Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1844-05-18

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mat the thus advanced shall be indemnity for
the abolition OF slavery; and authorized the Tcxan Min
ser cay that Lord Aberdeen has agreed thu. the British
government VIII guaranty the payment OF the interest on this
slavery"
The writer Processes feel entire confidence 10 the
racy OF This information He is Of great intelligence,
and well yerscj in public affairs Hence have every
to cofde in the OF bis conclusions There H
however, difficulty in understanding the of the
proposition he has given them. IL the money be adj
yanced to be repaid in Texas lands, scarcely be
gsrded oan and of there is necessity for any
guaranty on the part Of the English Government. think
probable that alternative propositions have been made the
one for advance to be repaid in lands and the other for
loan to be guaranteed by the English Government. But,
whatever the precise terms of the proposition may be- there
seems to be no doubt The object in vew and that
the English Government has offered its cooperation.
movement OF this sort cannot he contemplated by us in
silence such attempt upon neighboring country
would necessarily be viewed by this Government with very
deep concern; but when il is made upon nation whose
territories join the savehoding States of Union
kens still solemn interest II be permitted
succeed without the most strenuous efforts part
arrest calamity serious every part of country.
II such attempt confined to the abolionsts of
Texas, would scarcely merit grave consideration. Their
numbers, il is believed, very small and the Of
public opinion in that country is by favorable to
the success OF their enterprise But be fact that has
engaged the attention Of Lord Aberdeen and that he has
pledged the corporation Of the English Government
tain extent possesses importance which demands
serious attention. supposed England
TO limit her designs to the emancipation OF few thousand
saves She would have ueror objects far important
to her, and far interesting
We might probably consider this part of general plan
by which England would seek abol.h domestic slavery
throughout the entire continent and islands of America in
order to find create markets for the products of her
home industry and at the time TO destroy all COMPETE
ton with the industry of her colonies In The great staples
of sugar and cotton her colonies of the East and West In
dies unable compete with the slave labor Of the United
States Texas and Brazil Experience has shown that those
In
continent of America by the labor of white men and of
course slavery be abolished that continent the great
rivals OF her colonial industry will be removed This fact
affords an explanations for which should seek elsewhere in
vain, OF many OF her most impoint No other
adequate motive be found for her determined and pese
yeng course in regard TO domestic slavery in other
tries This view of the should be lost sight of in
frmng opinions of the object and probable tendency OF
all her movements upon this point
IS an important thing TO England TO obtain influence
over the policy Of Texas and the present situation of that
country offers her encouragement to make the attempt
Pressed by an unreentng her boders her
~ exhausted and her credit destroyed Texas in
condition to need the support Of other nations AMI to obtain
upon terms of great hardship and many sacrifices herself
she should receive no counenance and support from the
States Is not an ox,ravagant suggestion that Eng
land may and will reduce her to all the dependence of
y without taking upon herself the duties and
probabilities OF the mother country. The aid which it is
said she now offers toward the abolition Of slavery although
probably not the first is very important step; it will be fol-
lowed by others, which will fail to establish for her
controlling influence for many years The United
states have high interest to counteract this attempts should
be made Texas is already important customer
Being herself exclusively and almost necessarily agricultural
she must depend other countries for nearly all the
iacured articles of every which her people need Her
sympaihies are now with us, and her geographical position
enables her to trade with than with
any other country. Should her Government settled upon
terms which will leave her free aud Independent in fact
well as IN name her population and consequently her pro-
duc'e Industry and her trade will increase rapidly her
he OF hah
chasers OF our Manufacturer without offering the slightest
competition with that branch of industry Hence
nave high interest to keep her far possible om the
influences Of other countries Left herself have
reason to fear any rivalry either in her trade the friend
~ feelings Of her people. The manufacturing industry Of
the United States is not yet prosperous
Government from M provide proper Of foster
ing and extendngit The best and the al-sucent
is TO provide for il suitable markets for the sale Of its pro-
ducts. IL has how attained degree Of excellence which
enables II TO compete with that OF any other country upon
fair and equal hut sustain itself il the
kets which has heretofore relied shall be virtually shut
against H. by the superior advantages offered 70 the manu-
facturers of other countries Certainly cacu-
lated produce such result be unworthy the serious
attention and waichfu Of this Government.
Contemplating this ansavery movement If 1t has been
shall be made, part Of a system by which England
hopes to obtain influence the policy Of Texas we
cannot be loss estimate its importance Give to Eng
land favorable of trade than the United States
obtain and her manufactures of all kinds will be thrown
into Texas merely for the supply of that country but
Win view W nave mem smugBieu otdtes.
This will be an process, and which this Govern
ment will find il impossible arrest Our Southern and
Southwestern States will be filed with the manufactures of
England, struggled the Red aHd through the
interior waters of Louisiana Thus the manufacturing States
Of Union will only lose the market Of Texas ITSELF
but they will also lose, TO great extent the still vau
able market of Southern and Southwestern States This
result is not only probable but it is almost certain. is
too important to be contemplated without very grave
the part of this Government.
The effect the cotton growing States Of Union, al
though II will not be equally DISASTROUS will yet be very
ousy felt The cotton Of Texas will necessarily be given
in exchange for the manufactures Of England and Of
IT will take the place, that extent, of the supplies
furnished to that country by the United States.
The effect of this state OF things upon the Of the
United States is not unworthy of consideration Importa-
tons from England will the Of the supply
which will be struggled into this country, and the
from customs be diminished in the proportion
and, consequence the navigating interests OF
our people win suffer in no uncomfortable degree
quite certain that the emancipation OF the slaves
OF Texas could produce these results. 1t is
not IN that that press the subject upon your attention.
The diplomacy Of England has heretofore been scarcely less
successful than her obtaining for her the largest share
OF the commerce Of the world Her gene
rally begun Distance and her approaches gradual and
csuiious and for that very they rarely fail Of
cess Doing nothing in the beginning to excite the susp
cions the jealousy of other nations her plans
not often fully developed until longer possible to OPP
pose them II s in this view Of her policy that the present
supposed movement becomes important II is Of little
sequence her whether twelve or fifteen thousand Africans
In Texas be bond free but il is Of great consequence
her TO create sympathy with that peoples acquire
teres IN their ndusty to found claim upon their favor
and to control their policy Precisely proportion she
shall BIO successful in these particulars will the commercial
and manufacturing interests Of the United States suffer
Hence the necessity of looking narrowly her first steps,
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