New-York daily tribune., 1844-11-28
in our own Slave States. Why shall we take
this heavy load on our own shoulders

est lie of it precisely where they are most prolit-
able to their owners. Who docs rot know that
Louisiana Sugar or Alabama Cotton plantation is
the ccaseless horror of the negroes Of Virginia
and Kentucky7 The average life Of Virginia
slave would be deemed one Of case and luxury by
the great mass of plantation negroes on the MIS-
sissippi.
As to The matter Of additional Power to the
Slave States, it seems TO US uniInPortant when
compared with the great Moral and Social as
poets of this subject We are not afraid Of the
power of the Slave States, for we are not addict
ed to weighing and balancing Free against Slave
States. But that Annexation ,oouid greatly in-
crease the Slave Powcr-that it is sought on this
express ground-wc have mountains of evidence.
The disposition to grasp for Power on this ground
seems to Us more dangerous than the Power It
SELF AID when we see it urged ON the other
side that the Northern States l0Ould not consent
to admit Slave State unless Free State were
ready to be admitted along with it, we see that
the danger is indeed great and imminent. Sup
pose Texae, annexed as Territory, were to
claim admission as a State and they should COM
bine TO resist it, saying, "You must wait TILL We
can make Northern State to balance you y
how would the South regard this How long
would the Union stand the strain OF such celli-
sions We know no tenable ground on which
the admission of State can be refused or post
pencd extraneous fiom its own intrinsic fitness TO
assume and maintain the position of member
Of the Confederacy.
But this article is growing too long. Briefly,
then, we stand on the ground of Opposition to
the Annexation Of Texas so long as restge Of
SLarery shall remain ,oithin her borders. 1t is
with US no question of less or more: We cannot
consent TO become party to great wrong or a
small one. And if Slavery in Texas were abol-
ished tomorrow, and the South should then OBJ
iect to Annexation (as she probably would,l we
should oppose ii as heartily as row. The Feder-
al Government is out of its orbit whenever it en-
cages in measures calculated TO strengthen one
portion of the Union at the expense Of the other
III there be ono man who really believes that
Annexation is not calculated 10 strengthen
Slavery, we ask him to read the following cx-
tracts from an Address of ex. President Mirabeau
B. Lamar OF Texas to the People of the South in
favor of Annexation. He says
The Annexation Of Texas the United States addresses
itself with special and peculiar force the people Of Tie South
douby dcsra9.le to this section ofll,''
II therefore, approach this branch of the topic with an un.
s soa nnd hat tn m nasceG ene
nen To the whole American Unon yet IN relation 10 its
whose laws aad institutions approve and admire. entitled
to, and must receive, highest allegiance nnd affection
South hus received from the hans of the free States the ca.
mnes which have been hesped her, the buhens she
them, and the unnatural and anatcal crusade which the
North wagng against her account of her domestic
my desire for fnnc1otcn the cBccuGt means of cna-
bling her % protect her rights and 10 hers from The
TIC fns;i:aion @ @ ii ey ereu @ hi @ land of Of ]
system M % Of serruGe s elss IL Tic southern STATES snd
1erGs TIE jsG relation hch has been established be-
There is an unielcctuu toll 10 5e perorrsed and Inc.
NAL services to be rendered. and infinitely better (wen-
Of our species whom Providence has so sgnally fitted
for the task, than to impose them upon our own breh
gifts OF fortune; thut there shnl be in society such division
dcaed the line distinction bstween them by color and char.
acer IhC system Is attended also nth as moral advana-
hHlOt fRSUlCRt ana OTSSTrC
friend. and not the iyan of his slaves he protects m against
comfort all times and supports hun in his declining yeaTs
Thepractice Of these UrtucS, The Kind and patc,na attentions
holder an aetice and G9Jii1a and 6rap sh
ae carries pih h,m IN a The TRANSACTIONS fc whilst the
habit commanding without bendlug justice with
authority, mpnrs to his general character decision and iG
s 3 hoe %ia & eGy he eSase @ S
bnve generous and where Sucs the South
he moulded by the influence Of his system of do
Slavery system which established God
for The nelloaton o the black man and The ree OF the white
and which, far observation and experience
enable to Judge productive Of the greatest advantages
TO both races.
establish the system permanent footing in Texas be-
eving that without she would be but grazing country
with idle and ignorant population, and with she would
become ono of the most productive and nations on
the goSe 9nd the mother of pead and an nde9endent ace
present the AntiSavery party is in the minority but
much violence for the GOry of the people Of Texas
not re S Slgners % Of slauGs ;s =. .., No, 10
acquescence of gradual emancipation for the sake of indie
pendence the situation of Texas mperousy calls for peace
danrers tolls pyatons disasters ofevery kind ihc peo
@ sas ey Ss e log THUS @ sy u have Gps S s6 has
utey refused purchase the boon by the sacrces which they
Taxes aud poverty and other causes Of dsconen, in the Course
OF tme may naturally enGende the question hop long
ever that SsoD seriously discussed and seized upon BY the
demaSos1e, the Shareholder will have every thing to
apprehend."
From all these facts and Ieasonngs cannot conceive how
possible for the mind TO the conviction that slavery
IS not established Texas mmovabe bass that there
reality obstacle TO its extirpaton, and that the
condition Of TrGs sac strongly Persuddeh
70 gradual Surrender 81 her Sdccs for the obanmcn Of
peace"
There difficulty arriving al the real and true motives
which influenced the hostility of the Northern States because
have taken conceal hem but the contrary
have undgusedy ayowed their whole policy upon the sub
Jec The grounds of their opposition the treaty plain
and simple growing out of their nexibe hostility to the
slitution OF slavery
As have already shown, If Texas IS lei stand alone
there every probability that slavery will be Abandoned that
county, Indeed do not how possible her present
condition 10 maintain against the tremen
ou. efforts which Will be made for ITS subyeron and when
Slavery gipes Terds the Of the Southern States
IS inepitaoie That beautiful rich and chvac country
which the natural ally OF the South and which, if ad
mtted into the Government with her. wonld her
strength protect her rights and defy her foes, will,
slnvehoig republic, become her beIcst enemy and will
combine with the balance of the world in seepes crusade
against her, 10 force her To renquh the institution which
she had compelled Texas to snrtender"
Did not H,. 3l1ns eu, aud all QfS satanic school act
tcisay er k0rriG ends rejecting the Treaty Of hnnexa
ton? Had they voted for that The South would only
have been raised by political dignity and power sufficient
seproection, but Sdgery nod hare been placed on
and foonS, both here and Texas md thus
would long OF happiness and glory TO both
But the wary Abotionlst oreseens these re-
SUITS have cunninsy foestaed them by cutting off the South