
such feelings toward Southern people and
institutions, entertained by any consldcra-
BILE body in the free States, is ii safe for
the South to yield up the last practical
check which it has in the management Of
the affairs of the Nationl
|, This aspect of the question presents sc.
rious considerations. We are happy in the
belief that The great body of the Northern
people, do not enter into the views which
are expressed in their name. Otherwise
We should expect Union, one section o.
which hated and abhorred the other, tc
have very short and undesirable exis
teace. Bat we do believe, that the feel
ing manifested by Mr.. Webster, and by
: the quotations above, are sufficiently gen
. eral at the North 10 warrant the South
y ern States in assuming a compact front &